04-29-2016, 11:08 AM
(04-29-2016, 10:50 AM)clarkss12 Wrote: This is the one I just purchased online, hope it will work.
Kopi USB cable
Sure, it's rated AWG 20 and if you're able to combine it with a 5.1V PSU everything will be fine. And fortunately Pine64 can also be powered through Euler pins (I really like most of Pine64's hardware details -- Micro USB for DC-IN and no user programmable led being the two main exceptions)
http://linux-sunxi.org/File:Pine64_Power...nector.jpg (using two pins is sufficient, it's unlikely you can increase consumption that much to need 4 wires. But back at that time we made reliability testings and I got sick of sudden power-offs so I decided to use 'best DC-IN possible')