Orange Pi Zero High Temperature

[Muhammed Eminoglu]

Hi, I have Orange Pi zero, it runs while loop all time (RF Reader) and it has Flask Web Server which runs all the time.

 

My Orange Pi Zero has 85 degree Temp. It is in the box, I wonder, what if i let device run with this temp, What happens? What about orange pi life span?

[Lutz Fechner]

Wow - that is hot. Do you have a heat sink on that? Mine is also in the case running OpenVPN and is reporting 50°C. A Orange Pi R1 (that is very similar to the Zero) is sitting at my desk without case is reporting 34°C with a little heat sink.

An Orange Pi One built into a dummy camera case is running at 27°C (with 5°C ambiant temperature and a medium sized heat sink) running Pi-Hole and motion.

 

Is there a way to give the while loop some miliseconds sleep? That might help to keep things a bit cooler.

 

[guidol]

7 hours ago, Lutz Fechner said:

Mine is also in the case running OpenVPN and is reporting 50°C.

A Orange Pi R1 (that is very similar to the Zero) is sitting at my desk without case is reporting 34°C with a little heat sink.

An Orange Pi One built into a dummy camera case is running at 27°C (with 5°C ambiant temperature

The problem with the OPi Zero is that the temperature read-out is VERY wrong/bad

The Zero isnt running really that hot

My Zero in the original black case is running idle with the wrong read-out at 69°C

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Welcome to Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 5.3.9-sunxi
package bsp-kernel[5.99.191113] u-boot[5.91] dtb[5.99.191113] firmware[5.98] config[5.98]
branch[dev]

System load:   0.17 0.06 0.01   Up time:       31 min
Memory usage:  14 % of 491MB    IP:            192.168.6.99
CPU temp:      69°C
Usage of /:    17% of 7.2G

It is correct that the R1 and the One running MUCH coooler (like the PC and PC2)

There the temperature read-out is - out of my sight - correct

 So the R1 is better than the Zero - but lacks video-ouput.

 

As Lutz did wrote give your loop a short/long sleep (0.5sec/500ms) could help much