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    How hot does your mirror run?

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    • hartattackH Offline
      hartattack @Mykle1
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      @Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

      @hartattack

      I wanted to add a fan from the very beginning although all searches say that the Pi can run without problems up to 80°C or more. That “seemed” hot to me. My Pi was running at 60°C, which is well under the maximum that I discovered. So, I took it upon myself to add a 12v fan (I have spare parts lying around) and connected it to a 5V pin and a GRD pin on the GPIO header. I’ve been running the mirror more than a month without a hitch and my CPU temp is nearly 20°C cooler. Fans are cheap. If you can salvage one, even better. The result is pretty dramatic. Have a look.
      0_1491441071197_temp.png

      I started with a fan and 3 heatsinks from the beginning. Mine runs around 45C and gets close to 50C when doing anything intensive.

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      • Mykle1M Offline
        Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @hartattack
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        @hartattack said in How hot does your mirror run?:

        I started with a fan and 3 heatsinks from the beginning

        Yes, I started with the heatsinks that came in the Pi kit that I bought. There’s just no reason NOT to add a fan, in my case anyway. Besides, the cool factor (pun) of having a fan that’s half the size of the Pi sitting right on top. A 12v fan re-purposed from an old Mac G5 power supply connected to a 5v Pi pin. Come on, that’s cool! :-)

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          Advokaten @Mykle1
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          @Mykle1 would any heatsink do on a rpi? I saw one guy who brought the extreme and planted one that was bigger than the Pi itself, lol. He got it down to about 20 Celsius.

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          • Mykle1M Offline
            Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @Advokaten
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            @Advokaten said in How hot does your mirror run?:

            would any heatsink do on a rpi? I saw one guy who brought the extreme and planted one that was bigger than the Pi itself, lol. He got it down to about 20 Celsius.

            I don’t see why not. If it cools the Pi and it doesn’t harm it in any way then it’s good, I guess. Do you have a picture of that extreme heatsink you mentioned? I’m curious to see it.

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            • hartattackH Offline
              hartattack @Mykle1
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              @Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:

              @Advokaten said in How hot does your mirror run?:

              would any heatsink do on a rpi? I saw one guy who brought the extreme and planted one that was bigger than the Pi itself, lol. He got it down to about 20 Celsius.

              I don’t see why not. If it cools the Pi and it doesn’t harm it in any way then it’s good, I guess. Do you have a picture of that extreme heatsink you mentioned? I’m curious to see it.

              I saw this one not too long ago!0_1491520091959_Extreme_Cooling.png

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              • Mykle1M Offline
                Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @hartattack
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                @hartattack said in How hot does your mirror run?:

                I saw this one not too long ago!

                That’s hot! I mean cool! You know what I mean. ;-)

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                  chieftainSupreme
                  last edited by chieftainSupreme

                  @wered doing the manual install and i’m getting this error after running tempcontrol config, after connecting to the repo: “tempcontrol.conf.sample: Permission denied. Cannot write to tempcontrol.conf.sample (Permission denied)”

                  Any advice? Thanks in advance

                  edit: fixed it by granting rwx access to the files. Having an issue with the display not turning off during the right hours though. My tempcontrol.conf looks like:

                  onhour= “08 09”
                  parttime= “true”
                  partial1 = “”
                  partial2 = “”
                  partial01 = “”
                  partial02 = “”

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                    Advokaten @Mykle1
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                    @Mykle1 https://youtu.be/1AYGnw6MwFM check this out!

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                    • yawnsY Offline
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                      Do you actually hear the fan? I’m afraid it is disturbing even though it might only be whispering

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