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echo: rberrypi
to: TIMS
from: ANDY BURNS
date: 2021-01-06 14:41:00
subject: Re: Pi power

TimS wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't be the biggest surprise in the world if the a cheap switch box
>> just commoned all the 5V pins together
>
> Are these 5V signal or power?

Power, but only 55mA

> From what Joe said upthread, both ends need to
> see the other. A 5V signal should suffice for that, I would have thought. No
> need for the source to be offering to power the remote end.

The "seeing" is over the DDC pin

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