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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Antminer Z9/Z9 mini 13.5W/Ksol Undervolted
by
FrozenChip
on 06/11/2018, 18:56:49 UTC
After many many hours of investigation i finally managed to undervolt a Z9 mini.
Power usage can be as low as 13.5Watt/Ksol at the wall(power meter) with a platinum power supply and this was a z9 mini batch 2, so all other batches should perform slightly better.
I get 10Ksol with only 138W, which is almost 50% less power comparing to official specs.
Undervolted Z9 mini, can be made silent, with 2 x under 20db fans and a fan simulator
Same performance/watt can be reached on Z9

More details of my tests below

Stock performance
FrequencyWatt   Ksol   W/Ksol
70036315.323.7
60031113.123.7
50025911.522.5
4002109.322.6

Undervolted
FrequencyWatt   Ksol   W/Ksol
70032115.221.1
60023713.018.2
50017311.515.0
4001269.213.7

I'm not sharing any how to details because my solution, at this stage, requires additional tools and is too difficult
The software solution will be much better if it can reach the efficiency above.

I've tried playing with the Antminer L3+ solution
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3546316.0

but there is no "/dev/i2c-0" file on Z9 mini

Anyone with more knowledge, please share your thoughts on how to get access to those chips through i2c in a similar way it was done for L3+