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Board Hardware
Re: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread
by
pattim
on 15/04/2016, 23:54:37 UTC
500W is too small for an S3, I'm surprised you haven't melted it down yet.  A good rule of thumb is to not exceed 80% of the rated power of the psu.

It didn't even seem to get warm.  Wait a minute, I was only running one s3 on that 500 W (EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR) power supply.  God, I'm such an idiot!  Better edit that post  :-/

EDIT: The only reason I posted here is that I don't have power for those s3's and folks here sounded like they did.  I actually had one of those "used" 1 kW HP server power server supply which ran both.  The 500W just ran one s3+.  I have an extra 750 W EVGA 750 G2 - do you know if that'll run both?  Prolly not...  

Anyway, if this is the wrong thread, maybe sysop will move it to the right place?

Thanks, and apologies for the confusion.