Off topic discussion • Re: Questions That Are stuck or overthinking it

I know what i mean is
The pi will survive even the brick is causing this
And i know it will damage or corrupt the sdcard
the most important for me is the rpi02w

I can give a maybe on that. It all depends on just how the brick fails. Does it let a voltage/current spike through to the Pi when it fails? If it does, then the Pi gets fried as well. If not, then not.

Part of this is that you don't know the exact failure scenario in advance. It's like asking where to sit in an airplane to have the best chance to survive a crash. You have to specify what kind of crash you are anticipating because different types of crashes give different answers.

The most general solution is: don't let power problems get to the brick in the first place. That's why I've been recommending a surge protector and a UPS. Adding those won't prevent power brick failures, but they will greatly reduce the chance of such failures (at least due to power problems), and if the power brick doesn't fail, the Pi shouldn't either. In addition, the UPS will greatly diminish the chance of SD card corruption because the Pi will see far fewer power drops (the UPS will maintain the power).

One added advantage to using a UPS is that any electronics running off it should have a longer working lifetime simply because those items won't see the kinds of power variations that shorten the working life of all electronic devices.

Statistics: Posted by Awtterservice — Sat Mar 08, 2025 4:31 am