Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How hot does your mirror run?
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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.
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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!
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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. ;-)
