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In my experience, phones break more often than chargers, so you end up having several chargers laying around. Using the Pi for DIY projects, computing experimen
by zimmund 7y ago
In my experience, phones break more often than chargers, so you end up having several chargers laying around. Using the Pi for DIY projects, computing experiments (e.g. clusters) or learning, it makes sense to recycle those chargers (specially if you are in a budget). Being in a third world country I can assure you that getting a simple Pi-branded charger can get difficult and/or expensive.
- gadgetoid 7y agoI don’t disagree that they should be recycled (albeit I’d expect a phone to last 3-5 years), but historically all but the best phone chargers have proven to be wholly unsuitable for powering Pi’s. I’m not convinced USB C is poised to change that since charging doesn’t require a continuous, stable supply whereas running a power-hungry CPU does. Ironically most cheap, captive cable phone chargers are exactly the sort of thing that will work in the Pi 4. For varying values of “work.”