DIY S1 to S3 adapter-board

[dimke_yu]

Great! Let us know when you got them ready I want to test them out

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[pinhead666]

Woohoo!
PCBs finally arrived. Quickly measured and found no errors (I'm little surprised of that). Just missing mounting holes,mainly because I had no idea how I would assemble both controller and adapter.Now I have figured that out too and I'll post pics of my setups after I've soldered few of these adapters.

[pinhead666]

And here is one adapter assembled with mounting brackets (home made ofcourse). It's happily hashing with 2 S3 hashboards. I've got another hashing with one c1 and one s3 board.

 

So if anyone is interested in buying these you can ask me.I have about 30 pcb's left.

[pekatete]

Assembled price each + shipping to UK?

[HerbPean]

How much for 2 for Canada ?

Thanks

[pinhead666]

Price 0.16BTC each up to 4 pieces shipped priority to UK. Pretty much same shipping cost all over the world.Express shipping is also available but it has full tracking just to some countries (UK or US not included).And its much more expensive.

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[pekatete]

Price 0.16BTC each up to 4 pieces shipped priority to UK. Pretty much same shipping cost all over the world.Express shipping is also available but it has full tracking just to some countries (UK or US not included).And its much more expensive.

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PM me your BTC address - escrow (in PM) EDIT PayPal?

[pinhead666]

Paypal is fine with me.And certain members I can send items and they can pay when they receive and test merchandise.But this concerns only few which I trust.I send pm for those who want these things and we arrange comfortable deal.

[toptek]

PMed you let know how to pay and were to send it ,i pay first and  i  don't use escrow  unless it is in the 100 of Dollars . Don't send it first i don't go that way, Id rather pay first.

[pinhead666]

Okay,first ones built,tested and some even mailed.

To clarify few things: You do have to flash S3 firmware to controller.I use this:antMiner_S320150109.bin and then add Kano's cgminer. It boots with S1 firmware but won't work very well (what a surprise).Also I have two different type 3v3 regulators,other is four legged and other three-legged. Both work as well but they have different pinout.So there are two different looking versions:


And if you look silkscreen closer you can see that transistors are added other way than silkscreen shows.That's because I had different transistor in my mind,when I designed the board.So they are fitted just right.I don't make hundreds of these, so I test every adapter before I send them.

I send adapters heatsink removed and regulator bend flatter.Just to make them fit to an envelope and to prevent breaking regulator during shipping.

If you want to drill mounting holes here are spots that I suggest (there are ground-planes at both sides):



I'd like hear from you when you get them shipped.

[toptek]

can you point me in the right direction  link wise just what i need to make my own cables, I'm sure, I'll need them once the adapter is here .

[pinhead666]

can you point me in the right direction  link wise just what i need to make my own cables, I'm sure, I'll need them once the adapter is here .

JST PHDR-20VS MGR-20VS Housing , PHD Series Grid pitch: 2.0 mm Number of pins: 2 x 10 Nominal current: 3 A

JST BPHD-002T-P0.5 BPHD-002T-P0.5

And a crimping tool if you decide to make them yourself.It's pretty expensive though,I paid something like 40-50€.But I need it for other things too.They are pretty handy when you make your own cables for psu. I bought today some cheap (15€) crimping pliers from local shop but I haven't tested them yet. They are meant just for those very tiny crimps.
I think you find them googling.I bought all connector housings (and crimps) my supplier had,so they are out of stock (Conrad electronics,Germany).Digi-key should have them.And ready crimped wires too,but it's pretty expensive way to make those cables.Check your messages,I might have a solution for your problem.

[toptek]

can you point me in the right direction  link wise just what i need to make my own cables, I'm sure, I'll need them once the adapter is here .

JST PHDR-20VS MGR-20VS Housing , PHD Series Grid pitch: 2.0 mm Number of pins: 2 x 10 Nominal current: 3 A

JST BPHD-002T-P0.5 BPHD-002T-P0.5

And a crimping tool if you decide to make them yourself.It's pretty expensive though,I paid something like 40-50€.But I need it for other things too.They are pretty handy when you make your own cables for psu. I bought today some cheap (15€) crimping pliers from local shop but I haven't tested them yet. They are meant just for those very tiny crimps.
I think you find them googling.I bought all connector housings (and crimps) my supplier had,so they are out of stock (Conrad electronics,Germany).Digi-key should have them.And ready crimped wires too,but it's pretty expensive way to make those cables.Check your messages,I might have a solution for your problem.

TY   i have two Crimper ,have been making my own PCEI cables for some time just couldn't find the supply's to make these cables or know what to get.

[dimke_yu]

Okay,first ones built,tested and some even mailed.

To clarify few things: You do have to flash S3 firmware to controller.I use this:antMiner_S320150109.bin and then add Kano's cgminer. It boots with S1 firmware but won't work very well (what a surprise).Also I have two different type 3v3 regulators,other is four legged and other three-legged. Both work as well but they have different pinout.So there are two different looking versions:


And if you look silkscreen closer you can see that transistors are added other way than silkscreen shows.That's because I had different transistor in my mind,when I designed the board.So they are fitted just right.I don't make hundreds of these, so I test every adapter before I send them.

I send adapters heatsink removed and regulator bend flatter.Just to make them fit to an envelope and to prevent breaking regulator during shipping.

If you want to drill mounting holes here are spots that I suggest (there are ground-planes at both sides):



I'd like hear from you when you get them shipped.

Thanks for the instructions how to modify S1 control pcb. I cant wait to receive your board and test it on my device.

[pinhead666]

No worries mate. I think I'll drill mounting holes to the rest of the pcb:s, just to be sure that no-one drills them to power- or datalines. Or cuts any line.I have sablon made already so it's easy for me to drill them all.

By the way.Are you gonna use s3 or c1 boards? Just reminding that c1 boards need different cables.

[john_thecapn]

Put me down for one kit, please.  Shipped to US.  PM with BTC payment address or PayPal.

I have the S1 controller board and the S3 hash boards. 
I have S1 cables too, so do I need new ones for this to work?

Also, has anyone ran the S3 boards without the chip-side heatsinks?
This will probably be ran at a lower clock/voltage/GHs so I'm hoping it can be ran without them.

Thanks for the help.

[pinhead666]

Put me down for one kit, please.  Shipped to US.  PM with BTC payment address or PayPal.

I have the S1 controller board and the S3 hash boards. 
I have S1 cables too, so do I need new ones for this to work?

Also, has anyone ran the S3 boards without the chip-side heatsinks?
This will probably be ran at a lower clock/voltage/GHs so I'm hoping it can be ran without them.

Thanks for the help.

Hi,
you need s3 cables.I might have a spare set. You can run those blades without chip-side heatsinks as long as you don't overclock.I have my test set (which has 1 c1 board and 1 s3 board) without those little heatsinks and one fan only.I'll send you PM  .

[pinhead666]

When you use these adapters,I strongly recommend to use some kind of mounting brackets.I made  a few with a hacksaw and powerdrill.Less than an hour spent.Duct-tape isn't a good choice here.Installed this way,fan cools also that 3v3 regulator's heatsink.And that reg has to get rid of  quite a lot heat since it drops voltage from 12v to 3v3.Step-down module was an option,but I decided not to use these modules because they take space and I wanted to keep costs as low as possible.And the fan cooling is already available so this is how I made it.

Adib uses step-down modules in his design (which is pretty neat as it's exact fit to original S3 mountings).I just am not a big fan of jumper wires... Here's a link to his design: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671128.msg12416617#msg12416617

[pinhead666]

This is pretty annoying. Every connector needed in this project is sold out according to my regular supplier. I think I'm not the only-one building these anymore.They had quite a lot of those connectors in stock when I made my first orders. Anyway, I've found cheaper supplier with a huge stock but shipping might take little longer.And no way I'm gonna tell,where I ordered those from  .

[dimke_yu]

Put me down for one kit, please.  Shipped to US.  PM with BTC payment address or PayPal.

I have the S1 controller board and the S3 hash boards. 
I have S1 cables too, so do I need new ones for this to work?

Also, has anyone ran the S3 boards without the chip-side heatsinks?
This will probably be ran at a lower clock/voltage/GHs so I'm hoping it can be ran without them.

Thanks for the help.

I am running the device without chip-side heatsink also one C1 and one S3 hash board with two fans on stock S3 settings...