how much continuous use can be given to a raspberry pi 3b

[nicolas_1987]

Hi guys, I would like to know if it is possible to have the raspberry running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the use I want to give it is as a remote usb host using the 4G HAT KIT of an rs232 interface, the raspberry will be inside its container with their coolers and fan operating
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[B.Goode]

Hi guys, I would like to know if it is possible to have the raspberry running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the use I want to give it is as a remote usb host using the 4G HAT KIT of an rs232 interface, the raspberry will be inside its container with their coolers and fan operating
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Yes.

[Heater]

Certainly a Pi will run 24/7 for a very long time. Likely it can live longer than you can provided it is not harmed physically.

A couple of things are likely to fail in your set up though:

1) The SD card. SD cards and/or the file systems on them can become corrupted when power is removed at random. To avoid this be sure to configure your SD card as a read-only file systems.

2) The fan. Fans are mechanical things, they wear out, they fill up with dust. Better to provide a decent heat sink. If you Pi is in a box make it an aluminium box and have the heat sink make contact with it so that heat can escape. Having said that if you are only shunting bytes from a serial port to a network then the processor won't be working hard enough to make any heat problems.

3) Random software crashes. Not likely but system crashes do happen. Make use of the Pi watchdog facility to trigger a reset when things go bad.

4) The 4G modem. If your Pi is in a remote location that is difficult/expensive to get to having communications fail is not good. If your modem has a watchdog facility of it's own use that. An separate hardware watch dog that can power cycle the Pi and the modem would be best.

[thatchunkylad198966]

Hi guys, I would like to know if it is possible to have the raspberry running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the use I want to give it is as a remote usb host using the 4G HAT KIT of an rs232 interface, the raspberry will be inside its container with their coolers and fan operating
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Yes.

As helpful as ever....
OP; your sdcard will fail before your Pi does. don't overclock and try to use USB-BOOT.

[B.Goode]

Hi guys, I would like to know if it is possible to have the raspberry running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the use I want to give it is as a remote usb host using the 4G HAT KIT of an rs232 interface, the raspberry will be inside its container with their coolers and fan operating
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Yes.

As helpful as ever....
OP; your sdcard will fail before your Pi does. don't overclock and try to use USB-BOOT.

Perhaps you'd like to criticise this response too, for consistency...
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=60362&p=1693904#p1693904

[neilgl]

Yes

[DougieLawson]

Another thread where the OP didn't do any research. BTW, it's 24*365 or 24*7 (with an implied 52 weeks) not 24*7*365 (which is just less than seven years).

I wrote this today on the other thread. viewtopic.php?f=36&t=60362&p=1693904#p1693925

[Heater]

Another thread where the OP didn't do any research. BTW, it's 24*365 or 24*7 (with an implied 52 weeks) not 24*7*365 (which is just less than seven years).

That is odd, nobody mentioned 365 days in this thread except you.

Mind you, in the other thread they stated the requirement as "24*7 in 365 days". Which is a bit odd. Assuming that 24 is hours and the 7 is days that demands it only run for one week in the year.

[LTolledo]

the RPi3B will run continuously if and only if supplied with the correct power requirement to it 24/7

remove/disrupt the power.... RPi3B stops..... simple!

[Heater]

That is so profound!

[W. H. Heydt]

So...Can a Pi be run continuously for long periods of time? Yes. For details see this viewtopic.php?f=62&t=49488 thread.