BeagleY-AI cooling - required?

General Discussion
1

Hi,

does the BeagleY-AI require cooling, active or passive? Or is it recommended? If yes, which passive or active cooling options are available?

Thanks
jgrmpf

2

A heatsink is not required for normal operation. If you want to use the rpi5 active cooler, it fits with the same holes and pwm fan connector.

3

I’m planning to get the active cooler - I want to run long number-crunching jobs on mine.

4

Thanks! Ok - maybe I’ll just use a Raspi passive heat sink.

Regards
jgrmpf

5

I just measured some temperatures with a Hat on top of it (M2.NVME Hat), temperature was wel over 60º Celsius, reaching 70 in some places. Is that OK?

6

You can measure on-die temps thru:

voodoo@beagley-ai:~$ cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp
34260
34974
35449

(i have a little fan from Amazon.com that any device sits on when working on it in the lab here…)

65C is fine…

90C is sane, 125C is what TI tests…

Regards,

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7

Mine was hitting 74 at idle according to the thermal_zone[0-2]/temp output so I am going to go ahead and order a cooling fan as well.

8

I got a Rpi5 case and cooler from Wmt (52Pi, Armor Lite V5 Cooler) and it went very well. The board now runs at ~51C according to the output below. The only caveat is that I forgot to remove the microsd card before installing the board in the case and that broke the memory card - I was fortunately back in business after burning a new microsd card with the latest image.

cat /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone[0-2]/temp 
51267
51709
53250