We need more power, Scotty!

[Upokupo]

To get around the power/battery issue, you can bypass the battery thing entirely. If you look at the schematics of the PBP, you can see that you can disconnect the battery and power it directly from the barrel or usb c connection. It was a pretty straightforward process and easy to do. Just make sure you do disconnect the battery as there are warnings that you will fry it. I've been operating my PBP without the battery connected and has been running great. I did have a few shutoffs (2), but being how everything involved with the PBP is in a beta state from hardware and software, I don't know if it was power or software related and really don't have the time to investigate the cause. I don't like working and have to concern myself with battery percentages to keep it from shutting down. Hopefully, this issue gets addressed in a future iteration.