Has somebody done this already?

Indeed, I see two separate issues that would need to be addressed here.

The first, that of an external system applying power to the BBB IO when the 
BBB is not powered up, can often be addressed with external series 
resistors and schottky clamping diodes.  The alternative is system power 
sequence control.

The second, is that of power management.  I am working on this right now 
for one of my projects.  Requirements are: 

1) a reservoir of power for the BBB to do it's shutdown housekeeping 
(battery or capacitor)
2) an external controller to manage power when it sees the input start to 
sag -- and control when it is allowed to power back up!
3) a working ACPID system, or alternatively a home-brew equivalent using 
interrupt IO.

I'll post my solution when available.  I'm using an external PIC 
micro-controller and a P-channel MOSFET.   If my solution is attractive to 
others, the Motorola purists out there will certainly be able to use 
something like an MSP430 instead...

Don



On Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 4:11:35 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
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> Sounds like someone needs to design-in a front end to handle that... ;) 
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> Regards, 
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> -- 
> Robert Nelson 
> https://rcn-ee.com/ 
>

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