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Last active December 20, 2017 17:42
MinnowBoard Turbot 2 Quad power supply discoveries
Tried running a MinnowBoard Turbot 2 Quad with a Flotsam lure and a m-SATA SSD with Windows 10 on it
of a 2.5 Amp USB wall-wart with a USB to barrel connector cable.
It boots almost to Windows - it paints the login screen and photo, then reboots. There must be a current
demand surge at that point in the OS startup that is just too much for the wall-wart. And another
wall-wart I tried did get past that point, but tanks when I load the system - like starting the browser.
And removing the lure and running Win 10 from an SDCard worked for the short time I was testing it.
I am going to take some current profiles to see what the instantaneous demands are as an OS boots up, and
even to get a sense of the comparative profiles for different OS's, and if different configurations or