I have had about a 96% success rate in these used power supplies. I have yet to have one of these breakout boards go dead. Even the prototypes I received back in December are still ticking strong and have many hours on them now. The breakout board has nothing to do with the fans at all, that is all done inside the power supply.
So if you see one light with the power switch flipped to off, then when you switch it on you see two green lights, and still have no fan - it is most definitely the power supply.
Well, I had a few of mine do what you said, made the proper solder connections on the breakout board and everything is just fine now. Meaning it was not the power supply. Be careful of making flat statements.
I'm not saying this to discredit the breakout boards at all. I absolutely love them!!! I just thought the record should be set straight.
If you have had this problem you should elaborate exactly what you had to solder to fix your breakout boards for the previous poster that is having this issue, instead of just telling me I'm wrong. Nothing is really accessible anyway. I'm curious exactly what traces you are correcting. J4bberwock can easily confirm if a defect in his board could ever precipitate this issue. Out of the 68 boards I have been running for over 6 months now I have had no issue with any of them in any case. I just paid for 50 more.
My apologies, LordPaco. I did not mean to disrespect you, Sir. That was not my "intent" at all. I assumed you had already seen the post in this thread regarding the solder connections needed for the fans to work. This was discussed earlier in the thread before. I assumed you had already read this in earlier pages in the thread.
If anyone from the initial group buy in North America has any problems with any of their boards, I would be happy to have replacements sent out immediately on behalf of J4bberwock. Send me and J4bberwock a PM if you have any defects at all and we'll get you sorted out.
I live in the USA but I bought mine straight from J4bberwock. I bought 8 of them and 4 of them turn on the PSU but do not turn on the fan. I'm going to tear away the white glue stuff and make the following solder connections myself...
If this voids any type of warranty on them doing it myself, please let me know.
I did follow up with J4bberwock about this fixing the problem after making proper solder connections but I did not follow up with the thread. If I had done so, we would probably not be having this discussion.
So, again, please don't take my comment as trying to win points in an argument. That was not my intent at all. I simply wasn't thinking. It must have been when I was very tired and not thinking straight. I'm up at all hours of the night quite often.
I like you, LordPaco, and I love what you are doing with your farm. Keep up the great work and I wish you the best in your mining endeavor.
Cheers M8
power lights are on but fans are not spinning I would say the fans are dead somehow. There is a part number for just the fan replacement but the power supplies are already so inexpensive its probably the same cost just to get another power supply.