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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Blew up 2 mining rigs with riser cables
by
steve666
on 02/12/2017, 10:25:00 UTC
I don't get it how people can manage to burn their rigs when going into mining stuff, you should learn more not only about that fantastic crypto world but also get some knowledge about electronics, power distribution and how does this all works together in theory and whats happening inside of all your machinery... I used to power my risers stright from the PSU without any capacitors, voltage regulators on boards just because its not even needed if you know what are you doing it's not needed at all, chinese just put this stuff on your boards to look nice and make bigger profit of worth nothing electronic components. To long cords, bad connectors and that all make higher resistance of circuit and failure at all, also ground loops, bad grounding which may cause inductions and amperage rise or falling rapidly.

all powered risered card have to be connected to main psu

is that true? I thought you could power the riser with the secondary psu as long as you also power the card with the secondary psu. You can't mix.

yeah you can't mix, no powered riser on second psu.

Powered risered cards on psu 1, non powered risered cards on psu 2

It doesn't even matter if you have efficient PSU, you could even use 12V car battery to power your risers or GPU's, it doesnt matter if the potentials are fine so it belongs on how you connect PSU's together and thats it.

 Thanks, Reagrds.