chill wrote: > Indeed it might! > > I have the Pi mounted to the front panel via my button PCB: the button > PCB mounts to the chassis front panel, and the Pi mounts behind this PCB > via the GPIO pins, hat-style. I currently use nylon stand-offs/spacers, > but I'm thinking I might swap to brass to provide some degree of thermal > conductivity. The front panel will be 10mm aluminium, so if I can get > at least some of the heat into that it should dissipate quite nicely. > It would be nice to have some sort of direct thermal connection between > the CPU and the chassis - I might just use a strip of aluminium, say 3mm > thick, formed into a dog-leg shape and a bit of thermal paste to hold it > in place.
Its a pity that Raspberry did not flip the processor to the "underside" of the board, then you could have good cooling AND a HAT ! >From reports I've read the board itself is a significant part of the thermal design, maybe they'll change to an aluminium substrate though this is an expensive option Hopefully someone will come up with somthing, maybe a CNC ali plate might work well IE Between the Pi and Hat to allow a heatsink of resonable size to be fitted *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 7.5 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U2 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty/Player Groups *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X *Music:* 522GB,1660 albums with 23087 songs by 5204 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
