From:  Graham <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Friday, November 14, 2014 at 8:03 AM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  [beagleboard] Re: Labolatory power supply fails to power up
BeagleBone Black

> I have a similar problem, using a "B&K Precision 1550" Lab Bench Power Supply.
> When you turn on the Output of the supply, the BBB Power Light blinks once and
> the BeagleBone Black does not boot.
> 
> If you put an oscilloscope on the output of the supply and watch it turn on,
> then
> the power supply overshoots up to 6 Volts, before returning to the 5 Volt
> setting.
That is just crazy. I have never seen a bench power supply do this. Perhaps
you should contact B&K, because there must be something wrong with the
voltage regulation on your power supply.

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> It turns out that the Power Management IC used in the Beaglebone Black will
> do an over-voltage shutdown at 6 Volts for protection. So, that is why it does
> one-blink then shuts-off.
> 
> So, not only do you need a certain rise time, which the B&K power supply
> meets, but  you can not have any large overshoot.  No good power supply
> should have this much overshoot, but the B&K does, so it has problems
> running a BBB.
> 
> --- Graham
> 
> ==
> 
> On Friday, November 14, 2014 4:03:37 AM UTC-6, bremenpl wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I have a very strange problem with powering up BeagleBone Black (rev C)....
>> When i try to power it up from some cheap AC adapter it works fine, but when
>> I connect to to my labolatory power supply the power LED on board is lid for
>> a second and then doesnt power up the MCU and turns off intead. I have
>> connected both supplys to osciloscope and they are both stable, the
>> laboratory one even more. Why is the power controller on the BeagleBone Black
>> refusing to power up the MCU when powered from lab supply? I have no idea
>> what is this about. I would aprichiate any help.
> 
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