Topic: [Antminer S1 Sales open] Price changes daily, now 0.414 BTC for 180GH/s - page 37. (Read 346285 times)
May 12, 2014, 09:49:42 PM
looks like the caps in that area might have had a hard bump notice smaller cap to the left is off kilter?
May 12, 2014, 08:55:14 PM
2) clean everything up, remove the cap, and if there is no other damage (such as burnt traces, other swollen caps, or cracked resistors) try turning it on. I give you a 60% chance that it will boot and operate just fine without that capacitor if there's no other issues. (please double-check your wiring polarity first)
I think this is a good idea, as long as your around to monitor it for a while....
Again, mine with 2 of those capacitors missing, in a different location, runs fine.
There was a "common sense" fire safety thread I contributed to a while ago, but cant seem to find it.
90% of the time turning the power off (away from the fire, like at the breaker) will extinguish any electrical fire quickly, assuming you are there when it starts.
Clean it up, inspect it and if all else looks OK give it a shot (with your hand on the breaker
) May 12, 2014, 08:25:22 PM
anyone in canada have experience with getting these ants... whats the customs procedure like? how much did you end up paying in taxes / duties?
No problems getting to Canada. I paid a bit for taxes or broker fees wasnt sure didnt care enough too look because it wasnt that much.2132
Price dropped down to $213 for a S1 today. Makes me wonder if they're unloading these for a reason.
May 12, 2014, 08:18:16 PM
Considering I have ordered 30 ants and this is the first bad blade its not too bad, 1 out of 60.
That is a little scary...
I've got 6 ants, been running for a while now with no real issues.
After I had it up and running I noticed 1 of the ants is missing 2x of the same capacitor that you had pop (in a different location on the PCB), seems to be running fine though...
i had that capacitor fall off on one of my units. booting via a PSU-on would cause some chips on that side to not detect properly, but if i rebooted the antminer while leaving the 12V power on,it recognizes and runs just fine.
In the case of WPGDEEZ's unit:
1) did you possibly connect the 12V and GND backwards? this could cause angry capacitors and other damage.
2) clean everything up, remove the cap, and if there is no other damage (such as burnt traces, other swollen caps, or cracked resistors) try turning it on. I give you a 60% chance that it will boot and operate just fine without that capacitor if there's no other issues. (please double-check your wiring polarity first)
May 12, 2014, 04:35:38 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
As long as you have them correctly powered and cooled, there should be no issue and nothing to worry about.
My ant was the only device on a 20 amp breaker using a 800 watt PSU. Shit happens.
are u going to try to replace the popped cap ?? it probably wouldn't be that difficult . do u know how to solder ??
Im not going to rake them over the coals, these things happen to all sorts of electronics, just bad luck.
Hoping they step up to the plate and give me some GOOD coupons as a gesture of good faith. If I see a juicy coupon then I can buy more gear. S2 for $1800 would be nice
May 12, 2014, 04:30:10 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
As long as you have them correctly powered and cooled, there should be no issue and nothing to worry about.
My ant was the only device on a 20 amp breaker using a 800 watt PSU. Shit happens.
are u going to try to replace the popped cap ?? it probably wouldn't be that difficult . do u know how to solder ??
May 12, 2014, 04:25:57 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
As long as you have them correctly powered and cooled, there should be no issue and nothing to worry about.
My ant was the only device on a 20 amp breaker using a 800 watt PSU. Shit happens.
May 12, 2014, 04:15:45 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
As long as you have them correctly powered and cooled, there should be no issue and nothing to worry about.
won't be overclocking them until the warranty is up and plan on using corsair 80 plus gold 850W for each miner + stock fans...
May 12, 2014, 04:10:28 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
As long as you have them correctly powered and cooled, there should be no issue and nothing to worry about.
May 12, 2014, 04:09:26 PM
is it safe to be running the ants 24/7 with an empty house 5 days a week for 8 hours or so... getting a little concerned of them blowing up or catching fire...
May 12, 2014, 04:03:36 PM
Which second fan is suitable for Antminer S1 in your opinion?
See the list below.
http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=cabinet+fan&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q
http://www.ebay.in/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR4.TRC0.A0.H0.Xcabinet+fan&_nkw=cabinet+fan&_sacat=0&_from=R40
http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cabinet+fan
See the list below.
http://www.flipkart.com/search?q=cabinet+fan&as=on&as-show=on&otracker=start&as-pos=1_q
http://www.ebay.in/sch/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR4.TRC0.A0.H0.Xcabinet+fan&_nkw=cabinet+fan&_sacat=0&_from=R40
http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cabinet+fan
I'm using these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835132022
M
i just ordered a bunch of those for my ants.. how are they working for you ??
I'm happy with them. Good bang for you buck.
M
got them installed today.. they work well with the heatsinks. i am seeing low to mid 40's temps @400 mhz.. i think is good for fan redundancy too. i used #8 1 1/2 bolts worked great.
May 12, 2014, 10:27:57 AM
Considering I have ordered 30 ants and this is the first bad blade its not too bad, 1 out of 60.
That is a little scary...
I've got 6 ants, been running for a while now with no real issues.
After I had it up and running I noticed 1 of the ants is missing 2x of the same capacitor that you had pop (in a different location on the PCB), seems to be running fine though...
May 12, 2014, 09:06:29 AM
anyone in canada have experience with getting these ants... whats the customs procedure like? how much did you end up paying in taxes / duties?
About $26 a machine. No customs issues, just pay the man when he comes to your door.
About the same here, 92$ for each of my 5 unit orders
brooo thats nowhere near the same as $26 / $18 per unit... really dont wanna get stuck paying around $100 x 8 units... in the comments section if i ask them to put a low value on it will they oblige...?
Anyone want a voucher for a S2?
how much is it for and what are you looking to get for it? when does it expire?
Bro, 92\5=18.40
that was totally my bad i didn't fully read your post i guess... i thought you meant $92 per unit....
May 12, 2014, 08:48:09 AM
1 of my S1's was dead this morning, thought it was a bad psu. Plugged it into another and one of the caps exploded and started on fire! This is it for me now for sure.
I find that highly unlikely. Capacitors of the size found on the S1 aren't large enough to cause a fire unless you're stacking your S1s on top of gasoline or something. It's always possible that there was some freak accident, I suppose.
It probably would have extinguished itself if I hadn't been there but its always a little scary with electrical fires.It doesn't look like there is much on the board to go up in flames but who knows. Lesson learned, I am getting a dry extinguisher asap just to be safe.
And I would be happy to replace the S1 with a S2 if I was given a super awesome coupon for the trouble. Win-Win.
Considering I have ordered 30 ants and this is the first bad blade its not too bad, 1 out of 60.
May 12, 2014, 08:46:45 AM
anyone in canada have experience with getting these ants... whats the customs procedure like? how much did you end up paying in taxes / duties?
About $26 a machine. No customs issues, just pay the man when he comes to your door.
About the same here, 92$ for each of my 5 unit orders
brooo thats nowhere near the same as $26 / $18 per unit... really dont wanna get stuck paying around $100 x 8 units... in the comments section if i ask them to put a low value on it will they oblige...?
Anyone want a voucher for a S2?
how much is it for and what are you looking to get for it? when does it expire?
Bro, 92\5=18.40
May 12, 2014, 06:26:22 AM
anyone in canada have experience with getting these ants... whats the customs procedure like? how much did you end up paying in taxes / duties?
About $26 a machine. No customs issues, just pay the man when he comes to your door.
About the same here, 92$ for each of my 5 unit orders
brooo thats nowhere near the same as $26 / $18 per unit... really dont wanna get stuck paying around $100 x 8 units... in the comments section if i ask them to put a low value on it will they oblige...?
Anyone want a voucher for a S2?
how much is it for and what are you looking to get for it? when does it expire?
May 11, 2014, 10:09:32 PM
Anyone want a voucher for a S2?
May 11, 2014, 10:02:58 PM
anyone in canada have experience with getting these ants... whats the customs procedure like? how much did you end up paying in taxes / duties?
About $26 a machine. No customs issues, just pay the man when he comes to your door.
About the same here, 92$ for each of my 5 unit orders
May 11, 2014, 09:38:26 PM
Got my own P2Pool running..
In my sig if you want to look
Ant's did a very large portion of that, around 0.07, remainder was made up with scrypt mining, and smaller ASIC's pointed to other pools/coins
In my sig if you want to look
Ant's did a very large portion of that, around 0.07, remainder was made up with scrypt mining, and smaller ASIC's pointed to other pools/coins
May 11, 2014, 09:25:07 PM
My two Ant's did well over the weekend!! Nearly 0.1 BTC mined!!!
All going at the same rate, I might be able to purchase another one this coming weekend!!
All going at the same rate, I might be able to purchase another one this coming weekend!!
That's a good return, where are you pointing those Ants?
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