Providing power to my Raspberry Pi Zero outdoors

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Hey folks,

I am doing a project with the Pi Zero and an auto IR-CUT camera running Motion Eye OS (Eventually I will run a separate Pi that takes the feed to run Single Shot Multibox Detecton).

Things are going well, but I am not as handy when it comes to hardware. I have a small enclosure I got from Jaycar which is weatherproof, and I am trying to figure out the best way to supply power to my Pi outdoors.

I had thought about using something like this:


Which will run through the enclosure and hook up power via GPIO pins, not sure if this is a good approach? Or does anyone have a more elegant solution?

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Hi,

Applying power directly to the GPIO pins bypasses the regulation circuit on the Pi that would normally come from the Micro USB port, so you’d need to ensure you have a clean 5V power. If you could power the Pi off a USB cable, or have a regulator inside the enclosure, it might be better.

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Thanks Josh, never knew about the regulator, I think I will connect up via the USB port in this case, I still have some space in the enclosure. Thanks for the tip!

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