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Add a pretest circuit for testing of board VCC #11

Closed ericorosel closed 4 years ago

ericorosel commented 6 years ago

for test-boards with an on-board vreg, it would be nice to have a pretest circuit built into the FJ so that one could test the VCC line for shorts. This would also allow one to check for proper regulator function. I believe currently the pretest circuits are defaulted to v1 and v2.

I suppose you could connect VCC (post on-board vreg) to v1 or v2, not power up that line, and just utilize the pretest circuit, but it seems a little wonky... Especially with some of the power control issues we've seen in the past.

ericorosel commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure this is worth doing. I will be breaking out the FJ VCC to a pin on the connector to run switches, etc.