Raspberry Pi 3 B Fan Control

The raspberry pi 3 s cpu is spec d to run between 40 c to 85 c.

Raspberry pi 3 b fan control.

I don t know why every video i found on this either was 5 minutes long and never actually plugged the fan into. Overclocking a raspberry pi 3 b using a noctua cooling fan to stop it throttling. Raspberry pi 3 model b. On kodi if you do not have an mpeg 2 license key then you might get a thermometer icon which indicates the need for either a license or a fan.

Fans are useful devices that create airflow to cool something down provide a fresh supply of air or help the circulation of aerosols. A raspberry pi enthusiast jeff geerling released a pretty cool video showing how to add a fan to the raspberry pi to help keep the temperature under control. Here i show how to overclock a pi 3b and steadily take the cpu speed as. An overclocked raspberry pi should use a fan.

That project was pretty great but i wanted to take it to the next level and add the ability to only turn the fan on when needed by monitoring the core temperature. This way a noisy fan isn t running all the time. There are many ways to get the code onto the rpi. In addition there is a great python library called rpi gpio which allows your python program to interact with the on board pins.