Quote from: crazyates on March 20, 2014, 02:44:18 AM

Quote from: klondike_bar on March 20, 2014, 01:33:12 AM

Quote from: WireIT on March 19, 2014, 10:17:22 PM

As far as hot wires, we had an AntMiner on the test bench running on a 750w ATX PSU but had a cheesy molex to PCIe adapter that ended up putting all the load onto just 1 pair of about 18awg wire. When we noticed hot cables and the yellow turning brown, we moved to the correct set of cables (PSU is modular). Not only are the cables now running nice and cool, but it's also pulling 30watts less from the wall!!!

if you gave it another minute you wouldve seen a nice little blaze

don't rely on ebay cables for mining rigs - they are not designed for large loads

It had been running like that for 3 days.... Shocked

#woops

And these weren't cheap ebay cables. They were the PSU's own modular adapter for the molex plugs, and then using a Gigabyte 280x's twin molex to PCIe 6pin. Lesson learned!

Thats why you lasted 3 days and not 3 minutes - gigabyte used some reasonably good cables.

stuff from ebay/china generally doesn't