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Title: XT60 Power Connectors Post by: flameruk on November 29, 2016, 08:19:16 PM Modified one S7 to try out the XT60 power connectors on the DC side.
So far so good. https://imgur.com/gallery/5avD8 Title: Re: XT60 Power Connectors Post by: gt_addict on November 29, 2016, 08:37:41 PM Look nice and beefy. Power delivery ok to the boards?
Title: Re: XT60 Power Connectors Post by: flameruk on November 29, 2016, 09:01:19 PM Nearly.
Some voltage drop I'm going to run this on the bench tomorrow and tweak the PSU's to 12.5v at the Miners. I've dropped about 0.12 th/s on this miner. Luckily the DPS-1300's have a potentiometer under an easily removed cover, rather than taking the whole power supply apart. I've nearly made a small PCB with three soldered PCI-e receptacles and an XT60 on it. The idea is for the PCB to push straight onto the miner then plug into the power supply. The PCB is a paxoline sheet with two 1.5mm thick copper bus bars glued on it then drilled. I'm using a 100 watt iron and an SMD rework station to get the heat up on the copper to solder, whilst resting them on a sandwich toaster hot plate I made a couple of years back. It's not a PCB as PCB's go, but I've got a much larger chunk of copper to handle the power. Title: Re: XT60 Power Connectors Post by: takagari on November 29, 2016, 11:00:11 PM Not sure if the wire you are putting it too is high enough gauge for a single strand..
Title: Re: XT60 Power Connectors Post by: NotFuzzyWarm on November 30, 2016, 12:07:54 AM Not sure if the wire you are putting it too is high enough gauge for a single strand.. Beyond that: When using a DC bus system that can easily supply current far in excess of what a miner/hashboard needs, ALWAYS fuse EACH load!Tupsu had a s7 fed from a 4kw supply, something in the Vcore regulator area failed and as a result, 333A @ 12v (4kw or the output of a very nice arc welder) led to to... https://i.imgur.com/F4r6RaHl.jpg |
