[AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?)
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Just got my newly ordered PBP a few days back, and started playing around with it. Overall love it, and I'm looking forward to experimenting with different OSes and configurations.

The charger that came with the box manages to charge the PBP, but it seems to get stuck at ~87% battery no matter how long I leave it charging whilst it's off. I switched to a 5V3A USB 3.0 PD charger and cable, and that pushed it to around ~91% but no further.

Today I got around to downloading Fedora Linux and went through the motion of decompressing and dd'ing onto a SanDisk Class-10 A1 64GB microSD (verified with F3), and I noticed that the action of these two combined whacked my battery from 25% to 12% even while charging at max input of 5V3A (USB 3.0 port). The action of writing/reading 50+GiBs alone shouldn't cause the drain, as F3 testing did that with no discernible impact on battery.

Is this normal? Or is there something wrong with my battery? With both the inability to reach capacity and the massive drain issue. I believe it's still under warranty so I could perhaps ask for a replacement battery.


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[AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?) - by mercato - 08-29-2020, 10:55 PM
RE: [AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?) - by KC9UDX - 08-30-2020, 12:32 PM
RE: [AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?) - by mercato - 09-19-2020, 04:27 AM
RE: [AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?) - by KC9UDX - 09-21-2020, 01:45 PM
RE: [AUG 2020] PBP Battery Issue (?) - by KC9UDX - 09-22-2020, 12:10 AM

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