Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

Re:Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspb... by samstave on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:30PM (#41144049)

I asked the following above - does this work?

>> A mid-stream capacitor is holding enough charge for 10 seconds to allow indivdual swapping out -- and also this is meant? to mean that you can swap TWO NEW batteries in without having to shutdown/sleep/power interrupt - thus the 10 seconds.... that dope

EDIT: I was imagining the capacitor holds up the whole thing for ten seconds to swap out both bats...

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Re:Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspb... by teraflop on Friday August 02, 2024 @09:51PM (#41144124)

In theory you could do that, but it has its own costs and complications. And if you're going to add a big enough capacitor to ride out a battery swap, why bother with two batteries instead of just one?

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Re:Hackberry-Pi_Zero – A handheld Linux terminal using Raspb... by numpad0 on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:49PM (#41144344)

Hotswap of two parallel batteries must replace both with a matched pair. Otherwise the one at higher state of charge starts charging others without current limit.

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