I rebooted the board and found the board to be just as hot.
Has anyone else come across an issue w/ heat or a fix to the heat issue?
Seth
P.S. I might get rid of some of the extras that comes with this board but I purchased it for its functionality. I want to use the M4, TIDL, EVEs, and other
more complicated chips for fun! I was thinking I would finally learn to program the PRUs too. I am going to try to get rid of node-red, chromium, and
some other sockets and ports on the board. I think that these may cause services that I will not use ever.
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If you are using the board, the BBAI, and you have had some similar issues and came up w/ a nice fix, please let me know. I would like to try all
or any relative sources of ideas to support the heat consumption on the board.
I bought a USB powered fan which gives a very low airflow, but has kept everything cool to the touch.
I just have the BBAI on my engineering workbench anyhow, so I just wanted something simple and quiet.
Thank you for the idea. USB powered fans. I guess they make everything these days.
Seth
P.S. I was just going to power it from the sys_5v pin and GND on the BBAI. I guess there are many more ways to go about making things work than once thought.
Just an update, if you run the temp. sensors onboard the AI and run the fan, on my end, you will receive a 38c or below temp. for the board chips and surrounding area.
The output of ‘test_thermal.sh’ would really be helpful for those complaining about the heat. The update should stop it from overheating, at least in a room temperature environment. That doesn’t mean it won’t be hot to the touch… just not so hot that it will need to shutdown.
Can I get some more feedback on this?
Sorry for the VERY LONG delay on the Fan Cape. Chinese New Year recently entered the reasons for delay, but it is coming. The other big missing thing for BBAI is the Python Tensorflow library, which is also coming. I’ll be talking a lot more about BBAI once the two of those are out there.
Anyway, just running the update should give you a nice solution for running “regular” code. Please explain to me if that really isn’t the case.