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mazedk
on 25/01/2020, 02:24:00 UTC


Nothing rare, but my two little USB erupters arrived today. Set them up on a shelf above my desk with a D-Link DUB-H7 7 port hub I got for $23. I quickly realised that they were reaching 70+ deg C temps when I was setting them up and the 2x 15 watt server fans really help (but they are running at 3.3 volts so they are essentially silent). Miners now get better temps of about 45 deg C (25 deg C ambient) after running for a while. Getting <1% hardware errors in bfgminer I might have to look at that later.

Is there any components on the other side of the PCB? Or is the aluminium heatsink removing heat through the PCB itself? Some micro-sized heatsinks might be in order for the ASIC chip on the top side in any case...

There were a couple of guys playing around with some clip-on heatsinks that reached the chips pretty nicely.. might be worth looking into. Just did a quick search but couldnt find the post . will look again a little later.