Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Jason Kridner
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Ron B. r...@andicelabs.com wrote: Hello fellow enthusiasts, Please check out my Power Cape and let me know what you think. Yes, they are for sale but I would also value your feedback. I seem to have bought the last one in stock with stacking headers. Be sure

Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Ron B.
Hi Jason, Thank you for the comments (and the order!). The first batch of boards was very small due to parts availability. Still waiting on a zener to come back in stock (current estimate is beginning of May). The cape firmware does currently allow for a timeout to be set that will power

Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Fort
Ron, As for adding a RTC to the board all the drivers for that are already in the kernel. Just add one of the following RTC chips: DS3232 (high accuracy), DS1338C, DS1339C, or DS1374 all of which can attach to the same i2c pins as your cape EEPROM. Given the pcb cad files I'm guessing it would

Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Ron B.
True, I could do it with another part fairly easily. I was trying to keep down the parts count (and cost) since the micro already has a 32kHz clock and keeps time. My pick and place machine (me) gets grumpy if the board has too many parts. ;-) I'll add a supported I2C RTC device to the wish

Re: [beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Fort
If I remember from previous discussion on this list, the issue with using the onboard RTC was keeping it powered and running with everything else powered down On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Ron B. r...@andicelabs.com wrote: True, I could do it with another part fairly easily. I was trying

[beagleboard] Announcement: Power Cape (UPS)

2014-04-04 Thread Ron B.
Hello fellow enthusiasts, Please check out my Power Cape http://andicelabs.com/beaglebone-powercape/and let me know what you think. Yes, they are for sale but I would also value your feedback. Thanks, -Ron -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this