“Supplies my pi with decent amount of cooling but still gets hot by itself. Can only imagine what it'd be by itself. The case is stylish and compact so looks good tucked away as long as it gets air flow, otherwise it gets too hot.”
“I was running two Sony PlayStation Eye cameras concurrently on my Raspberry Pi 4B, but the over-temperature warning displayed after a mere eight minutes. … So decided to try the ‘Heatsink Case’ : This is an absolute gem !
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With the ‘Heatsink Case’ … after a full hour with two cameras running, the processor temperature had stabilised at 54°C and the heatsink was [according to my ‘ray-gun’ infra red thermometer] at about 45°C. This is too warm to leave sitting on polished furniture, but it’s a tremendous improvement, and nicely proves the concept.
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I am delighted with the product, and with the excellent service from Pimoroni
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MichaelG.”
“Nice solid case - it does get warm - meaning its doing its job :-) - Little fingers might be taken back by the amount of heat it produces.
Gpio pins very accessible - as per the norm turn the pi off before attracting wires
the internal header cable for camera / screen not so accessible if you want to reseat I think you would need to remove case and reassemble.
would I buy another one ? Yes 100%”
“The gap between the cooler metal and the cpu looked alarmingly wide, so I decided to check by putting a piece of plastic putty on the surface and measure the thickness after remount/dismount. The gap/distance between the cooler and the cpu is 0.6 mm mounted.
The thickness of the pads is 1.2 mm, so the pads will be compressed to 50% which seems alright, no problem. So I was wrong.
However, in and attack of wishful thinking I had hoped it would be possible to mount a hat device on the GPIO contact, but this was NOT possible, the cooler was too thick. On the other hand it was never specified that this should be possible so I cannot complain. As I am dependent of the Hifiberry Digi+Pro hat on my RP4 I had to put the cooler aside and just be sorry for the wrong buy.”
Ahoy Bengt!
You can use HATs with this case if you combine it with a couple of booster headers - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/booster-header (you'll probably need two unless the bottom of your HAT is particularly low profile).
“ATTENTION: Out there are some heatthinks exactly with the same exterior aspect as this one with the 3 thermal contact points unaligned
with the target components.
THIS ONE, besides an outstanding performance, HAS THE CORRECT CONTACT POINTS, ALL ALIGNED WITH THE TARGET COMPONENTS.”
