Fan control still needs work.
Got the alert from litecoinpool that the apollo had dropped off this morning. I could not get the the web front end, so I ignored it figuring on a crash.
The L3+ that is on the same power supply never dropped so I knew the power and internet were good.
Got in to work and fan was not spinning AND unit was about 1 billion degrees (give or take a bit) was actually hot enough to darken the thermal ink label on the controller.
Once it cooled down it seems to have come back no problem.
I now have the fan set to 25% instead of auto.
In the next revision can you have the fan fail to max speed in case of any issues?
-Dave
Got the alert from litecoinpool that the apollo had dropped off this morning. I could not get the the web front end, so I ignored it figuring on a crash.
The L3+ that is on the same power supply never dropped so I knew the power and internet were good.
Got in to work and fan was not spinning AND unit was about 1 billion degrees (give or take a bit) was actually hot enough to darken the thermal ink label on the controller.
Once it cooled down it seems to have come back no problem.
I now have the fan set to 25% instead of auto.
In the next revision can you have the fan fail to max speed in case of any issues?
-Dave
I have seen this happen on a rare occasion and trying to investigate the root cause, but its has to do with the controller randomly locking up. Unfortunately has nothing to do with our code. We have a board level failsafe that will shut down the regulator before any damage happens, but since the fan is controlled by the MCU there is nothing we can do on the fan side, and things will get hot until the emergency shutdown triggers (which it might not in eco mode since board might not get hot enough).