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Re: FutureBit Moonlander 2 USB Hubs Thread
by
troystaylor
on 15/03/2018, 20:45:00 UTC
I'm using the same Pluggable USB3-HUB7-81X hub with a Raspberry Pi Zero and am unable to see the one Moonlander I have - any tips? lsusb lists the hub and the ethernet adapter also connected. I've tried the ports on the ends and the middle.

Ok, so.... two weeks in. Not the best news to report.

At first everything was going A-OK. Then as I started trying to get the sticks back over 600clock I noticed they would only run about 10-15m before throwing errors, and the hub would clearly powercycle.

So I realized the issue quickly after that, which is that my math was bad, and (4 ML2's) * (1.5watts * 4.0 MH/S) = 24+ Watts Power Draw. So in this case at 600 clock speed, and 4mh/s I was already maxing out the power brick. And after checking it, it was MOLTEN hot.

So I contacted Pluggable support, and a very helpful tech there told me that even under the true threshold of the AC Adapter, the components inside the hub are not of a grade that is meant to sustain those high loads for extended periods of time, only temporarily when fast charging a phone or two. So, I monitored the situation closely and by the end of the week I could smell a singed / burnt smell on the AC adapter and was even noticing heat build up where the adapter plugged into the hub itself. 

So... to avoid fire, I have re-worked my setup to stay well below the 25w max on the adapter, and am running only 2 moonlanders at high clock speeds on the hub.

(Tiny Violins playing).