From: Brian Heckathorne <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 3:48 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: RIP Never Used BBB
> > John no worries my friend I hope you didnt take offense im a Texan to boot and > was only thinking outloud. Wasnt implying anyone made a mistake or how smart > they are or are not. Ive been quite surprised how on top of everything Gerald > is. No doubts John hope you didnt take offense or think I was downing the > product any. Was NOT the case. I think its a great product and cant wait to > see whats next. Don¹t worry so much, nobody gets too serious here. Gerald explained his thinking a while ago and I was just giving him a break because he is really busy working on his next project. Regards, John > > > Personally I wish the support for bonescript was larger but that will take > time. > > On Jul 30, 2014 5:27 PM, "John Syn" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From: <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 1:11 PM >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: RIP Never Used BBB >> >>> I wasn't saying make it bullet proof, just some simple goof proofs. Like on >>> the 5v plug, that kind of thing. I get the whole cost thing and by and large >>> agree. >>> >>> I'm sure to try and cover everything would cost a bit, Not sure why anyone >>> would be putting 220v to the 5v plug, but i could understand reverse >>> polarity on the 5v plug. Not sure it needs to be gone to the extreme. >>> >>> How hard/costly is it to fix something like reverse polarity or blown gpio? >>> if repairs are easy enough, perhaps protection isn't worth it. >> Think economics and not technical. Since there were very few returns because >> of reverse polarity, it isn¹t cost effective to add the protection to each >> board. For example, circuitco has shipped 177,000 BBB multiplied by $10 >> protection is $1,770,000. Less than 20 returned because of reverse polarity >> at $55 each is $1,100. The solution is obvious. Gerald is very smart and he >> knows what he is doing ;-) Users just need to be more careful. >> >> Regards, >> John >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 3:00:10 PM UTC-5, john3909 wrote: >>>> >>>> From: <[email protected]> >>>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 12:50 PM >>>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: [beagleboard] Re: RIP Never Used BBB >>>> >>>>> I think I would of paid 10 - 12 extra bux for a BBB that had some >>>>> protection. Feels like at any moment my BBB might suddenly spontaneously >>>>> contract "magic smoke" disease and all it's electrons fall out. >>>> Since there are very few of you who have done this, why should the rest of >>>> us have to pay the extra cost. I think there are less than 20 out of >>>> 150,000 boards shipped. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:42:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> hello people, please excuse my for my Tarzan English. >>>>>> first connect my BBB with a 5V supply 4A with the negative in the middle, >>>>>> might have killed her so easily? >>>>>> now with the positive in the middle got hot and nothing more happend. >>>>> -- >>>>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout> . >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google >> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/iiqYyjTuGHM/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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