[Coco] The BIGGEST PROBLEM with (So-Called) NEW CoCo Hardware...

[Tim Fadden]

On 3/6/2017 9:11 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
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>> On Mar 6, 2017, at 8:35 AM, Dave Philipsen <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:
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>> It's a much neater, more professional, more reliable way of powering the Pi in an embedded situation.  I wish that they had designed it with a header for the audio, video, usb, and ethernet signals too.
> Someone even sells a rechargeable battery shield (I forget what Pi calls them), so I bet it's powering it the same way. I had assumed it had a cable running off to the USB port.
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> One would hope if they went to the trouble to make a shield they
> included the necessary circuitry to protect the Pi and didn't just put
> batteries on a board.  it's all about engineering. The power connector
> was engineered to take power in for the Pi, the pins on the GPIO were
> not.  With four lag bolts I can bolt a trailer hitch on the bumper of my
> wife's CRV. But I sure wouldn't want to try towing my 28' camper with
> it.
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> bill
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There are several daughter  boards for the pi that supply power, serial 
port, RTC, vga, etc. The one I have accepts 5 to 12v, and supplies the 
pi with regulated and fused 5v.

I haven't had much luck using it as s drivewire server,  I got it all 
functional, but it would get lots of errors on actual disk IO. That was 
with a usb/serial adapter. I never messed with it to get the real serial 
port working. Also there is the rs232/max232 dongle thingie that could 
be attached.

-- 
Tim Fadden
"Hey Schmidt, don't forget about the six P's.
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