Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread wes
What do you plan to use for weather protection? -wes On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Chuck Hast wrote: > Tomás > Sorry I should have got back on and told you I found it, but the charge > rate > is only 1.5 amp, the other unit is 2.0 amp. The RPi doing the WeeWx stuff > pulls data every 60 seco

Re: [PLUG] Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

2017-04-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I'm looking for examples (with explanatory comments) of > customized configuration files to use in the /etc/grub.d > directory, somewhere out there on the intertubes. Tom H on the Scientific Linux mailing list offered a helpful response. I wrote up wh

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Chuck Hast
Tomás Sorry I should have got back on and told you I found it, but the charge rate is only 1.5 amp, the other unit is 2.0 amp. The RPi doing the WeeWx stuff pulls data every 60 seconds, writes to the DB and then sends it out to WU, CWOP and Findu.com. When it does that it pulls a wee bit more curr

Re: [PLUG] monitor drops to lower resolution after OS upgrade

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
Hi Randall, I am glad that you got your graphix card working. Would you be able to share what you had to do for the old HD 5450 to get it working? I have unused laptop which I would like to donate to a friend and I believe that it has the same graphics card HD 5430/5450/5470. I will be reinstalling

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
Follow the second link, scroll down to product description about half way through the page, and check the Duo-Charge Section: Product description

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Chuck Hast
Nat, I have a kludge system that i am going to use until the passthrough charger/ battery arrives. It is ugly and being a kludge it is just a gell cell and a power supply, the battery is floating on the PSU. On power loss it picks up the load on the USB ports. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Chuck

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Chuck Hast
Tomas, The second selection looks more like what I am looking for but the first one will certainly work. But I do not see mention of pass through charging or charge while charging. Went ahead and bought the first selection. On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 6:46 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > I use something lik

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Nat Taylor
I use something like that second battery to power my pi, it's just a cell phone charger, I'm not sure what running it while plugged in does to it's life. One could put it on a timer so the power cuts, it drains the battery for a while, then charges back up if that was advantageous for battery lif

Re: [PLUG] Backup RPi SD card

2017-04-09 Thread Tom
There are probably other USB power banks which can be charged and discharged together. Here are two examples: https://www.amazon.com/TeckNet-Universal-16750mAh-Output-PowerZen/dp/B0 0FAU7ZB2/ref=pd_cp_107_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00FAU7ZB2&pd_rd_r=0JMM HXMXK7RYWY9K361K&pd_rd_w=712hM&pd_rd_wg=6mOCV