Product description
Wide input shim is a board for powering Raspberry Pi boards with input voltages from 3 to 16 V. The board is only 0.8 mm thick, allowing it to be mounted between the Raspberry Pi and an expansion board. The wide input shim features a DC jack (3.5/1.3 mm) for power input. Supplied with a DC cable with 3.5/1.3 mm male to 5.5/2.1 mm female, and a DC cable with 3.5/1.3 mm male to open end.
Specifications:
- Input voltage: 3–16 VDC
- Output voltage: 5 VDC
- Output current: max 2 A
- Regulator: Texas Instruments TPS63070
What does "Shim" mean?
In technical contexts, a shim is used to describe a thin layer, an adapter, or a software layer that is placed between two components to make them work together despite differences in interfaces, behavior, or abstraction level.