Pironmaan 5 Project Assembly/Install Questions

General Discussion
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I have successfully assembled the Pironman 5 case and have installed the software on both microSD and NVME. However, I have a few questions.

Manual States: RGB fans won’t spin unless the temperature hits 60°C.

Mine are on at 36°C. The main cooling tower is not spinning but it did on one install.

There also seems to be a significant behavior with booting off the SD card and the NVME in that upon shutdown the NVME hangs for quite some time before actually shutting down.

I’m wondering if I missed a step.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello, congratulations for your Pironman5.

For the RGB fan, you can control them with dashboard, easiest way : View and Control from Dashboard — SunFounder Pironman 5 documentation

For ice tower fan, it’s control by OS, by my side, I add some lines into the /boot/firmware/config.txt
dtparam=fan_temp0=40000
dtparam=fan_temp0_hyst=10000
dtparam=fan_temp0_speed=125

For the shutdown when you boot from NVMe, I’m getting an issue of delay if there’s no SD card into the extender. If I boot from SD card, no delay at shutdown. Si founder are working to fix issue with SD extender.

I hope I answered to your questions!

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From the link you provided:

" Fan State indicates the status of the two side RGB fans. At the current temperature, the two RGB fans are off."

However, in my instance, from the dashboard, GPIO Fan State is OFF and both fans are running and illuminated and cycling through the spectrum. This is contrary to both the manual which states they wont spin until 60 and above.

I understand they are looking at the delay shutdown from NVME, Thank you.

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Actually there an issues with RGB fans that’s are always on, cause by an update of kernel. Sunfounder are working on it.

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Thank you.

Is there a location of known bugs/issues?

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In this forum, just to search it.

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Apologize for the issue caused by the kernel version upgrade.

Currently, the new kernel is temporarily incompatible with GPIO, and we need some time to resolve this. We appreciate your patience!

Once we have a solution, we will update everyone here.

In the meantime, the temporary solution is to revert the kernel version back to 6.6.44:

sudo rpi-update 44a287fe97c04506841fe3b3e794c70a2e01c7de

Please restart your PI5 afterward.

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Why cant I get my RGB fans too turn on? The back RGB fans dont turn on AT ALL no lights, NO fan spins nothing even got the Pi 5 up too 180F° which was damn near 70C° It got so hot it turned itself off.
I even installed the “Pironman 5 program” I mean frankly I am completely stumped which also blows because I only get a few hours to work on this project at a time. The PWM Local:3100 too mess with fan settings & RGB lighting everything shows that the fans are on, as well as the supposed RGB lighting but yet no lights or fans.

Also, one last thing the powersupply to my Pi 5 is extremly jiggly AND MESSES WITH THE consistency of the wattage output. Which is extremely upsetting since this is my VERY first Rasberry pi build ever. Definitely not incompetent though been building PC’s for decades. Not great at software though. Even than with all that being said I KNOW FOR A FACT MY IO for the Micro Type-C connector WAS NOT loose until I put the brand new 8gb Rasberry Pi 5 board into the Pironman 5 build…

Please, fellow Pironman communities I would APPRECIATE some help me figure out what needs to be done here?!??
I just got my Pironman 5 last Saturday. This isn’t(its 10-08-2024) very cool ill just say that much. I knew this was gonna be nothing but a bunch of pains in the buttox, NEVERTHELESS I knew more than half of the time I was gonna be loving the building part.

Thank you everyone for your time & patience.

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Make sure that everything is updated, sudo apt-get update && sudo apt full-upgrade , sudo rpi-update . Then reboot. Then install the software for Pironman5: Set Up on Raspberry Pi/Ubuntu/Kali/Homebridge OS — SunFounder Pironman 5 documentation

Normally that should work.