• nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know if you’ve already tried this, but I’ve had weird behavior with older Pi3s when the power supplies weren’t up to snuff.

    A good 5V/10A (yeah I know they only need 5A) sorted out one of mine that had a heavy load of Neopixels running on it, even though the neopixels had their own 5V supply.

    I haven’t needed to get a Pi5 for any of my projects and really use them as big arduinos in certain uses (better for camera detection and remote reprogramming).

    • Vik@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s a fair point. I’m using the first party power supply but I could experiment with several others.