Heat

[levi]

I just prefer it not to be raining during the day.  Guaranteeing it to be dry during daylight hours tends to mean it's dry at night too, and prolonged dry weather tends to bring out the sun.  If that makes it hotter, I'll live with it.

 

[rygD]

I am allergic to too much heat. Everything breaks down, especially my sense of humour. I doubt I'll ever use the Pyra in the sun. Trying with the Pandora was always a painful experience.


What? You want me to go to the beach?


Ask me again when its nice and overcast.

I avoid extended periods of sun exposure due to health concerns.  As a child I had constant sunburn during parts of several summers.  Until a few years ago I would occasionally get sunburn while working outside, even when I tried to use sunscreen.  Part of that was since I would strip down a bit due to humidity, and so my sweat would help cool me, and this exposed my head/face, neck and arms.  Heat alone doesn't bother me like heat with high humidity does, and I would rather have extreme heat in a dry location to moderate heat with high humidity (I never dry off with the humidity, yet my sweat is gone before I notice it in deserts).  I drink a lot of water at all times, and usually try to make sure to replenish electrolytes when I sweat a lot, so deserts haven't been a problem for me much yet (although I prefer to avoid a lot of activity during  the hottest parts of the day).  My favorite places seem to be mountains with forest in arid regions since they are cooler and I am covered by the trees.  I lived in a great place like this for a while when I was a kid.

I think I am allergic to cold.  Areas of my skin that are exposed to cold swell up, and get red and extremely itchy to the point where I sometimes wish I could peel off my skin to end the itching.  Give me heat and all the problems associated with it over cold any day.

I just prefer it not to be raining during the day.  Guaranteeing it to be dry during daylight hours tends to mean it's dry at night too, and prolonged dry weather tends to bring out the sun.  If that makes it hotter, I'll live with it.

I don't mind rain unless I am have something with me that can be damaged by water and no way to protect it.  Sometimes when the rain/wind cools me I have the problem mentioned above.  I also love the smell of rain in arid regions.

 

[matzesu]

Tock this evening a cold shower, this was great...


Mybe Evildragon should make the Pyra water proof, so its also can get some cooling by a cold shower..


Wouldnt use the Pyra in the sun, as also the Pandora wasnt that wisible in sunlight


Ok the device itself was visible, but not the things goin on in on the Screen..


I work inside of a building which is made of sandstone or something: in Summer, there are everythime about 10 degrees less than outside


But therefore you get something like a heat shock when you going out of this building..


Today i sit in the garden to let the sun my white legs make a bit brown, and as i went back inside, i notized, that my Folding Knife i allways have in my poket was quite warm


And so will the Pyra also get a lot of heat, even if i read a book in the garden..


The best device i have for playing Games in the sunlight, is the Revo K101 Plus GBA Clone.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

ROTFL!

 

[lukey]

An option for an Transreflective Screen would be Great.

 

[Askarus]

AMD has the perfect solution:

I seriously like this idea.

If we have to throttle down the CPU because of heat why not make a docking station that has a built in cooling extension like that?

All we would need is some way to transport the heat outside.

In my oppinion this is a really good idea.

 

[Grench]

AMD has the perfect solution:

 I seriously like this idea.

If we have to throttle down the CPU because of heat why not make a docking station that has a built in cooling extension like that?

All we would need is some way to transport the heat outside.

In my oppinion this is a really good idea.

Or maybe, IFF the heat is actually an issue on the prototypes, use a flat piece of very thin gauge aluminum to transport heat from between the SoC board and the main board out the front of the unit past the SD ports and curve down the front and around to the battery door to give it a metal-air radiator.

Let's find out if the heat is or isn't going to simply express out via the plastics first.

 

[levi]

I'd have though a sheet of metal in that configuration would mean hackers would need to reapply thermal grease every time they took the board out of the case.  That ED has already proposed, if needed, is a panel which goes from the SoC to the SD card housings but no futher - thus only need replacing if the CPU board is changed, or access to anything under the panel is needed.

Also, he's planning to use copper (again, if needed) as this has a better thermal conductivity, lower specific heat and lower thermal expansion than aluminium.  Costs more though, so it'd be better if it wasn't needed at all.

 

[denvor]

It seems nobody is going to discuss the real heat problem any more...
There is still no official solution of it.

I am also really worry about the heat will damage the OMAP chip itself.

 

[TrashyMG]

It seems nobody is going to discuss the real heat problem any more... There is still no official solution of it. I am also really worry about the heat will damage the OMAP chip itself.

Actually there is nothing really to discuss until the CPU board prototypes are made and tested while inside the Pyra case, then an analysis can be made on how to solution the heat issue. This thread was created to discuss this issue, It's not that people forgot, just nothing can be done right now. 

 

[fusion_power]

It seems nobody is going to discuss the real heat problem any more...


There is still no official solution of it.

I am also really worry about the heat will damage the OMAP chip itself.

As long as it's not as bad as these heat issues around the Snapdragon 810 SoC I guess we are on the safe side. ^^

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/in-depth-with-the-snapdragon-810s-heat-problems/

 

[Tensuke]

I too am worried about the heat. Holding the Pyra in public will certainly attract dozens of beautiful women, all that hotness in one area could be a problem! I'd suggest having 911 on standby if you plan to use your Pyra in a public environment.

 

[Saber]

It seems nobody is going to discuss the real heat problem any more... There is still no official solution of it. I am also really worry about the heat will damage the OMAP chip itself.

Actually there is nothing really to discuss until the CPU board prototypes are made and tested while inside the Pyra case, then an analysis can be made on how to solution the heat issue. This thread was created to discuss this issue, It's not that people forgot, just nothing can be done right now. 

_wb_ posted in a much earlier thread about a super thin and inexpensive heat wrap material which may help(if need be). Maybe he still has the link for it? 

 

[Kev2442]

I too am worried about the heat. Holding the Pyra in public will certainly attract dozens of beautiful women, all that hotness in one area could be a problem! I'd suggest having 911 on standby if you plan to use your Pyra in a public environment.

I see what you did there. But it's up to you to deal with this kind of heat, not the Pyra.

Protip : start up a conversation over what SoC would be best for a future CPU PCB upgrade. That should make the heat go away.

 

[rygD]

I too am worried about the heat. Holding the Pyra in public will certainly attract dozens of beautiful women, all that hotness in one area could be a problem! I'd suggest having 911 on standby if you plan to use your Pyra in a public environment.

I see what you did there. But it's up to you to deal with this kind of heat, not the Pyra.

Protip : start up a conversation over what SoC would be best for a future CPU PCB upgrade. That should make the heat go away.

Perhaps not.  If the Pyra gets their attention and brings them over I suspect they may actually have some interest/ideas for future hardware upgrades.