I am currently doing a Project using the pi 3 and the official 7" touch screen and want to use the battborg to power it...

Submitted by Lazaro Negrin on Sat, 12/10/2016 - 19:49

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Looking at various guides on your website, I noticed that the pins used to power the touchscreen can not be used while Battborg is connected to the raspberry Pi since it uses the same pins. Is there any way to work around this issue?

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Sun, 12/11/2016 - 14:47

Yes they can both be connected at th same time, we have used this pairing ourselves a couple of times :)
You will want some single pin male-to-female cables to make the connections from the BattBorg.

The connections you will need to make are:

  1. One of the two 5V connections on the BattBorg to one of the two 5V pins on the Raspberry Pi GPIO
  2. The GND connection on the BattBorg to one of the GND pins on the Raspberry Pi GPIO
  3. The GND connection on the touchscreen board to one of the GND pins on the Raspberry Pi GPIO
  4. Connect the 5V for the touchscreen board to either:
    A. The remaining 5V connection on the BattBorg
    B. The remaining 5V pin on the Raspberry Pi GPIO

See the image below for the 5V and GND connections on the BattBorg 6-pin connector.

The only thing to bear in mind is that powering both a Pi 3 and the touchscreen takes most of the 1.5 A limit of the BattBorg.
In other words you will need to keep the amount of power used by USB devices to a minimum.

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