Usage and connections
STRATO PI FAN BOARD INSTALLED ON THE RASPBERRY PI
Hardware Installation
The Strato Pi Fan board is supplied with all connectors pre-installed. No soldering is
required. You should connect Strato Pi to Raspberry Pi aligning the GPIO connector.
Ensure that no conductive part of one board touches any part of the other board.
The circuit board holes used for power supply and the I
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C bus are slightly offset to improve
the electrical connection to the GPIO header pins. Pushing the Strato Pi Fan board down
will slightly tilt the header pins. If you need to fit another expansion board on top, with a
female GPIO connector, it is recommended to insert the Strato Pi Fan board only about
halfway down, then connect the female GPIO connector, and finally push both down.
The Strato Pi Fan printed circuit board thickness is just 1.0 mm, so any expansion board
will be at most 1.0 mm above its normal position.
The GPIO connector of the Strato Pi Fan board must be perfectly aligned to the Raspberry
Pi's GPIO pins. Turning on the Raspberry Pi and/or the Strato Pi Fan board with the GPIO
not correctly connected will damage both the Raspberry Pi and Strato Pi Fan board.
NOTICE
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Strato Pi Fan User Guide
