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Can you put a 2 pin fan Hedder on the rasberry Pi?

e14 Contributor

hi sence im a VERY carefull person i was going to put a small computer fan inside my rasbery pi case to get some air moving arround and

i was wondering where you would mount one and if you even can mount one on to the bourd

 

(pictures and or digrams would be very helpful)

 

thanks!

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  • Most RasPi users don't need a fan.  There was a thermal issue with the 1.0 PC board which caused the USB/Ethernet chip to get very hot on some boards, but that's been fixed on the 2.0 PC board (the one with the alignment/mounting holes).

     

    You can find lots of discussion about fans at raspberrypi.org.  Enter "fan" in the Google search box on the home page.

     

    I have a RasPi 1.0 and I have found that mounting her vertically is a great way to keep her cool.  That way there's natural air flow (hot air rises) across both sides of the board.  There's a lot of heat conducted to the back side of the board, so if there's no air flow the back side gets warm.  Here are some photos: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/19162?start=16.  If the Broadcom SoC or USB/Ethernet chip are still getting hot, adding heat sinks is a good way to cool them down provided there's some natural air flow.  But that's usually only needed if RasPi is in an environment that's already warm or if you're overclocking and/or overvolting.

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  • Most RasPi users don't need a fan.  There was a thermal issue with the 1.0 PC board which caused the USB/Ethernet chip to get very hot on some boards, but that's been fixed on the 2.0 PC board (the one with the alignment/mounting holes).

     

    You can find lots of discussion about fans at raspberrypi.org.  Enter "fan" in the Google search box on the home page.

     

    I have a RasPi 1.0 and I have found that mounting her vertically is a great way to keep her cool.  That way there's natural air flow (hot air rises) across both sides of the board.  There's a lot of heat conducted to the back side of the board, so if there's no air flow the back side gets warm.  Here are some photos: http://www.element14.com/community/thread/19162?start=16.  If the Broadcom SoC or USB/Ethernet chip are still getting hot, adding heat sinks is a good way to cool them down provided there's some natural air flow.  But that's usually only needed if RasPi is in an environment that's already warm or if you're overclocking and/or overvolting.

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