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1. Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 16:53:41 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

   One of my RaspberryPi's has a cavity like this, should I worry or seal it with duct tape and you can use it?

   #raspberrypi

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 17:06:01 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     • Łukasz

     @hlukasz hmm, ok mam na myśli, żeby się zapaliło czy coś 😄

   • Łukasz (hlukasz@101010.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 17:06:02 JST Łukasz

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     @arek Nie masz co się przejmować. Pewnie przetwornica będzie działała trochę gorzej (mniejsza sprawność) ale to żaden problem dla Ciebie. A taśma klejąca to nie wiem co miałaby pomóc ;)

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 18:47:26 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     • stfn :raspberrypi: :python:

     @stfn na razie użyłem drobnego kawałka taśmy izolacyjnej

   • stfn :raspberrypi: :python: (stfn@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 18:47:27 JST stfn :raspberrypi: :python:

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     @arek ja to bym to chyba zalał klejem na gorąco żeby się dalej nie szczerbiło :)

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:55:10 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     • cybervegan

     @cybervegan ok so there is no point of fire or overheating. The board works normal.

   • cybervegan (cybervegan@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 20:55:11 JST cybervegan

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     @arek It's an inductor that's had a piece chipped off. It probably won't matter but it will change the characteristics of the component a bit. There's no point in putting tape on it - that won't help, and if the board still works, it'll just make it collect fluff more efficiently. If you're worried about electricity leaking out, don't - the piece that has cracked off wasn't insulation, and with the voltages and currents on the RPi being so low, there's no danger.

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 23:08:10 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     • cybervegan

     @cybervegan many thanks for your sharing! 💛

   • cybervegan (cybervegan@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 23:08:11 JST cybervegan

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     @arek No, it's not going to catch fire because of that. The material that has cracked off is "ferrite" which is used to form a tiny electro-magnet - I think it's part of the power regulation circuit. But as I said before, the amount of power available to a n RPi isn't really dangerous. It would be quite difficult to make something catch fire with it, and because of the stringent EU safety testing required for such devices, they have designed it with safety in mind.