Frankenstein SP20 / TerraMiner IV Project - Need PSU Advice

TheBanksLife

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Quote from: sidehack on March 03, 2017, 05:25:25 PM

Yes. I forget exactly who for but I made a guy cables specifically for that interface board sometime last year. PCIe 6-pin to I think a 3/8 crimped ring terminal. Still got a sack of 'em if you're interested. Get me a length and I can make up some cables and have 'em in the mail on Monday, or if you have the tools and materials it's not hard to do yourself.

Sent you a PM. I don't have the tools nor materials for the job.

sidehack

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Yes. I forget exactly who for but I made a guy cables specifically for that interface board sometime last year. PCIe 6-pin to I think a 3/8 crimped ring terminal. Still got a sack of 'em if you're interested. Get me a length and I can make up some cables and have 'em in the mail on Monday, or if you have the tools and materials it's not hard to do yourself.

TheBanksLife

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Quote from: sidehack on March 02, 2017, 08:53:10 PM

Check to see if the cables coming out of the PSU are on lugs. If so, it's easy to make PCIe cables with ring terminals for attaching to the PSU. Pretty sure I've done that for at least one person on here in the past.

These the lugs you're referring to?

qctechno

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Quote from: cybermods on March 02, 2017, 11:32:44 PM

And if you really are into it for shits and giggles take your fried hash board and connect it to a car battery directly for a few seconds. can almost guarentee it will fry whats left of the bad section of the hash board and come back to life and no longer trigger the yellow cut out led on that psu Wink

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I like it

cybermods

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it should work fine using the cointerras second psu.
I have 4 cointerra boxes and have spent some time playing with there psus. iv adapted a few of them to run dragon miners by adding pcie cables to the connecting board that the psu plugs into.

And if you really are into it for shits and giggles take your fried hash board and connect it to a car battery directly for a few seconds. can almost guarentee it will fry whats left of the bad section of the hash board and come back to life and no longer trigger the yellow cut out led on that psu Wink

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sidehack

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Check to see if the cables coming out of the PSU are on lugs. If so, it's easy to make PCIe cables with ring terminals for attaching to the PSU. Pretty sure I've done that for at least one person on here in the past.

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Damn, nice project and good luck with it! Haven't seen the Terraminers in a long time; they're known to be absolute crap in terms of durability so keep an eye on that

I can't even get my SP20Es to post anymore on my network... shows up but when I connect to it it drops my connection even after flashing it with my microsd. Good luck again, never seen anything like this so far

TheBanksLife

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Alright so I know hash wise it's not even really worth while to get this thing going, but that is besides the point. I'm just doing a small project for shits n giggles. I also don't pay for electricity, so why not.

I do need some help figuring out how to power this bugger. I know I'll need a PSU adapter of some sort, if it exists.

I picked up a TerraMiner IV for next to nothing that had 1 burnt board.

Then I got ambitious and bought a SP20 off eBay for $99 CAD. With no power supply.

So basically my plan was to rip the burnt board out of the TerraMiner and use the extra 1100W powersupply to power the SP20 that I bought. However I obviously run into the issue that the SP20 uses 4x PCI-E plugs.

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