I've made simple stuff like this before but, never with a pi or using it to power any other peripherals. Power supply + amp + display is pretty simple. As you said, I'm trying to check and check again so sound advice lol. At the same time, I didn't get much of an answer. Definitely will try to read up a bit more, but I don't have anyone to check on my work let alone someone who knows what a pi is.Given where you are starting from, I would suggest that this is not a suitable project -- unless you can find someone local to you who will offer hands-on support. It is all do-able (depending on what you want the Pi to do), but there is a high risk of damaging the Pi and disappointing yourself. If you do go ahead, I would offer one piece of advice:
Whenever you complete a step with the hardware build,ALL BEFORE APPLYING POWER.
- check it yourself,
- leave it overnight,
- check again,
- and preferably get someone else to check
To rephrase the original question: Here I plan on using a bigger step down converter. On the page for pi 5's new power supply it show that I could give it 12 volts at around 1 or 2A ish (will check again). The question is then could use the 12V PWM controller with spliced up 12V fans from the same terminals of the converter? Hence the question about units only drawing the current they need or not.
Statistics: Posted by Dozyproductions — Fri Jul 19, 2024 12:38 pm