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fan in enclosure

wiedehopf edited this page Jan 24, 2022 · 2 revisions

And before anyone starts arguing that a fan is useless if it’s in an enclosed space, some thermodynamic hints:

  • Heat moves due to temperature difference
  • to move heat outside the enclosure, the walls of the enclosure need to be hotter than the outside
  • with a fan, the differential between the pi / airspy and the air / walls of the enclosure will be reduced to around 10 to 20 C, without a fan the differential would probably be around 50 C or higher
  • the enclosure has a relatively big surface compared to the pi / SDR, thus even 5 to 15 C differential will be sufficient to move the heat outside
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