I looked at some images from my thermal camera and started to wonder why all my installations are running cozy warm. And if I should start thinking about counter measures. Like adding a metal plate to lower the temperature a bit. I mean now the room temperature was 15°C but in the summer it is easily over 30°C in there. What do you think?
Manual says it runs at -20 to +50 °C. And I would not be surprised if it’s technically fine with higher temperatures (though the manual mentions some older models turn off their bluetooth in that case). And the temperatures you’re showing there don’t surprise me at all. Seems fine.
How would you lower the temperature with a metal plate? It seems to me you’d be more likely to increase the temperature of the device that way. Unless you’re thinking of some kind of heat-sink, but in the end it’s still in the same room, so there’s only one place for the heat to go.
Sure. Right now it is fine, but when the temperature goes up again. Then is will get to 45°C easily.
This is a Cerbo GX installed in Norway. We have a metal frame that is close to 0°C at the moment. Room temperature of 15°C
In the summer it is kind of the same. Frame installed on rock formation. Insulation in walls and roof is 45CM Victron gear is slowly warming up the room.
Batteries are installed in a metal cabinet outside.
Haven’t got a cerbo gx myself( so unknown to me if mounting point is metal / acts as heatsink), but i have mppt’s mounted onto aluminium sheet, with this sheet spaced off wall by 10mm with free air flow around it to act as additional heat sink. When running under heavy load this added sheet runs warm, which can only increase heat dissipation by added surface area / air flow.