[arm-allstar] RPi3 LEDs acting weird

[Doug Crompton]

The red LED is the power LED it should always be steady ON when the Pi is
powered up. The green LED shows data transfer and has a heartbeat blink
when the pi operational.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*


On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:53 PM, "John Griffith via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> You said the red LED was on and steady, then you said after changing the
> power supply, the red LED is rock solid.
>
> My red LED is constant on, so does that mean it's low on voltage or has
> good voltage? Should the red LED be off?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-allstar [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces at hamvoip.org] On Behalf Of
> "Larry via arm-allstar"
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2018 3:03 PM
> To: Doug Crompton via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>
> Cc: Larry <larry at thunderbolt.net>
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] RPi3 LEDs acting weird
>
> The solution to my blinking LED ...  As always Doug you were right...Power
> Supply.
>
> I was using my bench supply while building a few new Pi nodes.
> Supposedly it has more than enough current. I Had checked the Voltage many
> times and was always set for 5.15 V out when feeding the Pi3.  Current
> regulation must be flaky as the Pi's Red LED would stay on steady whenever
> the USB FOB ptt was active and passing audio.
>
> Solution was to drag out one of the Ebay Chinese 12 volt to 5 volt 3 amp
> converter and hook it to 12 volts from the bench supply.
> Flip the switch and the Pi3 Red LED is rock solid.
>
> Love those little ebay converters. For the price you can't go wrong.
>
> Larry - N7FM
>
>
>
> On 01/01/2018 08:48 AM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" wrote:
> > Larry,
> >
> >   It sounds like you have a power supply problem. The red light on the
> > Pi should not go out during normal operation. It also possibly could
> > be a bad SD card or a bad image load.
> >
> >
> > *73 Doug*
> >
> > *WA3DSP*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 3:57 AM, "Larry via arm-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I get to ask the the first dumb question of the year.... yea!
> >>
> >> I have a Pi 3 node installed with the early 1.5 version of hamvoip
> >> software.
> >> It has always been updated to the latest as soon as a notice appears.
> >>
> >> Node works just fine but the Pi LEDS are acting weird.
> >>
> >> Red power LED is on the green LED next to it blinks off and on about
> >> 12 times.
> >> The red LED then turns off and back on. The cycle repeats it's self
> >> over and over as long as the node is powered.
> >>
> >> Anyone ever seen this or is there something significant about the LED
> >> cycling? Watchdog indicator or ???
> >> I Just built up another RPi3 this evening and it doesn't do this.
> >>
> >> Larry - N7FM
> >>
> >>
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