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echo: rberrypi
to: DAVID TAYLOR
from: ROBH
date: 2018-02-04 19:56:00
subject: Re: Raspberry pi 3 powers

On 04/02/18 19:30, David Taylor wrote:
> On 04/02/2018 17:19, RobH wrote:
>> As the subject header says, my pi3 is now powering itself off after
>> around 5 minutes, and is then unuseable.
>>
>> I thought there was something amiss with it a couple of weeks ago, as
>> I posted on here that it was dead or dying.
>>
>> It has now gone off after 2 minutes!
>>
>> Is there anything I can do or check to find what is wrong with it.
>
> Check the power supply.  I found one was giving out over 5.5V which
> could cause overheating in some climates.  A low voltage wouldn't help,
> either!
>
This time, after first trying  a osmc image which wouldn't boot up, and
then retrying a raspbian strech image it boots to the desktop, and I can
now ssh into it.

Puzzling or what?

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