Yo Achim! On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:44:11 +0100 Achim Gratz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've taken delivery of a RasPi 3B and an Asus TinkerBoard today.
Cool.
> Nothing remarkable except a bit more
> powerdraw about it otherwise (I also got one of these USB measurement
> plugs that tell you what the current voltage and current draw is).
I have found the RasPi 3B very sensitive to the USB power cable used.
So I put my USB VA meter on the RasPi end of the cable, not the PS
end.
> The TinkerBoard is even speedier, but then it also pulls a third more
> power on average than the rasPi 3B and peaks even higher.
So you can't power it with USB anymore?
Seems a bit pricey for a small bump in performance? Especially if
you do not need the 4K video.
How well does the Ethernet port work?
> NTPsec is up and running on both, but without a refclock at the
> moment.
I'd be interested in how well it works just over the LAN with local
chimers. The Ethernet is the weak link on the RasPi.
RGDS
GARY
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