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Streamer builds a battery powered PC with over 100 AAs, uses Hannah Montana Linux to benchmark their abomination (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What if you swap the PC with a Rpi5 will it use less Batteries?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Depends on how long and hard you want to run it.

    A Pi5 uses a 5V 3A charger. Four AA batteries in series should give you 4-6V (the voltage changes as they discharge) and around 2A (going by the labelling on my rechargeables). So you might be able to run a Pi5 at full throttle for an hour or so given 8 AAs. There would be some loss at the buck-boost converter you'd need to guarantee an output of exactly 5V.

    Using four Ds instead would simplify the wiring a bit and keep it running longer.

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