The power check
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What it shows
A card with a title, a large voltage figure, a thumb beside it and one row of context:
Power very low!with a red thumb down andSwitch to a different USB power source.The supply sagged into the danger band, where the ticker can brown out or corrupt its storage.Power a bit lowwith a thumb down andTry a different USB power source.Power a bit highwith a thumb down andSwitch to a different USB power source.Power very high!with a red thumb down andUnplug. Use a different power source.






Power is good, orPower is good nowwhen the session has already seen a dip or a peak, with a thumb up and a colored line showing the range the supply has moved in. A brownout-level sag at start-up is called out asBut 2.85V at startup!Measuring power...withReady in under 2 min.before the first verdict.



The ticker reads its supply many times a second, and every minute turns that window into one verdict: the lowest reading against the low lines, the average against the high lines. A verdict gets worse the moment a line is crossed and only improves once the reading clears it by a margin, so the card does not flicker between two faces on a borderline supply.
During setup the same measurement drives a Power card (My USB power is / very low right now., with Use different USB cable / and/or power source.) and a USB Power: check now notice on the setup page.


Options
- Notify me of weak → Power (
Devicesection). Ticked, the card comes back every quarter of an hour while the verdict is not good. Unticked, it stops repeating. The page says:Unticking a box stops that card's repeats - the ticker runs exactly the same either way. Ticking one shows you the card on the glass right away. - A good verdict never schedules a card. The figure is always available under
Info → System Info. - The start-up showing is not optional: a bad verdict after the first minute or so of running shows the card once whatever the checkbox says.
Where to set it
Device → Notify me of weak → Power. The setting’s reference page is Setting: notify me of weak power.