John no worries my friend I hope you didnt take offense im a Texan to boot and was only thinking outloud. Wasnt implying anyone made a mistake or how smart they are or are not. Ive been quite surprised how on top of everything Gerald is. No doubts John hope you didnt take offense or think I was downing the product any. Was NOT the case. I think its a great product and cant wait to see whats next.
Personally I wish the support for bonescript was larger but that will take time. On Jul 30, 2014 5:27 PM, "John Syn" <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 1:11 PM > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Re: RIP Never Used BBB > > I wasn't saying make it bullet proof, just some simple goof proofs. Like > on the 5v plug, that kind of thing. I get the whole cost thing and by and > large agree. > > I'm sure to try and cover everything would cost a bit, Not sure why anyone > would be putting 220v to the 5v plug, but i could understand reverse > polarity on the 5v plug. Not sure it needs to be gone to the extreme. > > How hard/costly is it to fix something like reverse polarity or blown > gpio? if repairs are easy enough, perhaps protection isn't worth it. > > Think economics and not technical. Since there were very few returns > because of reverse polarity, it isn’t cost effective to add the protection > to each board. For example, circuitco has shipped 177,000 BBB multiplied by > $10 protection is $1,770,000. Less than 20 returned because of reverse > polarity at $55 each is $1,100. The solution is obvious. Gerald is very > smart and he knows what he is doing ;-) Users just need to be more careful. > > Regards, > John > > > > On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 3:00:10 PM UTC-5, john3909 wrote: >> >> >> From: <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 12:50 PM >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Cc: <[email protected]> >> Subject: [beagleboard] Re: RIP Never Used BBB >> >> I think I would of paid 10 - 12 extra bux for a BBB that had some >> protection. Feels like at any moment my BBB might suddenly spontaneously >> contract "magic smoke" disease and all it's electrons fall out. >> >> Since there are very few of you who have done this, why should the rest >> of us have to pay the extra cost. I think there are less than 20 out of >> 150,000 boards shipped. >> >> Regards, >> John >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 10:42:01 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> >>> hello people, please excuse my for my Tarzan English. >>> first connect my BBB with a 5V supply 4A with the negative in the >>> middle, might have killed her so easily? >>> now with the positive in the middle got hot and nothing more happend. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/iiqYyjTuGHM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
