The official Pi5 Active Cooler and official M.2 HAT+ happily co-exist. There's not a huge amount of space between them, but it's enough for the cooler's fan to work, and temperatures seem ok. It's an officially supported combination, based on the M.2 HAT+ product page:
The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ conforms to the Raspberry Pi HAT+ specification and is autodetected by the latest Raspberry Pi software/firmware. It is supplied with a 16mm stacking header and threaded spacers, so it can be fitted to a Raspberry Pi 5 with the Raspberry Pi Active Cooler in place.
Statistics: Posted by Murph9000 — Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:37 pm