Questions tagged [battery]
In electricity, a battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy.
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how do I automatically power off the raspberry pi and cut power every night and then power it back on each day?
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I'm a student working on research project to develop a remote wireless sensor network of data loggers. Each data logger (aka node) is going to be retrofitted to a bird feeder that reads ...
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Can I use Rpi 3.3V power pin (pin number 1, not GPIO signal pin) to power a 5mW green laser pointer originally powered by AAA x 2 = 3V bateries?
Let's say I have a device powered by 2 AAA batteries in series (1,5v x 2 = 3v and 625 mAh).
Is it possible to replace the 2xAAA battery with the 3,3v Raspberry PI GPIO output?
Or the 0,3v may be an ...
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Does a battery pack exists which does not need the microUsb power connection? [closed]
I'm building a small robotic car, which obviously needs battery power for it and the RPi. I've no problem with the battery pack for the car since it fits neatly into the chassis, but the RPi microUsb ...
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RaspberryPi is not provided with enough power
Im trying to learn robotics with raspberrypi but im having a problem.
I have 6 AA batteries that are connected to a LM2596S adjustable voltage regulator module, Which then is connected to the ...
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Are there any battery backup options that work with a PoE powered Pi?
Looking to have a Pi (4) that is powered over PoE - are there any battery backup options (i.e. hats) that can be stacked with the PoE hat & supply power if/when the PoE fails (and then re-charge ...
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Battery Usage Pi Zero W for video stream
I am trying to do live video streaming from the rasberry pi, meaning the camera is recording a video and then transmitting the live video over wifi.
What is the smallest battery I can use to power ...
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Most recommended power-supply option from dual-port Powerbank
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 model B [1]. It's powered by a DC adapter that outputs 5.1V and 2.5A. Although I consider ocassional manual reboots, I'm planning to use a Powerbank as some kind of UPS, after ...
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How to connect components of an RC (and rPi) car to the battery safely?
I am building an RC car from scratch. I have a 6v motor with an appropriate mdb, a 5v hobby servo, a raspberry pi zero w, and an 2200mAh 11.1v 50 C battery. I will upgrade the motor to a higher ...
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Raspberry Pi UPS with LiPo Battery
I have been working on a battery back up for my raspberry. The idea is classic: connect power bank to wall outlet and raspberry to power bank output. It works well with only battery power.
But when ...
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LiPo Voltage Drops
I am experiencing voltage drops with the following setup and I hope someone with mad electronics skills can explain my mistake to me:
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
TFP401 Display Driver
7.0 Inch TFT Display
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Car Powered Raspberry Pi: Safe Shutdown and Power On
Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I can't seem to find a suitable solution.
I need to power a Raspberry Pi in a car, and for obvious reasons need to shutdown gracefully, however, I need it to ...
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Raspberry PI Portable USB Charger [duplicate]
I bought a $5 usb charger that I am using to power my Raspberry Pi. The charger works decently but I am noticing that every once in while the raspberry pi will reboot. I have read that some chargers ...
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How best to power a motor hat asking for 6-12V for just two DC motors
I purchased a Waveshare Motor Hat because it has the nice Pi Zero size, extra long headers, and already has headers and blocks soldered, all for less than $13.
https://www.waveshare.com/motor-driver-...
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Power Raspberry Pi using GPIO Pins and a 10A supply with 7805
I am currently working on a project where i have micro-controller,stepper drivers etc all powered through a single 12v 10a power supply. I was planning to use the same supply to power the raspberry pi ...
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Powering Raspberry Pi and Arduino
I'm curious about powering Arduino Uno, Raspberry pi 3 b+ and motor driver L298n. I've got 11.1V / 2200 maH li-po battery. Firstly connected battery to motor driver, then feeded arduino from 5V out ...
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Car battery life with raspberry pi 3 model B
=> Raspberry pi 3 model B powered with car battery
I have two questions :
1- How can I calculate car battery life ?
2- Is their negative impact for the start-up of the vehicle when I use his ...
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Running Raspberry pi 3b+ on lithium ion 36wh/7.4v question
I have built a little medical assistive device using the raspberry pi 3, I wanted to attach it to a backpack and test it in real life situations.
I don't have much money to purchase much things but I ...
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Is it safe to use this battery with the Raspberry Pi Zero?
I have two questions actually:
1) is it safe to use this battery and these wires with the raspberry pi zero?
2) if yes, where do i solder the highlighted (red square) ends to the zero board?
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How to implement properly the iot garbage management using sensors and esp8266 to mobile application
My question: I don't know how to connect ULTRASONIC SENSOR(hc-sr04) which is for getting the fill level of garbage and DHT11 for temperature and humidity to connect both in a ESP8266 to mobile ...
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How to extend battery life on custom pi laptop
So I'm trying to make a pi laptop based on this project with a few differences:
I use this display instead of this
Technically, I'm using 18650 cells, but at a slightly reduced
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No Arduinos ...
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Raspberry Pi DC Motor Not Working
So, I am attempting to control a DC motor using a RPi Model 2B. I am using a l293d motor driver to try to control the motor and a 4 AA battery holder. The diagram is supposed to look like this ...
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L298N Not working with 4 x AA Batteries
I have a 6V motor attached to a HiLetgo Module L298N Dual H Bridge and controlled via two Raspberry Pi 3B GPIO pins (current just using HIGH & LOW).
If I use a 5V power supply from my Raspberry ...
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Slim distro for media server with least battery consumption [closed]
I want to create a portable media server using Raspberry Pi Zero W running on LiPo battery.
Steps will include installing minidlna, dhcp server, hostapd.
I have fair knowledge of these things and can ...
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Determine with a circuit whether the Raspberry is off
I am building a RC car with a Raspberry Pi 3, and I would like to power the Raspberry with a battery. However, when the Raspberry is off, I would like to switch from the battery powering the Raspberry,...
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Is it safe to wear a Raspberry Pi with a battery module？ [closed]
I want to take a Raspberry Pi with me as wearable device so I have to attach a battery on it. The problem is that I fear the battery would explode some day thus destroy my body , just like Galaxy ...
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Which is the most energy efficient language to develop an apllication for Raspberry Pi?
I have a Raspberry Pi that runs under a power bank (battery) of 10.000 mAh.
I want to develop and application which does non-blocking IO from the USB port and sends data over network to accumulation ...
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Sense HAT - Power Consumption
What is the average power consumption of the official Sense HAT (w/o LEDs)?
More specifically:
I'm interested in the power consumption when logging the data from the gyroscope, accelerometer and ...
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Battery level monitoring circuits [duplicate]
I want to use a USB power bank for powering my RPi3B but I need to display how much charge is left. What is a good set up of measuring the battery level of the power bank?
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Battery level of USB power bank [duplicate]
I plan to use a USB power bank to power my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, but I need to know the battery level/percentage. There is the battery icon and percentage in the top right corner. Does this ...
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Using Raspberry Pi Zero W connected to LM7805 or dc buck converter from UPS LEAD acid battery
Planning to build battery backup for raspberry pi zero w that last for days from 12v lead acid PC ups battery.
Parts
PC UPS, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ur-D37-juo
LM7805, https://www.ebay.in/...
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Powering Motor Driver from the Pi?
Im looking into getting the L9110S Motor Driver. I need to control 4 motors between 4.5v and 6v. The issue I am running into is how the motor driver is powered. It looks like most people power it ...
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Am I Correctly Calculating mAh for the Pi?
I am trying to figure out what size battery I will need to power my RPi and 2 components with it. I want to build a "tablet" of sorts, mainly because I don't want to spend $800 on a Wacom tablet when ...
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Using Raspberry Pi with Powerbank Accumulator
I wanted to power my Raspberry Pi 3B plus some sensors and an additional Huawei modem with a Powerbank. When turned on that's no problem, everything works fine. But I want to measure some enviromental ...
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Is it correct to say that we have few cm computers but we still need a bulky transformer? [closed]
In a past I planned an arduino project, on the microcontroller side.
With the possibility to go idle and save batteries. But arduino is not a computer.
The reduced size of things like raspberry pi ...
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Looking to piggyback a pi on top of an arduino robot. How to power it?
I recently bought and assembled this Arduino-based robot turtle kit, and it's fun but I find microcontroller code a bit limiting, and I'd like to stick a raspberry pi on top of it to provide some ...
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battery management
I designed a food dispenser using a rPi+touchscreen, a h-bridge L293DN and a Mercury stepper motor SM-42BYGO11 (from Sparkfun). The system works great except that I need to have it powered by a ...
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Trouble using Pi's GPIO pin PWM to control ESC powered by separate battery
Can I use my Raspberry Pi to provide the PWM controlling my ESC, but have the ESC powered by a separate battery?
The ESC I'm using is "A1S 3A Blheli 1S Super Mini Brushless ESC". It's awesome. And it ...
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2 Raspberry Pis 1 Battery
I'm working on a project, here's the deal...
I have 2 raspberry pis (3B, and a zero w) and 1 battery (3.7V LiIon 1200mAh).
I bought a PowerBoost 1000 (A "DC/DC boost converter module can be powered by ...
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Running/charging batteries on the RPi3
I have a standalone RPi3 inside a case where I've designed room for a couple servos and a battery pack of some kind. The mini USB port is accessible thru the case wall, and I could also make the 4 ...
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Power Raspberry Pi using two 3.7v Lipo batteries
I was having trouble while booting up my Raspberry Pi powered by LiPo batteries.
Ignore the components inside the blue circle
I am just connecting the batteries, the darlington transistor and the ...
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Why does my Pi 3 Model B with HAT DAC run fine on a 4V Lithium battery?
Everything I have read about the Raspberry Pi 3, model B says that it will not run reliably on anything below 4.6vdc. I have a Pi 3 and I am running it at around 4V DC with a single 18650 lithium ...
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Choose a boot partition based on rtc contents
We ship units which have an expected life in the field of ten to twenty years. They include an RTC with a replaceable coin cell. Most of the time the machines will be powered on, so the RTC battery is ...
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Raspberry Pi Backup Battery Hat V1.2 battery level
My question is about Raspberry Pi Backup Battery Hat V1.2 specification.
Is it possible to see somehow level of battery discharging (% of battery charge) by using the operation linux system like ...
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Will my Pi running on a battery be damaged as the battery dies?
So I know that providing a Pi with too little power can potentially cause physical damage to the circuitry (brownout). I don't 100% understand how or why this happens.
I know that it seems a lot of ...
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Smallest battery that can run the raspberry pi zero w for a short amount of time
I have a raspberry pi zero w. What is the smallest (in terms of weight) that can run the pi? I am not concerned about how long it runs for; 5 mins would be adequate. What about with a camera attached? ...
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Lipo battery hat or attachment which supports seamless USB recharging
I just want to add UPS functionality to some of my flock of raspberry pis, and with an emphasis on portability.
One of the ways to get this is with certain USB battery banks. I have one here that is ...
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How to feed GPIO readings into indicator-power?
Debian has a package called indicator-power which notebooks use to show the current power.
I have a working voltage divider and ADC wired up to my external power source, and I have correct reading ...
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Raspberry Pi wild boar reppelent [closed]
In my father's farm, he may face a problem with wild boars. There are currently too many of them around. They already came to my father's farm but they did not destroy anything (there's not much to ...
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Battery to power Raspberry Pi Zero and two generic motors?
I plan to build simple RC car/robot with "2WD Two Wheel Drive Round Double Deck Smart Robot Car Chassis Kit For Arduino". I couldnt find the exact one I have, but I assume they are all pretty much ...
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RAVPower USB Battery Pack as Power Source [duplicate]
I know there have been several questions about USB battery packs posted throughout Raspberry Pi forums across the internet and I have read as many as I could find but I still feel like I don't have a ...
