On Friday 02 June 2017 18:35:32 Bertho Stultiens wrote:

> On 06/03/2017 12:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >> The problems seem to stop now that I have attached a bench-PSU set
> >> to 5V directly on the 40-pin header's 5V input. I needed to
> >> increase the voltage to 5.1V after the red LED still was blinking
> >> once in a while (probably indicating too much noise on the power
> >> line with my long wires without decoupling capacitor on the end).
> >>
> >> It may be worth checking the actual 5V line for noise too.
> >
> > 5mv? 4 amp box, haven't had a problem.
>
> And you do not see any red led on the pi blink then?
>
> If yes, then you man need to add decoupling.
>
Solid as a rock.
>
> [snip]
>
> > One thing I've noted is that in one switch starts both the monitor
> > and the pi, the monitor isn't ready I assume to respond to an EDID
> > query by the time the pi issues it.  So I've had to pull the pi's
> > power plug for about 2 or 3 seconds mid-boot. Then plug in the teeny
> > usb plug again, and I get video on that reboot.
> >
> > Is there quick and likely dirty way to make the pi wait 2 or 3
> > seconds before loading things up?
>
> See:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/boo
>t.md
>
> - bootcode_delay - seems the one you are looking for.

Absolutely Bertho. I just set a 3 second delay & we'll see how the next 
reboot works.

> From the docs: "This is particularly useful to insert a delay before
> reading the EDID of the monitor, for example if the Pi and monitor are
> powered from the same source, but the monitor takes longer to start up
> than the Pi."

Thank you Bertho.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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