Properly feeding Raspberry Pi 5 (the "5 Amp issues")

[Sergei Grichine]

Here is a video explaining why our Pi5's on the robots (off batteries) don't perform properly:

https://youtu.be/PddIeZP-wgw

There are settings that fix the problem (use caution).

Here is an "easy solution":

https://52pi.com/collections/hat-addons/products/52pi-pd-power-extension-adapter-board-for-raspberry-pi-5

https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Expansion-Raspberry-Automatic-Function/dp/B0CYPRDY9Q

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Best Regards,

-- Sergei

[Nathan Lewis]

If you have a power supply you know can actually supply 5v5a, you can also just override the check in the raspberry pi's eeprom. It's what I've been doing 😅.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2156997&sid=f8c8f5a1a5ec090d86997fccaf28c567#p2156997

You can edit the eeprom settings with

"sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit"

- Nathan

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[Nathan Lewis]

Oh, that video did go over it. My reading comprehension is down from lack of sleep...

- Nathan

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[Marco Walther]

On 9/23/25 09:27, Nathan Lewis wrote:
> Oh, that video did go over it. My reading comprehension is down from
> lack of sleep...

;-)

I'm only doing the 'config.txt' setting (also in the text at the
beginning of the video;-), and did not see many problems with Ubuntu
24.04;-)

-- Marco

>
> - Nathan
>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, at 9:24 AM, Nathan Lewis wrote:
>> If you have a power supply you know can actually supply 5v5a, you can
>> also just override the check in the raspberry pi's eeprom. It's what
>> I've been doing 😅.
>>
>> https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?

>> p=2156997&sid=f8c8f5a1a5ec090d86997fccaf28c567#p2156997 <https://
>> forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?
>> p=2156997&sid=f8c8f5a1a5ec090d86997fccaf28c567#p2156997>

>>
>> You can edit the eeprom settings with
>>
>> "sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit"
>>
>> - Nathan
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, at 8:25 AM, Sergei Grichine wrote:
>>> Here is a video explaining why our Pi5's on the robots (off
>>> batteries) don't perform properly:
>>>

>>> https://youtu.be/PddIeZP-wgw <https://youtu.be/PddIeZP-wgw>

>>>
>>> There are settings that fix the problem (use caution).
>>>
>>> Here is an "easy solution":
>>> https://52pi.com/collections/hat-addons/products/52pi-pd-power-

>>> extension-adapter-board-for-raspberry-pi-5 <https://52pi.com/
>>> collections/hat-addons/products/52pi-pd-power-extension-adapter-
>>> board-for-raspberry-pi-5>
>>> https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Expansion-Raspberry-Automatic-
>>> Function/dp/B0CYPRDY9Q <https://www.amazon.com/GeeekPi-Expansion-
>>> Raspberry-Automatic-Function/dp/B0CYPRDY9Q>

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>>> -- Sergei
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