Well first good test of what happens when something goes wrong. My networking to my mining area went down it's middle of night here. Quick look at all the networking no quick fix.
The miner looked fine I was worried without internet if it had problems as some S5's did. But nothing visibly wrong at all. So turned it off just to be safe with no networking. I will be fixing it early in a few hours on what ever network problem I have into mining area.
Good news from this font my miner was without internet/network for 30 minutes or so last night before I just unplugged it. No damage no issues no bad things that people experienced from S5 did I run into.
Today I was able to find the cause of problem was new router needed reset. Which is weird as router seemed fine, but that was the fix. I recently got 1000 Mbps internet connection upgrade so a few different components when that happened.
But after fixing network connectivity let blades boot up then controller and worked like a charm. It is running right now no issues now that network problem is sorted out.
That is great to hear. I have been concerned about such and started making a list of items to (have my friend) check. This is at the top of the list.
I am also making a list of items to run up the flagpole at the BITMAIN support desk. If you
or anyone have any questions maybe we can make a consolidated list and I will volunteer to submit them together since I plan to get some answers to a few of my own items.
Thanks for sharing your experiences. It is a big help to all owners and 'friends of owners' to the S5+.
VirosaGITSIt is great you are sharing your findings and taking steps to show how these may be used. I have some questions I hope you may help with.
If I missed the answers to these items please simply point me to them.
Did you purchase a spare S5+ control board or is the one you are using one which came with an S5+? IF purchased separately could you share a part number, price, or any information regarding the purchase?
I would like to have a spare control board since it (is possible) will do double duty as an S5+ and an S5 backup. Could you PM me on this if it isn't something you wish to share publicly? Obviously I hope we don't see 25 people bumrush BITMAIN to purchase a control board. I think a spare is a good idea.
What are your feelings on the S5+ control board being a central point of failure for 4 - 5 S5 miners? You mention running 4.5 S5s with the S5+ control board. I remember seeing a thread with water cooled S5s, I need to do some searching, but can you point me that direction if you have all of the temps, pics, etc documented?
With regards to running the 4.5 S5s using the S5+ control board is the thought you retain the original S5 control boards to use as backups if needed so the only potential 'down' component(s) are the S5+
modules if you have a failure? Or, is it more about having a central location for all I/O. (I am using I/O in this context for electrical and mechanical items along with a central software location.)
Have you used the S5 control boards on the S5+ modules?
Could you share which version of control boards for the S5 and S5+ you are using to perform which task?
For example if using the S5 control board to run S5+ modules it would be great to confirm which version of the S5 control board you are using. Either way it is great to document for future endeavours. I can see people attempting to match things up down the line as I see people doing now for the S3, S3+, etc. I myself am tracking down control board revision information for the S3 and S5. Anything you have will be helpful.
Do you have any pictures showing the S5+ control board connected to multiple S5 units?
I have not investigated the specifics myself, but reading there is a difference in pinouts (something about 16 pin to 18 pin) I wondered if you had to offset the connector somehow, shift to the left or right, or some equivalent to make it run correctly. A picture of this with clear details would be fantastic.
In my humble opinion information and experience are more valuable than post count or trust-rating every day of the week.
So again, a sincere thank you to both for sharing your findings.
