Dead Equipment...

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Originally Posted by STMahlberg

That would be cool :D but I wouldn't be able to fix it until December sometime until I can afford a reworking station. I still have a RBox 100 that I have to fix as well.

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I will keep it around in case you want to play surgeon sometime.

I was going to purchase a replacement R-Box 32, but now I'm not sure with the BU changes coming. :confused:

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Originally Posted by Ron Shurtz

I will keep it around in case you want to play surgeon sometime.

I was going to purchase a replacement R-Box 32 but not I'm sure now with the BU changes coming. :confused:

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Yeah... with the last two news feeds from BitCoin, I have concerns as well; it's starting to sound like they are moving to mine BitCoins only and the BOINC credits are going away... just a guess though.

Well, hell... Just lost the PSU on my server this morning. The cheapest one I've found is $100; it might as well be a $1000. Looks like I'm down 1 rig indefinitely. :((

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Originally Posted by STMahlberg

Well, hell... Just lost the PSU on my server this morning. The cheapest one I've found is $100; it might as well be a $1000. Looks like I'm down 1 rig indefinitely. :((

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Bummer.... :(

I feel your pain.

All I did was add just one more GPU. It was showing 1000 watts, so I walked away thinking all was good. Three boxes and five gpus fell silent, so I knew something was wrong. I gave it one star in a product review for not going up in flames. Decided not to run that GPU I had just added.


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Originally Posted by somanyroads

All I did was add just one more GPU. It was showing 1000 watts, so I walked away thinking all was good. Three boxes and five gpus fell silent, so I knew something was wrong. I gave it one star in a product review for not going up in flames. Decided not to run that GPU I had just added.


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I had a kill-a-watt that looked exactly like that a few years ago. I've since added dedicated circuits for most of my crunchers. I still get a bit nervous when I have everything fired up. Glad you caught it early!

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Originally Posted by somanyroads

All I did was add just one more GPU. It was showing 1000 watts, so I walked away thinking all was good. Three boxes and five gpus fell silent, so I knew something was wrong. I gave it one star in a product review for not going up in flames. Decided not to run that GPU I had just added.


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Originally Posted by Sphynx

I had a kill-a-watt that looked exactly like that a few years ago. I've since added dedicated circuits for most of my crunchers. I still get a bit nervous when I have everything fired up. Glad you caught it early!

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So has a hobby gone too far when you start thinking about installing an automated fire suppression system for your computers? =))

Edit: On a side note. We used Watts Up? Pro ES when I worked for Energy Management. They're a bit of an investment but they are durable and accurate.

Yes, I feel nervous when everything is powered up too. I melted a service pole a year ago, that cost 2k.

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Originally Posted by Haunted Forest

... I melted a service pole a year ago, that cost 2k.

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@-) Yoooowwwwzzzaaarrr!

Just for fun, I plugged the power cord back in the PSU on my server and it turned on. The cool thing about this PSU is that it's hot-swappable; I didn't want to turn it off so I just slide it back in its cage on the server and the rig fired up again. I don't know how long it will run but I'm sure not going to unplug it to find out.

The cage has room for one more PSU and I know something is amiss with the one I have so I'm saving my nickels and dimes to get another one. I've never seen redundant hot-swappable PSU's before; that's not really saying much but it is very cool.