Quote from: Sp00n1980 on March 27, 2014, 09:05:20 PM

very true, i have ordered some voltage regulators, so i plan to change 1 out on the very dead ant ... whats the worst that could happen Tongue

I've been digging in my old posts looking for unresolved issues and AntMiner U1 hacking issues and found this ... and to answer your question... a dead ASIC from soldering a ' 103 ' smd for R2 and finding one end also went to that cap close to those pads shorting part of the power so it's not even having any sign of life is the ' worst ' thing..

Yea, I admit I should have checked and solder wicked up the excess prior to plugging it in. The red LED did flash 5 or so before nothing... total nothing..
I'm looking in to getting a fresh ant and doing a part by part swap one day to see if it's fixable. In the mean time my ( averaged ) hashing 25 GHash/sec only during daylight hours is down to point tripple zero 3 to 7 per day on BTC so it's gonna take a while.... back to doing BTC faucets and dumping the proceeds on to either Cryptsy or Peerbet to have them deal with the ' dust ' aspect.