Fan for Pi5???

[rkorell]

Good morning, Gurus!

How do you, guys cool your Raspi5?

I‘ve installed the „original raspi 5 fan“ which worked for a while (3-4 weeks) silently without any problem.
Yesterday in the afternoon fan becomes hearable - for whatever reason.

In the meantime I‘ve identified how to adapt the speed of the fan (there are some dtoverlay parameters steering this) but it doesn’t help that much because if I toggle down speed to get the fan non disturbing the temperature is increasing fast to get nearly immediatly to ranges where I have to set speeds to cool „really“ to avoid damages in the system (+65 °C)…

Do you have a tip for „working“ hardware or have an idea how to „repair“ the existing fan?

• It isn‘t a funny or even cheap hobby to buy a new fan every few weeks … :-)

Thanks for any hint!
Warm regards,
Ralf

[BKeyport]

@rkorell Mine is in a https://argon40.com/products/argon-one-v3-case-for-raspberry-pi-5 case, hidden behind the TV.

[rkorell]

@BKeyport OK, thanks!

• Have seen this somewhere sometimes …
  I had to have the one with NVME - pretty expensive (for a pi-housing) and pretty big - I‘ve not that much space behind the mirror but will consider this as an alternative.
  Keep you posted…
  Regards,
  Ralf

[rkorell]

@BKeyport - there are some reviews out there stating, that raspi 5 power supply isn’t capable to power this config sufficiently and that the temperature is about 70°C and fan is loud …
As you‘re recommending this I assume that his isn‘t the case in your installation (mentioned reviews are for the NVME housings…).
Is this assumption correct?

Thanks,
Ralf

[sdetweil]

@rkorell i have 2 pi5 w the official fan. one w nvme hat and one without. both are silent after a year

[rkorell]

@sdetweil Lucky guy!

Thanks for feedback!

Ralf

[rkorell]

@sdetweil , @BKeyport :
In the meantime a GeeekPi Ultra Thin ICE Tower Cooler is arrived and just installed.
Fan is bigger than Pi - looks weird.

After 20 minutes temperature is at 52°C nothing to hear.
Keep you posted…

Thanks for your feedback so far!

Ralf

[sdetweil]

@rkorell that is a beast!!!

[rkorell]

@sdetweil :-) indeed ….
(Fits millimeter-exactly behind the mirror no more space left…)

But seems to work.

[BKeyport]

@rkorell I haven’t had any issues - it spreads the heat out much more than many of the setups, but it does work in keeping the system running without much noise. This is on a RasPi 5 that runs two mirrors - one with pages flipping all the time, the other showing camera feeds. Very process intensive. I got it initially because the pi was going to be visible - if I was going to use it in the config I have now, I’d likely go with something with a large heat sink and a quiet (Noctura?) fan.