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kenny_r | 6 years ago

My personal take-away is "hold off on buying a Pi4 until this issue has been addressed in a future revision".

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My takeaway is "use the official $8 charger they sell".

TeMPOraL|6 years ago

I'd agree (and that's what I did) except here I'd suggest "maybe wait until they solve the core overheating issue".

Mine is idling at 64°C now that I took off the official cover; with the cover on, it was idling just below the CPU throttling point of 80°C, which meant that almost any computation caused it to start intermittently locking up.

baq|6 years ago

i bought the rpi4 and the official charger and the combo works FWIW.

it's good to know that it just might not work with some cables though. probably saved a few hours of head scratching in the future for a few folks.

walshemj|6 years ago

But if you want to power a cluster from a single beefier usbc power pack

ohazi|6 years ago

You'll be waiting for a Pi4+ or a Pi5, then. They've had similar "minor" bugs with trivially easy hardware fixes on older boards, but punted on fixing them until the next major version. I could be wrong, but AFAICT, they've never done a minor board revision for an already released Raspberry Pi.