The one thing I did notice is that these are not enclosed like the Antminers S3, I have an idea for those of you running Prisma to add a layer of safety. Perhaps you could find an old screen and screen in your miner. This way the air could flow, yet any exploding caps would be contained. I have a screen door I will use above the unit, while I continue to test my miner.
Hmm, that's really not a bad idea. (Assuming a hot cap couldn't just melt its way through the mesh -- screen doors are pretty thin stuff, right?
But that's the easiest and cheapest idea I've heard so far...a lot better than buying $50 of sheet metal and having to return it to Home Depot, with what I assume my excuse will be: "I'm sorry I bought this but I needed nonmetallic...sheet metal. So this won't work. Because it's metal."
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Shout out to the cap poppers what were the psu's on your gear.
Two IBM/Delta DPS-2000BB server PSUs, operating in current-share mode (so two 2000W PSUs acting as one big 4000W PSU, which should have been more than plenty for the 3 Prismas, IMO). I should point out that in my case, no circuits blew -- until I threw the breaker and killed the subpanel that feeds my mining stuff. It was just happily mining and burning along...and as I told CrazyGuy, I noticed (just because I was near my laptop at the time) that cgminer didn't show any errors or unusual activity when the alarm went off. (No, I don't expect cgminer to somehow say "look out the board is on fire!" -- but I would have expected melted burning charred exploding chips to ...you know...throw the occasional HW error, lol.)
And I take offense at the term "Cap Popper." I demand you call us "People who through no fault of their own became victims of cap popping phenomena" ... nah just call it whatever, I'm kidding of course.