I recently bought the Raspberry Pi monitor and I must say its a fantastic product. I wanted to see if I could power a Rpi 5 plus the Raspberry Pi monitor by connecting the Rpi 5 to an old Anker portable battery bank I had. The Raspberry Pi monitor is powered by the Rpi 5 which is powered by the Anker battery bank. It worked pretty well. The only thing is that upon initial boot there was a lightning bolt with the message that peripherals would be restricted because I wasn't using a 5A power supply. This appeared once and then disappeared and then it appeared once in a while. It ran for almost half a day with no issues.
My question is can I keep running it like this or will this damage anything? Everything worked fine except for the occasional lighting bolt which appeared maybe once a hour or so.
My question is can I keep running it like this or will this damage anything? Everything worked fine except for the occasional lighting bolt which appeared maybe once a hour or so.
Statistics: Posted by RaspberryPiOSMan — Sat Apr 05, 2025 2:37 am — Replies 0 — Views 21