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Topic: Video: identifying and attempting to fix an asic miner (Read 129 times)

legendary
Activity: 2464
Merit: 1710
Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.
Yeah corrosion all over, I think he said the owner placed the miner in front of an air conditioning unit or something


The owner was a big idiot..  Undecided
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
Nope, never planned to use AC units to cool the miners, electricity cost is a bit high in our country.  Sad

Thanks for the info.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 560
If you are running AC to cool your miner, you are already doing it wrong. AC will eat into your profits in a huge way.

Think about when you use canned air for too long. The temperature delta where you are spraying it is rather huge and creates instant condensation and residue. Blowing cold AC directly onto a very hot heatsink will do something similar and you can see the results in the video.
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
Yeah corrosion all over, I think he said the owner placed the miner in front of an air conditioning unit or something. So what's the likely cause of those corrosion? High humidity in the area? and or the rapid heating and cooling cycle of the components?

I'll be purchasing some asic miners soon, I hope to minimize/avoid these types of problems. Thanks.
hero member
Activity: 756
Merit: 560
It looks like the person that owned that miner was an idiot. There is corrosion all over those cards, you cant blame bitmain for that.
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
I came across a video of Louis Rossman attempting to fix an antminer d3, looks like Bitmain use low quality components? anyway disassembly of unit starts around 9:00 minute mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjU--8AUfD4
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