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Temperature high

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 9:39 am
by aignacio
Hello everyone,

1 - I'm getting started to work with the Vocore this week and I'd note that when i plug into 5V power supply and logg with SSH, the temperature in the processor makes very high, it's normal to operate in high temperature or this is maybe a problem in my hardware?

2 - Does anybody test some web server in the open wrt like lighthttp or one of the followings http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/http.overview? :)

Re: Temperature high

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 3:54 pm
by charliex
The vocore does run with a high temp, however its hard to say if yours is too high since we don't know what you're seeing.

read this http://vonger.cn/?p=812

Re: Temperature high

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:13 pm
by Pyrofer
I stuck a copper "ram chip" heat sink on mine.
It gets quite hot, unpleasant to touch but not sure on the exact temp.
I have also at times put a small 4cm fan (undervolted to 5v) over the chip/heatsink. The fan is undervolted too much to spin up on its own so needs a push start :(

The heat IS a problem.

Re: Temperature high

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:47 am
by Endat
About the http server, Vonger was working on vohttpd for a bit - http://vonger.cn/?p=1684

The heat is normal, mine only gets about 100*F now because the heat sync is massive. It seems to be more energy efficient when it runs cooler too :mrgreen:

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Re: Temperature high

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:32 am
by Greenwire-Elektronik
I can confirm that cooler chips are more energy-efficent - this is not a myth, it is called physics ;)

Re: Temperature high

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:58 am
by Pyrofer
Makes me wonder if my Heatsink is enough now!
Still, it's firmly attached so too late now.

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