Re: New Member Question
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Mark Griffith
Well, then you can't blame the Raspberry Pi board if you have crappy power at your remote location. Mark KD0QYN
On Friday, January 28, 2022, 03:04:44 PM CST, Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA) <tarra@...> wrote:
Not all of us get to run from home. Some of us do have remote
locations, including mountain tops, where the power (and other
things) are not the greatest. I have one site that has been down
for 6 months because I can't get to it. ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Griffith via groups.io" To: "RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio@groups.io" Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 02:00:19 PM Subject: Re: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] New Member Question > Agreed.? I have had two Pi boards running for years with no issues, using the same SD cards all that time.? They are not sitting idle either and both have very good power supplies.? Most Pi boards will eventually fail if they receive too many low voltage alerts, but RF in the shack is another point of potential failure as Chuck noted. > > MarkKD0QYN > > On Friday, January 28, 2022, 12:43:20 PM CST, Chuck K4RGN wrote: > > Similar to the experience of?KG4PID, I have a Pi configured as a caching DNS proxy for other machines in the house. I just checked and it's been running for 189 days straight. I agree with?KI6ZHD that rock-stable power at the correct voltage (5.1V even at max current draw) is absolutely necessary. Power dropouts are deadly. I have also noticed that Pi's can be dinged by RF in the shack if you have external interfaces like USB cables and I2C ribbons acting like antennas. > > 73 Chuck K4RGN? > > > > > > > --
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