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Choosing the right battery

Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2017 11:56 am
by Elefantenpogo
Hi guys,
I already searched the forums for the topic and founds some posts, but none of them really made me happy.
Here's the problem: I'm from Germany. The recommended LiPo from Adafruit is, thus, not really an option, as the shipping costs would be way to high. On my journey to find an alternative, I came up to those ones:
https://eckstein-shop.de/LiPo-Akku-Lith ... -Connector
-> perfect size (58,5mm x 34mm x 5mm), but just 1100mAh. Not sure, if the difference between 1200mAh and 1100mAh would be really that great.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B003TRTYBC/_en ... X5GB31DC5K
-> should fit (60mm x 36mm x 5mm), 1250mAh but not sure, what the yellow cable is doing and what it will be doing, if I just ignore it, using only the red and black one.

In addition, I found some "perfect" batterys from some chinese Ebay-Stores, but honestly I don't want to risk building some sort of expoldingPi.
Maybe you can make some suggestions to the two ones above or give some tips, which battery to use.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Choosing the right battery

Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:14 am
by Kloper
I used similar to the second one. It's for Garmin navigation devices. It's a tight fit, but fits. Plus it's a bonus that I can buy those in local electronics shop. And yes, you just ignore that green wire (in my case). I securely taped it to the side of the battery and used only red and black.