Giant X10 stop working every few days or hours

[juninhodecio]

I have 4 Giant X10 they stop after a few days sometimes a few hours and a have to go to the facility turn off the power and turn on again.

Its a big problem for me as i live 50 miles from the machines location. Is there any solution?

I already updated the latest image and same problem.

[armon2799]

I have 8 Giant X10,sadly,I met same things -miner down!!! I don`t know how to deal with it! Who can help us?

[dsldsl999]

You sounds like junin from MD on X11 pool.

Anyway I also have similar problem with my X10. When the problem occurs, the X10 loses network connectivity as well as stop hashing. Only way to get it working is to power it off and on. I use a remote power on off switch to power them off and on.

There are two solutions:

1) Set auto reboot via awesomeminer every hour or every day, you just have to try what interval is best. 2) Baikal support seems to suggest a faulty Pi and they offer me $20 to get it replace. Instead I just bought a Pi Orange from Amazon and replaced it myself as I don't really trust Baikal's Pi give I have a few with the same problem but some just not occurring as frequent. You also need to get the 26 pin GPIO header and solder it on yourself. It is not hard just takes around 5-10 mins to do. You replace the Pi by taking the 4 screws at the back to release the back plate and then you can pull the Pi out, really easy to do. Since the Pi was replaced, my X10 has been up over 10 days without any problem. It did reboot itself once but it never locked up like before.

I actually bought the 512Mb version instead of the 256Mb one originally supplied in the X10. I am also upgrading the SD card as I don't like the cheap 4Gb 4x speed SD card originally supplied SD card either.

Hope that helps.

[kjbutler]

My buddy had same problem. he runs a 40 machine farm with Baikal's and S9's. had to travel 20miles to reset everything every day. he finally put all the Baikal's on a SEPARATE circuit. His thinking was that the S9's draw so much current that when they change cycles/fan speeds, etc that it kicked off a few Baikal's every time. So he separated them and so far so good

[juninhodecio]

The problem is the PI zero board

Baikal charges 20usd for replacement even when they are dead on arrival. Absurd

Decio

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My buddy had same problem. he runs a 40 machine farm with Baikal's and S9's. had to travel 20miles to reset everything every day. he finally put all the Baikal's on a SEPARATE circuit. His thinking was that the S9's draw so much current that when they change cycles/fan speeds, etc that it kicked off a few Baikal's every time. So he separated them and so far so good

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[Palichka]

I bought new PI, replace it and nothing new. it stop working every hour. besides, the fan does not control in my miner. it work in the same I don't now what it can be.

[DarrenMTB]

@dsldsl999 I have Baikal N+, it has same issue as everyone is describing here with the X10s -- constantly going offline 1-3x per day in my case. 30% of my N+ units have this problem.

I also purchased the 512MB Orange Pi Zero like you did and had the 26 pins soldered on by a pro that solders PCB boards for a living. I removed the WiFi antenna that was connected to the new Pi board. I used a working SDCard from another N+ I have that doesn't have issues.

When I power up the miner with the new Pi and SDCard, the blue lights on the back of the miner usually blink while it finds and IP and then remain solid after it has one, however, the blue lights don't come on at all. Despite this the unit does get an IP address, web interface works, pools I had configured show up, etc. Only thing missing is the area where it usually shows the 3 hash boards is blank, no hash boards showing up at all. It incremented some of the statistics like it was hashing but it never showed up in the mining pool's list of my miners.

Did you do anything special to get your Orange Pi Zero 512MB to recognize the hash boards?

I have a total of 5 OrangePi Zero Boards with the 26 pins soldered on. If anyone else is doing something interesting with Baikal's let me know and maybe we can collaborate. I know people are working on trying to rebuild, decompile the mining software, I believe it's called SG Miner but I don't see that appearing anywhere in the GUI. On N+ it says it's Scripta by Lateral Factory.

https://github.com/cod3gen/sgminer-baikal

But from what I understand although it was open source Baikal didn't open source their modifications leaving us all stuck with a rather crappy web interface i.e. like no way to set a fixed IP address! To fix bugs and do things like overclocking, etc. it would be great to see this happen. From what I read, the above project is still a work in progress and it's not stable yet, can do things like make hash boards run faster than they should. Sounds like it's a good start and many things do work though.

[CryptoKillar]

I just hope my BK-10 works, just wondering what the best platform to run this on...?