Hi,
has anyone mande some experiments how to attach more than two hashboards to a S3 controller board.
Or - alternatively - use the available free ports in a S5 miner to attach S3 hashboards perhaps?
Any Frankenstein-Antminer experience welcome. ;-) I have several partially working devices here and would like to make use of the parts as good as possible.
Rico
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has anyone mande some experiments how to attach more than two hashboards to a S3 controller board.
Or - alternatively - use the available free ports in a S5 miner to attach S3 hashboards perhaps?
Any Frankenstein-Antminer experience welcome. ;-) I have several partially working devices here and would like to make use of the parts as good as possible.
Rico
Please move -> Mining / Hardware
I have tried S3 controller with 4 hashboards.Firmware doesn't recognize more than two boards.It's not possible to connect s3 hashboard to s5 controller with original cables.S3 cable has 12v rail and it burns s5 controller immediately.S3 and S5 controllers have different microprocessors so you can't flash s3 firmware to s5 controller and vice versa.It though might be possible to flash s5 controller with C1 firmware and use custom cables to connect s3 hashboards.Or flash C1 controller with s5 firmware and use s5 hashboards.But I don't see any benefit of that solution.If you want to create monster miner with s3 hashboards just use cp2102s and level shifter-adapter for s3.You can connect as many as you want and use cgminer.Build it to a case,add powered usb hub and rasp,so you have stand alone miner as powerful as you want.I use 8 s3/c1 hashboards that way, giving about 1.7 TH.I will add 4 more boards when I find those at reasonable price.
You really think you could combine 2 or 3 antminer s3's together all hashing through the same controller. Do you think there would be any benefit to this versus just running 3 different machines. I mean I would build the box if it was worth it. Wonder how the overclocking would work.
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