How hot does your mirror run?

Mykle1

@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! :-)

Advokaten

@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.

Mykle1

@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.

hartattack

@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!

Mykle1

@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. ;-)

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 = “”

Advokaten

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

yawns

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