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last night I think either my power supply or miner overheated because when I got home it was off, and the house was 90. I let everything cool down hours later I plugged it back in and my power supply sparked and blew. what are the odds of the antminer s1 being blown to?

hard to say - what power supply are you using?

most likely its not the antminer's fault. look it over for any scortch marks of broken capacitors, but its most likely something wrong with the PSU

no broke or swollen caps, no burn marks and I even gave it the smell test and it didn't smell burnt at all.. I had a second fan attached to the machine and box fan blowing on it at all times

The exact make and model of your psu?

 Many Psu's die running 24/7 close to their load rating.

  I have used a dozen different psu's  I found some bad ones that can not run to their rated numbers.

Oh a shit power cord ie 18 gauge could have done it.


Here is a 1000 watt psu that does not run 2 at overclock of 393

 24/7/365

http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/power-supplies/newton/newton-r3-1000w

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Fractal_Design/Newton_R3_1000W/

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=339

great ratings but I killed two of them.  garage got hot on an 85 degree april day.  these both died.


but this one kept running

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151105

http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=264

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5097/seasonic_platinum_1000w_80_plus_platinum_power_supply_review/index.html


So My guess is a shit psu.  But just a guess.

Here is a thread on a dead s-1 which is now half good.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=597800


You kind of fit what happened to my psu's more then the dead s-1 thread above.

Very rare, S1 is the most stable rig that I've seen .

i had a psu pop while mining once and it did not affect the miners. it was a xion psu i had laying around. i replaced it with a corsair.