Quote from: Gabr1el on April 28, 2014, 08:16:24 AM

Quote from: ccynthia on April 27, 2014, 08:37:26 PM

Does anyone know where I can get a bitmain S! Antiminer repaired? Seems one of the caps or something popped out approx 1/8 inch and now shows as dead. Or is it just a waste and for parts now? 1st one to go bad. Cry

If cap is the only reason for it's fault then it would be no problem and you can do it alone with semi-good quality soldering iron but caps in most cases blow like that (when it's just one) due to fault of component BEHIND them that draw their power.
Is it SMD (Surface mounted-tiny tiny Cheesy

) of regular (a little less in size than 1.5 V AAA battery?
Anyway transistors and MOSFETs can be changed too with low cost but you are better of getting someone qualified to do it (like a electronics repair shop).

We are talking about BIG Antminer not USB version right ?

If you try to fix it yourself make sure that you use new cap with more Voltage I.E. if an old one was 1500 mF 16 V replace with 1500 mf 25 V.

P.S. If it is cap on PSU part of the machine STAY AWAY FROM IT , high voltage current is not a thing to experiment with unless you know what you are doing (If it's 330mF 250 V for example it's PSU cap for sure).They can hold dangerous voltages inside them even if you unplugged the gear , it takes days for them to be fully empty and fixing those things can lead to even more catastrophic failure.

Guesses the above quote doesn't read but can only type,

DC has nothing to do with as per described in above quote that is AC stuff quoted, besides that its popped and has been off pwr for long enough for any other component to discharge, relax the 1st yr electronic tutorial, maybe if your talking about ballasts for discharge lamps and or tube TV's it applies, these units are fed DC and clearly the problem is not mentioned as psu but as the antminer.

For Ccynthia

Never mind the mind dump of the mF stuff,

Also don't buy one of those heated solder suckers, just get a 10 dollar plastic one all up you can get away with a solder sucker Iron and solder for 40 bucks , to learn the soldering iron temp, practice melting some solder above some cardboard u want to be able to push wire on to iron at a slow pace and have it ball up on end of iron then wipe it off on a damp cloth, Just melt the new solder and it will melt the old.

1st year stuff, heat the pins not the board when replacing, pre-emptive for Gab

PM me and I can prob help you with a pic or 2, then your either on your way to an RA or a soldering Iron.