Hi guys,
My first post on the Parallella Community.
Had an idea and was wondering what your thoughts would be on adding a small slider or toggle switch to the J15 jumped to prevent people having to solder their board in order to make use of a clustered power supply.
I'm not experienced what so ever with soldering or components but was hoping someone on the forums might be and would be able to tell me whether this was possible and perhaps whether it could be added to the manufacturing process?
I just received two parallella boards, but also purchased the cluster kit from Ground Electronics, which in order to use I was required to solder a piece of wire across the J15 jumper in order to divert the 5V power.
I had my dad do it for me as he is experienced with soldering, but I couldn't help but feel it was a disadvantage in the sense that I was then limited to powering both the boards one particular way and could not undo the change without removing the wire and more importantly the fact that I had to solder the board and risk damaging it, making it probably near impossible to claim under warranty if I then turned on the board to find it had another issue.
I'm not particular sure on the size that would be required for a switch, but this one looks close: http://www.mouser.com/search/ProductDet ... ModA%3D%3D
Your thoughts and input would be appreciated. Apologies if this is a stupid idea, as I said, I'm not experienced in such things.
Thanks
Tim