From: Alex S. <ale...@gm...> - 2011-10-18 22:11:55
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Good point. Yes the modules always is overheated. I never did anything because the board isn't actually mine (I'm just using for reseach) , but I Will recommend the heat sink to the owner, thanks. On 18/10/2011, at 20:05, Alex Gibson wrote: > On 19/10/2011 6:14 AM, bwilkins wrote: >> >> Can anyone out there tell me if powering a WiFi enabled COM such as the Air >> or Fire w/o an antenna is safe? I have a few COMs that were powered on this >> way and the WiFi is fried. Trying to determine the cause. Thanks. >> >> - Brent > > Do you have a heat sink on them ? > > Didn't overheat ? > > Ours were getting to hot to touch, adding a small heatsink and case fan > keeps them cooler > > We use this one > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=HH8580&CATID=79&form=CAT2&SUBCATID=980#1 > > Also use it on our other boards on the omap processor to keep it cool. > Then again air temps can get into the mid 40*C's here in summer. > Just starting to warm up for summer, a cold 22*C today but nice 28*C > tomorrow and the rest of the week. > > > Alex > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |