S7 controller has nine 18- pin jacks So what can we do with it?

[vg54dett]

Can you test if it's the IO board or the BeagleBoner itself that is messed up? I believe the 'boner is the same on the S7 as is was for the S5 and S2 (but someone who can say for sure should verify that). If the IO board is okay, I've got a stack of the 'boners laying around.

Well , I think the IO is dead is one controler , and the BB is dead in the other. Because the effect was not exactly the same.
So I trid to melt the part , and now I have a controller fully ok , and a controller fully dead (with BB dead from one S7 and IO Dead from the other).
The good thing is I have one of the two s7 back in game , but the bad news is I have to get a whole controller unit for the second one now.

Any good deal somewhere ?

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[RichBC]

Can you test if it's the IO board or the BeagleBoner itself that is messed up? I believe the 'boner is the same on the S7 as is was for the S5 and S2 (but someone who can say for sure should verify that). If the IO board is okay, I've got a stack of the 'boners laying around.

You can use B.B.B. from S5 together with S7 controller.

Even S5 whole controller works with S7 software. (look at the picture S7 Batch8 2 blade with S5 controller)
 But as it turned out, it shows the wrong temperature. always around 46 C

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It seems that when using the S5 Controller with an S7 Blade that after booting it reads and reports a temperature, however no further readings are taken. If you boot from cold you get a low number, but if you then reboot after a few minutes you get a higher number?


Rich

[vg54dett]

Can you test if it's the IO board or the BeagleBoner itself that is messed up? I believe the 'boner is the same on the S7 as is was for the S5 and S2 (but someone who can say for sure should verify that). If the IO board is okay, I've got a stack of the 'boners laying around.

Well , I think the IO is dead is one controler , and the BB is dead in the other. Because the effect was not exactly the same.
So I trid to melt the part , and now I have a controller fully ok , and a controller fully dead (with BB dead from one S7 and IO Dead from the other).
The good thing is I have one of the two s7 back in game , but the bad news is I have to get a whole controller unit for the second one now.

Any good deal somewhere ?

I wrote too early , my rebuilded controller did not work for long , after one hour it stopped hashing too. I guess today small unexpected power shutdown got it burned too... ultra bad luck.
It is weird because the s7 is making hot air , but the green blinking led (for hashing) doesn't light..

So I think I still need two controllers ... or one able to drive 6 blades.
Thanks guys

[vg54dett]

any help to find controllers for sale ? I can't find it :-(

[delicin33]

any help to find controllers for sale ? I can't find it :-(

here
https://shop.bitmain.com/productDetail.htm?pid=000201601120933252220cfbfFq20693

[bitgameSolo]

Are people still doing this one controller and 6 blade or 9 blade hack? I'm confused as some of the above comments make me think its not a good idea. I have a batch 7 that has 9 18 pin slots but came with the 162 chip board. Can I take the 162 chip boards out and put in 6 135 chip boards as long as I have enough PSU?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Are people still doing this one controller and 6 blade or 9 blade hack? I'm confused as some of the above comments make me think its not a good idea. I have a batch 7 that has 9 18 pin slots but came with the 162 chip board. Can I take the 162 chip boards out and put in 6 135 chip boards as long as I have enough PSU?

My 1st guess is that the BB's GPIO circuits can't handle the load of that many hash boards tied to it. Betcha Bitmain is using unbuffered BB' signals and that when overloaded it takes out part of the BB....

Since small computers like RasPi, BB, Audrino, et al are not known for um, 'robust' power protection, if the feed for the 3.3v used for GPIO is overloaded that could lead to Majik Smoke getting out...

[sidehack]

Unless the IO board has a nice high-current 3.3V buck regulator on it, and the FPGA on there functions as an IO expander.

[Rabinovitch]

So... Will Batch 6 S7 IO board handle 6 S7 blades?