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It is awesome to see battery backup being added to the Pi. There aren't any good solutions currently short of a full on UPS or a consumer grade battery pack.
by dsl 8y ago
It is awesome to see battery backup being added to the Pi. There aren't any good solutions currently short of a full on UPS or a consumer grade battery pack.
- ynezz 8y agohttp://www.mini-box.com/site/ComparisonChart-UPS.htm http://www.mini-box.com/site/ComparisonChart-UPS.htm
- Havoc 8y agoWell given that the raspberry is decidedly consumer grade too I don't see an issue with running it off a name brand powerbank.
- bonzini 8y agoAdaFruit's "Powerboost 1000 charger" is not cheap but it's very good and also has USB power pass-through pin, in order to detect power failures. However you will need a 5V-3.3V level converter to feed it to the RPi's GPIO pins.
- ficklepickle 8y agoI got some clones of these made in China to save money. All in all, pretty happy. Although they really need a heatsink if you want to push 1A continuously, and the IC is so small it is hard to dissipate all that heat. One of them will push as much current as possible until it overheats and shuts off, but the rest seem fine. I plan on trying to use 2 in parallel to make a UPS for my pi. I've used one with good results on a low power IoT door unlocker. When the door is closed, a Qi charger make contact and powers the device. When the door is open, it runs off battery.