Thanks Bill, yes, I knew about the power supply, but it was unclear to me how to determine the overall power-consumption of all the slaves on the bus.
I found the maximum current for a DS18B20 being active is 1.5mA - with 15 (at the moment) this would be 22.5mA. So far so good. But for the DS2408, I wasn't sure at the time, what my overall consumption with IO would be. So I decided to use the 5V of my PC. But of course, it is a good thought to check what happens using the LINK internal power-supply! So why don't I just go ahead and do that? I will post the results! Can you tell me what other meaning the red LED on the LINK has, than indicating communication and a short from Data to GND (which I found out while testing an iButton-reader - if the button is not applied right, one can actually short the data-pin with GND). Because when all my slaves disappear once in a while, the LED is on red continuously. I still can communicate to the LINK and I dont have to restart owfs at all to get it back up and running again. I just have to toggle the external 5V. But i will try using the internal power-supply for now, and see if there is a change. My best regards, Martin Patzak ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
