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Anyone having an idea what would cause this wires to melt. SHOOT!
I'm thinking maybe the PSU's included in the Pandaminers are worthless...
Low quality 18 or higher gauge wires will melt I've had it happen to me (not nearly that bad and not on a panda miner) but lower quality PSU will ship thin cables that melt. Try for 16 gauge cables whenever possible for mining. Panda must have went with the cheapest PSU they could find and it used low quality cables. I'm just shocked this hasn't happened to more people. I have one on order with Giga Watt, at least I won't have to deal with it but I probably wouldn't have ordered it if I knew they used such shitty PSU
no they are using 5 and splitting 2 into 4
so
1 single 18 gauge
1single 18 gauge
1 single 18 gauge
then a single 18 gauge that splits into 2 single 18gauge
then a single 18 gauge that splits into 2 single 18gauge
and every photo of every burnt setup shows the melt starts by the split cables.
I mention that this psu should not be used long term more then one time in my review and that I went to a rosewill tokamak 1500 watt with no issues
Phil knows his stuff, if I was hosting mine I'd swap out the PSU to the rosewill he recommends. Hopefully Panda comes through with repair and parts but I wouldn't continue to use that PSU