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Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:54 pm

I connected the ribbon cable from my generic cobbler board the wrong way round on my Pi. Now I only get the PWR LED on my PI, nothing else.

Will connecting the ribbon cable the wrong way round for 2 seconds kill the Pi?

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JRV
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Re: Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:13 pm

That would connect one of the 5 volt lines directly to ground and the other to GPIO 26.
My guess, it's toasted.

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Re: Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 2:24 pm

Raspberry Pi 2 here we come!

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Re: Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:32 pm

JRV wrote:That would connect one of the 5 volt lines directly to ground and the other to GPIO 26.
Can you elaborate on that?

I would have thought that connecting a cable the wrong way around as such doesn't do anything.
Only if the cobbler / cable are fed externally you would feed 5V to ground...

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Re: Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:54 pm

i agree with dirk, i wouldent see why it would stop working... eleborate.
ras pi 2, gotta love it.

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Re: Connacted cobbler cable wrong way. Is it dead?

Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:19 pm

The worse problem is that inverse of pins 6, 9, 14, 20 & 25 (the grounds) are connected by the cobbler.
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