doka wrote:
> I have a very bad experience with BAT-3. It has some serous design problems
> wich manifest in strange behaviours under EMC conditions - if your power
> supply is not very clean, don't use this board. Plus, contacts supplied with
> it are low quality - I had simillar behaviour because of loose contacts. And
> it gets worse with time.
> Finally, we replaced all of BAT-3 (about a dozen) with different design.
>
>> I'm running it from external batteries, but thought I would charge the
>> on-board BAT3 batteries too. So, I do something like this:
>>
>> bat3 --charge 300 &
>> //...wait a while
>> PSID=`ps | grep "bat3 --charge" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`
>> kill -SIGHUP $PSID
>> bat3 --sleep 4000
>>
>> When I do this, the system reboots, but does not sleep. It doesn't even
>> really reboot, just goes:
<snip>
>> ..etc. I can get of this by shorting the ISP pins. I've seen similar
>> behaviour when voltages are low, but the onboard right now is 3.6V and a
>> steady 12.6V on the line voltage.
>>
>> And, if I reboot, muddle out of it, and do a sleep -without- the
>> charge/kill, usually there's no problem - it sleeps the indicated time, then
>> wakes up fine.
I don't have a BAT3 but there have been a number of people over the last
few years post about their problems with the BAT3 :( It looks like a
great thing to have, but it looks worrysome.
To solve your problem I'd look back in the archives and contact TS
directly about it. Hopefully someone has a answer :)
--
Jason Stahls
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