Spondoolies, does the SP10 firmware check fans activity?
I'm about to test my air chamber and i'm ready to remove the fans (PSU fan is still intact)
Let me know if its a problem with the FW.
Thanks
No, we monitor the temperature of ASICs/on board, not the fan activity.
Good luck!
Is this something you might look at in the future? I have read the fans run fulltime 24/7 ... can you update the firmware so they are PWM regulated? I'm sure this was mentioned way back in the thread, sorry if I missed something ... two SP10's arriving soon, so I'm interested if the noise can be 'contained'.
Do you mean control the FANs based on system temperature?
From tests we did, it is very hard to even define wanted behaviour to control the fans based on temperature.
The fan speed effects the hash-rate. It's not binary "too cold/too hot" system. The more you turn on the fans, the colder the ASICs, the less leakage you have, the bigger the hash-rate. Even if we set a desired temperature "threshold", it's really annoying when the system starts changing the fans. It's easier to set "quiet/noisy" based on location of the miner in your apartment and then have no change.
You can write to PWM values once the system is stable (just be careful of course or it will thermal shut-down) - it's in this thread (and in the miner-gate code) how to do that.
I plan to unplug the fans entirely. Call it coarse PWM control. But, it has worked well for my Terraminers and Baby Jets.