Recommendations for a battery

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Colfox
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Recommendations for a battery

Post by Colfox » Fri Nov 11, 2016 10:01 am

Looking for an alternate to the Adafruit 3.7v 2500mAh battery as I'm from the UK and the postage is absurd. Does anyone from the UK know of a seller that will sell this battery for cheap UK delivery or an alternate battery that will still work with the Adafruit PowerBoost 1000c? Sorry if this doesn't make much sense or I'm missing something here very new to this whole Raspberry Pi scene, never actually used one before just saw Wermy's video and was interested.

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Re: Recommendations for a battery

Post by kirestus » Fri Nov 18, 2016 12:52 am

hey i found one at my local electronic component shop for 20 bucks or so. maybe you will have some luck with a local shop

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Re: Recommendations for a battery

Post by kirestus » Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:49 am

update, make sure you check the polarity if you arent using a ada fruit battery, the connector may need to be swapped around

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Re: Recommendations for a battery

Post by DeltaShadow » Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:07 pm

I don't have a recommendation of what to use but I will say do not get the ones that are shaped like AA batteries that have massively larger capacities as these may start off with a greater charge they quickly no longer hold a charge.

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Re: Recommendations for a battery

Post by HoarseHorace » Sun Dec 11, 2016 1:22 pm

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JO ... UTF8&psc=1

It's currently unavailable, but any 'credit card' sized rechargeable battery pack will have a LiPo in it. They shouldn't be more than ~$15 USD.

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