Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread - page 3. (Read 49873 times)

I have repaired BW-L21 miner 6-pin power connectors at forum user lightfoot shop.
He knows what he is doing and can easily repair those burned connectors of yours.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/lightfoot-148567

hi rosic1

i had same issue see post above & pic's, not fixed mine yet. but bought the following of ebay

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184004406412
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153793724432

just need to fined some spare time, odd though that you have same issue, must be an issue with the components

Redzep

I have two LTC miners, a week or so ago I noticed that the power port on one of them was fried yet the miner was still running.
When I unplugged it I noticed the connectors were destroyed on both the LTC and the FutureBit power supply that was running the miner.
I don't understand why it was still running with this damage, but it was so I think the miner can be saved. Does anyone have any suggestions on how/where to get it repaired.

Fan question:

1) The fan at the top on all three of my LTCs (all purchased used, some barely, some ran quite a bit) never turns on.  Is that normal?

2) One of them, the other fan is making a noise like its bearing is going out.  Does anyone know what the sizes of these fans are and if they're 3 or 4 pin?


Thanks

well after quite a few years of running my Apollo LTC is now busted, not sure if its terminal maybe.
was running fine and then the other day noticed at litecoinpool.org it stop running middle of the night, which was odd and on checking it was silent, which was odd, so power cycled on FutureBit PSU and seemed to be powering back up. checked litecoinpool.org and was hashing ok.
Checked a few hours later and again silent so checked it further and found that Apollo power pins & PSU plug had melted a bit
see pics. no idea why as Apollo been in same place for years

i can replace power pins on the board and rewire PSU plugs, but what is the concusses is this maybe terminal

Is it fair to say that if you have a standarx version running off of a full  version of the Apollo BTC then you are effectively doing Parallel processing?

Okay, this has been a game changer. Closing in on 48 hours of uptime and over 100,000 blocks synched and no hiccups, stalls or crashing. Highly recommend this increased swap file be incorporated into the latest softward image.

I  seem to have been able to fix this issue. I did two things:

1) Increased the size of the USB drive from 64gb to 256gb (still used a samsung EVO though)
2) Increased the size of the swap file from 370mb? to 1gb
     a) sudo swapoff -a.   
     b) sudo dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 of=/media/usb/swapfile
         (this command took almost 30 minutes to complete with no indication on the screen what was going on, so be patient)
     c) sudo swapon -a


I've now been running the node for 12 hours, monitoring it with htop and the CPU and mem usage are both way down. I  was able to get past the 96.62% mark during the blockchain sync, which is where its been hanging up for me.

Hope this help someone else out.

I got an email back from Futurebit.  It turned out that one of the USB ports were faulty.  After changing the USB connections and restarting all of them together, all 3 machines are working fine now

I just received my Full Apollo Package for BTC mining on 8/23/2021.  I've set it up, and 2 of the 3 machines appear to be working just fine.  However, the 3rd machine just has a solid red light and doesn't do anything.  When I secure power and restart, the red light flashes quickly, and the fan will spin for a second.  After about 20 seconds, the red light turns solid and nothing else happens.  I've made sure all the cables are securely in place, but there is nothing else I can think of.  Is there something else I could try?  Or is this unit dead?

I just got a new future bit Apollo and it says the hashboard 1 is offline and won't connect to slushpool.  All the lights on the front are red so it seems to be powered up correctly. I see the worker in my slushpool account. 

Are there any places that repair these
Hash boards?

I cannot get the Apollo to connect to NiceHash to save my life. No matter what I try, which region or with or without the stratum language... it just wont connect. Can literally connect to any other pool with no issues. Am I crazy?

The "Add to cart" button is missing which would suggest all the options are sold out. If it's the MCU board upgrade you are missing for a batch 1 then look for a 512MB version of Orange PI Zero (not "plus", not "2") with straight pins soldered in the expansion port. It's nothing FutureBit specific. Batch 1 came with a 256MB version of that MCU board which doesn't have enough memory for running the node.

Hope FutureBit still reads these posts -

On the FutureBit site the node upgrade shows "SOLD" but if you click the image it says "Both Batch 1 and Batch 2 Kits are back in stock and ship within 1-2 business days."

Is the upgrade for batch 1 available?

Thanks in advance,
David

Had an Apollo running since August 2020.  Just recently tried to get the node synced.  It ran slow - even with mining off, took more than a week and repeatedly stopped and needed manual restart.  Was at 99.6x% and then overnight, I assume while finishing, the miner stopped working.  Just wouldn't even turn on.

Took it to a computer repair place (I'm in healthcare, not technically inclined).  They found "a cold spot" (?) but it's up and mining again.  

 I'd like to run a node out of principle, but don't want to zap the miner again. Was this a one-time bad luck thing or is it likely that the power pull from syncing will cause another issue?

Separately, is there any guidance on the maximum temperature for the system? The fan gets pretty loud on Balanced settings, but the temperature stays around 66° C. It's in a cool location where I don't mind if the fan makes a lot of noise so I would run it on Turbo settings if I can confirm what temp warrants cut off and going back to Balanced.

I anticipate that I had a power outage resulting in the following issues with my Apollo LTC. After combing the forum and trying everything that I read to be possibly helpful I am still battling the following issues and am kindly requesting assistance:

1. On my futurebit dashboard my main pool configuration is inactive and dead, whereas my donation pool configuration is active and alive - my litecoinpool account dashboard is not receiving any hash rate and is showing that the last time it received hashrate was May 13, which I am anticipating is the date of the power outage.

2. My node went down and I have not been able to get it restarted - prior to the outage it was running well with up to 16 connections

Issue 1 details:
On my miner dashboard I have two lines under 'pools':

Line 1
Type: Main
Active: Inactive
Status: Dead

Line 2
Type: Donation
Active: Active
Status: Alive

When I click to the 'pools' tab in the left side menu I am able to edit the URL (stratum+tcp://us.litecoinpool.org:3333), User Name (flowbit.1), Password (*****) and Proxy (http://192.168.1.1:3333). My user name (flowbit.1) and password exactly match the user name and password on my litecoinpool.org account (always triple checking case sensitivity). Each time I edit the pool information in the pools tab I click the orange 'save and restart' button in the upper left corner. The miner stops and restarts but the orange 'save and restart' button doesn't clear. So I click over to the dashboard and get the same result on line 1 and line 2 that I outlined above. The information I am inputting into the 'pools' tab does not appear to be saving because when I click back to the 'pools' tab the futurebit.1 user name is not updated to flowbit.1. I have also tried changing the URL on both lines to stratum+tcp://us2.litecoinpool.org:3333 but the futurebit.1 account doesn;t update to that URL - it's like the orange save and restart button is not saving what I am inputting? One of the user names is futurebit.1 (which appears to be the donation pool) and one of the user names is flowbit.1 (which appears to be the main pool that is inactive/dead). The up/down arrows do not appear to work either becasue when I click them nothing happens - it remains flowbit.1 on line 1 and futurebit.1 on line 2.

In addition to trying to edit the settings in the pools tab, I have restarted, rebooted, turned off and back on via the power supply (following all directions on page one), re-flashed SD card and have ensured that the SD card is inserted correctly. I have also deleted my single worker from my litecoinpool account and on the same account have set up a single new worker with the same username (flowbit.1) and pw. Trying to be as descriptive as possible because my newbie rank wont allow me to post images.

Issue 2 details:
Every time I start my node from the node dashboard I get the 'please wait while node is starting up' spinning wheel that also reads 'this takes 5-15 minutes, and you will be redirected to the node dashboard'... then 10 minutes or so later, on the node dashboard, I get the 'node is offline' notification along with the suggestions underneath which I have tried all of including reformatting the drive with the latest Litecoin.zip file that jstefanop directs us to in the second post on page 1 under 'latest image download / instructions'.

Feeling especially newbish having tried all of this and having gotten nowhere... thanks in advance for any guidance on either issue.

futurebit

hello,

I just bought one apollo ltc and don't have the password.

Can someone tell me the initial password of the apollo ltc? 
it is futurebit123 for btc apollo ( i have 2 of this with 2 simple hashboard and running very well mining and node) but not working with ltc apollo.

Thank you.
Cordially.