Listen. This comes up more than any other topic in GoPro forums.
GoPro’s overheat. OK. We know. And if yours is, it is not a fault with your particular camera, OK? It’s a design issue I am sure GoPro are VERY aware of and have their best boffins trying to sort out. I mean, DJI have managed to somehow evade the issue with their OSMO Action cameras, so obviously it is possible.
But if you have an existing GoPro, I understand that is little comfort, with the camera shutting off at the most inopportune moments.
So why does it overheat?
In essence, you have a very clever little processors and a few ancillary ones on a teeny-weeny circuit board doing a shitload of work. I would even suggest the first Moon landing computers were not doing as much computational theory as your little GoPro is.
And this causes heat. Lots of it.
Because this is all housed inside a body designed for ruggedness and waterproofing, there is little room for margin for that heat to escape. So the camera overheats, and to protect itself it shuts down.
What a pain in the arse.
But!
There are things you can do to minimise this happening, and even potentially, eliminate it all together.
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