<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Calibri
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">The board itself uses less than 1A but remember it has 4 USB ports onboard so if in the unlikely event you loaded each of them to the rated 1/2A you would be up close to 3A total.<br><br>I will have to measure it but my guess would be that this board draws less than the BBB as it runs considerably cooler. This is in the most conservative overclock mode though.<br><br>I would say in most cases a good 2A supply would be adequate.<br></font><br><b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</font></b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br></font><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 15:04:49 -0500<br>From: thorn@myactv.net<br>To: arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br>Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] RPi2 sources<br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
Some<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">one told me you <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">need a 2A power sup<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">ply<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">. They had trouble with it not
coming on with a 1A cellphone charger.<br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">73 Greg</font><br>
</font></font></font></font></font><br>
<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 03/07/2015 02:56 PM, Doug Crompton
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:BLU172-W19A0DF0E1BE61D0E2C0D86BA1D0@phx.gbl">
<style><!--
.ExternalClass .ecxhmmessage P {
padding:0px;
}
.ExternalClass body.ecxhmmessage {
font-size:12pt;
font-family:Calibri;
}
--></style>
<div dir="ltr"><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<b>Note that the RPi2 uses a microusb connector for 5V power.
You will need a 5V 1-2A wall wart with a microusb connector
or equivalent</b>. This does not come with the board.</font><br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>_______________________________________________
arm-allstar mailing list
arm-allstar@hamvoip.org
http://lists.hamvoip.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/arm-allstar
Visit the BBB web page - http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/</div> </div></body>
</html>