Hello everyone, been a very stressful day kindly bear with me.
Bought a used DR5 from my Chinese supplier at a hefty premium. Before you call me an idiot I’ve purchased before from this supplier multiple times and she always sent me working products.
I noticed that on board 1 and 2 two heat sinks were dislocated perhaps damaged in shipment.
The last board works but the other two read me “0 ASICS found”. Now I’m a beginner but even if there was a dead asic like wouldn’t the other ones function?
It would also be good to mention that while it is rated for 220-240v I tested it on 120v. I wasn’t going to keep it running there but my electrician hasn’t installed 240v yet at my house and I wanted to make sure it was running first. I also tried swapping cables and all that good stuff but only the 3rd chain seemed to be working so it wasn’t a main control board issue.
Any thoughts?
If I told you nasty stuff would you hold it against me?
1) you plugged in an obviously broken piece of gear. then you posted. I wont tell you how [ guess]
2) lost heat sink means the chip will over heat.
3) you plugged it in
4) you very likely would have burned the chip out .
5) at best the chip was broken when the heat sink broke off.
6) not finished.
7) but you plugged a 120 volt cable to a 240 volt psu. so you most likely did not burn the chip
what were you thinking? why not ask us first.
I have more but will not pile on.
It is dead 💀 ask for a refund.
do not tell the seller you did anything at all.
say you heard the loose heat sinks and want a refund.
the likely hood that you fully broke it by plugging it into a 120 volt power supply with unattached heat sinks is still very small compared to the fact it arrived with loose heat sinks.
