alexsleat/projectChimaera — Issue #55: FitPC Cooling
Author: GarethG
Created: 2012-02-11 23:14:02+00:00
State: open

I've got the FitPC2i up and running, I've installed the graphics drivers and everything. It runs pretty sweet for what it is to be fair.

It boots to the log in screen in seconds too!

I couldn't get the temperature sensors working but I used the probe on my multimeter. It gets up to temperature in minutes and seems to stay at about 42-45 Degree's Celsius. I played some flash stuff and it does creep up a bit. On the box it says that if you remove the display cable you reduce power consumption by 20%, and not running gnomeDesktop is bound to cut it down a bit more. You can also turn off some devices in the bios.

40-50 degree C for the PC itself isn't so bad but this could heat up the rest of the tube and cause problems like we had last year.

I'm going to run some tests to see how it heats up the air around it.

I was thinking of using a peltier module to cool the air in the tube?

Ideas welcome here