How many HATs can you put on a Raspberry Pi?
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Even though HATs are not intended to be stacked, you can stack up to 62 HATs and not have an address collision, for up to 992 PWM outputs! You'll still need to provide power and write code for all those outputs but they can all share the same SDA/SCL pins no problem.
Thereof, can you stack hats on a Raspberry Pi?
As Alex has said, HATS have to have an EEPROM that automatically configures them. That mechanism does not support stacking and will just fail if you try it.
People also ask, what is a hat Raspberry Pi?
HAT stands for “Hardware attached on top”. It is a new hardware specification for add-one modules for the new Raspberry Pi model B+.
Re: RTC on the new pi 4 It is a computer. One of the things it does during boot is get the current time and date from NTP servers on the internet. You only really need an RTC if your Pi doesn't have an internet connection (or NTP protocol is being blocked for some strange reason).