[Hardware] Raspberry Pi Releases Fan for Official Pi 4 Case

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The $5 fan snaps into the top of the official case.

 

 

Raspberry Pi today released its latest official accessory, a $5 case fan kit for the official Pi 4 case. Designed to fit inside the lid of the official case, this fan and accompanying heatsinks are designed to keep your Raspberry Pi 4 cool while housed in the case.

 

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Raspberry Pi Releases Fan for Official Pi 4 Case

By Les Pounder 7 minutes ago

The $5 fan snaps into the top of the official case.

 

(Image credit: Raspberry Pi Trading)

Raspberry Pi today released its latest official accessory, a $5 case fan kit for the official Pi 4 case. Designed to fit inside the lid of the official case, this fan and accompanying heatsinks are designed to keep your Raspberry Pi 4 cool while housed in the case.

 

In an announcement blog post, Eben Upton, Chief Executive of Raspberry Pi Trading explains how the Raspberry Pi Arm CPU operates.

 

"Like all electronic products, Raspberry Pi generates waste heat as it works. Along with most fanless products – like most mobile phones – Raspberry Pi 4 was originally designed to operate in a “sprint-and-recover” mode: if run at maximum performance for an extended period it would heat up, and eventually throttle back to limit its temperature."

 

The fan is powered directly from the 5V pin of the GPIO, and control of the fan speed is handled via an update to the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool. This tool can be used to set the temperature at which the fan will turn on, the default is 80 Celsius, just under the 85 Celsius point where the CPU will throttle.

 

 

If you already have the official Raspberry Pi 4 case, then this fan kit is an essential upgrade and for $5 it is a no-brainer.