The longer you hold your finger on the processor, the hotter the your finger gets. It should run right around 50 C when running at 1GHz. Beaglebone white default was 750MHz.
Gerald On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 8:00 PM, John Syn <john3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Eric Fort <eric.f...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > Date: Saturday, May 31, 2014 at 2:54 PM > To: beagleboard <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > Subject: [beagleboard] how hot does the processor on your beaglebone > black get? How hot should it get? > > I've had some issues recently with my beagle bone black going stupid, > dropping from the network and at times being flaky and unresponsive. when > I picked up the board it felt substantially warmer than my beaglebone > white. Both are running on 5VDC input power (measured at 5.00V with a > VOM). the processor on the Beaglebone White I can place my finger on top > of and leave it there indefinitely. The processor on the Beaglebone Black, > is hot enough that after 5-10 seconds I can no longer hold my finger on > it. Is this normal? How long can you hold your finger on the processor of > your Beaglebone Black before it becomes uncomfortably warm? Please nobody > try this to the point of burning your (or someone else's) fingers. > > It depends on the CPU frequency and CPU load. If you are running at 1GHz > and near 100% CPU load, then the processor gets quite hot (5-10 seconds is > about right). If your CPU load is low, then this is not normal. At 300MHz > and less than 10% CPU load, the CPU should be just warm. > > Regards, > John > > > > Eric > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
