Yay! That ends the turmoil going on in my mind between my impatience and my crippling desire to have the best of everything!
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:41 +0100, Tim Coggins wrote: > Steve kindly emailed me on this issue and said: > > "The A5 boards have been reworked to remove the [LED] issue. So WRT > LEDs a5 and a6 have the same power consumption". > > Therefore you wouldn't need to dig out your soldering iron. Does > anyone know the other differences with power consumption are between > boards? > > Tim > > > > up OM software will eschew the frivoulous lighting of LEDs. > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Crane, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How complicated would surgery to fix this be? Is it reasonable to > > create a wiki page detailing hw fix? > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Green > > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:56 AM > > To: List for Openmoko community discussion > > Subject: Re: Freerunner will be GTA02v5 or GTA02v6? (was: Fwd: Future > > Button and LED software spec) > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > > |> | Is it possible to turn off these LEDs via Software? > > > > |> Yes, they're all controlled from the CPU and default to being off. > > > > | Does this mean that they won't draw any power when they're turned off? > > > > They won't draw any power when off... that part works as intended. > > > > It's only when you turn them on, the transistor causes the CPU pin > > itself to eat current itself due to an oversight. The effect in > > consumption terms is something as if you lit several LEDs instead of the > > one, say. But the LEDs come on and off as normal, are lit properly, > > etc. > > > > In normal use the LEDs aren't on much if at all, so it isn't anything > > that would stop me getting an A5 personally. > > > > - -Andy > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkgXGtEACgkQOjLpvpq7dMqdMACgimwT/C7TFsv+edbZQIzFN0zE > > 5tYAnjamWgbP2T42BLJFrOMMU8q/0V52 > > =e/Vh > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
