Hello,
I have observed that in the CM5 devkit, neither does the CM5 io board nor the CM5 itself come with mounting screws, but the heatsink does come with what are seemingly useless mounting screws.
I would expect that it is not wise to expect rugged performance from a CM5 that is simply clipped by the 100 pin connectors
Should we install the heatsink, there would be no real spacing for the mounting screw heads
There are no screw holes in the bottom casing facing the mounting holes...
So what is the rationale for all of this ? Seems like a bit of a lack of shoe polish along with proper documentation that the SD interface is totally useless on a CM5 unless its a lite module... and futher, the heat skin pad atop the SD connectors goos into the SD slot and causes a need to clean up the SD slot...
On the other hand, product availability was not delayed... so I am not complaining... just wondering what was the original design decision and rationale for this.
Francois
I have observed that in the CM5 devkit, neither does the CM5 io board nor the CM5 itself come with mounting screws, but the heatsink does come with what are seemingly useless mounting screws.
I would expect that it is not wise to expect rugged performance from a CM5 that is simply clipped by the 100 pin connectors
Should we install the heatsink, there would be no real spacing for the mounting screw heads
There are no screw holes in the bottom casing facing the mounting holes...
So what is the rationale for all of this ? Seems like a bit of a lack of shoe polish along with proper documentation that the SD interface is totally useless on a CM5 unless its a lite module... and futher, the heat skin pad atop the SD connectors goos into the SD slot and causes a need to clean up the SD slot...
On the other hand, product availability was not delayed... so I am not complaining... just wondering what was the original design decision and rationale for this.
Francois
Statistics: Posted by fmenard1234 — Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:33 am