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Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Well, less than 30 days and this POS is ded. WTF? Apollo II, 1 TB. Came home and it was off. Won't power back on. Unplugged, let it sit, plugged it back in, nothing. Any ideas?
There was a batch of miners with a bad power switch. You might need to flip/jiggle it to get it to work. I actually opened my unit up and bypassed the switch, so it feeds power directly from the plug into the PSU.
But they'll replace the switch if you send it back.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
⭐ Merited by PennyBit (1)
Possible power switch issue?
So I've been pretty happy with my Apollo II, running it in solo mode and even pointing two Avalon Nano 3's to it right now.
Besides the SQL bug for the GUI, it's been great. Occasionally, I may need to reboot it as I haven't been sure how to work around the SQL bug and monitor the unit remotely.
Recently, when I reset my remote PDU switch to the outlet, the unit won't come back on. When I reset the power switch on the back of the unit, it would start to work just fine.
This happened a few times but now, when it reboots and starts to begin hashing, the unit turns completely off! It seemed the switch was acting as a safety, as if I barely touched it, it would "reset" and start to give it power again.
I decided to open the unit to see if I can see anything but everything looked great inside. For me, I decided to bypass the wiring inside to skip the switch and have the power supply go straight to the outlet plug.
After verifying where the wires should go, I disconnected the wires from the PSU to the switch and plugged it into the wall plug to bypass the switch. I powered it up now everything is working again and it has started hashing!
Not sure the quality of the power switch in the back of the Apollo II unit, but if needed, you can bypass it and it seems to work great now.
If you have random shut downs and resetting the power doesn't fit it, that little switch could be the issue.
So I've been pretty happy with my Apollo II, running it in solo mode and even pointing two Avalon Nano 3's to it right now.
Besides the SQL bug for the GUI, it's been great. Occasionally, I may need to reboot it as I haven't been sure how to work around the SQL bug and monitor the unit remotely.
Recently, when I reset my remote PDU switch to the outlet, the unit won't come back on. When I reset the power switch on the back of the unit, it would start to work just fine.
This happened a few times but now, when it reboots and starts to begin hashing, the unit turns completely off! It seemed the switch was acting as a safety, as if I barely touched it, it would "reset" and start to give it power again.
I decided to open the unit to see if I can see anything but everything looked great inside. For me, I decided to bypass the wiring inside to skip the switch and have the power supply go straight to the outlet plug.
After verifying where the wires should go, I disconnected the wires from the PSU to the switch and plugged it into the wall plug to bypass the switch. I powered it up now everything is working again and it has started hashing!
Not sure the quality of the power switch in the back of the Apollo II unit, but if needed, you can bypass it and it seems to work great now.
If you have random shut downs and resetting the power doesn't fit it, that little switch could be the issue.
We have had a few power switches fail and yours could be one of them. The issue seems to stem from people not plugging in the power cable all the way into the socket which causes the AC pins to overheat and eventually fails the switch.
Now that its heater season will probably send out another email to everyone to remind to make sure you are checking the AC cable for overheating especially when changes power modes from eco to balances/turbo
jstefanop,
I don't entirely agree. The issue does not always stem from people not plugging in the power cable all the way into the socket. Yes. maybe a few, but certainly not all. I have been the recipient of such units and I certainly plug my units in completely. As a matter of fact, I'm still waiting for a return for this very problem that's been over two weeks since you received it. And, I'm monitoring another that may also need an RMA. Just to let you know.
Regards
I'm with you PennyBit, this is a switch issue for sure. Since I own a RTX 4090, I've become OCD about plugging ALL my cords in fully until I hear a click, no matter what it is.
It was more like the switch was tripping out on the load, not on the plug issue. As soon as it began hashing and the watt/amps would go up, it would kill the connection while still "on".
Also, since you have mentioned in the forums about plugging the cord full in, I actually went back and double checked all my units. They were all fully seated...
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
Possible power switch issue?
So I've been pretty happy with my Apollo II, running it in solo mode and even pointing two Avalon Nano 3's to it right now.
Besides the SQL bug for the GUI, it's been great. Occasionally, I may need to reboot it as I haven't been sure how to work around the SQL bug and monitor the unit remotely.
Recently, when I reset my remote PDU switch to the outlet, the unit won't come back on. When I reset the power switch on the back of the unit, it would start to work just fine.
This happened a few times but now, when it reboots and starts to begin hashing, the unit turns completely off! It seemed the switch was acting as a safety, as if I barely touched it, it would "reset" and start to give it power again.
I decided to open the unit to see if I can see anything but everything looked great inside. For me, I decided to bypass the wiring inside to skip the switch and have the power supply go straight to the outlet plug.
After verifying where the wires should go, I disconnected the wires from the PSU to the switch and plugged it into the wall plug to bypass the switch. I powered it up now everything is working again and it has started hashing!
Not sure the quality of the power switch in the back of the Apollo II unit, but if needed, you can bypass it and it seems to work great now.
If you have random shut downs and resetting the power doesn't fit it, that little switch could be the issue.
So I've been pretty happy with my Apollo II, running it in solo mode and even pointing two Avalon Nano 3's to it right now.
Besides the SQL bug for the GUI, it's been great. Occasionally, I may need to reboot it as I haven't been sure how to work around the SQL bug and monitor the unit remotely.
Recently, when I reset my remote PDU switch to the outlet, the unit won't come back on. When I reset the power switch on the back of the unit, it would start to work just fine.
This happened a few times but now, when it reboots and starts to begin hashing, the unit turns completely off! It seemed the switch was acting as a safety, as if I barely touched it, it would "reset" and start to give it power again.
I decided to open the unit to see if I can see anything but everything looked great inside. For me, I decided to bypass the wiring inside to skip the switch and have the power supply go straight to the outlet plug.
After verifying where the wires should go, I disconnected the wires from the PSU to the switch and plugged it into the wall plug to bypass the switch. I powered it up now everything is working again and it has started hashing!
Not sure the quality of the power switch in the back of the Apollo II unit, but if needed, you can bypass it and it seems to work great now.
If you have random shut downs and resetting the power doesn't fit it, that little switch could be the issue.
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
What are you all using to monitor your solo node? I've been keeping the stats page up via web GUI, but with the frequent SQL crashes, I end up rebooting every other day.
If the SQL bug doesn't actually take the node down, I don't mind leaving it that way but wasn't sure what else I could to do see that it's up and running.
If the SQL bug doesn't actually take the node down, I don't mind leaving it that way but wasn't sure what else I could to do see that it's up and running.
It's just a front end bug nothing in the backend/solo/mining is affected.
Hoping to get 2.0.6 out in the next week or so to address this.
If your logged in via monitor or know how to ssh below commands will bring up the backend services/logs
sudo screen -dr miner //miner stats
screen -dr node //node stats (as long as you see getblocktemplate messages your solo mining)
screen -dr ckpool //solo pool stats
That worked great. Looking forward to the update though too.
Thank you!
Re: Official FutureBit Apollo II/BTC Software/Image and Support thread
What are you all using to monitor your solo node? I've been keeping the stats page up via web GUI, but with the frequent SQL crashes, I end up rebooting every other day.
If the SQL bug doesn't actually take the node down, I don't mind leaving it that way but wasn't sure what else I could to do see that it's up and running.
If the SQL bug doesn't actually take the node down, I don't mind leaving it that way but wasn't sure what else I could to do see that it's up and running.
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Hey willi9974!
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I just joined in as I got my Bitaxe Supra
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Thanks!