Do antminers use power when on but not connected to the internet?

Artemis3

legendary

Activity: 2030

Merit: 1568

CLEAN non GPL infringing code made in Rust lang

Quote from: vegascoiner on February 26, 2020, 07:17:27 PM

Let's say the internet goes out for a few days. Will the antminers still be using significant power or would they barely be using any (just enough to power the fan and standby mode)

Bitmain products not only keep using power, they use MORE power. Beware of overheating when you see all 3 pools "Dead".

Would be great if they had the power saving features any brand of cpu or gpu have nowdays, but they don't.

Do the test: disconnect the lan cable and observe the temperature values and fan speeds. Look at power usage too if you happen to have a kill-a-watt or such around.

lightfoot

legendary

Activity: 3150

Merit: 2257

I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

Yes. Antminers run the boards with a certain amount of power even when not mining. The clocks are on as well, meaning it's pretty easy to find bad chips, but you also can't leave a board out of an antimer with +12 connected for a length of time otherwise it will get very very warm (BTDT with an S7 board)

If anyone's bored I can check the values but I recall it being about 200 watts per board.

Dragonmints do NOT do this, which makes finding bad chips a real pain in the ass.

BitMaxz

legendary

Activity: 3374

Merit: 3095

BTC price road to $80k

I think the miner will keep restarting(for antminer) if there is no internet connection so the miner will still continue to eat power.

You will need awesomeminer to automate the miner to turn it to sleep mode if there is no internet connection which will consume very little power.

Read the awesomeminer rules from here Rules - Detect mining issues and automate tasks.

vegascoiner

newbie

Activity: 10

Merit: 0

Let's say the internet goes out for a few days. Will the antminers still be using significant power or would they barely be using any (just enough to power the fan and standby mode)

Topic: Do antminers use power when on but not connected to the internet? (Read 154 times)