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by wlesieutre 4075 days ago
Ah, looks like power consumption west up. B+ listed 600 mA typ, 2B is 800. http://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-gets-quad-core-soc-keeps...
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Yep! Plus the tuner card itself can use 200mA or so, and if you want to use any other USB accessories they'll be drawing power as well. I unfortunately have too much experience using "phone chargers" that had enough current to run it 90% of the time, but under hard load would cause enough voltage drop on the 5V rail to reboot the Pi.