Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How hot does your mirror run?
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@Advokaten My Pi is in a pretty closed off area, I have 3 small aluminum heatsinks attached plus a small fan. The pi itself never gets above 50c
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I have the aliuminum heat sinks on mine aswell however the monitors used in the box are quite old and generate most of the heat, but even still mine hovers around 55C currently.
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@wered From what I read, the Pi’s can handle temps up like 80c. Mine is behind my TV and it is pretty modern, so it doesnt get very hot. The fan helps a bit.
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I have a fan and heatsinks, very simple addition and makes a big difference
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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.
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@Mykle1 not only is it cheap, it was a great learning experience for me, both overclocking and learning how to integrate other hardware into your Pi setup. Still working on an on/off switch that can also switch between OS’s tho…
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@Mykle1 said in How hot does your mirror run?:
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.
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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@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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@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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@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.
