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LoveRPi MicroUSB Push On Off Power Switch Cable for Raspberry Pi (Female to Male)

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MicroUSB Female to Male Push Power Switch for Raspberry Pi 3 / 2 / B+ / A+ / 0 Designed by LoveRPi
One Push On/Off Power with Dramatically Reduces Wear and Tear on Sensitive MicroUSB Connectors
Dual Insulated 18 AWG Oxygen Free Copper Cable, 65% Lower Resistance and 100% Higher Current vs 22AWG
Smallest Voltage/Current Drop, Use Power Suppy Capable of 4.95V at the Amperage Desired, LoveRPi MicroUSB Power Adapter B01F1LVZ0G is Certified with this Switch for use with Single Board Computers
Status LED Models: B01LY18SBS B01LY18WCP, USB to MicroUSB with Status LED Models: B01LWQDENY B01LZNL45K

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This device is perfect for turning on and off power to your Raspberry Pi 3 or other single board computer powered by MicroUSB. You can use your existing power adapters and cables provided that they can drive adequate current. Note, there will be a voltage drop across the switch. We highly recommend this product to be used with our power supply for most use cases. You can find our power supply by searching for B01F1LVZ0G.

Please note: If your Raspberry Pi remains on or does not turn on after shutdown, a connected device is backpowering your Raspberry Pi. Discontinue use of your Raspberry Pi with the device in question as the voltage gradient between your power supply and the backpowering source may damage your board.

Beware, most power supplies sold on Amazon rate themselves as 5.0V 2.0A or 2.5A but can deliver less than 4.8V at 2.0A. Cheap power supplies are almost guaranteed to not be able drive the Raspberry Pi 3. If you experience random reboots or errors while using this device, please purchase one of our certified power supplies.

This device does not pass through the two data signal lines. It is created for high current SBC applications and does not pass through charging protocols such as Qualcomm's QuickCharge and others that use the data lines for power signaling.

This device is backed by a two year warranty. It does not cover accidental damage or damage as a result of user error including but not limited to short circuit, excessive current, physical damage, and liquid damage.

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Product Dimensions

8 x 1 x 1 inches

Item Weight

0.32 ounces

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0.32 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Manufacturer

LoveRPi

ASIN

B018BFWLRU

Item model number

BC68043

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255 customer reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars

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#712 in Industrial & Scientific > Industrial Electrical > Wiring & Connecting > Cables & Interconnects
#1,055 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Cables

Date first available at Amazon.com

November 21, 2015

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Tim Matthews

Crap! I installed it and within 30 min I ...

October 27, 2016

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Crap! I installed it and within 30 min I started getting an undervoltage warning. I played with it to see if it was making a good connection with my power supply cable and nothing improved. I shutdown, played with the connections a little more and went to startup and now it didn't work at all. I plugged my regular power supply back into the Pi and it works fine. Don't waste your money.

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swinefuzz

RAINBOW INDICATOR, NOT ENOUGH POWER

September 6, 2016

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Just unpacked this and plugged it in. Now, my RPi3 gets the rainbow LOW POWER indicator on bootup and fading in and out thereafter, without even using the RPi, just letting it idle. Everything worked just fine before I connected this switch btwn the power supply and the board, so clearly the LoveRPi switch is lessening the amount of power getting through. In about 2 months of using this RPi3 this is the first time I've ever gotten the rainbow low power indicator.

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Mark

Did not work for Raspberry Pi

February 19, 2016

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I bought this hoping to have some way to power off/on my Raspberry Pi without having to plug/unplug the power supply. I'm not sure why, but this does not work. I shutdown the RPi as normal. Then, I click the switch on this product to cut off the power. Then, when I click it to turn it back on, the Raspberry Pi will not start up properly. It locks up. This happens repeatedly. When I go back to the old way of unplugging/replugging, the RPi works just fine every single time.

Basically, this product does not work as I was hoping. I just wanted a way to restart my Raspberry Pi without unplugging the power supply. This product did not do that.

I still gave it 2 stars because it might work in other applications. Just not the application I wanted it for.

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David Greene

It works! No more plugging and unplugging!

April 1, 2016

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Although the first one did not work, the company sent a replacement (free of charge) and that works perfectly.
You might notice that the female end of the switch does not seem deep enough. Both that I received were like this, and I'm assuming at this point that it's normal. It holds the plug firmly and transfers power which is what counts, so if it doesn't seem right, and works, don't worry about it.
It's a good solution, and much better in my opinion than constantly plugging and unplugging the microusb socket which is probably the first thing that breaks in that case.

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B. Main

Useful device!

February 15, 2016

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The switch works great! The wire appears to be less good - when this is inline with power, my Raspberry Pi 2 shows the low voltage indicator. (In Kodi, this is a rainbow square in the upper right corner that appears when the voltage drops below 4.65 volts.) When this cable is removed, the low voltage indicator goes away.

Based on this, it appears that this uses a very small sized gauge of wire. I may measure the resistance of the cable and post it in an update.

Edit: changing review to 4 stars. It turns out that I was using the USB port on my router and not the power supply in this review's comments. I tried the power supply I thought I was using all along, and the voltage problem went away. This extra cable length may have just barely added enough resistance to the wire to make a difference with that power source.

I am only rating this switch four stars instead of five because it's hard to tell by touch or sight when the switch is in the "on" position or the "off" position. When I apply power (through the switch on a power strip), I often want it to be off because I don't want to accidentally boot the r-pi to avoid the hassle of safely shutting down...

BTW, I believe when USB power supplies "negotiate" their power, they are not limiting the current they are outputting, but instead they are telling the device that a certain amount of current is safely available (either through an active protocol, or by the having a resistance between data pins that the charging device expects with a higher current charger).

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TechGuyTop Contributor: Raspberry Pi

Order two, one DOA the second just starting to flake out.

December 8, 2016

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What to say, one was DOA, had to start a return on that product. The second has now started to act up as well. I've no idea where my packaging is for the now second flaky power switch, so I'm probably going to eat the charge on that one.

I used this for my Raspberry Pi, a great concept item, as the Raspberry Pi does not have a built in power switch. However I'd rather it had power constantly than now and then with random cut outs. Removing this device and the Pi is functioning back to normal. I'd strongly recommend finding an alternate to this product.

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Mike K

Worked fine at first

December 27, 2016

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EDIT/UPDATE 1/4/17:

Took the seller's advice and tried a completely different power supply. Used a 5V NorthPada supply which has 136 reviews, 77% of which are 5 Stars. I can't say for certain if it is fixing the "low voltage" problems...because when I use that power supply with this LoveRIi MicroUSB push switch, I can't turn my RP3 on at all. Power supply works just fine without the switch. With the switch? Nothing. (And yes, I know how to use a push button switch.) So I'm not sure if i just got a faulty unit, or if theres a manufacturing problem with the switch (since many people are having trouble)...but either way the problem is DEFINITELY your SWITCH and not the power supply as you've been trying to convince people.

Very poor product

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Worked fine at first. Then I started getting VERY frequent "low voltage" warnings from my rp3. made SNES games unstable at times. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what had gone wrong.

I removed this switch and plugged my unit back directly to the USB power supply and it worked great.

I enjoyed the convenience of this switch...but obviously not worth voltage problems.

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Jonathan A. Girwar-nath

Don't be left underpowered

January 5, 2018

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I purchased with the thought I'd have a great way of turning my Pi on and off relatively quickly. However I quickly was greeted with the underpower warning. I am quite surprised this item has so many stars and reviews. I get the item does exactly what it says it needs to do...add a power button to your Raspberry Pi...but at the cost of receiving a full 2.5A, it's not worth it.

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james

Five Stars

I really like having an on off switch for the pi.

Published 2 days ago

CDaniels

Works

Works as described.Wish I had this earlier, maybe I wouldn't have burned out my Pi.

Published 6 days ago

Luke

quality is good.

Does exactly what you expect, quality is good.

Published 7 days ago

Andrew

Five Stars

works like it is supposed to

The power switch works as advertised. No issues.

Published 23 days ago

Jeffrey

Barely works for Pi 3

It does not provide enough voltage for the raspberry pi 3, the lighting symbol appears and sometimes the red led on the Pi turns off because insufficient power but if I plug my...Read more

Published 25 days ago

Eric W. Keller

These are nice switched for the Raspberry PI 3....

Published 26 days ago

deevee8

perfect product

Published 28 days ago

Jim L.

Good product.

Works Fine.

Published 1 month ago

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