The new Anker powerbank arrived today. Unfortunately, test results are not good. It performs worse than the other Anker I got recently. Using this one...

@zander Yes, always keeping an eye out for consulting opportunities, side gigs, contracts etc. Life situation doesn't allow me a normal fulltime job ...

@metronus-prime Exactly. I have been watching home robots on Youtube. There are some that are extremely nimble and dexterous. But it got me thinking, ...

Understandable. I spent a couple weeks exploring options and settled on the little travel router and MQTT. Works for me, but might not be best for you...

@metronus-prime I was running into similar issue on how to multiple ESP32s on a robot. I settled on a solution using a tiny travel router, Raspberry P...

Wow, awesome. Thanks for the additional data points. Yes, running stock Pi fives, no overclocking. If the robot demands more compute in the future,...

@zander I am using this command to see the details:pi5-2@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd pmic_read_adc Below is the data from Pi5 on OEM wall wart, at idle...

That is kind of my thought, too. Still not getting full 5A, but at least it is not shutting down and throwing errors non-stop. I ordered the exact mod...

Thanks @zander for all the ideas! Might order the PD specific Anker unit also. However results are in from the IQ Anker now:In a nutshell, it works b...

Shutting down the "labs" and experiments for the night. Phone was at 71% running hotspot all day long (few to no clients). The USB C car charger with ...

I've done some Googling since my last post. It seems (?) that IQ protocol is claimed to be compatible with PD. On the link you posted, if you hover o...

I bit the bullet and ordered a $129 unit of the brand you mentioned, Anker, model A1336. Seems like it is one of the most up-to-date, large Ah capacit...

Thanks for bouncing all these ideas around with me. Of all the challenges on this project, providing adequate power is not one I had foreseen. I am dr...

Sorry, I am not completely blind when connecting a phone to the USB C car charger. I can still see the watt meter built into the cable. Just not any d...

@zander Could be the case. I paid about $30 for this phone charger. Which is a fair chunk of change if it is faking it. I avoided the cheapos, and g...