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			<title>shadin's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nice article. I read it several times but could not find the details regarding the running pin GPIO 19.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">Hello,<br />I need some help with trying to get a Raspberry pie UPS but that can also supply 12v to keep a router a live.<br />can you suggest anything?<br />Thanks</div><p></p>If I understand you correctly, you want a UPS to provide both 5v for your Raspberry Pi &amp; 12v for your router.<br />I have seen dual voltage buck converters on the market. If you don’t want to go that route, you could buy a pair of single voltage buck converters and use them in parallel from the same battery-protected circuit. But to do so, you’d need to supply <b>battery</b> voltage above 12v - somewhere in the 15v range should be minimum to ensure your buck converter will work properly. You could do this with 12 NIMH AA batteries in series. You will also need an AC—&gt;DC power supply capable of outputting 18+ volts to maintain forward bias on the diodes. An old laptop power supply might work well for you. You’ll also need to modify/verify all your components to work with the higher voltages, too.<p></p>OOOORRRRR... you could go the easy route.<br />You could spend $40-75 on a commercial UPS which would back up several devices at the same time. APC, CyberPower, Tripp Lite, etc. make these battery backup units which are designed for that purpose. They tend to last 3-5 years before you have to replace the lead-acid battery inside (or just buy a new one). That’s the path I would take if I were you.<p></p>But whichever path you choose, I wish you luck.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2020 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Antonio's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hello,<p></p>I need some help with trying to get a Raspberry pie UPS but that can also supply 12v to keep a router a live.<p></p>can you suggest anything?<p></p>Thanks]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Btw, Nuno asked the same question about LK1 below. You can read Steve’s reply to Nuno, as he described what LK1 is much better than I did.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:12:49 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[LK1 is an option in case you want to change the design. Closing that circuit would close the relay as soon as 5V is provided, and would hold the relay closed until the batteries are depleted. In that case, the Run pin should be disconnected, as it could cause harm to your Raspberry Pi (the GPIO pins use 3.3v, so sending 5V to it could damage the pin).<br />The schematic is drawn with LK1 normally open, and it’s designed to sense a power failure and shut down the Raspberry Pi when that happens, then disconnect the batteries so they don’t get depleted. If you want the Raspberry Pi to just run until the batteries are depleted, you probably don’t even need the power failure sensing circuitry from this design.<br />You can also do something like what I did in my design, which is to build a time delay so that the relay is held closed for a few seconds after the Raspberry Pi is shut down to ensure all the writes to the SD Card have finished.<br />The chemistry of the battery pack is critical to your decision to use this design. Lithium batteries should NOT be used with this design. If the RC batteries are NIMH cells, you would still want to trickle charge them. This would help prevent the batteries from overheating, while still keeping them fully charged. The alternative is to use NIMH batteries that you charge in a separate charging unit, then remove the charging circuit from your UPS design. The NIMH batteries would need to be charged every few days to ensure your Raspberry Pi doesn’t die on you when the power goes out.<br />I hope this helps answer your questions.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:03:27 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Christopher J Lafky's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Also... what is LK1??]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:24:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Christopher J Lafky's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am planning on making this same design but instead using normal Nimh cells from an rc battery pack. This wouldn&#39;t change anything right? I mean I technically wouldnt need to trickle charge anymore probably but that doesn&#39;t matter much to me]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:01:56 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The UPS I built is fully compatible with the new Raspberry Pi 4B. I have a pair of 2GB models, and they both work with this UPS. I had to add some 5v rail headers to my design, but I can run two RPi 4B computers on the same UPS. Many lithium battery driven solutions on the market can’t provide the necessary amperage to drive one RPi 4B, let alone two. This design has proven very robust and effective. We had some power outages during the winter, but I haven’t had a single corrupt microSD card since I started using this UPS (two microSD cards were corrupted prior to using the UPS).<br />Thank you again, Steve, for the design and software.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 20:40:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just realized there were some typos. I had named my variables with an underscore, but then used variables without the underscore in the code. I corrected the code by changing the variable names. I also added a few comments to help clarify the code.<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">#!/bin/bash<br /># Manages the fast charging circuit.<br /># The script will check every minute how long the Pi has been running,<br /># and after 2 hours, it will turn off the GPIO pin to disable the<br /># high current charging circuit. High current charge circuit is C/40,<br /># and low current charge circuit is C/100.<br />timecheck=0<br />safetime=2 # num of hours to run on high charge<br />charge_pin=4 # GPIO pin used<br /># Function to turn on/off the GPIO pin<br />function setcharge_pin {<br />pin_state=$1 #This variable is passed down during the call to the function.<br />python3 ~/safe_shutdown/pin_output_control.py $charge_pin $pin_state # change this to match where you install the script<br />}<br /># I found the next command online, so I am not positive that it helps.<br />trap &#39;echo &quot;Caught SIGUSR1&quot;&#39; SIGUSR1 # I think this looks for an interrupt and helps prevent the sleep command from causing a delay on shutdown.<br />setcharge_pin 1 # Turns the GPIO pin on. I could also turn it on in rc.local, but decided just to do it here.<br />while true<br />do<br />timecheck=$( uptime -p | grep -oP &quot;\d+ hour&quot; ) #Gets runtime hours<br />timecheck=$( echo ${timecheck:0:1}) #Converts that to an Integer<br />if [[ $timecheck -ge $safetime ]]<br />then<br /># echo &quot;$safetime hour(s) has elapsed, charging circuit going low&quot;<br />break # exits infinite loop<br />fi<br />sleep 60 &amp; # Wait 1 minute before checking the time again<br />wait $! # wait for an interrupt, used in conjunction with the trap above<br />done<br /># Exit the program<br />setcharge_pin 0 # Turns the GPIO pin off, disables fast charging<br /></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I’m not an engineer, but I did study this circuit extensively when I built my own UPS and I have quite a bit of electrical experience on aircraft, so I hope I can provide some insight. You’d need to consider several things if you are using 4 Raspberry Pis, due to an increase in amperage.<p></p>You’d need at least a 5A/8A/12A (Pi0-1/2-3/4) buck converter and a 12V 5A power supply (minimum). If you want to use a power supply with a higher voltage, you could reduce the amperage, but that might require other modifications to the charging circuit. You can look at my modified schematic, as it uses a 19-24V power supply.<p></p>Your wires would need to be able to carry more current, so make sure they are thick enough. I’d suggest no thinner than 22ga. Your fuses should be okay around 5/6/8A (Pi0-1/2-3/4), as 9.6V@8A = ~77W. I’d definitely suggest using AA instead of AAA for the additional Amp-hours. You might even consider using two battery packs in parallel if your main concern is to keep the Pis running as long as possible. If you do that, your charging circuit would need to provide twice the amperage. You might want to do something like I did to my charging circuit.<p></p>Your 5V relay would need to be able to handle enough power, too. Make sure it can handle at least 60W for a Pi4. Your D2/D3 diodes would also need to be able to handle the increased amperage. You could just use several diodes in parallel to make it easy.<p></p>So you’d need to consider your buck converter, power supply, wires, fuses, batteries, charging circuit, relay, and diodes. But it’s completely doable.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2019 20:55:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The second script needs to be named &quot;pin_output_control.py&quot; and installed to &quot;~/safe_shutdown/&quot; in order to make the above script work. If you choose to name this script something else, you&#39;ll need to modify the bash script to match.<p></p><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">import sys<br />import RPi.GPIO as GPIO<br />GPIO.setwarnings(False)<p></p>#var1 = sys.argv[1]<br />charge_pin = int(sys.argv[1]) #GPIO pin is passed from calling program or command line<br />pin_on_off = int(sys.argv[2]) #State of pin is passed from calling program, 1 is on, anything else is off<p></p>GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)<br />GPIO.setup(charge_pin, GPIO.OUT)<p></p>if pin_on_off == 1:<br /> GPIO.output(charge_pin, True)<br />else:<br /> GPIO.output(charge_pin, False)<br /></div><p></p>I am sure this is not the most elegant or efficient way to do this, but it is simple enough that I can understand it and sufficiently effective. If anyone has questions about my design or my scripts, I&#39;ll try to reply as timely as possible.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:38:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The first script is a simple bash script which executes a python program to turn the pin on or off.<br />I named the first script &quot;batcharg.sh&quot; and installed it in ~/safe_shutdown/ just as Steve suggested. Then I added this line to crontab:<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">@reboot /home/pi/safe_shutdown/batcharg.sh &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1</div><p></p>Here&#39;s &quot;batcharg.sh&quot;:<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">#!/bin/bash<br /># Manages the fast charging circuit.<br /># The script will check every minute how long the Pi has been running,<br /># and after 2 hours, it will turn off the GPIO pin to disable the<br /># high current charging circuit. High current charge circuit is C/40,<br /># and low current charge circuit is C/100.<p></p>time_check=0<br />safe_time=2 # num of hours to run on high charge<br />charge_pin=4 # GPIO pin used<p></p># Function to turn on/off the GPIO pin<br />function setcharge_pin {<br /> pin_state=$1<br /> python3 ~/safe_shutdown/pin_output_control.py $charge_pin $pin_state # change this to match where you install the script<br />}<p></p># I found the next command online, so I am not positive that it helps.<br />trap &#39;echo &quot;Caught SIGUSR1&quot;&#39; SIGUSR1 # I think this looks for an interrupt and helps prevent the sleep command from causing a delay on shutdown.<p></p>setcharge_pin 1 # Turns the GPIO pin on. Could also turn it on in rc.local.<p></p> while true<br /> do<br />	timecheck=$( uptime -p | grep -oP &quot;\d+ hour&quot; ) #Gets runtime hours<br />	timecheck=$( echo ${timecheck:0:1}) #Converts that to an Integer<p></p>	if [[ $timecheck -ge $safetime ]]<br />	 then<br />	# echo &quot;$safetime hour(s) has elapsed, charging circuit going low&quot;<br />	 break # exits infinite loop<br />	fi<p></p>	sleep 60 &amp; # Wait 1 minute before checking the time again<br />	wait $! # wait for an interrupt, used in conjunction with the trap above<br /> done<p></p># Exit the program<br />setcharge_pin 0 # Turns the GPIO pin off, disables fast charging<br /></div>]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:28:26 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is awesome Mathew. I'm pleased that you made it work for you and managed to modify the circuit to do what you need. That's what engineering is all about <img src="https://homediyelectronics.com/comments/images/smilies/smile.gif" title="Smile" alt="Smile" style="border-style: none; vertical-align: bottom;" />]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2019 18:26:04 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So I posted lots of photos of my UPS on Imgur. The link is <a href="https://imgur.com/a/UjWuUKB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<p></p>In use<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/7R4rPXC.jpg" style="max-width:508px; height:auto;" alt="image" /><p></p>Finished with the soldering<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8XUJXsh.jpg" style="max-width:508px; height:auto;" alt="image" /><p></p>Modified schematic<br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/BfZD5EQ.jpg" style="max-width:508px; height:auto;" alt="image" /><p></p>I really invested a lot of time on this and learned a lot about electronics along the way. This has been an immensely enjoyable process, and I want to say thank you to Steve for his original design and software.<p></p>I modified the software in some places. I used GPIO 14 and 15 instead of GPIO 17 and 19. So my /etc/rc.local file reads like this:<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;"> # Pin 14 sends a Hi signal until the RPi is shutdown to hold the battery relay closed<br />echo 14 &gt; /sys/class/gpio/export<br />echo out &gt; /sys/class/gpio/gpio14/direction<br />echo 1 &gt; /sys/class/gpio/gpio14/value<br /> # Pin 15 receives a Hi signal when the main power supply has been disconnected<br /> # Once Pin 15 goes Hi, the script sends a command to shutdown the computer<br />echo 15 &gt; /sys/class/gpio/export<br />echo in &gt; /sys/class/gpio/gpio15/direction</div><p></p>While testing Steve&#39;s Python program, I noticed a small issue with the syntax of the script. I am using Raspbian Stretch and Python 3, so I&#39;m not sure if this applies to Python 2.<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">If bouncecount &gt; 1:<br /> print &quot;ssdManager::runSDManager: Shutting down now&quot;</div><p></p>This should read:<br /><div style="background-color:#FAFAFA; width:500px; padding:4px; white-space:nowrap; overflow:auto; border:1px inset;">If bouncecount &gt; 1:<br /> print (&quot;ssdManager::runSDManager: Shutting down now&quot;)</div><p></p>Also, if you uncomment any of the other print commands, you&#39;ll need to add parentheses around the quotes.<p></p>I also made some modifications to Steve&#39;s original hardware design to include a time delay to hold the relay closed after the power has finished shutting down. Steve suggested this in one of his replies and I referenced his other Raspberry Pi UPS design when I modified this. The delay was only supposed to last for about 30 seconds (according to the simulator I used) to ensure a complete shutdown, but in practice it seems to last much longer (about 2 1/2 minutes.) This is likely due to not knowing the minimum amperage at which the relay will remain closed.<p></p>I also added a fast charging circuit (C/40) with 4 more transistors (one PNP and three NPN). I felt this was necessary because I am using a 19-24v power supply and the AA NiMH batteries I ordered claim to be 2700mAh. If I had used Steve&#39;s original simple design, T4 would have been shunting nearly 1/4 watt.<p></p>Also, I don’t run my RPi all the time, so I felt some extra charging at boot would be useful. The RPi runs a simple script on boot which turns a GPIO pin on for 2 hours (easily adjustable). Once 2 hours has elapsed, the script turns the pin off. The charging circuit is working perfectly so far, and amperages are within 10% of estimates.<p></p>I tried to over-engineer some things. I used 22ga solid core wire for most everything, and in some places I doubled that up. I doubled up the 2A RL207 diodes (in parallel) to replace the 1N5404 diodes in the original design because I didn&#39;t trust my logic. Everything is soldered onto an AdaFruit Altoids perma-proto board, and I wasn&#39;t sure how much current the traces could handle, so I added some extra wire to bridge long distances. In hindsight, this was probably unnecessary, but I would rather be safe than sorry.<p></p>Initially, I tested the UPS on a 12v 3A power supply I salvaged from an old NICAD flashlight battery charger. It was putting out about 12.5v under load, and everything worked great except the charging circuit was only putting out 9mA.<p></p>I ordered an 8A buck converter (sometimes listed as 12A &quot;with additional cooling&quot;) instead of the cheap 3A ones. All told, I probably have about $70 invested in all the components because I ordered many things in bulk. I bought the NiMH AA batteries separately, and bought an 8-cell holder from AdaFruit. I didn&#39;t trust the low gauge wires on the AdaFruit holder, so I soldered on a fuse holder to the positive side and 22ga wire to the negative side. If I had to do it over again, I&#39;d probably just buy an RC-style 9.6v NiMH battery pack with a Hitec connector.<p></p>If anyone wants to play with the simulated circuit, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y3uaveje" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> is the link I used. Sometimes the links get wonky, so if it doesn&#39;t work, compare it with the Imgur pictures.<p></p>I&#39;m running out of characters, so I&#39;ll post the scripts in my next post.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jul 2019 04:15:15 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am not an engineer nor an electrician, so please correct me if I am wrong. This is why I feel safe using a 2A diode instead of a 3A diode:<p></p>1) Simple argument:<br />If the fuse is 2A, it should blow if the current exceeds that, and the diode should not exceed 2A for any longer than it takes the fuse to blow.<p></p>2) Mathematical argument:<br />I am assuming the buck converter is about 75% efficient (lowball estimate, reasonable for a buck converter). My main supply will be ~24VDC rather than 12VDC, so I am more concerned with the battery diode. A 5VDC Raspberry Pi using a maximum of 2.5A will use 12.5W. At 75% efficiency, the 9.6VDC battery needs to supply 16.7W of power, or ~1.74A, which is ~87% of the maximum for the diode. This seems to be barely within tolerance because I do not plan on running my Raspberry Pi near maximum. Also, the 9.6VDC battery will probably run between 11-12VDC (1.4-1.5VDC per cell) with a full charge, so it is more likely that the battery will need to provide around 1.5A at maximum, which provides even greater safety.<p></p>Again, if anyone wants to correct my mistakes or ignorance, please do so. I am happy to listen to reason and experience.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 01:03:14 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I’m in the process of building this UPS design and want to pass along some advice. I ran into trouble with the 1N5404 diodes I ordered from Digi-key. The leads on the 1N5404 have a diameter between 1.2-1.3mm. This makes them too large for some perfboards. I’m looking at the RL207 diodes instead. They can handle 2A instead of the 3A that the 1N5404 can handle, but even 9.6VDC, you shouldn’t use more than 2A with an ~85% efficient 5VDC buck converter.<p></p>I’ll try to post a review once I get it fully assembled.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 02:33:59 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Jana's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Miuzei Raspberry Pi 3B+ Battery Pack Expansion Board, UPS Battery Pack with Acrylic Case for Raspberry Pi 3B+, 3B, 2B. Hi, i am looking to purchase the above product. do you guys ship to Malaysia? if yes, how do i place the order?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2019 02:49:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Matthew's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hey Steve, thank you for the design and all the wonderful information. As a novice, I am curious what changes would need to be made if I used a 14.6vdc or 19.5vdc power supply instead of the 12vdc one? I have a transformer which outputs <a href="mailto:14.6vdc@2.4A" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">14.6vdc@2.4A</a> (~35W) as well as an old laptop power supply (19.5vdc @4.62A). I’d like to power my RPi and a small amplifier from the same power supply, if possible, but I’m concerned about overcharging the batteries with this setup. You say the diodes (D7 and D8) and PNP transistor (T4) will drop the voltage across R10 down to .75v, but would that still happen if I increased the supply to 19.5v?<p></p>A simple design is often the best one, but I feel like I could get myself in a lot of trouble if I do not thoroughly understand what I am doing. I have already learned a great deal from you and anything else would be gravy.<br />Thank you again,<br />Matthew<p></p>P.S. If anyone else out there reads this and can answer my question, I’d be grateful. I’m good at math, but not very experienced at electrical engineering.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 13:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>lia's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Nuno,<br />did you try this circuit?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>lia's Comment</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Steve,<br />your scheme is really helpful for me. Thanks a lot.<br />But, i want to ask. what should i do, if i want to connect with 4 raspis all at once? should i just change fuse to be 8 A? <br />Thank you, I hope you will answer my question.]]></description>
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			<title>Mike's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks Steve for publishing this, very useful and just what I was looking for. I have several Pis powering projectors which are powered on/off with a time switch. No issues so far but I&#39;m sure one day I&#39;ll get a call at early o&#39;clock because something refused to re-boot.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:46:02 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Dhanalakshmi's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If we will use 3.7V 1000mAh NIMH rechargeable battery for raspberry pi(5V/2A) with 7 inch display(5V/2A) instead of battery used in this circuit]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:54:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Vontux's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Is the &#39;Raspberry Pi UPS: Trickle Charger&#39; article no longer available? The article doesn&#39;t seem to include any info different from the &#39;very simple&#39; version.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:59:50 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>And's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What about battery voltage is under cut-off nimh limit?<br />Thank you]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:14:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>And's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What about battery voltage is under cut-off nimh limit?<br />Thank you]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:12:28 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>And's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[What about battery voltage is under cut-off nimh limit?<br />Thank you]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:05:58 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Craig's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Excellent.<br />Thank you again!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:41:05 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Craig's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thanks!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 09:40:01 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[No, the power supply must be higher than the battery voltage which must be more than about 7v.<p></p>Steve]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:42:10 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Steve's Comment</title>
			<link>https://homediyelectronics.com/projects/raspberrypi/ups/safeshutdown</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi Craig,<p></p>Provided that the Pi is fully powered down after the battery is disconnected then it will restart normally when the 12v is restored.<p></p>If the power is restored during the shutdown process and before the battery is disconnected then it will not restart. You will need to remove the 12v for a few seconds then restore it. This is an irritation which is hard to get around with a simple circuit unfortunately.<p></p>Steve]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:39:13 +0100</pubDate>
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