my card gets quite warm in my dreambox, but i've never had any trouble with it burning or anything.
Have been doing a bit of research on this and its not voltage, i can say that much, some may disagree. However have tested two card slots on two different skydecoders with a volt meter, both are 5v. first a small silver pace box, and the second a mysky hdi decoder, both are 5v. the voltage of the dreambox card slot is 5v also but the cards get very hot. Im assuming its all to do with the frequency. I also have an ultraplus f9000hd and this also gets the cards running hot, but if I boot the ultraplus into the bootloader terminal using null modem cable and then insert nds card, the card runs warm, not hot.
Can anyone confirm if its really frequency? i know its not voltage, as both sky boxes are 5v.
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my card gets quite warm in my dreambox, but i've never had any trouble with it burning or anything.
It's a combination of an unlimited 5V supply and overclocking at the same time as high card CPU activity that will fry the card.
Most provider boxes will run the cards at 5V just fine at the standard clock rate plus they have current limiting circuitry to stop excess power drain (which wouldn't happen anyway at the standard clock freq).
seems to be different opinons about voltage and card frequency one of the Austech members had fixed this problem on a octagon 918 by changing the voltage of the card reader from 5v to 3vdc best thing i have found is that a smargo reader runing of the octagon 1018 or the dream never gets hot.
PM Seymore Butts, He seems to have successfully eliminated this problem some time ago.
I dropped mine to 3 volts. Presto problem gone.
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