Re: [beagleboard] Re: Failure Rate of Beagle Boards

2013-10-22 Thread Robert Nelson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Travis James halogrunt1...@gmail.com wrote: I have been managing 9 beaglebones as a part of a project I am working on, and so far, all 9 of them have initially worked, but I now have 6 functional units. 2 of them succumbed to the power failure issue (plug in

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Failure Rate of Beagle Boards

2013-10-22 Thread William Hermans
The power related issues are not necessarily the fault of the device its self. It could be a bad ground on your part, or other new software that you've installed or started to use. When the BBB has blinking LEDs ( CPU heartbeat ) this implies that it does in fact work. SO either you're not

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Failure Rate of Beagle Boards

2013-10-22 Thread David Lambert
Not really scientific, but I have used around 50 Beagles of various pedigree/version. I have only had to return one for repair, and that was I think due to accidentally applying 5V to a GPIO pin. :-( Keep up the good work Gerald et al. :-) Dave. On 13-10-22 02:06 PM, William Hermans wrote: