Geekworm X728-A2 Stackable 18650 2-Cell Battery Holder (Without Batteries) For Raspberry Pi X728 UPS Review

Geekworm PI Cooling Board (X728-A1) lowered non-overclocked PI 4 stress test temperatures by 25* degrees in an 81* F space! It went from an operating temperature of 75°C to 50°C. It also dropped its idle temperature from 47°F to 38°F! After completing the stress test, the temperature returned to 38C very quickly, using the cheap thermal synchronizers installed with my CanaKit. Very impressive.

Ok to be honest I have a few of these and overall they work well and I love them so I ordered another one. Version 2.0. It looks like a complete redesign (look at the 1.3/2.0 photos and you can see the differences). THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE THAT GOT ME A PROBLEM is that the BATTERIES are oriented differently than previous versions and of course I just pulled the battery out. Batteries out of the old and put them in the new and massive smoke. Yes, I wasn't paying attention, so this is a warning…

Ok to be honest I have several of these and they generally work well and I like them so I ordered another one. I have several versions of 1.3 and the new one I just got is version 2.0. It looks like a complete redesign (look at the 1.3/2.0 photos and you can see the differences). THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE THAT GOT ME A PROBLEM is that the BATTERIES are oriented differently than previous versions and of course I just pulled the battery out. Batteries out of the old and put them in the new and…

I bought one of these to install OctoPi/OctoPrint and I'm having problems with the X728. The device powered up the RPi with no problem, I was able to get an accurate battery reading and did a performance test (also see if the RPi is running on batteries or 5V input. But I couldn't get any program info). shutdown and power off to work at all. In my case, after exchanging various things, I found that one of the third-party plugins for OctoPrint was interfering with the data exchange for the soft…

This UPS meets most of my needs, but I would like the python2 scripts to control it to be updated from the manufacturer and if possible compatible with newer operating systems. After overriding a few things from the .py scripts provided on the wiki, it works enough with OpenWRT to query the battery percentage and do a controlled shutdown before the battery hits the low voltage cutoff, but I left it on "good enough", so I haven't got any power failure detection working there yet or 1 or 2 power…