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Battery Powered Raspberry Pi

The goal of this bunch of tests is to measure how long a Raspberry Pi can stay on when powered using an external cell phone battery pack. Different software configurations and runtime environments will be tested.

Scenario 1: base software environment, wired setup

Item Description
Hardware Raspberry Pi Model B rev 2. CPU: 700 MHz ARM1176JZF-S core. Memory: 512 MB. Onboard storage: SD 16 GB
Software Raspbian GNU/Linux Debian Wheezy
Networking Fast Ethernet 100 Mbit/s
Power Supply Cellularline USB pocket charger smart 2200 mAh, output: 5 V DC 1000mA, weight 62 grams
OS / Software tweaks Nothing, the Raspbian OS is run with standard configuration
CPU load Idle operating system, no user applications
Network load The Raspberry Pi receives a 56 byte ICMP ECHO_REQUEST every minute and responds accordingly with the standard
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Average σ
Uptime 4 hours, 7 minutes
(= 14820 seconds)
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battery-raspberry-1.jpg

battery-raspberry-2.jpg

Scenario 2: base software environment, wireless setup

Coming soon…

raspein/batterypoweredraspberrypi.1404116606.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/06/30 08:23 by gdangelo

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