New Licence

[EricC]

Just upgraded to a pi 2 b,  trying to purchase a new licence.

Not a clue how to do it.  Struggling for the last 10 mins.

[Admin]

Hi Eric,

we need to add a sale item somewhere.
in the meantime, generate a 28 day license

Thx
Lee

[EricC]

Thanks very much for ypur help


EricC

[EricC]

Fantastic info it is very easy when  professional help is on  hand.

Base station up and running again.

Thanks a million.

[Richard]

Eric, I'm interested in how long you keep your Base Station run for... ?  I ask as I have try it twice now and both times it has fried the wifi dongle. Over heated and stopped working.. I ran it for 2 days solid without a break. Then it went down. It was also conected to my network via rj45 so I could monitor on my PC.

[EricC]

Interesting question !!!!!!  I use a RTL1090 . Runs very hot which caused me concern,
so I removed the case from the pcb, and drilled it full of holes. Both sides.
On for 10 hours a day for the last two weeks.
Just measued the temp been on most of the day.   Max 52'c

A pic is worth a thousand words.

[Richard]

Thank you Eric, I'm using the standard setup. You mention RTL1090 is this the ADSB receiver. As it is my wifi dongle that over heated. I will put it on an extenuation cable when I receive a replacement, and try running it that way.

[EricC]

Sorry rftq=1/2ba    yes it is adsb dongle.

Measured the wifi dongle 41'C plugged into pi usb socket.
Not been any problems to date.

[Admin]

Hi all

I have my classic running permanently 'soak testing' the software
The dvbt dongle gets hot, but I have had no failures.

In the early days we certainly obtained some rogue wifi dongles, which
Were either early silicon revisions, or counterfeit copies, and I had some
Of these fail on me

Thx
Lee

[Paul_Sengupta]

I've got about 4 or 5 of the 2 quid dongles and never had a problem leaving them on continuously.

[GarethHorne]

Same experience to Paul's with the WiFi dongles, purchased 3 or 4 on ebay from china last Autumn, my Rp+ ADS-B model sat on my window sill logging commercial traffic all winter very reliably without any issues.

So far I've only managed one circuit with my new bridge equipped Pi2 model, (work/weather/aircraft availability always seem to conspire against me) but it's been running continuously as a ground station for 10 days now with no problems.

[exfirepro]

Have (so far - touch wood) never had any wi-fi or ADSB dongles fail on me 'electrically'. I did have a wifi one physically come apart on me recently when I tried to pull it out of the usb socket, but managed to put it back together again.

Interesting to see your RTL 1090 ADSB dongle mod Eric as I have a couple of those but haven't run either of them for particularly long periods.

Regards

Peter

[Vic]

The RTL dongles are renowned for their hot running..

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-heat-dissipation-as-seen-by-a-thermal-camera/ 

[exfirepro]

Interesting post Vic. Certainly corroborates general findings that SDR dongles are known to run hot. I might try adding a heat sink to the R820 and drilling a few holes when I get a chance.

Regards

Peter

[Keithvinning]

Yep
I can concur with that my unit has been on for weeks with no problem. Bit warm but no issues.

Keith