Li-Po Battery UPS pHAT for Raspberry Pi Zero/W

For anyone who loves playing with Raspberry Pi Boards in all their different shapes, sizes and levels of performance, you’ll know that the Zero series of Raspberry Pi Boards are not necessarily the most powerful, but that’s not a bug, it’s a feature, as the design of the Zero and Zero W is more for low-power functionality, being the perfect boards for remote projects that need a decent level of functionality, but don’t need any sort of superpower to perform well. This is why you may often see the Raspberry Pi Zero W and Zero being used for projects like remote sensor arrays or environment monitoring tools, which need basic functionality to log and store data, and possibly relay that data back to a computer or online server. However, for such projects, power may not always be available, especially if the Pi Zero or Zero W is installed in a hard to reach of remote location, and while it’s easy to power a Pi Zero with solar power, the sun isn’t out at all times of the day, and sometimes in remote locations you can’t simply switch to the grid as a backup, since it may not be available depending on where your project is located.

This Li-Po Battery UPS pHAT for Raspberry Pi Zero/W is the perfect solution to power problems for the Raspberry Pi Zero Series of boards, as this tiny Pi pHAT (pHATs are the smaller versions of Pi HATs) is built specially for the Zero series, so as to offer reliable uninterruptible power for remote or portable projects, to keep them powered even when other sources aren’t available, and offering onboard charging management for easy recharges whenever power becomes available or convenient. These pHATs utilise a Li-Po Battery to keep everything powered, and the onboard management chips ensure that the Pi not only keeps running when power isn’t available, but also keeps the boards safe from a variety of potential types of damage. So if you’ve got a portable Pi project that, well, isn’t portable, or if your remote project isn’t quite surviving the hours that it’s meant to from solar power alone, or if you just like the idea of having a backup supply to keep your Pi powered up and operating even amidst loadshedding and power cuts, the Li-Po Battery UPS pHAT for Raspberry Pi Zero is the answer to all of your power problems.

Additional Resources:

• To find more information, handy resources like datasheets, as well as some sample code to help you integrate this awesome pHAT into your Pi project, check out the official Waveshare UPS HAT (C) Wiki Page.

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