Questions tagged [power-supply]
The methods for powering the Raspberry Pi (typically via its micro-USB connection.)
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Raspberry Pi Shows Low Power Lightning Bolt When Only Using 1 of 3 Amps
My Raspberry Pi 3B+ is running Kali Linux on the official 7" display. I am using an Anker power bank that says: "5V=6A (3A max per port)" in the description. When using the Pi, it constantly shows the ...
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HDMI port is not working
I have been using an RPI3B+ for around 2 months . I used it remotely most of the time. Recently, when I was trying connect it with a monitor via HDMI to VGA converter , it didn't work at all. I ...
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micro usb power adapter
I recently purchase a wireless (no name brand) Bluetooth airbuds, of course it only came with the micro usb cradle for the buds to charger. Instructions require that charger is no higher output that ...
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part incompatibilities
I am trying to control a 4.5V motor with a pi.
I am going to use this to control the motor:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2X-L298N-Dual-H-Bridge-DC-Stepper-Motor-Driver-Controller-Board-Arduino/...
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Powering Rpi won't boot using custom microusb and supply
I'm attempting to power my Raspberry Pi with my own power supply. As you can see from the picture, that is the micro usb I have modified to connect to my power supply. However, when I connect it to my ...
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Powering a line following robot with a power bank. Any thoughts?
I am currently wondering for a college project, if it'd be possible or not to use a power bank to build a line following robot and power both the pi 3b+, the waveform motor driver hat with 2 dc motors(...
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Long term screw terminal power
Okay so I have a PCA9685 hooked up to a raspberry pi 3 so that it can control multiple servos via a c++ program. Currently, I have them hooked up to a battery pack that has red and black wires as gnd ...
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Is it safe to power my external hard drive with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ USB port?
I have a external hard drive that has written on it "5V ⎓ 1A". Both power and data transfer happen over a single USB. I have been reading about powering this hard drive with the USB ports on my ...
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Raspberry Not Powering Up
Hope you are all doing fine !! Actually I'm just a beginner with raspberry Pi ... I started doing python coding on it a few days ago. But now when I'm connecting my charger to it ,It won't start. ...
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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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Safe power supply through GPIO pins
I'm designing a HAT and need to supply power to PI zero W and PI 3B+ through the GPIO headers[2&4]. The supply would regulated at 5V 4A (Would be sharing the same power supply with a Thermal ...
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What is the max voltage that the Raspberry Pi can handle over the USB plug? [duplicate]
I've been trying to make my own lower-cost power supply for the Raspberry Pi (my cellphone wall adapters don't provide clean enough 5V power for the Pi 3B+) with a 12V wall wart I have laying around ...
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Don't start Pi on power connection
I've currently got my raspberry pi setup with a power switch that wakes it up from power off (using GPIO3) and shuts it down safely using a simple python script. Pretty basic stuff.
The problem ...
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3.5 inch HDD case/rack with seperate USB connection?
I want to build a NAS with RAID 1 using two 3.5 inch HDDs. I want to connect the HDDs via USB. Thus I'd need two cases for the HDDs with two seperate power supplies.
Cases/Racks with two HDD slots ...
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Powerbank Qualcomm 3 fried my Pi Zero W
I tried running a Pi Zero W on a 10000 mAh powerbank with qualcomm quickcharger capability (https://www.biltema.se/kontor---teknik/mobiltillbehor/powerpacks/powerpack-10000-mah-2000041816) .
The ...
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RPi 3b+ portable battery concern: enough voltage?
For starters, I am trying to use this power pank as a portable battery for my robot:
https://www.costco.ca/PocketJuice-12%2C000-mAh-Portable-Charger-.product.100416339.html
I connected the pi to ...
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Several Zero-W boards won't even light up
In the past, I had no trouble getting my first Pi Zero-W board to boot.
Something seems to have happened, such that with:
three different boards (two newly purchased, one old that I think was blown ...
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Possible to Power an IP camera from Pi
I have a raspberry pi 3 b+.
I was thinking instead of using an USB camera or the camera module would it be possible to connect an IP camera?
The raspberry pi will be powered by a battery and the pi ...
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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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External 12v power supply to relay
I have a 12v 8 channel relay https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/relays-and-home-automation-1032/relay-boards-1033/8-channel-12v-relay-module which I want to connect to my RPi3 so I need an external ...
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Using a molex powered usb panel to power multiple pi's
I have been looking into multiple ways to power numerous rapsberry pi's from one power source.
I am not an electrical engineer and as such some methods I have researched online are less than ideal, ...
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Can I give power 5V 2.1A to Raspberry Pi 3 B+?
I have already taken RPI 3 B + from post office and now I want start RPI 3 B +. But I'm seeing that I haven't got 5V 2.5A Power Block. So, I have a question.
Can I give power 5V 2.1A to Raspberry Pi 3 ...
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Single power supply to RP3 and Adafruit Motor Hat
I have a project that includes a RP3 and an Adafruit motor hat (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2348), with 2 5v stepper motors (https://www.adafruit.com/product/858).
In the guide they state the ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 B+ shuts down randomly [closed]
My RPi 3 B+ shuts down randomly.
I have a official power supply and a 32 GB Toshiba microSDHC class 4 card.
I'm using it as a host for a Discord bot.
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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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12V-to5V (3A) converter for car fuse box
I'm planning to setup a RetroPi (using Raspberry Pi 3) in my car with a direct connection to the fuse box with this 12V-to-5V (3A) converter module. The power requirements on the Raspberry calls for 5....
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Power from Pi 3 to 7" display
Does the 3v3 carried in the FFC cable at the display header of the Pi 3 B+ supply power to the 7" touch display? Or do I need to supply power at J1.1 and .5? If so this power can be pulled from the ...
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Powering Raspberry Pi using DC Power supply
I am trying to power my raspberry pi model 3 model b+ using this DC power supply. According to the official FAQ the power requirements seems suitable. But, I am not how to use the power supply to ...
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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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Can i use 2.5Amp on Raspberrypi 3B GPIO 5v pins? [duplicate]
I'm thinking of using a 5V and 2.5Amp power supply to power up my Raspberrypi 3 model B over it's GPIO 5V PIN. Is it safe to use 5V 2A IN GPIO PIN?
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How to power Raspberry Pi from a lab power supply via USB?
How can a Raspberry Pi be powered from a lab power supply via USB?
I have a lab power supply that can easily output 5 V/4 A and I would like
to use it to power a Raspberry Pi (version 3B and 3B+).
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Prevent Pi Zero W from turning on after receiving power
My Pi Zero is powered by a small ATX PC power supply that is also powering a few other components: projector, audio amplifier. I'm using the gpio-shutdown device tree overlay to add a power button on ...
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accidently reversed polarity power to Raspberry Pi 3B+
I was trying to make a custom power source to supply power to the micro usb port on the Pi B+ and I reversed the + and - by accident and then smelled something like burned plastic. The SD card doesn'...
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Pi shuts down every day at 11:23 PM
I have a Pi Zero W running Raspbian Stretch Lite (June 2018). I'm using it to turn the crank on an automatic cat feeder. I've barely changed the base configuration: apt-get-installed git and samba, ...
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Overcurrent protection
Are there any over-current protection measures on RPis? Either on GPIO or power supply pins.
Are there differences between versions?
Unfortunately two of my 3b+ boards are dead now because of brief ...
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Powering Motor with Raspberry pi and h-bridge
I am trying to control a 3-6 volt motor with a raspberry pi and h-bridge. I have a separate power source for my pi and my motors.
I have tried a 6v, 9v, and 12v power source. However, the motor ...
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Is it okay to power the Pi Touchscreen by plugging into the Pi?
I have the official raspberry Pi 7 inch touch screen, and I have mounted to it a Pi 2. Lately I have been using it and I have been plugging the power into the Pi itself. I however recently remember ...
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Portable Raspberry for Recalbox
Today is the day where the beta of Recalbox for 3b+ is out.
For the moment, it's working. I want to know how to make my RBerry portable, so that I can play with it everywhere.
I'm new to all that ...
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Powering Raspberry Pi 3 with 5v/3A Buck converter
I am using Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian OS. I will be powering my Pi 3 board from a output of 24V battery. So I will be using a 5V/3A buck converter. I will be connecting my GPS, Pi camera and 4G ...
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Monitor Displaying “No Signal” with RetroPie at Powerup
I'm in the process of building a game console using RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi 3. I'm connecting the Pi to a monitor via HDMI, and I'm powering both using a power strip with an on/off switch, to ...
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wifi - WiFi sometimes does not work
When I powered the Raspberry Pi 3B on (I use Gentoo), WiFi was working. After reboot, it stopped working, both ip link list and ifconfig commands do not list it (they do if WiFi is working).
I am ...
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Using Raspberry in Nanosatellite [closed]
I want to use raspberry pi in space projects like cubesats. I worry about effects of space radiation on raspberry.Is this possible to do?or i need to choose another board or something like that?
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safeness of using 18650 + battery casing for raspberry pi
I am planning to use a 18650 battery and a casing like below to run a raspberry pi zero W outside on my watch, but I hear bad stories about lithium ion batteries, like 18650, exploding on a regular ...
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Automatically bring back the Pi while it shutdown
I've experienced several P3B+ automtically shutdown cases, by skiping the analysis of the root cause, I wonder what is the solution to automatically bring back the Pi again while it shutdown, I mean ...
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underVolt shows but DC meter +5
volt and current measurement dongle from power supply shows 5.00 volts within 4% and current is less than 500 ma but lightning bolt showa undervoltage. WHY?
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Powering a number of Pi from a single bench top power supply [closed]
I'm thinking of investigating the Bitscope Blade QUATTRO to host up to forty boards. Looking at the details each Blade can power the boards off a single supply, which need not be at 5V with up to 3A (...
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Uninterruptible Power supply for PI 2 B+
Will it be possible to provide short term power to the B2+ model with the following setup?
5V 2A 44W Uninterrupted Power Supply Alarm System Security Camera Dedicated Backup Power Supply 6-10 Hours
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RPi 3 B+ under voltage with Retropie
I recently acquired a brand new RPi Model 3 B+ and decided to try and install Retropie (v4.4) on it. I managed it to boot properly and I got a PS3 controller to work via USB.
The problem is that I ...
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Powering RPI 3 and using relay from same source
I want to build something of a smart home device such as a smart switch /outlet for example that controls something like a light. However, I don't know what the wiring should be Like, if it's possible....
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Rpi Zero W ( not Rpi 2,3 ) - power consumption, idle and GPIO operate [duplicate]
Spec wise - all raspberries require 5v 2A input.
My project needs multiple remote rpi’s to send periodical status of GPIO using python script ( runs on Raspbian Strech Lite ).
Is a 2A a must ?
