If you provide adequate ventilation so that heat does not collect inside a closed box, it should have no heat issues of any kind. The board was designed to run over long periods of time.
Gerald On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Charles Steinkuehler < char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > On 5/11/2014 4:55 PM, max.kiehnsch...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Hey guys, I'm running debian 7.4 on my BBB, with nothing more than > > noip-update scrip running. I had it running for two days now, and it > > gets very hot and shuts down. It even got hot on startup after inital > > setup (flashing os, etc). Is that a common issue? Is the BBB even > > layed out for running ofer such a long timespan? I woild like to have > > it running 24/7 as a webserver. Is that a possible use-case? I would > > love to hear your input. > > I've kept many BeagleBones running for weeks at a time, typically under > a 3D printer cape. I have not had a problem with over-heating or > shutting down yet. > > -- > Charles Steinkuehler > char...@steinkuehler.net > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.