Powering options for the Raspberry Pi and Navio

Navio / Edge Hardware
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So the majority of people will be wanting to put the Navio/Pi on their rovers, quadcopters, planes, etc - all running on something like a 3S,4S, etc Lipo battery.

Are you guys going to have some powering guides and diagrams on how to hook them up to power the PI & Navio board.

2

Hello Chuck,
The guide for powering RPi and Navio is in Getting started tutorial.
Also, there’s a Connection map that shows power distribution in Navio.
We’ll add powering diagrams a little bit later.

3

Hardware setup guide is now available and contains connection diagrams.

4

Hi Mikhail,
I have been looking at the hardware guide and the connection diagrams, great work. Now where can I buy the BECs and how are they connected to my LiPo batteries? Do I need two bateries then or can both BEC’s be connected to the same lipo?

please advise, thank you

hugo

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Hi Hugo,

You can get BECs from any RC store(for example HobbyKing or your local one), both BECs could be connected to the same battery.