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Title: Just received an unknown Innosilicon machine? Post by: ambiguitius on August 10, 2020, 10:37:43 PM A miner was just donated to the thrift store I work at and I'm interested in getting it up an running if possible.
So far I've identified 2 things: 1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innosilicon Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4 2. It has a raspberry pi (2011.12, Model B?) that was unplugged when it arrived that's missing its SD card I was wondering if I could get some help identifying the machine and finding an image for the raspberry pi. I've gotten to the point where I assume it's an "A2 Terminator", but I really have no way of telling. I can take images if need be, just ask. Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine Post by: alani123 on August 10, 2020, 11:05:56 PM Are you sure the miner had writing saying "innotech" instead of innosilicon?
Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine Post by: mikeywith on August 10, 2020, 11:26:18 PM So far I've identified 2 things: 1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innotech Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4 This is probably just a rebrand of another miner since you mentioned a raspberry pi it's likely an Avalon mining gear, I am not aware of any Inno gears that don't come with their own control board, so you might be looking in the wrong direction. Please take a photo and upload it to https://imgur.com/ and post the link here, it will be a lot easier to identify the miner through the picture. Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine Post by: ambiguitius on August 10, 2020, 11:30:25 PM Are you sure the miner had writing saying "innotech" instead of innosilicon? I did mean Innosilicon, my bad Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine Post by: ambiguitius on August 10, 2020, 11:50:57 PM So far I've identified 2 things: 1. It have 5 big cards, all labeled "Innotech Offical Terminator Miner PCBv4 This is probably just a rebrand of another miner since you mentioned a raspberry pi it's likely an Avalon mining gear, I am not aware of any Inno gears that don't come with their own control board, so you might be looking in the wrong direction. Please take a photo and upload it to https://imgur.com/ and post the link here, it will be a lot easier to identify the miner through the picture. Here, I hope these are helpful https://imgur.com/a/1MYhknb Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innotech machine Post by: mikeywith on August 11, 2020, 12:02:39 AM https://imgur.com/a/1MYhknb This indeed looks like Innosilicon A2, a very old gear that makes about $5 a month nowadays assuming your power cost is 0, so long story short, it's not even worth looking into. sorry I had to be the one to tell you the bad news. Good luck. Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innosilicon machine? Post by: DaveF on August 11, 2020, 02:26:02 AM Yes, as mikeywith said you will loose money running it unless you have free electric. It's also loud. If you have a location that noise does not matter then you can always use it as a loud inefficient space heater.
Digging up the firmware of a 6 year old miner is also probably going to be more work then it's worth. With that being said, there is a possibility that I might have a copy of it someplace. I can try digging it up, but in all honesty selling the power supply if it works will probably get you more money then mining with it. -Dave Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innosilicon machine? Post by: ambiguitius on August 11, 2020, 02:59:26 AM I probably will just rip out the PSU and Raspberry Pi, find a better place for them, and pitch the rest.
Thanks for the info. Title: Re: Just received an unknown Innosilicon machine? Post by: DaveF on August 11, 2020, 11:18:58 AM I probably will just rip out the PSU and Raspberry Pi, find a better place for them, and pitch the rest. Thanks for the info. The heatsinks and the case itself are aluminium. The boards are considered e-waste and should be disposed of properly. You can probably get $0.20 / lb for the aluminium and $0.50 / lb for the boards. Not a lot, but it's something and better then them just winding up in a landfill. -Dave |