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Fan output not working #112

Open udicomag opened 1 year ago

udicomag commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I use a few dozned coral dev boards that work just fine. However, probably 2 out of 50 have the same defect: the fan won't turn. For all my good boards the fans starts for a couple of seconds after powering up the board and then stops. I can turn it on and off with shell commands. For the defective boards none of that works. I swapped the fans between good and bad boards and the problem always stays with the board, so the fans are good. Is there anything on the OS/software side that may cause such problem ? If I can't get the fan running I guess the board will overheat under heavy load. Not a nice perspective. Since I have more than 5 of theses defective boards (out of the box, no fan even before flashing the OS) I wonder if that is simply a weak spot of the board design. Any ideas ?

Thanks Bernhard