{"id":4108,"date":"2018-04-24T01:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:04:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-13T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:09:20","slug":"4108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4108","title":{"rendered":"What power supplies can I use with mBot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mBot ships with both a 3.7-V rechargeable lithium battery and a 4-AA battery holder. In most cases, these are the best power supplies to use with mBot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, mBot will work with any 3.7 to 6 V DC power supply with the right connector and the center positive, including our <a href=\"\/product\/labquest-power-supply\/\">LabQuest<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Power Supply<\/a> (<nobr>LQ3-PS<\/nobr>) and <a href=\"\/product\/labquest-battery-boost-2\/\">LabQuest Battery Boost 2<\/a> (<nobr>LQ-BOOST2<\/nobr>). Both power supplies will connect to mBot, just like the included battery. While mBot must be tethered when using a LabQuest Power Supply, this may not be a hindrance for many activities. If using the Battery Boost, you will need to secure it to mBot; a rubber band will work just fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/4136\/\">mBot Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mBot ships with both a 3.7-V rechargeable lithium battery and a 4-AA battery holder. In most cases, these are the best power supplies to use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6918,6919],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lq-ps-lq2-boost","tag-mbot-p-mbot-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}