I said I would do this when my units came in.
Here they are. This is what they look like sitting on my lab bench.
The fans are running. When everything is ok, it's
blue. When something is wrong, its
red.
You can notice that they are notched to allow stacking with each other. A very nice touch. Everyone should have more than one!
Thermal Imaging. All temperatures are Celsius.
It should be noted that I put the top back on after each image for a while to let the units try to be operated as briefly as possible with the cover removed so as not to skew the results.
Here's the same view in IR
Here's the top unit with the cover removed
The next two images are of the card next to the powersupply. The other two cards are hard to images because of how close they are.
Another view from the front with the top removed.
A closeup on the "Hot" part of the 3rd module
A view from the back side of the case looking in.
Here's the money shot. You can see the temperature gradient along the heatsink The front is cool, the back is warmer. The further from the intake the warmer the cards.
It's also worth noting that all 3 cards have similar temperatures. Even the 3rd card that's exposed it only slightly hotter in the bottom corner.
The 1st card wedged up by the powersupply is also cooled very well.
and lastly, just for fun
This is just a quick review. I'll go much more in depth later. I'm getting ready for some heavy travel shortly. At some point I'd like to do a full tear down and take some xray of the boards, when scheduling and equipment permits.
Thanks to team Avalon for the new toys!
