whats the difference between this brickpi basic power kit from the one on their site which seems to be a little cheaper?
73804
No difference. It's cheaper because Dexter Industries can sell it without the overhead Amazon charges.
483913
Yes, this is a replacement power brick that will charge and power the PC. This one works very well. There was a cheaper one that hummed really loud and scary, this one is quiet. The only minor thing is that the connector is slightly looser than the OEM, but it does not "fall out" and stays in OK. The other pluses over the OEM, its lighter weight and it does not have that BRIGHT blue glowing light!
2252376
By your question I can't tell what the 'cheaper one listed by you at this link' actually is...there is no link to it...just a link to Amazon. If you could let me know what that other one was I might be able to explain what differences there are. With that in mind...I bought this one because of the durability of this particular unit. I did some research and this one had a much lower failure rate and is supposed to last much longer than most of the others.
2203555
No power source. The kit is to be used with a micro controller board like the Arduino UNO (shown in one of the pictures), I own an Uno, but I bought it to use with my Raspberry Pi and Beagle Bone Black. I am learning Python for the Linux platform, and this is pretty cool set of parts for a good price.
283810
the one you described is the Mini-Mbt1, which costs about 3 times as much as the Mini-MBT. The Mini-MBT is also on the ZTS website at http://www.ztsinc.com/minimbt.html and is the one in the Amazon listing
870919
Not the one I purchased. Purchased a Wasabi Power from Amazon and it works very well.
1308233
I know of no differences. The look exactly a like and are the same dimension as the ones from Cubie. I bought two from Sunfounder and they both are running software from Cubie.org
872298
Before answering, please note that there are several products on this page. I would not assume it's the same for all of them. I one I bought was titled, "Sabrent 7 Port USB 3.0 Hub with 4A Power Adapter support Fast charging Function." I guess the title answers your question. Just in case, I checked it myself and yes, the power supply brick that comes with this product has a label rating of 5 VDC @ 4A.
189285
Mine came with a power brick, for what it's worth. I believe that this hub corrupted my external usb 3.0 hdd, and pretty much killed it. Don't know this for a fact but I don't use it anymore.
1771820
as far as i know there is no differance in them. I was going to buy mine from Midwayusa but they were out of stock so I bought it off of amozan istead. I have used mine for 4 months all most every day and i have had no problems with it. the only thing is you may get some extra things from Cablelas or midwayusa.
22943
I couldn't figure out the difference either, but with the price of the batteries, I didn't want to take any chances. The XCP batteries said to get the 2021 and they seem to be far better batteries, so it is worth buying that charger.
1472995
by all means get the larger one. It will charge your laptop faster. It will also have less likelihood of being a subpar device.the only difference between getting the bigger and smaller ones would be that's a smaller one is somewhat lighter but really not enough to make a difference especially when you consider performance.I work on machines as my profession. I almost never see a burnt out 90 watt power supply . . . most of the burnt out power supplies that I see are 65 watt power supplies.Good luck!
786125
It could be the watts . The kit I bought turned out to be a 200 watt set compared to 300 watt which is more for commercial use .There is an even stronger 400 watt set. I'm still happy with what I got for the price but I wish I knew the difference in advance so that I would have had chance to look around for the 300 watt model . I have been checking the bdf model but can not find anything , The F may stand for factory reconditioned so try to do more research first.
458628
I'm looking to buy one. Such a good question but no one seems to know the answer. :(update: I think they are the same except one is more cheaply built. But which one?? Who knows...could be the higher priced one!
976845
No, it is a different brand. Had to install one, then reboot and install the second module. Working just fine so far.
724374
It comes with its own 5V power brick ~ the power brick is only meant to be used with the dock and cannot be used with your laptop.
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That is not correct, in my case. We originally bought the SC100 big starter kit, and it came with a manual for projects 1-101. We bought the SC100 - SC300 add-on kit the following year to make the SC100 kit into the SC300 set; it also came with a book, for projects 102-305. Each book had different projects. Each book explained the basics of circuitry the project being attempted utilized. My SC100-SC300 add on kit box is smaller than the original starter kit was, with mostly white lettering on a red background. My SC100 starter kit box is bigger, and has the familiar snap circuits board with multi-color parts snapped in place as a big picture on the box, plus mostly green, white, blue and some red graphics.