Raspberry PI power socket

Hi all,

I've recently received my Raspberry PI B type board and I'm starting working on it.

Since I'd like to use it in some embedded application I'm wandering if it is possible to power it through a different connector than the micro USB one.

Is the 5V present on GPIO connector usable to power the unit?

I tried to have a look at the schematics but, unfortunatelly, the supplied link does not work.

Thank you in advance

Bye

Maurizio

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morgaine over 13 years ago

You're in luck, Maurizio. The Pi can be powered through pins 2 and 4 on the P1 header, and this provides better voltage regulation than powering through the micro-USB socket with its F3 polyfuse. Be careful though, since it's so easy to damage the hardware by accidentally touching adjacent 3.3V pins.

You're right that Element 14's link to its own copy of the schematic listed under Design Elements->Schematic on its main Raspberry Pi page is broken --

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer?ICID=rasp_group

To Element 14 Support --- a website fix needed here please when you can.
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fustiniadmin over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

You're right that Element 14's link to its own copy of the schematic listed under Design Elements->Schematic on its main Raspberry Pi page is broken --

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer?ICID=rasp_group
Hi, are you still seeing a broken link? The schematic link takes me to:

http://www.element14.com/community/solutions/5952/l/raspberry-pi-schematic-for-raspberry-pi-model-b-board

where this PDF is available for download, Raspberry-Pi-Schematics-R1.0.pdf , which I'm able to download and view ok.

Thanks,
Drew
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fustiniadmin over 13 years ago in reply to morgaine

You're right that Element 14's link to its own copy of the schematic listed under Design Elements->Schematic on its main Raspberry Pi page is broken --

http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-42993/l/raspberry-pi-single-board-computer?ICID=rasp_group
Hi, are you still seeing a broken link? The schematic link takes me to:

http://www.element14.com/community/solutions/5952/l/raspberry-pi-schematic-for-raspberry-pi-model-b-board

where this PDF is available for download, Raspberry-Pi-Schematics-R1.0.pdf , which I'm able to download and view ok.

Thanks,
Drew
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morgaine over 13 years ago in reply to fustiniadmin

Yep, the chain of links works now, good job.
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