[Soekris] +5V power on Net4501
Jed Clear
clear at netaxs.com
Mon Jul 28 23:39:29 UTC 2008
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jed Clear wrote:
> If you'd rather not mess around with getting power from pin 10, and aren't
> otherwise using your USB connector, it is a +5V source, with enough
> hampsters for the LVC, at least with no internal HDD. Cutting up a spare
> USB cable is probably the easiest way to get connected there. This also
> lets you use a standard 2x5 to DE-9 cable for COM2:. Of course if you're
> putting a 2x5 header on the LVC cable anyway, never mind.
Forgot to add that I put DE-9 and USB connectors on my GPS 18 so I could
move it between different PCs. Moving it around is necessary since Garmin
updates firmware via MSWindows and my Soekris is MS free.
-Jed
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