10-04-2016, 04:42 AM
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(10-03-2016, 10:25 PM)Ghost Wrote:(10-03-2016, 08:37 PM)Bluphire Wrote: And the USB Plugs into....?An appropriately rated power supply (with female USB connector).
Thanks Ghost. Yes, a USB power supply. You can't power the pine64 from a laptop or desktop computer. If your computer has a USB3 socket, or a USB charge socket, you may be able to run the pine64 from it, but I would strongly recommend not doing do. There is a good change doing so will break something, and it won't be your $15 or $29 pine64 board!
You can of course forgo a USB connector on the end, and instead connect a suitably rated 5v DC power supply to it. Something like this 2A power supply from Adafruit would do very nicely. You can never have to many amps (in relation to these devices) ... this is simply the amount of power available to the device, and the device will draw as many amps as it needs. If you have a 200A power supply, and your device only needs 2A, it will only draw 2A. I myself use these power supplies for anything RPi or pine64, as I run a lot of my electronics bits from a 12 solar system, and it has the benefit of being able to be adjusted to above 5v (5.2v in my case) which mostly compensates for the dodgy microUSB cable/connector syndrome. It also has screw terminals for directly wired output power if needed though.
