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Topic: Overclock/Overvolt the Avalon6 with a DPS-1200FB Made Simple - page 2. (Read 4061 times)

legendary
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dps-1200fb. no issues with pi's. only once have i had a miner not show up even though it was blue and hashing.

okay I just bumped my  dual psu back to 12.55
 see the hash at 3900 plus for each one
see the soft ware sensor at 12.4 and 12.2

the real volts are 12.55.

I have not booted just used the switch on the dual 2000 board from 12.23 to 12.55

I will do a cgminer restart now




and in theory see what happens. and it did restart

two screenshots show it is settling back in.  So I got a restart at 12.55 volts
 my guess is this as to your lack of restart.  the psu needs 5 to 10% higher to restart then settles in a lower draw.

So at 12.5 or 12.6 volts  the psu needs 1300-1400 watts at the start and it can not do it. It lacks the overhead.

My psu needs 2600-2800 at the start  and it has 4000 watt top end so it can do it.  It is simply a case of having the  1200 watt psu at 12.6  if it were a 1500 watt the reserve would be there for the start.

Ac compressor's refrigerator compressor's  use a starter cap for that little bit of kick start juice needed.  My skill set in psu's is not that good to wire in a startup cap.




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dps-1200fb. no issues with pi's. only once have i had a miner not show up even though it was blue and hashing.
legendary
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only thing i notice with mine - if there is a problem (too hot, power loss, pool restart) they wont boot at that voltage. if i'm away then they stay off till i return and drop the voltage to restart them.

Mine reboot with 12.55 volt setting.

What psu do you have?  and if there is a power outage does the rasp pi reset.

I get one problem with hard power of then power on the problem is at 11.7 12.2 or 12.5 volts and the rasp pi finds 1 of the 2 avalon's not both.  So I need a software reboot. but I do reboot at 12.55 volts
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only thing i notice with mine - if there is a problem (too hot, power loss, pool restart) they wont boot at that voltage. if i'm away then they stay off till i return and drop the voltage to restart them.
legendary
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It should run well at 12.6  as I run mine at 12.55 for 20 hours with zero issues.

top screen shot is a dual avalon  they both get over 3900 gh
on finsky's dual 2000=4000 watt psu with high volt setting of 12.55

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It is almost 4:00 am here and I gotta sneak a snooze, I will let you know later if it blows up the miner or the PSU  Wink
legendary
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BAM - 3800 ghs


Second miner from the bottom-



Here it is later on:

legendary
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So after messing with a bunch of different PSU's and seeing different results on the Avalon6 depending on supplied voltage I decided to try and increase the voltage on the common (and cheap) DPS-1200FB.  There is plenty of info on the net about it which made it simple.

1 - I used a DPS-1200Fb that was already running a miner at 11.9-12 volts by the software and hashing on average around 3300-3400 at best.
2 - I used the same plug, PSU and miner for the testing to eliminate bias.

Here is the PSU



Here are the steps:
1- Remove the 4 top screws on the PSU - the top opens like a book and unhinges at the bottom. Here is what you will see.



2 - Notice the flap in the black liner below the pink tape - I cut it off to expose the 3 pots.   From the view below it is the pot on the right we are interested in.



3 -  It is a single rotation pot and for me turning it to the left (Counterclockwise)  increased the voltage.  The range is suppose to be 11.7-12.7.  Just prior to turning the pot I measured the voltage and it was 12.29 as seen below. About .2 volts below what the software reported.



4 - I measured the distance and drilled a hole in the side to allow easy "tuning".



5 - I then increased the voltage to 12.68.




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