"just include a battery, bro"
There's a few reasons that no Raspberry Pi products to date have had an integrated battery.
1. Compliance - storage, shipping, import all become significantly more complex if the product contains dangerous goods (lithium batteries are most certainly dangerous goods).
2. Inventory management - Raspberry Pis have an effectively infinite shelf-life. If they had batteries in, which self-discharge - who recharges a warehouse full of stock?
3. Warranty - the vast majority of RPL employees use Dell laptops. The number one reason for service call-outs is that the laptop's battery decided it wanted to be a pillow instead of an energy storage device. I've had it happen to me twice. And this is with the premier business-oriented PC provider. How are we going to manage repairs or replacements for failures in service across our dozens of authorised resellers?
4. Disposal - expired LiPo batteries are basically toxic waste. WEEE rules and the scale that we operate at means that we must have an appropriate disposal route for such items. So including batteries costs a premium. Which has to be charged up-front.
There's a few reasons that no Raspberry Pi products to date have had an integrated battery.
1. Compliance - storage, shipping, import all become significantly more complex if the product contains dangerous goods (lithium batteries are most certainly dangerous goods).
2. Inventory management - Raspberry Pis have an effectively infinite shelf-life. If they had batteries in, which self-discharge - who recharges a warehouse full of stock?
3. Warranty - the vast majority of RPL employees use Dell laptops. The number one reason for service call-outs is that the laptop's battery decided it wanted to be a pillow instead of an energy storage device. I've had it happen to me twice. And this is with the premier business-oriented PC provider. How are we going to manage repairs or replacements for failures in service across our dozens of authorised resellers?
4. Disposal - expired LiPo batteries are basically toxic waste. WEEE rules and the scale that we operate at means that we must have an appropriate disposal route for such items. So including batteries costs a premium. Which has to be charged up-front.
Statistics: Posted by jdb — Wed Jan 01, 2025 7:21 pm