I'm about to go crazy here... I didn't know it was possible for 1 "set it and forget it" piece of hardware to have so many fucking problems!
I get the ant miner and power it up, setup my pool info, then notice it's only mining at ~80-90gh/s. I search and search and finally find info in the status that tells me only 1 blade is active. I try umpteen dozen things to get it to power up the second blade, which only occurs when I SSH in and over clock it.
So, now we're plugging along at 205gh/s. Things go great for about 24-48 hours, when I come home one day and the 850watt power supply was dead. (and I mean dead-dead, it buzzed slightly when I tried to power it up, but I got no power no fan, nothing) I contact the seller, they tell me to RMA it... and I send it in, and after THREE WEEKs they still won't answer me, so I have to open a paypal buyer protection claim to get my money back...
No, I order another 850watt psu from another vender, and this time, I power on the Antminer and it goes through it's POST, and then after about 30 seconds, an LED lights up at the end of the blade (one on each) and I hear a buzzing sound for around 2-5 seconds, and it cuts off. to the point I have to pull the +5 jumper to get the PSU to come on again...
a lot of goggling later, this is apparently a sign that the ant miner isn't getting enough power (Sweet bajezuz! 850W isn't enough for this little bastard?!?!? the official specs say 500W is plenty!) To test I unplug the secondary blade and power up. Sure enough it powers on and I can get into the config (but it never connects to my pool) I've even tried un-OC'ing it to disable the secondary blade again so I can at least get 90gh/s out of it, and that won't work now, if that second blade is plugged in, it buzzes and cuts off...
So... somebody who's been using these please tell me what the F is going on! IS the Antminer busted? Do I need an even larger PSU? Do I need to throw them both in the trash and start over??? I've been fighting this for over a month and I'm worn out...
I get the ant miner and power it up, setup my pool info, then notice it's only mining at ~80-90gh/s. I search and search and finally find info in the status that tells me only 1 blade is active. I try umpteen dozen things to get it to power up the second blade, which only occurs when I SSH in and over clock it.
So, now we're plugging along at 205gh/s. Things go great for about 24-48 hours, when I come home one day and the 850watt power supply was dead. (and I mean dead-dead, it buzzed slightly when I tried to power it up, but I got no power no fan, nothing) I contact the seller, they tell me to RMA it... and I send it in, and after THREE WEEKs they still won't answer me, so I have to open a paypal buyer protection claim to get my money back...
No, I order another 850watt psu from another vender, and this time, I power on the Antminer and it goes through it's POST, and then after about 30 seconds, an LED lights up at the end of the blade (one on each) and I hear a buzzing sound for around 2-5 seconds, and it cuts off. to the point I have to pull the +5 jumper to get the PSU to come on again...
a lot of goggling later, this is apparently a sign that the ant miner isn't getting enough power (Sweet bajezuz! 850W isn't enough for this little bastard?!?!? the official specs say 500W is plenty!) To test I unplug the secondary blade and power up. Sure enough it powers on and I can get into the config (but it never connects to my pool) I've even tried un-OC'ing it to disable the secondary blade again so I can at least get 90gh/s out of it, and that won't work now, if that second blade is plugged in, it buzzes and cuts off...
So... somebody who's been using these please tell me what the F is going on! IS the Antminer busted? Do I need an even larger PSU? Do I need to throw them both in the trash and start over??? I've been fighting this for over a month and I'm worn out...