Re: Official FutureBit Apollo LTC Image and Support thread

I have a new Apollo. It works great for a few days then one of two things happen.
1. The fan stops completely and start smelling. I have to unplug and plug back in. Glad I?m around when that has happened because I fear it was heating up.
2. Fan speed jumps to full speed. Can?t log in to reboot. Have to unplug etc.
These happen regularly.
Glad I?ve been around in each case. Thoughts?

What mode are you running the miner in?

This is probably related to the MCU lockup issue we know about that can happen in a rare occasion. It should be fixed in the next update we are releasing soon.

Just stock eco mode. No tweaks to anything. Auto everything.

I most likely had the same situation happen as the Apollo stopped hashing according to pool status. My unit is also in eco mode but with the fan set to 15%. Uptime was little over 10 days. I was only able to diagnose the situation remotely so I have no idea what the fan was doing. The MCU still had some wired network connectivity as ping replies were sent but ssh login wasn't possible. The funny thing is, the two Moonlanders connected to the MCU were still working happily and visible as active from the pool point of view. The unit is connected to a remotely controllable power socket so I was able to power cycle it and it started working again. No syslogs available due to how ramlog behaves in such situations.