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Board Hardware
Re: Cointerra Hardware Support **Unofficial
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Cefalu
on 09/03/2015, 06:59:18 UTC
@Cefalu

There is a guy on ebay who has some spare parts for these at reasonable prices. His ebay user is express_computer. Last I heard he had a complete set of working radiators and pumps.

I would swap the pumps around on your units first to make sure the problem follows the pump otherwise you may have a board issue or controller problem. If it follows the pump though you can just swap the unit and you're back off to the races.

You can also use regular water cooling equipment. I believe I read the dimensions of the water block screws match that of an Intel LGA1156. Most store bought water cooling setups will have a bracket to match that. You will probably need to come up with your own replacement screws though as the length required may be different. I recommend spring loaded screws. That way you get nice even pressure and that takes most of the guess work out of it. Also if you have custom loop water cooling equipment laying around those water blocks generally fit without much fuss. I started setting mine up that way before I sold but it was going to be so expensive I gave it up.

Incidentally the machines I sold are running great for the guy. He's happy and I'm happy they're gone. I get a little OCD when I can't make things work right so they had to go.

Thanks carman336 -
I bid on Ebay for a partially working system, 50%.
I'm going to swap the cooling for the bad board.
If that doesn't work I'll pull the bad board and replace with the working one from the ebay machine.
I keep them at an industrial site so I must make a trip to mess w/ them.

FuryFever - I measured mine when I was running them at home @ 240vAV.
I bailed on that as soon as I set up the industrual site, so LOUD and paying for 240vAC at residential rates is still tough.
with an inductive ammeter - seems like it was around 1850 Watts @ 1.622TH/s.
I probly wrote it down and will look through my notes.
If you are running at 120vAC you can use a Kill-a-Watt but for higher voltages you will have to use an ammeter on one
lead or get a power strip with monitoring built in. Like this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/APC-AP7841-METERED-RACK-PDU-24-OUTLET-20-C13-4-C19-Power-distribution-strip-/380867202390?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58ad744d56