This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 at 8:10 am and is filed under Uncategorized. I got in touch with arctic directly, and were shipping with their pads. Confident in saying that any strenuous situation will be fine without the need for active cooling or worrying about overheating. I’m confident in the case and the new pad. So in actuality, a real load alleviates the stress on the cpu, allowing it breathing time to cool. Even running cpuburn, on stopping, I saw a 1C drop every second.
Flirc case software#
Depending on the software that’s running, power will not only be different, but it will be dynamic. Cpuburn is meant to try and draw the most power. Yes, cpu utilization could get up to 100%, but that doesn’t mean the processor is going to burn the same power. cpuburn is meant to burn as much power as possible, it’s not realistic of any situation. I ran another test on Monday, where it was 24-25C, and in 3 hours, it never went above 77C.īut let’s talk about something important. In my lab/warehouse 26-27C which is really hot, it took 90 minutes of cpu burn before it got to 80C. I got some arctic cool pads off amazon with a much higher thermal conductivity, and started testing. I ordered some new thermal pads and did some more tests that looked great. So we started studying the design, the gap, and the thermal material, and simulated. Seems like we hit steady state, but I think we can do better. I saw the temp hang around 80C +/- 2C for 30 minutes. Now with the Flirc case, I get it to 80C in 25 minutes. Without any case, in 26-27C ambient, I got a naked raspberry pi to nearly 90C in 5-10 minutes. Which means we could theoretically get temp as quickly as possible. I felt like I saw the most consistent and highest power draw. I tried other tests and settled on cpuburn-arm. If I just finished a test, results were different as well. Should the pi have started cooler, I’d see much different results than if I had it running idle. Much depended on the initial starting conditions. But results were generally inconsistent across tests. I started testing with various benchmark scripts, python, etc.
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However, as soon as I got the first units back, I did a lot of thermal testing. Orders were supposed to start shipping out about a week ago. Because both cases are so different, their manufacturing processes are also distinctly different. Kodi cases are shipping to us this Friday, and will go out as soon as they arrive. Orders are flying out, and customers should start getting email notifications with tracking.
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Kodi is the registered trademark of the XBMC foundation and Flirc was granted permission to use their logo.
Flirc case full#
Please check out their full press release and don’t forget to watch the great video that Nate put together.īig thanks to Nate, Franz, and Martijn for their help, patience, and collaboration over the past 6 months in nailing this to perfection. I look forward to many more ventures with Kodi. It’s with great excitement to announce a limited edition Kodi Raspberry Pi Case, which is available today from our store, and customers outside the US can get theirs at our partner, The Pi Hut located in the UK.įlirc USB will also be on sale for 25% off only through our site to celebrate the launch. We have built a great relationship with the team, and the Kodi Raspberry Pi Case was a natural step in our growing relationship together. Their praise was received with great honor, I made flirc specifically for Kodi, and to receive that feedback from the team itself was incredible after years of hard work. After they wrote an article about flirc, my relationship with the board members soon strengthened as I was praised for one of the best accessories for their media center software. We began talking in 2012 after the launch of my first product, Flirc. It is with great pleasure that I get to announce the addition of a new joint venture with one of the most important players in the media center industry, Kodi. Peter Weiss on Remote Buddy 2.0 Is Here!.