Mars Lander not hashing

[SolHarvester]

I am trying to get Bitcoinmerch to help me out too, but came to a problem that I think may be my network settings, or the thing needs some replacement parts, but I want to know where the problem is before I just start ordering random parts.

It worked great for almost a year, then I just recently noticed a reduction in hashrate. That made me notice an abnormally high number of hardware errors. With my solo mining rig, I narrowed it down to the Mars Lander. Only just a day ago the hashrate fell to 0.

My first thought what the stick miner in the unit died, but with some swapping of stick miners on a powered USB hub, I found they all worked fine, only when using the Mars Lander, the stick miner shows 0 hashes.

I attempted to reflash the Mars Lander, but I'm stuck where it instructs to open a local ip in a browser.
The ip is specifically to edit the raspberry pi settings. The browser is not loading the local ip.

The best I could come up with is clearing cache, flushing the DNS and whitelisting the local ip on the firewall, but no success.

A quick network troubleshooter reveals that the network is configured correctly, but the local ip in question is not responding. I feel like this could be where it could be dozens of different reasons, but perhaps I can try something else to single out the problem.

[BitMaxz]

It's not a well-known one like Moonlander it's a pretty old USB stick miner but Compac F is way better than this
Anyway, can you access the unit through SSH?

You can maybe get some info status of the unit by accessing it through SSH there's an old post about Mars Lander from this link below and maybe you can get some idea.

- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5464385.0

[SolHarvester]

I finally got someone from Bitcoin Merch to help me out.

What I had to do to get it to work again was use a USB to ethernet adapter and plug it in to the router. It took about 30 minutes, but eventually my router detected the wired connection and I used that IP.
Thank goodness I already had a adapter on hand.

So from there, because I already flashed the miner with an update, I had an updated Bitcoin Merch interface/OS. It was asking me for my wifi credentials and the miner was running again.

Sort of.

I had to do a tiny bit more fiddling, cause it seemed like it was having a hard time staying a higher hashrate, so I felt there was still something else going on.

So what I found was a bad PSU, cause I read that to be a common issue.

Again, thank goodness I had a spare PSU on hand for the Mars Lander. I bought one thinking it was an 'updated' model, but it was the same one I already had. So I decided to just hang on to it.

So I think the miner got tweaked partly from a bad PSU, but I recall having some weird power outages in my area lately and I noticed right after, my miner wasn't acting normally. That might have done something to the PSU.

So yeah, bad PSU.

Now that I have and updated OS, I can now use the upgraded Compac stick which would also give my miner a boost.
The new Compac A1 stick miner gets up to 500Gh/s, that's double what I get now.

Maybe I could sell my CompacF and trade for the upgraded stick.

[philipma1957]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/285878440976?

here is a compac listed for $150