Thanks Ytai you guessed correctly. I will investigate the easiest option
first. I guess 3.3 may be sufficient.



On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Ytai Ben-Tsvi <[email protected]> wrote:

> When the IOIO is not connected, all its pins are floating.
> The answer to your questions depends on what you're actually trying to
> accomplish.
> If I may second-guess from your question, you are probably trying to
> generate a 5V digital output and you want its default state to be LOW.
>
> What you can do about this is either:
>
>    - Easiest: do you actually NEED a 5V signal on the output? If your
>    device can function OK with 3.3V, then all you would need is to use the pin
>    in push-pull ("normal") more, and have a weak pull-down resistor on your
>    signal.
>    - Otherwise, add a p-channel FET on your output and configure it to
>    have the correct default state (using a pull-up to 5V on the gate and a
>    pull-down on the output). This will have a side effect of inverting your
>    signal, which can easily be mitigated in software.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Peakon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry small correction it is 5V not 3V when IOIO is not connected.
>>
>> On Friday, 17 January 2014 21:50:37 UTC, Peakon wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I use 5 GPIO pins in open drain mode as outlined in IOIO wiki. When IOIO
>>> is switched on but not connected I could measure about 3 V on the pins. How
>>> can I set them as low (0V ) when IOIO is not connected?
>>>
>>> Eddie
>>>
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