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March 25, 2021, 09:56:16 PM Last edit: March 25, 2021, 10:33:04 PM by Matce |
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So I have a few chinese Q3 miners (similar to A1, F1, etc) - one of the miners popped a PSU. I found a exploded MOSFET, replaced it, no luck.
From my understanding the PSU has 3 inputs/outputs. The output for the control board still works. The high-power output to the hashboards is dead and there is another input or output (4 wires, separate connector from control board) that I can't identify. I'm ASSUMING its some sort of control for the PSU to turn on/off/PWM/??? hashboards.
Wondering if I can just get a separate high-power PSU and feed the hashboards from that. The broken PSU can still supply the control-board (or just run it from new PSU as well)?
Anybody knows how controlboards/PSUs interact?
Out of the 4 wires, I got 1 ground, 2 voltages (3.88) coming FROM the PSU and 1 voltage (3.3V) going to the PSU. When I unplug the connector (on another miner) the miner powers down because it can't read temperatures of chips and also a LED goes on/off. So I'm figuring: 3.88V is the power supply for the temperature-measurement circuits (1 circuit for 2 chains, so 2 wires for 4 chains) and the outgoing 3.3V is the LED?
Would mean I could run the miner on a "regular" PSU with a step-down for 3.88V for the temp-circuit?
thanks
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