I was using Blade miners. No PCI-E cables used there.
This was like 3-4 years ago.
I ran 3 blades splitted up on three rails.
It was a total overkill PSU for the load i was using.
In total i ran ten blades and the others where driven by smaller psu:s without any problems for a year.
The thing is that it started smelling bad in my mining room earlier that day and i shut it all down and made a MAJOR checkout on everything, including all cables from the psu:s.
I did not see anything wrong and started thinking that the smell came from outside because i had the window open.
But a couple of hours later this happend.
I believe that the rail started melting from the psu side, otherwise i had seen it when checking everything.
This was like 3-4 years ago.
I ran 3 blades splitted up on three rails.
It was a total overkill PSU for the load i was using.
In total i ran ten blades and the others where driven by smaller psu:s without any problems for a year.
The thing is that it started smelling bad in my mining room earlier that day and i shut it all down and made a MAJOR checkout on everything, including all cables from the psu:s.
I did not see anything wrong and started thinking that the smell came from outside because i had the window open.
But a couple of hours later this happend.
I believe that the rail started melting from the psu side, otherwise i had seen it when checking everything.
How much amps did you draw per rail? and what are they rated for? This sounds like you did nothing wrong and instead had a faulty Blade miner pulling too much current. I do not trust any asic miner at all... All of it is just shady business. Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe some are shipped without psu because they get tougher safety standards if they do, and not including psu is a easy way around it. I do not know if this is the case for blade miners though, gridseeds seem a bit more reliable/respectable.
I had a lot of HX620 psu:s laying when i built that blade rig. So i used one psu for two blades using one rail per blade (total overkill).
I actually used two rails on the HX1000 to run three blades. Pulling around 100w on one rail and 200w on the other. Each blade was pulling around 10A and max on each rail on the HX1000 is 40A. Max power output on each rail is 500w.
So.. i did not do anything wrong here. I dont think it was the Blade itself burning my psu either because i just replaced it with another psu and it mined for like one year without problems after that.
Corsair is a well known manufactor with good quality but i guess that some faulty components sometimes sneak trough the quality check.
I was using Blade miners. No PCI-E cables used there.
This was like 3-4 years ago.
I ran 3 blades splitted up on three rails.
It was a total overkill PSU for the load i was using.
In total i ran ten blades and the others where driven by smaller psu:s without any problems for a year.
The thing is that it started smelling bad in my mining room earlier that day and i shut it all down and made a MAJOR checkout on everything, including all cables from the psu:s.
I did not see anything wrong and started thinking that the smell came from outside because i had the window open.
But a couple of hours later this happend.
I believe that the rail started melting from the psu side, otherwise i had seen it when checking everything.
This was like 3-4 years ago.
I ran 3 blades splitted up on three rails.
It was a total overkill PSU for the load i was using.
In total i ran ten blades and the others where driven by smaller psu:s without any problems for a year.
The thing is that it started smelling bad in my mining room earlier that day and i shut it all down and made a MAJOR checkout on everything, including all cables from the psu:s.
I did not see anything wrong and started thinking that the smell came from outside because i had the window open.
But a couple of hours later this happend.
I believe that the rail started melting from the psu side, otherwise i had seen it when checking everything.
How much amps did you draw per rail? and what are they rated for? This sounds like you did nothing wrong and instead had a faulty Blade miner pulling too much current. I do not trust any asic miner at all... All of it is just shady business. Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe some are shipped without psu because they get tougher safety standards if they do, and not including psu is a easy way around it. I do not know if this is the case for blade miners though, gridseeds seem a bit more reliable/respectable.
I had a lot of HX620 psu:s laying when i built that blade rig. So i used one psu for two blades using one rail per blade (total overkill).
I actually used two rails on the HX1000 to run three blades. Pulling around 100w on one rail and 200w on the other. Each blade was pulling around 10A and max on each rail on the HX1000 is 40A. Max power output on each rail is 500w.
So.. i did not do anything wrong here. I dont think it was the Blade itself burning my psu either because i just replaced it with another psu and it mined for like one year without problems after that.
Thanks for replying. I asked because I run 10 gpus in my appartment and I am constantly worried for firehazard because of incidents like this, you had good psu and obviously brains to do it right, yet you almost had a disaster happening. :/ Personnally I went total overkill with the psu, one platinum seasonic 1200w and two corsair ax860i leaving a lot of room for extras when i undervolt
I should be safe but you never know...Right now after some time away from mining i am running fifteen gpu:s at home but this time i run cooler cards like the 750Ti. Low sound, Low heat and a bloody low powerbill compared to the old days
What gpu:s are you using ? All powerd by the mobo itself ?
