Re: Competitors dead in the water?
@Voland's right hand
Useful comments, but it DOES have a real power plug : you can provide power through the "gpio" pin header.
I would never use a barrel jack on a permanent installation : I'd rather use the micro usb. But the right way to do it imho is to make a carrier board with a suitable power supply and any signal conditioning / pin protection etc. and drop the pi (or even the naked version) onto that. Then use proper connectors like the green plugin ones or whatever the rest of your system uses to connect it in.
Microusb is just for bench lashups. Barrel jacks are a bygone age, barely good enough even for chargers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
