If you have ideas for portable or mobile Raspberry PI PICO projects, be sure to watch this video to see how easy it is to power the PICO with batteries.
Good video. In the battery pack there are 3 batteries for a total of 4.5v with alkaline cells and 3.75v with rechargeable batteries. Is this enough to power the Pico reliably? 🤔
So far so good! I have been using that as a test bed on that temp logger with some different batteries and it is working good. I believe the external power supply specs are that it has to be between 1.8 Volts and 5.5 volts - they did a good job thinking about how we would use it when they designed it. Cheers! Chris
@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut Thanks Chris. I'm not sure but the pico must have a boost converter built in to boost anything from 1.8v etc to a 5v level or all the logic levels would be unusable with external sources like TTl or cmos etc. I should have thought of that. Thanks again Chris for your efforts.
Hi Mark, I have not tested much in battery life running a PICO. There is only one test that I ran and that was with the slim power bank I may have shown in that video. As I recall, with the PICO Display and the PICO running constantly, it ran for about 2 days and I ended the test because that was the maximum target duration I needed. However, I now see there is value in that information and I may have to revisit that subject. Thanks for the suggestion! Cheers! Chris
Thumbs up! Keep em coming! 🙂
Thanks for the words of encouragement, it keeps me going!!!!
Very well explained, you have a new subscriber. Thanks!
HI Greg, Awesome to have join the community and thanks for the kind words!
Cheers!
Chris
Good video. In the battery pack there are 3 batteries for a total of 4.5v with alkaline cells and 3.75v with rechargeable batteries. Is this enough to power the Pico reliably? 🤔
So far so good! I have been using that as a test bed on that temp logger with some different batteries and it is working good. I believe the external power supply specs are that it has to be between 1.8 Volts and 5.5 volts - they did a good job thinking about how we would use it when they designed it.
Cheers!
Chris
@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut Thanks Chris. I'm not sure but the pico must have a boost converter built in to boost anything from 1.8v etc to a 5v level or all the logic levels would be unusable with external sources like TTl or cmos etc. I should have thought of that. Thanks again Chris for your efforts.
Nice Video! How long can a powered up PICO run with a UPS... say for instance 3AAA alkaline vs Akaline AA vs Lithium AA? any guesses?
Hi Mark, I have not tested much in battery life running a PICO. There is only one test that I ran and that was with the slim power bank I may have shown in that video. As I recall, with the PICO Display and the PICO running constantly, it ran for about 2 days and I ended the test because that was the maximum target duration I needed. However, I now see there is value in that information and I may have to revisit that subject. Thanks for the suggestion!
Cheers!
Chris
Building a small power supply would't be too hard.
bro, its working with 2 also :)
Great 👍
Cheers!
Chris