Poor VIM1 905x was feeling a bit neglected, as I pinched most the bits for the VIM2 monster
It was just a naked PCB, time for a a bit of Bling I feel.
As the Heat Sink was stuck on good I ultised the original Lid and Fan setup for now
Also slight reconfiguration to use New casing, I must say as much as I like the Coloured Cases,
I think the clear has that more Techo/Show off look that the coloured
So here we are in travel mode, plug it in and use it as is.
I recently purchased 5 cases for my Vims, along with 5 heatsinks. They look great and I love them, but one of the cases didn’t include a GPIO cover. Is there any way I could get one sent to me please?
Used two cases and some VIM original case pieces to enclose the VIM2 + the mounted Tone board. I installed a few holes to help with ventilation.
Hit a snag with the cutoff wheel and removed more material from the rear of the top section than I had intended. It is a thing like that, that caused me two order two of the clear cases to begin with.
I will use different feet when I get some 40mm screws. The 45mm screws I’m using now are too long, I did not want to cut them.
Oo that’s smart! Okay we shall take note of that for future casing designs.
The 3705 cooling fan (Edge project) and New VIM Heatsink will solve this issue by flipping the air flow in the opposite direction, so that hot air can exit through the button gaps.
we must think of dismantling it and cleaning it with all the dust, like a computer.
I noticed under the fan, the fins etc, small brush very flexible.
what is the optimum operating temperature of s912?
I used some metalized tape too, but I worry about covering the fins completely. At least if the fan is set to other than always on… My thinking on this is the tape will resists passive heat transfer when the fan is not running.
I used the tape to force the fan air to engage the HS fins longer. I stopped about half way so some of the fins could work passively.
Mind you, it is just my theory, I have not proven it.
I thunk about that, but regardless of the setup of the fan,
if the ships temperature reaches the high level start set,
the fan will start and blows out the hot air trought the grooves.
It’ll do that more efficiency and so it’ll run less time than usual.
VIM2 is continuously running like that since two days in idle mode,
I think passive heat sink is doing the job because the fan don’t star more often.
I’ll be carefull about fan running/stop cycles when I’ll charge the VIM2 ships.
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