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Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Sat May 02, 2020 6:46 am

Can i use mobile charger for Raspberry pi 4?
I have this:
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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Sat May 02, 2020 8:46 am

try if you must
may fail if you insist
suggestion is to desist
official RPF PSU you should trust.
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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Sat May 02, 2020 2:39 pm

fostes wrote:
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Can i use mobile charger for Raspberry pi 4?
Most likely not. The RPi needs a stable 5.1V 3A power supply, not a charger.
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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Wed May 06, 2020 7:41 pm

In my country i dont find official charger for PI 4, so i must find alternatives.

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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Wed May 06, 2020 8:39 pm

fostes wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 7:41 pm
In my country i dont find official charger for PI 4, so i must find alternatives.
There is no official charger. RPis have nothing whch needs charging. RPis need a good power supply. Some chargers do not pass muster.

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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Wed May 06, 2020 8:46 pm

fostes wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 7:41 pm
In my country i dont find official charger for PI 4, so i must find alternatives.
In what country are you based (you don't indicate where in your user profile)?
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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Wed May 06, 2020 9:37 pm

Side note...given what is printed on the device in question, that is "PD Rated". As such, whether or not it has even the slightest chance of working with a Pi4B will depend on which version of Pi4B you have, v1.1 or v1.2. (Problems for PD PSUs was addressed in the board version change to v1.2.)

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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Wed May 06, 2020 11:11 pm

Side note...given what is printed on the device in question, that is "PD Rated". As such, whether or not it has even the slightest chance of working with a Pi4B will depend on which version of Pi4B you have, v1.1 or v1.2. (Problems for PD PSUs was addressed in the board version change to v1.2.)
Doesn't that depend on the cable too? So long as it is not a PD cable it ought to work equally well/badly on both versions of the Pi4B

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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Thu May 07, 2020 12:05 am

jbudd wrote:
Wed May 06, 2020 11:11 pm
Side note...given what is printed on the device in question, that is "PD Rated". As such, whether or not it has even the slightest chance of working with a Pi4B will depend on which version of Pi4B you have, v1.1 or v1.2. (Problems for PD PSUs was addressed in the board version change to v1.2.)
Doesn't that depend on the cable too? So long as it is not a PD cable it ought to work equally well/badly on both versions of the Pi4B
In this case it depends entirely on the cable as it will default to 5v 3A output in the event you use an unsupported device or non-smart cable.
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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Thu May 07, 2020 11:42 am

I am from Montenegro.
The best supply i can find for now is 5V3A with 1M cable.

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Re: Raspberry pi 4 mobile charger

Thu May 07, 2020 2:18 pm

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Thu May 07, 2020 11:42 am
I am from Montenegro.
The best supply i can find for now is 5V3A with 1M cable.
You may be O.K. with that cable length (depending upon what you intend to use in the USB ports). FWIW, I measured better loading behaviour for this Tronsmart device: https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... .2FCharger
when I changed from the 1.8m cable supplied to a 0.9m one. That still powers one of my P4B's but, apart from a keyboard & mouse, I mainly use USB3 (or USB2) flash drives (32Gb/64Gb) and/or a USB3 card reader (the latter when cloning the uSDHC card**)
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** https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... OnP4B.html
(Again, FWIW, some other USB device "PoWeR" requirement notes are here:
https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... rives.html
https://www.cpmspectrepi.uk/raspberry_p ... aders.html )
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