Unfortunately no. Bitmain played dirty tricks again.
In regards to the "J" miners, there are two different ones: Old ones, with pic in the hashboard, New ones without it.
You can only recognize he "New" ones when they come from factory with the PSU APW121215 rev D or later. You cannot use older PSU revisions with these "New" miners as it lacks the detailed power control. Old miners should probably work fine with the New PSUs though.
You cannot recognize the "New" hashboards without removing heatsinks, so be very careful with mix matching PSUs. Once Braiins OS supports the New miners, the log will alert if the old rev PSU is connected to new miners.
The APW121417 also uses these pic less hashboards.
I suppose the aftermarket PSUs will all just have to adapt for the "New" miners, but who knows.
Yeah, gone are the days where the PSU only supplies 12V... It changes dynamically within a range. Well the control board itself is still getting 12V (and feeds the fans with that).
Actually Frodocooper complained about these bespoke psu's back in 2018 when the s15's came out.
it is a pain in the butt if you have cheap power and a slightly older psu dies no one sells them and your gear is no longer any good.
I have 0 apw8's spares
I am down to 1 apw9 spare
I have 0 apw12 spares
So keeping older gear working just gets harder.
Just Wondering ...
If I managed to get decent PSU produced, would there be a market for them to cater for the PSU BreakDowns. If anyone is like Me, Discarding the PSU and Replacing with a new one seems to be a far better way of doing things than pulling machines apart, sending a single component, waiting (IF they repair them) and having the machines offline for weeks sometimes (Being in Australia is a Pain in this case) and losing out on Hashing.
If there is a need for it, I would have no issues getting them produced and stocking them for such cases, and for the Communities to at least have an option to go elsewhere (to Us at CWI as an option) to source PSU units at a reasonable Price and actually being stocked with them - as long as demand is not too great of course.
I would be happy to supply a few for testing if that is the case.
Just an idea, and I hope I am not pushing an issue here. I know how We are with our machines and it is usually the PSU not the ASIC that dies WAY before anything else does. We have replaced hundreds of them in the last 12Months, which is why I started sourcing 'decent' ones for our Farms.
As for the OS - where would one go to request features for the FirmWare?
#crysx #cwi