Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Cooling Raspi
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@requiemmg I’m running my RPi 3B+ just with stock heat sinks and the temperature is always at 60-61 C. This temperature is not really worrying, rather normal. What might happen is that it may start throtteling from 1400 MHz to 1200 MHz when it excedd 60C. There have been some changes in Raspbian in the last years where the temperature limit was set from 70 to 60 C for throtteling and then changed back again. What you could do is raise the throtteling temp to 70 with following entry in in /boot/config.txt:
temp_soft_limit=70But the Pi shouldn’t freeze at any of these temps. When it freezes, then usually when the memory ran up due to a memory leak. There might be some modules around which handle memory allocation a bit sloppy. As a workaround you can setup a cron job to reboot the Pi regulary, e.g. every 6 or 8 hours for example.
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Thanks for your hints.
Well, it does freeze at these temperatures. And I already have a cronjob which reboots the pi every 6 hours, does not help. No freezing when cooling with a fan, but far too noisy, so no, doesnt seem to be a memory problem rather than a heating problem, so I do not think that setting up higher throtteling temperatures will do any good. -
@requiemmg why too noisy? I never hear the fans on both my pi 3, pi4 and jetson nano on the other side of the room (6 ft away)
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AS I have no case, I have no way to fix the fan without touching anything and then it is scratching on the surface or is vibrating. Tried it a lot, always too loud. No idea on how to get it fixed.
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@requiemmg buy a case… cheap
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@requiemmg
Try this if it helps to hold the fan !
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I have several cases here, that’s not a problem. There is not enough space between frame and wall.
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@requiemmg can you share photograph of the frame ? It would be easy to visualize. ! may be i could be of any help…
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https://www.ikea.com/de/de/p/ribba-rahmen-schwarz-50268874/ Standard IKEA frame, replaced the front with a 8 mm ChromeSpy glass.
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@requiemmg Actually there is a hack! You can increase the space between wall & frame by placing 4 no screws in the back side of frame that would give you some extra margin to place your fan on Rpi. You can also adjust the screw height accordingly! Hope it helps !
