Canaan A1066 Review

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hodler2019Legendary
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#1Mar 11, 2022, 09:50 AM
Just got my hands on two of these miners. Both are up and running now, woohoo!! These things are pretty hefty, weighing in at 27 pounds each. But one of them looks like it has a faulty power supply. Check out the log from the working unit.
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#2Mar 13, 2022, 01:05 PM
Okay  first off   fuck fuck  fuck fuck and $%^$%#$%^$#%$ Alright out of my system. I got both to work  much better in terms of my anger and frustration. I will post photos etc. Buysolar and I paid 2570 + 680 = 3250 for 2 units. One works fine does about 50th on high and 47th on normal. Pretty loud on high not so loud on low. I will have photos soon.
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#3Mar 15, 2022, 12:16 PM
Here are Side by side logs working unit and bad unit.  This has the same -40 issue as I did on my bad 1041. but this psu reads 12.80 volts and the 'good' psu reads 12.76 volts so this is very likely not a psu issue.
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#4Mar 15, 2022, 06:16 PM
I will get back to trouble shooting dead one later.  Fixxed it yeaaaaaa!! For now I will focus on review of good unit. very well packed weight is about 32 pounds See this this is not safe. I thought my dead unit was due to that shorting, but both unit's psu show 12.7 to 12.9 volts. here is chart on normal after 30+ minutes lastly good log and how to fill a pool out.
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luckybearMember
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#5Mar 15, 2022, 08:02 PM
So Phil what was wrong? How did you fix it?
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hodler2019Legendary
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#6Mar 15, 2022, 10:30 PM
Went back to basics. It ran with the oem pool on high setting. I loaded the oem pool back and set it to high and it ran. I loaded my pool back and set it to high and it runs. Some interesting points on low/normal the unit pulls 11 amps or 2650 watts and does  50.89th on high/preformance the other units pulls ?  and does 49th I will play around some more  but the gui/eth connection seems flakey on the 'bad' unit. good news is the other unit set to lower speed is pulling 2650 watts for 50th = 53 watts a th which is better then spec from  canaan website  I am doing much better the 63 or 65 watts a th. on normal setting on 'good' unit.
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#7Mar 15, 2022, 11:01 PM
re: eth connection & GUI being flakey If you mean sometimes you cannot log in or switching to Log confuses it, that started with the A10's which use Canaan's new controller chip & FMS. Sometimes when logging in you will get 'Connection Refused'. Just keep reloading/retrying. Sometimes a fast double-click on Log In will do it as well. For Connection Refused when trying to access the Log, just reload it or go back and try it again.
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hodler2019Legendary
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#8Mar 16, 2022, 12:13 AM
yeah  multiple clicks to log in  and it prefers chrome  on my mac's over safari. It is stable now just over 50th and only 2640 watts  which is way under the 63-65 watt a th rating. general impressions are gui/eth/controller is flakey you need multiple attempts some of the time. chrome on mac is good. chrome on windows is good. I really do not like this See this this is not safe. No gear should have a 3000 watt psu with exposed  pos neg terminals.  Simply wrong please short me pretty please short me out What do I like  it is doing 2640 watts in a cool space far under the 3150  it is specced at. 53watts a th vs 63watts a th That is very nice.  I will run it over nite  and see if it still gets good power ratings.
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#9Mar 16, 2022, 09:59 PM
53 W/TH vs 63 W/TH is a giant difference. What is the ambient temperature? I'd be interested to see what the average is over a few hours using kWh meter.
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hodler2019Legendary
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#10Mar 16, 2022, 11:18 PM
I pulled out my kWh meter because the real time number of 2640 seemed to good to be true. if it is a 63 watt miner it should do 3.125 per if it is a 53 watt miner it should do 2.650 per hour my kwh meter in 2 hours. went from 2374.00 to 2380.08 that is 6.08 kwatts. or 3040 watts or 60.8 watts. which is just a little better then 63-65 rating. edit 10 hour kwh meter reading 2374.00 to 2405.50 is : 31.50 kwatts /10   = 3150 watts average use  which is 63 watts since gear is doing 50th  which is right on spec. temps on machine read  26c/78f fan at 65%  log shows fan speeds at 4300 to 4438 So gear runs to spec  after 10 hours in a fairly cool room  75-80f room
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#11Mar 17, 2022, 01:04 AM
so I am running the 2 units and they run well one in a cold room   30f one in a warm room 85f both average close to 50.4th I have the one in the hot room  on a kwh meter for 156 hours meter was at 2374.0  and is now at 2869.69 so 2869.69 - 2374.00= 495.69 kwatts/156 = 3.1775  kwatts an hour  or 3177 watts/50.4 = 63.0357 watts an hour. I would compare this unit to bitmain's t17e I have two of each run time /up time t17e  drops out in a cold room over and over and over. a1066 works none stop 156 hours in a cold room.         cold room temps   20f to 40f t17e runs steady in a 80f room a1066 runs steady in a 85f room. in a warm room t17e does 54th     uses 3345 watts  about 62 watts a th a1066 does 50th   uses 3177 watts  about 63 watts a th price 969   t17e   ships jan 10-20 1075 a1066 ships now based on the very close hash rate and power use they are close to a tie. price is close due to a 20-30 wait for the t17e reliability  I only have 2 of each item.  and the t17e is not reliable in a cold room  the a1066 is. both are good in warm rooms. If I could only mine with one of these two items  I would buy from avalon and mine with the a1066 it edges out the t17e.
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#12Mar 17, 2022, 03:56 AM
Do these A1066s overclock?
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hodler2019Legendary
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#13Mar 17, 2022, 04:10 AM
Yeah But after 1 hour  the over clock seemed to be exactly the same as the standard clock. This was at my house and was stupid loud. But I spent all day up at the warehouse in Clifton NJ  so I think I will use my teamviewer setup this morning and see if I set one to over clock what happen by days end. I have one set to high     it does 50.84 in gui I have one set to normal it does 50.47 in gui pool shows 49.73 last hour for high pool shows 50.67 last hour for normal temps  25c 77f fan 65 for high "          25c 77f  "   54 for normal I will look at this in a day to see if it is better.  since it seems to have zero betterment for high setting
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