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Review on CanaKit Raspberry Power Supply PiSwitch by Katie Owens

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Roasted my Raspberry Pi 4!

I was happy to use this power supply with a switch to simplify power management on my 4GB Raspberry Pi, but when I plugged it in yesterday the Pi had trouble turning on . At first I thought it was just an issue with the display cable or my monitor settings, but then I noticed that the Pi actually rebooted. After about 2 minutes trying to figure out what was going on, the Pi stopped working and wouldn't start again. I've tried a different power supply and microsd card, it's just dead. Until now I thought CanaKit was a quality choice and even ordered my new Pi4 8GB from them last week. I am disappointed in this somewhat costly failure. Now I don't have a 4GB Pi4 that I wanted to use for new projects and it has been replaced with the new 8GB. At least I didn't connect it to my new 8GB and lost it.

Pros
  • UL listed, cord length 5ft
Cons
  • Not trendy