10-03-2016, 07:05 PM
(10-03-2016, 12:30 PM)Bluphire Wrote: What does this do?
The MicroUSB connector has a max rating of 1.8A, and a lot of MicroUSB leads are pretty wimpy (wires too thin, poor conductivity contacts) , and will not provide the Pine64 with the necessary power when it is loaded up, leading to file corruption, random brownouts, reboots, etc. This cable plugs into the euler bus, and powers the pine64 via the power pins there.
@may1791: You basically want to connect pins 4 & 6 of the euler bus to the USB connector. If you have a look here, you can see the relevant pins. The red wires are connected to 5v (+), and the black wires to GND (-). They have used two wires for each, which is better, but you don't have to do that.
The USB connector pinout is as shown below. You'd basically connect 5v to euler 2 (and 4) and GND to euler 6 (and 9), and leave the two middle data pins unconnected.
