Raspberry Pi Power Options - 3 Ways to Power Your Pi or other SBC (MEHS) Episode 44

I demonstrate three different ways you can power your Raspberry Pi or other Single Board Computer project. I go through powering your Raspberry Pi, or other SBC, using a USB cable, the GPIO pins and the surface mount pads on the bottom of the board(s).

Episode 44

[ChristianCristofori]

You should also explain about protecting power inputs when connecting directly on GPIO, since in RPi3B+ for example you're skipping the resettable fuse which is present on microUSB port.

[nateswanton]

The last one worked very well on my pi 3. thx a lot!

[cutsdbz]

Nice video, what if the GPIO devices connected to the pi draws too much power, how can i power the PI and the other devices?

[hanguiver]

How to power Rasbperry Pi (Micro USB charger, GPIO, USB ports), RasbperryPi new Power supply method
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[mynameisgone]

Very helpful tutorial. My raspberry pi 3 b's port broke and this really helps.

[stephenlee]

Hi, If I use the GPIO pins I lose the USB voltage protection, I think you mentioned this in response below. Do I lose that protection if I solder to the surface mount pads on the bottom of the board?

[juppster]

Powering via GPIO bypasses the polyfuse in series with power connector +ve (Pi3 and up)

[ArksYawron]

What is the part called that connects to the GPIO pins and has the positive and negative wires (on the Raspberry Pi 3 in the video)? I am trying to find for my project.

[derekthwaytes]

I run a raspberry pie 3 b and have a mmdvm board attached on the pins so the info on tapping wires to the board was very useful many thanks

[saimuddin]

Brother I was facing a problem
I have a raspberry pi 3 b
The raspberry pi is giving a low power sign on top right corner of the screen I tried many mobile chargers 5v 3.1a but still having that low power sign can you help me with that?

[Lomhow]

3:50 It's difficult to tell what specifically he's pointing to.
I'm assuming its the two oval shaped grey spots closest to the edge of the board?
To be more specific about which ones I'm talking about, one is right above where it says PP5 and the other is right above where it says R3 ( from view perspective at 3:44 ).
Am I right in guessing those?

[jihlnabaat]

can i ask would you be able you use a 10000mah battery for the pie 3 +

[bryanzevotek]

I have some 18AWG solid core wire but don't want to solder directly under the micro USB so, GPIO pins it is. What female adapter do I need? What is the connector I need?

[qiuzimorp]

I will make a webcam from raspberry pi 3 A+ which in this project will occupy the PWR IN micro usb as the webcam communication input as well as power, because the power from the usb produces 500mA, it is certain that the board will not work optimally and does not have enough power to run the fan or oled display. My question is, will the board not be damaged if I connect an additional power supply of the same voltage through the two pads at 3:48 to increase the current?

[BrianThomas]

So, the issue that I have with using power supplies isn't so much the voltage but the amps. I can find a psu that gives the 3v, 5v and 12v is needed, but the amps are a mystery. How do I ensure that I get the 3A needed out of the psu?

[melissasantos]

thank you for the video.
i'm new into this and i am wondering, if i would do the third option with the soldering, do i need software too on my raspberry? because i watched few videos about gpio on/off switch and there they always need some software.

when soldering how shown in your video can i only solder a on/off switch to the +\- cables and this should work then?

[anthonybarbati]

I have an Orange Pi One Plus, i seem to have a "dead" board or power supply issue. Is this video of use to me? It's never turned on from since i've ordered it.

[Hfakas]

Curious, I had powered a raspberry pi 3 using gpio pins and It worked for about a week then seemingly fried the chip and I had to replace. I used a 120v to 5v step down

[Ozterkvlt]

So the upper limit for a micro usb port is 1.8A yet the rp3 needs 2.5A. Why do we still use micro usb for power again? If the rp4 is more powerful theyll have to come up with a more robust solution

[MrBobWareham]

Thanks for the information on Pi power please can you tell me the swg of the red and black cable thanks Bob