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Bitcoin => Mining support => Topic started by: inzli on April 16, 2014, 10:37:26 PM



Title: Finding the error...
Post by: inzli on April 16, 2014, 10:37:26 PM
Hi all,

I have a couple of miners running in my office. There are six Antminers and one Scrypt-miner in one room. When I tried to switch on Antminer #7, the fuse got killed. Okay, so I put #7 in another room and two Dragon-miners too. The two Dragons were on the same power line and worked constantly with about 1.1 to 1.2 TH/s. Then the fuse got killed again, it turned out that the two machines were too much for one cable, i.e. I was close to burning my office down.

So I put the two machines on different cables and restarted them. Both were first showing nothing which would indicate that anything's wrong. But after about three hours, the hashrate of one of the miners started to drop constantly. Currently, it is down on 869.84 Gh/s, recovering from a low of 718 Gh/s.

Beside the fact that it is on a different power line, it is now also on another switch. However, I don't think that the switch can be the reason, for an Ant which is on the same switch works perfectly.

So I try now to figure out where the error is (okay, I know: Normally between chair and keyboard - but luckily, the miner hasn't got a keyboard...). What would more experienced and tech-savvy people first do to encircle the error?

Every hint is appreciated...