[MinnowBoard] Colour of MinnowBoard PCB sticker indicates?

[Rosario Vumbaca]

H John & nb,

Thanks for your replies and information. Looks like the sticker colour 
is probably a 'red herring', I'll pass this information on to my colleagues.

Regards,

Rosario

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Rosario Vumbaca
Electrical Engineer

Allied Data Systems Pty Limited
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On 14/07/2015 8:39, John Hawley wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge the color of the stickers that are on the
> boards don't mean anything.  They are just an indicator that the board
> was flashed with a good firmware.  These were added about a year ago
> when we were resolving the nvram issue in the firmware, and these
> denoted that the board was flashed with a version of the firmware that
> didn't have that specific issue.
>
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>
> On 07/11/2015 05:56 AM, nb wrote:
>> Hi Rosario,
>>
>> I have a green one and a yellow one.
>> And for me the yellow one works the best, never had a problem.
>> Some problems with the green one, but power supply was not sufficient with it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> nb
>>
>>
>>> Le 9 juil. 2015 à 11:27, Rosario Vumbaca <rosario.vumbaca at allieddata.com.au> a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have found that the colour of the sticker (GREEN, YELLOW or BLUE) on the MinnowBoard PCB seems to correlate with some issues we are having.
>>>
>>> Can anyone advise what the sticker colour indicates?
>>>
>>>
>>> Details:
>>>
>>> We are using a large quantity of MinnowBoards in a kiosk system.
>>>
>>> Our power supply for the MinnowBoard has a current limit of around 2 Amps.
>>>
>>> We have found that in some cases the MinnowBoard will fail to start up and keep causing the power supply to shut down.
>>>
>>> This may sound odd, but the issues seem to be related to the colour of a sticker that is on the MinnowBoard.
>>>
>>> We have observed that GREEN sticker units always work fine, while BLUE and YELLOW units can randomly fail to start up.
>>>
>>> Has anyone observed anything along these lines?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rosario
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rosario Vumbaca
>>> Electrical Engineer
>>>
>>> Allied Data Systems Pty Limited
>>> 67/176 South Creek Road, Cromer NSW 2099 Australia
>>> Tel. +61 2 9982 1510 | Fax. +61 2 9984 7807
>>> E-mail: rosario.vumbaca at allieddata.com.au | Web: www.allieddata.com.au
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