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#133 Safe Shutdown for Raspberry Pi with Super Capacitors
Why people recommend it
Andreas Spiess covers building a small battery backup that lets a Raspberry Pi shut down cleanly during a power cut, praised as a good overview of the challenges.
Watch for: Builds on his earlier video 131
In their words
Andreas Spiess has a great video on doing exactly this:
bobstro on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Nov 2017. CC BY-SA.
I think I will use a simple switch to start the pi and add a backup battery for safe shutdown something like this
mina on raspberrypi.stackexchange.com, Jun 2021. CC BY-SA.
