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Power is the rate at which energy is supplied or consumed, often measured in Watts. This tag covers electrical power specifically, the voltage and current specifications for supplying power to the Pi, the specifics of power consumption by the Pi, and methods for controlling Pi power consumption.

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Turns off when touching test points

That looks like the power is being shorted out Perhaps your meter is on the wrong setting. …
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USB Power backfeed without Polyfuse mod

The polyfuses have a pretty wide tolerance, and can also be very slow to act. The Pi might work indefinitely like that, or the polyfuses might kick in eventually
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Safe way to shut of Pi without keyboard, access to command line ,etc

Assuming you know roughly how long the pi needs to run (battery capacity etc), just have a process that sleeps for X seconds and then shuts it down.
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Is it possible to power the RPi by re-assembling the ethernet port?

I'm not sure why you think this should be possible. The jack is a "magjack" as shown in the schematic. There appears to be no DC paths through it. You can't replace the magjack with a regular jack as …
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Where is my RPi losing power?

On the other hand getting the power in without the polyfuse in the way seems to reduce the number of unexplained crashes. …
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HDD without external power is working. Is this dangerous?

Power supply, other periperals, cpu load etc. The main polyfuse is evil. … If the current is on the high side it could trip after a few hours even if nothing else changes I don't power mine through the polyfuse anymore. Much more reliable. …
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How many volts can you safely connect to the Pi?

If you remove power from the 6V side while a powered hub is connected for instance - the 7805 will be reversed biased. This is the archilles heal of the 78XX series. …
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Make RPi keep an semi-accurate time after power loss

Have a search on ebay for "i2c rtc" There are plenty of very inexpensive ones based on the DS1307 battery included! I've connected one of these previously, but I don't think I posted the code anyw …
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Keyboard not working on Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

That type of converter just wires pins to pins. Legacy USB ports are able to notice that it's a PS/2 keyboard and change their behaviour. The RPi USB port doesn't have the support for the PS/2 comb …
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