Beginners • Re: Recommended case for Pi with Enviro+ Board

essentially I have a Pi 5 with an enviro+ board https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/envi ... 5658457171 and I will deploy it in an enviroment where it will get really hot so need a case where it will keep everything cool. the enviroment might be 30 centigrade. do you any reccomendations for case that will fit everything?

Possibly not the answer you were hoping for, but a couple of supportive observations instead.


1]
30 C is getting to be a pretty ordinary summer's day here in the UK. For many people that would not meet the description "it will get really hot"

Maybe you don't need to be concerned with cooling at all? Have you read Heating and cooling Raspberry Pi 5 - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/heatin ... erry-pi-5/

For normal usage of your Raspberry Pi, adding cooling is entirely optional. The idle performance of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5 is about the same, and under typical loads Raspberry Pi 5 will run cooler than a similarly loaded Raspberry Pi 4. However, a heavy continuous load will mean that the board could potentially go into thermal throttling. Throttling happens as there are software controls to limit CPU speeds if things get start to get too toasty. Although, even when fully throttled, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still going to run faster than a Raspberry Pi 4!

and

When deciding on a cooling solution you should consider what sort of use you’re going to put your Raspberry Pi 5 to, and make a decision on cooling based on that, rather than just arbitrarily adding cooling. Because for a lot of day-to-day use cases, it’s not going to be needed.

Cooling of any type isn’t mandatory, no harm will come to your Raspberry Pi if it’s left uncooled — and even while throttling under heavy load, a Raspberry Pi 5 is still faster than an unthrottled Raspberry Pi 4.

2]
Putting an Enviro+ add-on in a case will mean you lose the use of the display and light sensor. And the on-board thermometer will record the temperature inside the case, not the ambient of the environment.
If are sure you need cooling, and therefore a case, perhaps a simple external T-H-P sensor would be a better choice than the Enviro+?



And finally: perhaps PiMoRoNI themselves could provide advice about how best to deploy their product?
https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/r ... tags=Cases

Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Tue Jul 08, 2025 9:21 am

---