New OPi Zero - Yet another high temperature issue...
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
Do you ever thought about alternatives (Maybe C.H.I.P or Omega 2 are better for battery powered IoT devices. This is a little bit out of my knowledge, not sure if these two are good proposals)? From my experience, the opi 0 is a little bit bitchy as soon as it runs into a undervoltage situation. I realized that the SoC (OPi 0, rev. 1.4) gets really hot (finger test) as soon as there's not enough power to start up the board. I'll investigate this as soon as I have more time and my second OPi 0 ar
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