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RE: Help regarding creating a battery pack for the Raspberry Pi 5 and powering it using the pichondria board.

It is advertised as USB-PD compatible with Pass through. Seems good. And it should work well. The only recommendation is that the power-bank should …

2 weeks ago
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Answer to: Help regarding creating a battery pack for the Raspberry Pi 5 and powering it using the pichondria board.

1. Use a 3S or 4S Li-Po pack. These will have enough voltage which can be connected or soldered at the input of the 5V 5A board. The mAh depends on ho…

3 weeks ago
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Answer to: Solder battery recommendation

Thank you for being here. The requirement when choosing batteries are mostly dependent on the BMS. Would prefer that you use a 4S battery pack. This…

2 months ago
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Answer to: Powering a Jetson Nano

@tech_user Just ensure that the voltage drop is minimal. Adding connectors usually drops voltage at each of these points of connectivity. Also get a t…

3 months ago
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Answer to: Powering a Jetson Nano

It should work. The only concern would be that the you might want to connect the power directly to the pins or solder a cable with DC barrel end to co…

3 months ago
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Answer to: I would like to know if it works with 33W xiaomi charger and powerbank with max o/p of 5V/3A, 9V/3A, 11V/3A and 20V/1.35A. The cable is for 3A rating.

Yes, it works well with the USB-PD adapters and power banks. It will take the 20V input and convert it to 5V 5A output (USB-C). It is safe for Pi5. …

4 months ago
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RE: Converter works really well!

@beecielo Thanks a lot for the feedback. Glad that it worked well for you. Do follow us and we will have a lot more products coming up 🙂 Welcome …

11 months ago
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Answer to: Is Pichondria v1.0 compatible with RaspberryPi 5 ?

Pichondria v1 can only supply upto 3A. We will have a 5V 5A UPS model in a month, for the RaspberryPi 5. Stay tuned.

1 year ago
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Answer to: Can I use power banks to power RaspberryPi 5 with USB-PD ?

Hi Francis, Yes, you can use power banks with USB-PD, just like USB-PD adapters, to power the RPi 5 using the Pichondria 5V 5A converter board. If…

2 years ago
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Answer to: How much is the minimum voltage required ?

Minimum voltage required is ~6V for the Pichondria converter to turn on. The recommended voltage is about 12-20V. But, it can operate from 6-20V wit…

2 years ago
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Answer to: Can I use Pichondria as a separate device to power my Arduino based IoT device only ?

You can power the Arduino via USB-A or USB-C output port of the Pichondria. But the I2C pins of Pichondria are designed to withstand only 3.3V. So e…

2 years ago
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Answer to: I shutdown RaspberryPi without issuing shutdown command to Pichondria. How to come out ?

Yes. You can press the switch 3 times to shutdown the Pichondria without acknowledgement, even if you have enabled acknowledgement mode. This should…

2 years ago
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