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I'm planning on installing my raspberry pi in my garden shed. I'm living in the Netherlands so very cold winters and occasionally very hot summers. So I was wondering: does anyone have experience with

  1. underclocking the raspberry so that it won't get too hot during the summer
  2. changing the cpu speed at run-time so that I can adjust the clockspeed without leaving the house?
  3. is it safe to put it in a garden shed? due to heat and humidity
Folkert van Heusden
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There is no need to underclock, unless the temperature in your garden thread gets above 50-60 degrees Celsius. I'm not sure whether you can underclock it dynamically, but there's probably something to do it.

In the garden shed heat should not be a problem. However if the air is humid enough for water to accumulate on it then you may run into some large problems.

I'd say just put it in a case to deal with the dampness unless water would condense on it.

hifkanotiks
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ModMyPi have the heat sink kits available, but you can just about use any small heat sink from an electronics shop and throw them on. They seem to have gotten a great response; you shouldn't need to under clock the pi at all, and with heat sinks attached could still run it overclocked if necessary.

Impulss
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