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can low power be the cause of low WiFi speed?
I'm using a raspberry pi 2 model b running Ubuntu core, and a TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 USB WiFi adapter, which has a maximum speed of 300mbps/37.5mBps, and a Samsung charger which supplies 2A (lower than ...
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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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Connecting external Hard Drive to Raspberry Pi 2 [duplicate]
I am trying to connect a 2 Tb external Hard drive (ADATA HD710) to my raspberry pi, but the problem is that when I connect it to one of the USB ports, the raspberry pi stops working. I am not sure if ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 vs Pi 2 power consumption and heat dissipation
I've seen the announcement of the new Raspberry 3 but didn't find any info regarding power consumption and heating.
A 1.2 Ghz 64-bit CPU is great but does it draw a lot more power? Shall heat be an ...
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Faint PWR LED, doesn't boot
I've just installed Raspbian to my new RPi2 B+. Shutdown and connect Adafruit Neopixel Ring (3 connectors: 4th pin - 5v, 6th pin - GND, 12th pin - DATA IN) and boot the RPi. Then it has reset itself ...
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RPI Forever On?
I have my RPI2 deployed as a receiver at remote location which is intended to be forever on. But after some 20-30 hours, it goes into some mode with just red light turned on(no green light blinking) ...
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Tapping into 5v power
I will be using a high-amp 5v power supply feeding the Raspberry Pi 2 via microusb. (Similar to this http://www.dx.com/p/dc-6v-24v-to-usb-dc-5v-3a-regulated-power-supply-module-black-314056 one)
I ...
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My Pi2 won't boot. How do I check\measure the voltage on a Pi2
So my Pi is giving me the red light of doom and I want to check to see if the power supply is faulty. How do I measure the voltage on the Pi2 from the power supply to ensure it is not faulty?
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Raspberry Pi 2 - HDMI not displaying
Just recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B 1GB. I also bought a micro SD card Kingston 16GB Class 10. I loaded up the Noobs software as instructed on: https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-...
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Current draw for +/2/3/0 models
Essentially "What's the current draw and supply voltage tolerance?" but for newer models.
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