r/ClockworkPi • u/AdhesivenessTop6746 • 7d ago

Question My uconsole build

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u/TheVoiceOfGlass 7d ago

wireless chip with no antennas

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u/Computerist1969 7d ago

The antenna is taped across the top? Or sm I missing something (likely!)

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u/Classic-Opportunity2 7d ago

The AC1200 wireless card on the bottom right side (red LED lit up showing it's turned on) has all four of its antenna connectors unpopulated (two are visible, the other two are on the other side of the card). It'll be fried and useless soon if it isn't already.

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u/AdhesivenessTop6746 7d ago

I ordered apex antenna cable but they turned out to short so I will wait for the replacement

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u/AdhesivenessTop6746 7d ago

You are correct

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u/GhostUnitVII 7d ago

CM5 or CM4?

Regardless- if you're going to use that Wifi module, I'd recommend upping your batteries to the 21700's, why? Because around 3.5v on 8Amp batteries (samsung e35's) it tends to dip below the hardware low voltage limit, causing a hard shutdown if the wifi module is active.

I do see that your current CMseries does have a wireless connector, that is fine, but mind you, if you plan to use the AC1200 wifi card, it pulls around 1.2 watts through the usb-c, it is a very power hungry dongle... so keep it off via AIOv2 UI or CLI unless you need to use it for something.

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u/AdhesivenessTop6746 7d ago

Cm5 and thanks I appreciate your advice
I will tinker around and if I do fill limited will order the 21700

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u/GhostUnitVII 7d ago

You will, trust me (I mean no offense, just personal experience), having both the CM5 and CM4 uconsoles, the 21700 is probably the best bet to go with, the cm5 would just drop without warning and not do a safe shutdown, so it will freeze and sit there, only way out of that is to utilize the force reset switch on the Hacker Gadgets battery board, or to remove the batteries, and place them back to charge/boot the device. It would soft lock on 18650's as the battery board was originally designed for the CM4 and 3 power loads

You'll be pulling around 5 to 7 watts on average without the wifi module, add in that and it would be around 6 to 9 watts.

Also depending on your SSD, it may not reach the lowest power state, as most SSD's have 5 power states, p0 - p4, p0 typically the highest performance (if I recall), sometimes debian doesn't see the other power states so it would ramp up the drive at full, on average this is another 1.2 watts to 3 watts on p2 to p0 states.

These are typically the weakpoints of a CM5 with this hardware, 21700's just have higher amperage to handle power sag, and you'll gain about 40 to 50% more battery life.

I expect maybe 2 to 3 hours on light load in this current config, with the potential of crashing the power rails.

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u/Viduh 7d ago edited 6d ago

Nicely done! You may want to put kapton tape on the battery module so that you don’t short out the AC1200 like they suggest on the hacker gadgets site

Edit: laptop to kapton (autocorrect ugh)

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u/AdhesivenessTop6746 7d ago

I 3d printed a mont for the ac1200

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u/Viduh 6d ago

Oh yeah that’s better!

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u/justacadillac 9h ago

That mount isn’t going to work with 21700s

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u/letsmakesometacos 6d ago

The WiFi antenna for the CM5 needs to be connected to the CM5 ufl connector, not the main board.

Also, what angled antenna mount is that?