On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 8:19 AM Mike Brandon <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Paul - Would you be able to take a close up picture of the backside
> solder points of the serial debug connector (3 pin next to USB C)?
>
> My AI was overheating too until it stopped booting all together. I was
> looking to monitor serial as I applied power and that is when I noticed
> what appeared to be an unclean solder point...its not shorted there is a
> 99kOhm resistance between the two points.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/19pRcHcP9APTcQ6nWiU708ca8ID9PtNXH/view?usp=sharing
>

Exactly, it is intentional.

https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-ai/wiki/System-Reference-Manual#rev-a1a


>
> Mike
>
> On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 7:51:41 PM UTC-4, Paul Richards wrote:
>>
>> I got 2 BeagleBone AI's from Mouser and started working with them today.
>>
>> Both of my boards boot and run with the 08-03 build.
>>
>> I haven't done anything to modify the contents of the filesystem, I
>> merely booted and connected via Cloud9.
>>
>> On both boards, the main CPU heat sink and the Kingston RAM module
>> immediately
>> heat up and run incredibly hot.  I measured >80C on the CPU and >90C on
>> the RAM module with my IR thermometer.
>>
>> System load looked fine, nothing was running away and stealing all the
>> CPU.
>>
>> We intend to use these in lieu of BeagleBone Black modules for a project
>> in the Keck telescopes and if they normally run this hot, it will never
>> work.
>>
>> S/N range is 4000167 1301 003491 1933
>>
>>
>> Is my experience atypical?  What temperature should these boards
>> nominally run at?
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
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