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Surely one could make do with passive heatsinks on the Pis and use the back coolers?

• thetanil 6y ago
  Posted before I saw this comment. Yes passive cooling is fine with recent firmware and a good heatsink case. I have stress tested with the following case for hours with all cores pegged at 100% and there is no CPU throttling with passive cooling. They do run hotter, but they do not throttle. Old firware and bad cases will though. https://www.amazon.com/Geekworm-Raspberry-Computer-Aluminum-Compatible/dp/B07VD568FB https://www.amazon.com/Geekworm-Raspberry-Computer-Aluminum-...
  • jojobas 6y ago
    You wouldn't need that much in their case (sorry) as they have through flow.
• fuzzy2 6y ago
  That may be difficult with the HATs on every Pi. They look like they limit airflow a lot.
  • jojobas 6y ago
    Nothing a clever duct couldn't fix.
• OJFord 6y ago
  The official PoE 'hat' (add-on module) comes with that fan, I believe that's what's shown.
  • jojobas 6y ago
    This hat seems to be built for a fanless case. Pretty sure a heatsink protruding through the hat orifice would be enough in their case design.
  • youngtaff 6y ago
    The fan official PoE hat is way too small so annoyingly noisy, and because it's so small replacements are expensive There's room for a much larger fan so it seems a case of bad design by Raspberry Pi