I don't know where you get your statistics to say that the vast majority of products based on rpi do not use batteries... Considering the size of rpi board, if you exclude portable project with autonomous power supply, you just restrict your market.Why would that be a consideration given the number of people using batteries to power high end Pi devices is tiny compared overall sales? We need 5V for the Pi, and for heavily loaded Pis , 5A. It's not like we can suddenly change the law of physics to suit a specific use case. So what could possibly be done? We cannot add voltage conversion to the Pi itself, for two main reasons. There is not enough board space and there are heat dissipation issues with voltage conversion on board.
So are you saying we should make our own batteries?
Why increase processing capability of the Rpi if at least you cannot exploit it.
You already provide your own wired power supply, so why not making your own batteries ?
There are lot of official Rpi accessories that are for few specific needs, so why not considering the batteries ?
And if you make a simple search on Internet to see how many posts are linked to this power issue, you will see that it is not so tiny.
Statistics: Posted by watchever — Wed Feb 05, 2025 3:32 pm