<story><title>Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starlink-dish-overheats-in-arizona-sun-knocking-user-offline-for-7-hours/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>They put a non-automotive grade LCD in Teslas.  I assume because they thought they knew better. I suspect hubris is at play more than full-on incompetence.</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>If your engineering team had to wait for a product failure to realize an item that&amp;#x27;s going to be outdoors in the sun is going to get hot, what on earth else are they missing?</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Starlink is in beta.  The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this.  They found something, and I&amp;#x27;m sure that the next iteration of this before it goes to mass market will account for it.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re just seeing the system work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaroth</author><text>The put a non-automotive grade LCD in the original Model S because it was that LCD or nothing.&lt;p&gt;The automotive screens didn’t exist in the size they needed and they weren’t at a stage in their company where they could design their own.&lt;p&gt;They took a risk to achieve the product vision that they were determined to bring into the world given the technical constraints of the age. I’d say overall it paid off.&lt;p&gt;IMO it wasn’t arrogance.</text></comment>
<story><title>Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/starlink-dish-overheats-in-arizona-sun-knocking-user-offline-for-7-hours/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tyingq</author><text>They put a non-automotive grade LCD in Teslas.  I assume because they thought they knew better. I suspect hubris is at play more than full-on incompetence.</text></item><item><author>aaomidi</author><text>If your engineering team had to wait for a product failure to realize an item that&amp;#x27;s going to be outdoors in the sun is going to get hot, what on earth else are they missing?</text></item><item><author>blhack</author><text>Starlink is in beta.  The entire purpose of the beta is to find stuff like this.  They found something, and I&amp;#x27;m sure that the next iteration of this before it goes to mass market will account for it.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re just seeing the system work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>driverdan</author><text>SpaceX and Tesla are separate companies with different employees. &amp;quot;They&amp;quot; did not put anything in Teslas.</text></comment>