Setup guides are for box to hashing. I do OCing guides when there isn't already a thread (there is). If it needs summaring then I can take a look. It's also difficult as KNC isn't responding to emails.

You can use the same pool and even the same miner login details if you want. The only difference is how you get your statistics. Ie if you see 1x1100GH miner or 2x550GH.

No its not, hence I recommend a 750W PSU.

I've not been able to get any test equipment from KNC. Email them if you want me to do one

i am going to share the settings for my KNCminer Saturn (November); ever since firmware version 1.0 it has become really easy to increase the performance output of your mining rig. before version 1.0 i was hashing at approximately 340GH/s now i average 400GH/s.

under the advanced tuning page i made the following changes:

SPI voltage: 1.95 V (Cannot change)
SPI frequency: 614400 Hz

ASIC 1
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die 1: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 2: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 3: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 4: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz

ASIC 2
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die 1: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 2: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 3: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz
die 4: 0.0366 V  1000 MHz

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the power consumption as reported by the saturn is: 420.723W

i hope this helps anyone who has doubts about these advanced settings. i have been mining with the settings i mentioned above since the day the firmware update was released... stable as all can be.

Each hashing board is electrically separate so no problems using 2 PSUs. The control board will use somewhere between 10 and 30W, not much at all.

Hi dogie,

I run into an unexpected problem. So I got the two Corsair vs450 PSU's, I connected the first PSU to two hashing boards each with a 6 PIN PCI-E. Then the second PSU to the remaining two hashing boards and the controller board with the Molex 4-PIN connector.

At first it seemed to work, but after about 5 min the first PSU shut down. The second PSU kept working, keeping the miner alive and hashing with only two boards. I thought it was an issue with the paper clip hack, so I readjusted the clip and started again. Once more, it seemed to work, until 5 min later or so it shuts down again. This happened repeatedly, over and over, and I did all kinds of "improvements" to the clip to see if it got better.

Then I tried changing the PSU supplying the controller board. So now PSU 1 started powering the controller board instead of PSU 2 as previously. Now guess what happened. PSU 2 shut down after 5 min.

So I think the issue is that somehow these PSU refuse to take loads only in the PCI-E connections and wants to have at least another load in the Molex. What gadget may I connect to the Molex to keep the PSU working?

Thanks in advance

I think the PSUs are having some issues indeed, but it is really strange that the one always fails is the PSU that is not powering the controller board.

Thanks, I'll think I'll go change the PSUs on Monday.