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Board Hardware
Re: ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread
by
cdjbolton
on 05/03/2015, 22:37:18 UTC
Hi Everyone,

I think my S4 PSU died this morning, I have only had the machine 3 months or so and i think the psu is dead, could anybody help me figure out if it is and how i go about replacing the PSU

I woke up this morning to find one breaker on my board had tripped, I checked the S4 and the PSU doesnt show any signs of life at all, I have checked the fuse and thats ok, but the psu does not boot at all, is there anything i can do to fault find.

I know i had one of the newer PSUs that didnt have the issue the first batch did, and the S4 has been running flawlessly since i purchased it, just a bit depressing to see one of my best machines go down Sad

Any help would be really appreciated.
My 2-cents is to get an IBM 2kw PSU (208-240v only) and breakout board to replace it. http://www.gekkoscience.com/products/IBM2K_board.html is a good source for the breakouts and PSU's or check eBay for the PSU's. Together they should run around $75-80 total+ shipping.
I got 4 of the beasts for when my S4's croak...

That's exactly what I'm doing with my 5 S4s, it's definitely the way to go.

So I thought id give you all a quick update, Used a link that was in a previous message and I was going to open a ticket, and noticed the live chat support.

Ended up speaking with yoshi and went through what was wrong, I spent 10 minutes on chat and in that time he had already arranged a replacement power supply for me  Grin

He advised me it would be shipped from america overnight, I was over the moon he also said the tracking information would follow.

I honestly expected the replacement to take at least a week or so, but to my excitement i checked my email this afternoon in work and low and behold the power supply was in the Manchester UPS depot which was unbelievable.

It ended up being less than 24 hours shipping  Grin Grin Grin Grin

I still have to pick up the power supply from UPS tomorrow, but I will update everyone with my progress.

Just wanted to say a big thank you to yoshi and bitmain very happy with the service.