Pyra Status? Pyra lite? Upgraded SOC?

[pyrat]

@pyrat you should game . I know it takes effort but it's rewarding if you have the time.

I don't know. When I don't feel like it ... (which is almost always...)
But thank you for the advice. Maybe in two months, when I get my Pyra... Or if ED ever says enough is enough and there will never be more Pyras sold, then I might buy some Anbernic or something from his shop, who knows...
If even then I don't like gaming I can always try to port rockbox to it and use it to listen to music only...

 

[pyrat]

That would likely require more space, and since it can't be made
much more thicker, we should find a slimmer battery. I don't know details, but batteries have improved in density (or maybe not for the ones that are easy to source?).

I was reading this newspiece about battery research (Australian Lithium-Sulfur aiming at cheapish 400Wh/kg, or on the expensive side, Chinese semisolid or condensate electrolytes preparing 500Wh/kg... or more undisclosed pitches claiming up to 1000Wh/kg) and I wondered what's the energy density of the battery in the Pyra ?
Does anyone know the battery weight ? it says 6000mAh, approx 22Wh in the wiki. But what about the weight ? This post from 2016 says maybe <400g for the whole Pyra.
That'd give a lower bound for the density for the battery of 55Wh/kg but in fact it should be more because the rest of the Pyra also weights something

 

[Git1]

Yep, the Pyra's appeal for me is not about gaming, but about having an open linux-based hand-held tinkering device that can do pretty-much anything I can dream up. What's not to love about that?

 

[matzesu]

I could take the Pyra whit me on Monday and throw the Battery (carefully) on the scale at work..


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[netcat]

I don't know. When I don't feel like it ... (which is almost always...)
But thank you for the advice. Maybe in two months, when I get my Pyra... Or if ED ever says enough is enough and there will never be more Pyras sold, then I might buy some Anbernic or something from his shop, who knows...
If even then I don't like gaming I can always try to port rockbox to it and use it to listen to music only...

Each console has just a handful of games worth playing imo. I focused on GC, found a few gems, now I'm on PS3. N64 I'll focus on more when my mister pi arrives next year. Then maybe Saturn in a few years. Seems like you have untapped potential spanning many generations. Lucky you

 

[hns]

I was reading this newspiece about battery research (Australian Lithium-Sulfur aiming at cheapish 400Wh/kg, or on the expensive side, Chinese semisolid or condensate electrolytes preparing 500Wh/kg... or more undisclosed pitches claiming up to 1000Wh/kg) and I wondered what's the energy density of the battery in the Pyra ?
Does anyone know the battery weight ? it says 6000mAh, approx 22Wh in the wiki. But what about the weight ? This post from 2016 says maybe <400g for the whole Pyra.
That'd give a lower bound for the density for the battery of 55Wh/kg but in fact it should be more because the rest of the Pyra also weights something

approx. 115 g (incl. protection circuit, connector and some plastics). With 22Wh => 191 W/kg
So there are improvements to expect over the next years but not as big as for EV where the energy must be used to accelerate the weight.

 

[matzesu]

Don’t have to put my Pyra in my backpack ; did put it back In EDC ^^

But I will post the Battery weight as far as I get the time ..

 

[pyrat]

approx. 115 g (incl. protection circuit, connector and some plastics). With 22Wh => 191 W/kg
So there are improvements to expect over the next years but not as big as for EV where the energy must be used to accelerate the weight.

Thanks. I didn't think it was so energy dense, just from the design date and the apparent evolution in batteries. So there doesn't look to be much room for improvement. A smaller battery with the same charge is not impossible science fiction, but is not maybe anything easy or promising, at least for now.
It doesn't matter anyway, because a whole redesign is likely not worth it. But I was curious.

 

[matzesu]

Ok did put my Batterie on the Scale, was actually not that easy to take it out again ^^ its 114 gramms (metric)

I dont know how but im again on Pyra Fan Mode: have it fit in my Pocket, on Discord there was a quite positive Post about the Standbye Mode, and i did a quick test yesterday if everything works still: and the Pyra runs fine still .. only the DPAD is a bit Squishy..

 

[Letalis Sonus]

I didn't think it was so energy dense, just from the design date and the apparent evolution in batteries.

Don't forget about the regular density, lithium batteries are very lightweight. In this context the volumetric energy density is more important.