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Parting Shot: "To all beta testers using Starlink this summer, better come up with a dish heat management system or else face no connectivity. Not surprising, considering this is a company owned by Elon Musk."
Parting Shot: "To all beta testers using Starlink this summer, better come up with a dish heat management system or else face no connectivity. Not surprising, considering this is a company owned by Elon Musk."
A line like this (and Reddit sources) makes me question the authenticity of this story.
They should probably sell white painted versions for warmer climates.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-terminal-cos...
SpaceX signed an agreement a few years ago with Swiss manufacturer STMicroelectronics to build the terminals, a person with knowledge of the deal told Insider in December. They added that SpaceX may be paying $2.4 billion to produce 1 million Starlink terminals.
At least it will melt any snow/ice during winter time in northern climates.
Comment: ST is primarily French-Italian, with a HQ in Switzerland. I wouldn't call it Swiss.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No wifi hotspot is using 110 watts. 110 watts is a fair amount of power - at $0.20/kWh you're going to add $16 to your power bill monthly. It's similar to leaving a desktop computer on 24/7.
My Netgear R8500 was 50 watts easily I'd say. My friends gaming computer DEFINATELY uses more than 100W. Basic computer use for cryptomining seems to use a lot more as well. It just doesn't seem like 100W for what this thing does is a ton.
Of course a gaming computer uses more than 100w. Of course a crypto rig uses more than 100w. And that's not "basic computer use", it's the most power-hungry computer use.
Meanwhile, my UniFi UAP-AC-Pro APs are powered via PoE and are using 1: https://www.legitreviews.com/netgear-nighthawk-x8-r8500-ac53...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No wifi hotspot is using 110 watts. 110 watts is a fair amount of power - at $0.20/kWh you're going to add $16 to your power bill monthly. It's similar to leaving a desktop computer on 24/7.
My Netgear R8500 was 50 watts easily I'd say. My friends gaming computer DEFINATELY uses more than 100W. Basic computer use for cryptomining seems to use a lot more as well. It just doesn't seem like 100W for what this thing does is a ton.
This sounds like the perfect opportunity for Linus from Linus Tech Tips to show us how to watercool a Starlink dish.
Per the article, it's already been tested and works. Just throw a sprinkler on the thing. Clearly, though, the tolerances weren't chosen correctly when they designed the thing. 122F isn't actually that hot for a device designed to sit stationary in the sun all day.
Parting Shot: "To all beta testers using Starlink this summer, better come up with a dish heat management system or else face no connectivity. Not surprising, considering this is a company owned by Elon Musk."
A line like this (and Reddit sources) makes me question the authenticity of this story.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starl...
All the comments on the article are really extremist. So I looked up Zerohedge and found it 'is a far-right libertarian financial blog' and 'is bearish in its investment outlook and analysis' .. so I guess that makes sense. Not sure why anyone would be bearish of a beta product that is only just scratching the surface of its potential.
In fact, I had tried to submit an article coming from Ars Technica [0] but I deleted it as I saw it gaining no traction and I noticed this one had a sizable amount of upvotes and comments already.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starl...