Martin Gregorie wrote on 10/15/2017 6:30 PM:
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 16:23:40 -0400, rickman wrote:
>
>> Also my scroll wheel won't work on their page and I think the product is
>> not all that great.  The battery is only 300 mAHr which would give less
>> than an hour run time even for a pi zero.  They make it way too hard to
>> find out just what the various versions do with vague descriptions,
>> "includes useful and innovative additional functions".
>>
> While I agree with everything you say about their web pages, their
> product looks good, if not cheap.
>
> If all you want is a UPS with clean shutdown if the power doesn't return
> within 20-30 mins, 300mAh is fine. But they also offer the same board
> with a 3000 mAh external battery for either extended UPS or for portable
> use of the RPi, i.e around 5 hours plus or minus a few hours: this looks
> reasonable to me.

But you said it, the PRICE!  I don't expect to pay as much for the USP as I
do for the pi or many times more if this is holding up the pi Zero!

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Rick C

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