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Re: ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread
by
dlowings
on 15/10/2014, 18:17:01 UTC
I assume you will be replacing the underpowered controller in the next batch also?
can you give us details on this ? only reason I ask, the Bitmain tech is asking me to switch boards from one of my working miners .

Ckolivas was quoted a few pages back about it:

It turns out the controller is so low powered that it can only process ~30 shares per second which mean that unless diff is set higher, they work their way into a death spiral before diff catches up. Great...

EDIT: Which presumably means that it can't be fixed by any new firmware releases - it's a hardware issue.

Thats interesting, I wonder if as a work around you could use something like a RbPie to offload some of the work from a daughter board perspective .