Topic: Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread - page 36. (Read 49878 times)

Yes fan on PSU only comes on over a certain temp, its normal if it never comes on in ECO mode in a colder room.

 This is what someone recommend me ...

Solar Energy via Panels
Your load is 120W x 24 hours =  2880 watt hours of loads

150 watt solar panel x 5 hours day energy in CA  = 750 watt hours energy

2880/750 3.84 panels = four 150 watt solar modules

Watt = Volts x amps
Solar Energy via Batteries & inverter
Your load is 120W x 24 hours =  2880 watt hours of loads 

2880wh / 12.6 volts (12v inverter) x .9  = 205 amps  x 2 = 411 battery amp hours required

Battery options are:

Two Battleborn 12v LiFeSO4 100ah deep cycle battery
Four 6V AGM 224ah sealed lead acid deep cycle batteries.

what parts list is in ure solar set up, Going to start looking for solar set up need some ideas.
Thanks

Yes that was it. All good now.

I have another concern:
I wanted to set-up Wifi mining because the PSU's fan actually makes quite some noise (the miner itself is very quiet I'm impressed). But the PSU spins up every 1-2 minute and my wife is starting to giving me that look since right now the miner is in the living room next to an ethernet connection.
So I'm able to connect to the Wifi network no problem there, I can see the Wifi dashboard by entering the "new network address" given by the OS but only with my phone, not my desktop. Which is really weird since they are all on the same network...
But anyways when I unplug the ethernet cable and put the miner in another room, it does not mine (solid red light). And I'm not able to connect to the dashboard via Wifi with my phone anymore. So I can't really do anything except rebooting by turning the PSU off/on.

It looks like when I unplug the ethernet cable and leave it close to the modem there is no problem but whenever I move it away it doesn't work. The connection is not as good as when it's close to the modem but it's decent.

Here is how I move the miner:
- click on miner/stop in the dashboard (Do I have to do this or can I just unplug the miner even when it's working?)
- unplug everything
- replug in the other room (no ethernet)
- turn on the miner -> solid red light
- I can't access the dashboard (even with my phone using the wifi IP) when no ethernet connection is present.


Wifi functionality is really something I was counting on

Edit:
I tried different things:
- Unplugging Ethernet and leaving the Apollo connected to Wifi next to the router : Working, but a little more HW errors and lower hashrate
- Miner 10m away from the router: More HW errors and even lower hashrate
- Miner 20m away from the router but close to Wifi range extender: HW errors goes through the roof and low hashrate. Sometimes the miner just looses the connection as well

Not sure if anyone was able to make it work over Wifi in a different room than the router?
I don't know if it's hardware or software related but Wifi functionality really does not work for me...

At this point I might plug the miner to my 700w desktop PSU. I have a couple hundred spare W so in ECO mode it should be fine. Is there any risk in doing so? I don't think so but I'd rather be sure.

I actually put mine down to Eco, 101 Mh/s, 68C miner / 60C MCU. Temp gun says 40C on the PS. Can't hear the unit over my AC unit as it sits on my desk as well. Thank you for the info on yours.

Apollo LTC has been running for about 3 hours and its power supply fan turns intermittently for about 5-10 seconds then goes off for several minutes, I have not measured it but feels like fan turns every 10-15 minutes or so. It feels warm but it is very quiet. the Apollo's fan noise is noticeable but very comfortable to run it on my desk table top. I am currently running on ECO mode but will crank it up to balanced mode when I get it on the miners rack in the garage.

Home's thermostat is set to 74 F

Hash rate -> 103 Mh/s
Miner temp -> 68 C
MCU temp -> 62 C

Very cool! I was also impressed by how fast everything was to get up and running. Question, if you did not notice my post...is your power supply fan spinning? Can you tell how hot your power supply is? Mine is warm to the touch running balanced mode around 40C.

Got my Apollo LTC up and running today. I got the full package including power supply and pre-loaded Micro-SD card. Got it up and running pointing to litecoinpool.org in 5 minutes including unboxing. Currently inside the house due it is close to 95 F in the garage. Thanks FutureBit team.

http://vasoco.com/img/ApolloLTC.png

Got my miner and power supply yesterday, got it all hooked up today. Seems to be running fine, but the power supply fan does not come on. I searched a bit but not able to find an answer, does anyone know if that is because it only comes on when it is over a certain temp? The power supply is just a little bit warm, and seems fine where the connector attaches. I am going to continue to monitor but a little bit nervous just in case.

You need to use CUSTOM mode and undervolt (mv item) a little your Apollo (I recommend you two steps less than CUSTOM defaults). You can save EASY 1 amp. Test it 

Finally got my solar setup running. Apollo is running on solar at eco setting. Excited to see how long my battery will keep it running at night. Need more batteries

Yes, this worked great!

Thanks!

This worked like charm, thanks!  

Donation pool has no effect on this unless you are on a multi pool or mining a different coin other than litecoin. Are you sure your even mining to your account and not 100% to donation pool? Sounds like your credentials are wrong so it’s defaulting to donation pool.

Thank you very much!  I will try this, this evening when I get home.

The easiest way I found to get wifi working is through the shell.

• SSH to the system. (futurebit:futurebit)
• run 'sudo armbian-config'
• go to Network->wlan0->
• If you tried to configure through the web interface, select "Forget" (otherwise continue to WiFi)
• select WiFi, and activate your wifi network here
• once connected, cancel out.

Once you reboot without ethernet plugged in, it should come up on WiFi.

Yes I'm mining now. As I said it looks like I need to have the donation pool ON in order to not get this error. While I don't mind donating I'd like to have the option. I'll try again later to turn donation pool off and see.

Do you have a worker setup @ litecoinpool.org?

Litecoinpool.
It looks like when I turn donation pool off I get this error.

I ordered May 11 and just got mine today.

And that brings me to why I am here.  I got it hooked and mining.  All good there.

I went to setup WiFi, scanned, found and entered password for WiFi.  Error returned...There was a problem connecting to the wifi, please doucle check the password. Internal error

Password is correct, confirmed multiple times.