My third Orange Pi Zero came last week, yesterday I plugged it and had heating issues... So I started reading, learning and testing....
Setup:
OPiZ-1: 256 MB, no SPI flash - Has extension board plugged - for comparison
OPiZ-2: 512 MB, with SPI flash
OPiZ-3: 256 MB, with SPI flash (new one with problem)
Test conditions:
All with (newish) Sandisk Ultra 16 GB Class 10
All new formatted (SD Formatter) and burned/validated (Etcher v1.0.0) with