Thermal trip diode?
You mean this solution:
http://www.procooling.com/articles/h...tdown_ho.shtml
I don't get it !!!!
It require you to build an additional PCB. Not that it is a bad solution, it is actually more efficient because it really measure the temp of the CPU, but it is IMO "by far" more complex that what I am using! Come on! An additional PCB, a relay, and a thermistor to put under the CPU, that's not really easy. Let stay realistic!
Pro-cooling's solution is the most efficient solution. But if you don't want to go through the design of a PCB, my solution is by far easier.
Unless you are talking about something else that ProC's solution, I really don't get your statement.
I don't see what can be "by far easier" that my solution ???
This statement really makes no sense to me.
If you really have a solution by far easier that mine, tell it now, and I will apply it right away.
One very important thing in safety system is to make them simple, so that they don't fail. A safety system that fails will not tell that it failed, you will realize it when you will really have a failure, and see that nothing reacted to protect your hardware. The other failure mode of a safety system is generating false alarms, extremely anoying. I want none of that. Thats why I eliminate safety systems that include a PCB, or even more unreliable, software based.