Power and space issues on OpenSprinkler Pi board

[Michael]

Hi everybody,

I’m about to reactivate my OSPI board from 2015 which I haven’t used in a while. I originally used a Raspi2, but that’s gone now but I have a Raspi3 I can use. As the documentation warns, I do run into power supply issues (warnings in the logfiles, sometimes crashes).

The hint is to use an external power supply and power the Pi through the Micro-USB. My problem now is that I also have some I2C sensors on the board, which use the first few GPIO pins. With the Pi on the OSPI, the GPIO-pins block the Pi’s MicroUSB port.

Any ideas how to supply a bit more juice to the Pi? Currently trying to find an angled MicroUSB cable that will fit there…

Thanks!

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