My experience is that short of Antarctica, electronics do much better in the cold than the heat. CPUs naturally generate heat and a lot of it depending on what precisely they are doing. For instance I save on my heating costs in the winter by setting up all my computers to do cryptocoin mining. :)
For heat dissipation nothing beats a fan and a heatsink. Look at how powersupplies are built for some examples. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Matthew Frederico <[email protected]>wrote: > This may be a question more for a hackerspace community .. but it is linux > based. > > I am consulting for a small local Utah company who is entering the market > with a platform of embedded hardware that essentially does edge > *hardware*monitoring. It's utilizing modern wireless (900mhz and up) > and current 3G > and 4G networks to "phone home" about how certain aspects of how hardware > is performing - e.g. uptime of security cameras, switches, routers yadda > yadda .. Its pretty ingenious idea - but I digress. > > We're currently looking to perform some weatherproofing and was wondering > if any embedded linux gurus out there had any tips regarding inexpensive > heating/cooling? Many of these devices will be "living" outside and some > in extreme (arctic) weather conditions, especially devices that are > security related. > > I have heard methods ranging from immersing entire PCB's into vegetable oil > to creating a "heat" process that waits for low system load to increase cpu > usage thus inducing heat... > > Anybody out there find any success with keeping hardware warm and cozy? > > > -- > -- > -- Matthew Frederico > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
