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News => New Product Ideas => Topic started by: ilario on May 29, 2025, 07:36:17 PM

Title: LiPo-UPS-5V or MOD-UPS-5V
Post by: ilario on May 29, 2025, 07:36:17 PM
Dear all,
I am used to A64-OLinuXino (https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A64/A64-OLinuXino/open-source-hardware), but for setting up a small home server with more RAM I am considering the iMX8MP-SOM-4GB-IND (https://www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/NXP-iMX8/iMX8MP-SOM-4GB-IND/open-source-hardware) + iMX8MP-SOM-EVB-IND (https://www.olimex.com/Products/SOM/NXP-iMX8/iMX8MP-SOM-EVB-IND/open-source-hardware) combo.

What I miss from the A64-OLinuXino is the LiPo battery connector, that has proven to be very useful and effective against power cuts.

So a new product idea would be an external board that acts as a UPS for the 5V power. Optionally, this board could have an UEXT connector for informing the main board on the status of the battery (%, charging status...). Ideally, the LiPo battery would be discharged during power cuts and recharged when the power is back.

It would be a board with the following connectors: 5V inlet (barrel plug socket), 5V outlet (either a short cable ending with a barrel plug or a block terminal), LiPo battery connection, and, optionally, an UEXT connector for communicating to the computer the status of the battery.