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With my Raspberry Pi camera project, it’s vital that the Pi is portable and untethered to mains electricity.<\/p>\n

So, I researched various ways of powering the Pi from battery. This ranged from using LiPo batteries, through AA batteries and finally settling on a USB mobile phone battery pack. I searched for a while and finally found a 20000mah pack on eBay. This was from China and, despite waiting almost a month, never arrived. So, I then went for a UK-based supplier (which is what I should’ve done in the first place) and chose this one:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/Orange-FLOUREON-7800mAh-Dual-USB-External-Battery-W-10-charger-Emergency-Backup-\/200776663205<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a 7800mAh pack from a company called Floureon. It has two 2A\/5V USB outputs and a 1A\/5V micro USB output.<\/p>\n

After charging it yesterday, I tried it out. I set up the Pi in my typical configuration – Model B, 512 Pi with a WiFi dongle pulling max. 500mA and the official camera module. I then set up a cron (scheduled) job to take a photograph every minute and archive the images with timestamped. That way, I could tell how long the battery lasted by looking at the timestamps. I should say at this point that the micro USB output from the pack didn’t work. Not sure if I’m using it quite as it was intended. But, using the normal USB port works, so I’m happy.<\/p>\n

The battery lasted a whopping 12.5 hours, which I reckon is quite good for something which is a similar size to the Pi (when the Pi is in a case) and was quite reasonable at \u00a320.<\/p>\n

Now to get my push-to-take-a-photo button working!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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