Quote from: sidehack on July 21, 2017, 01:56:47 AM

I can send you one to play with if you like. But as mentioned, even miners pulling 1300W off a 1500W PSU have no trouble, no real temperature elevation even at the contact points. S7, S9 and T9 miners pulling enough power to trip current on the DPS1200 (which is why I shifted them up to 1500W), same. The L3+ could have been trying to pull an extra 500 watts through a single cable pair without killing the PSU and 700 watts through a single cable pair could definitely cause a fire even on a good board. The PSU would have been outputting at least 12.5 volts.

Say whatever you want about KNC. Those guys knew how to get away with selling overpriced fire hazards a year behind schedule.

In general I'd recommend, like Optimizer, to use an over-spec PSU for improved efficiency. But occasionally that over-spec can cause a fire hazard if something else goes wrong and the PSU's overhead keeps it from tripping out before catastrophe occurs.

If you want to send me one, I can run a power test to see what's going on. Though I am short on time for probably a month!

If the miner is defective, I would avoid any use.

-Optim