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02-19-2015, 09:44 AM #32
Trust me, your printer does NOT use xenon light. And its not xenon light. Xenon is a gas, not a light though its used to create light. The gas is used in glass tubes inside photographic strobes (ie, camera flashes). Your iPhone/cell phone does NOT have one either, those use LEDs. The lights in your printer are probably LEDs. Xenon flashes are extremely short duration light sources so are ideal for photography as it produces a slightly cool white light thats extremely intense. It does it by charging a capacitor with high voltage and then dumping it as an arc of high voltage as a spark through the tube filled with the xenon gas. When the gas is so energized, it emits a bright white light.
As for the Pi, its the light FROM a xenon flash (and potentially other short duration high intensify light sources) and some laser pointers that could trigger it. So, don't take pictures using a high power camera strobe or point a laser pointer directly at the CPU regulator on the board and it won't shut off.
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