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Excessive Heat #12

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riggtravis opened this issue Jun 5, 2017 · 2 comments
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Excessive Heat #12

riggtravis opened this issue Jun 5, 2017 · 2 comments
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after rides that aren't actually very long, the device can be very hot. The device does not seem to have any issues operating in these conditions, however, it can be unpleasant for a user to handle it. I would like to look into figuring out how to reduce this heat. There might be software optimizations to be made. Perhaps changing the power source would improve how the device operates. Maybe it would be best to look into adding a heat sink and making that part of the standard hardware setup.
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I have decided that this should be addressed in a form factor update. We can put a heat sink on an SMD processor but not on the processor for a stock Uno R3. The cheapest SMD replacement that we could use to replace the Uno is the Pro. We could also migrate at that time to the Pro mini, which is the cheapest prototype board you can basically get.

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Recent commits to optimize battery usage have done a world of good for this issue, but I still want to do all that I can to ensure safe usage of bodgecycle computers

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