I've had no failures I can prove are related in anyway
to the operating temperature.
Even so and mainly just because I didn't like how warm the parts felt
and had no way to access nor control
the Vitesse parts temperature monitoring functions
I've added these heatsinks to my ~20 SFP+ boards
15.2 x 15.x 6.35 mm heat sink black anodize w/ adhesive thermal tape
http://www.aavid.com/products/bga/375424b00034g
40 units @ @2.994
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Rich Lacasse wrote:
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:25:17 -0500
From: Rich Lacasse <rlaca...@nrao.edu>
To: casper@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [casper] SFP+ board reliability
Hi All,
We've had a failure of an SFP+ board for no apparent reason. We've not put
any work into trouble shooting except to isolate the failure to the SFP+
board, as opposed to a ROACH2 or optical transceiver.
Has anyone else experienced failures?
The two PHY chips on these boards run very warm whether or not they are
transmitting data. We are considering putting heatsinks on them. Has anyone
else been down this road already? Any other advice?
Thanks,
Rich
