With the halving biting deep into miners income, some have been able to scrape by at current
BTC price levels by running their miners in Low Power Mode (LPM), this is just running the miners at lower speeds/voltages rather than Asicboost (originally tagged as LPM on the S9's)
Unfortunately however, not all of the current *17 range of Bitmain miners support this mode.
My current understanding is this:
LPM Supported - S17 (Low, Normal)
- S17-Pro (Low, Normal, Turbo)
LPM NOT Supported - S17E
- S17+
- T17
- T17E
- T17+
- T19
- S19-Pro
- S19
Seeing as it is possible to underclock and undervolt by manually hacking the gui or with third party firmware I feel it's not unreasonable to ask Bitmain to enable LPM on the miners that don't current support it.
Having contacted them directly and not having much luck I thought it might help if I had an idea of the miner community's opinion on the matter.
Please vote here and we can bring this thread to their attention, who knows, it might work.
I'll leave the thread unlocked, but moderated in case it wanders off topic, otherwise your thoughts would be appreciated.
Yes I'm aware there are other manufacturers, that may or may not have low power modes :P
No I don't know if its physically impossible for the hardware to do this, but I doubt it.
As mentioned I'm aware of third party firmware that may enable this, but not everyone wants to pay a dev fee or risk using non-official firmware
2nd Jun 2020 - Added T19
27th Aug 2020 - Added S19-Pro and S19