Best way to power Raspberry PI 3 via GPIO

Question

I need to made device controlled with 3 Raspberry PI connected in cluster and want to made power supply via GPIO.

Do I need made 3V3 and 5V supply or just 5V on GPIO2?

Thanks.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 04 '17 at 21:03

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Pins and GPIO are not the same thing.

You can not power the Pi via the GPIO.

You can power via certain pins on the expansion header.

Pin 2 and pin 4 are 5V pins.

You should only supply power via a 5V pin.

DO NOT try to provide power via the 3V3 pins or any GPIO.

answered Mar 04 '17 at 21:03

joan

See Raspberry Pi Power Limitations for some more detail and Foundation recommendations. – Milliways Mar 04 '17 at 21:48
Thank you guys. Realy i messup GPIO with regular pins. This help me a lot! – Ivijan Stefan Stipić Mar 05 '17 at 08:18

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