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Advanced users • Re: Powering Pi5 with a Battery

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Ooooh ok! I don't think that's gonna be an issue. I'm using 1.25mm (in diameter) cables so I think those are enough,
What is the American Wire Gauge (AWG) of the actual conductors in your wires? So of that diameter will be insulation...but you probably don't know how much...
I didn't even know what that was till now haha. The cable says 33AWG anyway, is it good enough or do I need a thicker one?
See? Pis are educational...

33ga is pretty thin. If it's really 22ga, that is *probably* good enough, especially in the wires are fairly short. The official RPL PSUs use 18ga. wires. Commercial USB cables typically 24ga. to 28ga., depending on the cable. (And--just to complete the point--lower numbers are thicker wires. I once had to--briefly--deal with some 0000ga--usually expressed as 4/0ga--stranded cables. Those are around 3/4" thick.)

Statistics: Posted by W. H. Heydt — Mon May 19, 2025 12:46 am



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