Explora 3 on sale

[krugie]

Thanks - I though it was your new addition that you photographed. 

[Jan-Horn]

Krugie I have not seen it in operation yet but I believe it's software version is L2. 

[krugie]

@Jan-Horn is the 3A software version the same as that of the 2A or does it have it's own numbering?

[Jan-Horn]

Photo of the top of the Explora 3A

[Jan-Horn]

Although the box is very small it is very very well ventilated. So much so that I could read the make model and even serial number of the Hard drive through the slots.

I measured the temperature yesterday of the 2A and the 2P because the 2P being more enclosed compared to the 2A and it felt very hot. The 2p was 8deg hotter than the 2A, in fact the fan on the 2A did not even switched on. I know that when the 2A was first released there were some complaints of the fan being very noisy but that is not the  case with ours. I hardly ever hear it running and that say a lot because it is in the bed room and I am a very light sleeper   

I will post a screen shot of the top of the 3A that I took yesterday later, need to transfer it to the Laptop first and reduce the size.

I think the 3A will be okay heat wise without the fan . 

[GeoffD]

Sure a heatsink tries to get the heat away from the crucial chips. But what then? With poor circulation, where does the heat go?

The box is already so small, that if any of the genre are blocked you are in trouble quite quickly.

But, on the other hand a fan does not prevent customers from blocking the vents, it just helps with

Getting the heat to move out of the box.

[GeoffD]

Sure a heatsink tries to get the heat away from the crucial chips. But what then? With poor circulation, where does the heat go?

The box is already so small, that if any of the genre are blocked you are in trouble quite quickly.

But, on the other hand a fan does not prevent customers from blocking the vents, it just helped with

[MCA-David]

The Explora 3A has a heatsink for distribution of the heat, the decoder was tested in a thermal Oven, there should be no impact to the decoder.

However as I stated before good ventilation is recommended for all devices so that the devices only have to deal with the ambient temp. Enclosing any device without good circulation will heat up all components and reduce thier life span. 

[JeanP]

With our current heatwave the explora 2 was very very hot today that's with a fan. Really worries me that this doesn't 

[Jan-Horn]

The hard drive is a Seagate 1TB Video 2.5 HDD