Maintaining The Antminer

As was stated in the previous article, If you take care of anything, it will take care of you. I will show you the best way to maintain the Antminer then from there I will illustrate how to take it apart to clean and maintain it. If you have even a remote of common sense, then you know that putting it back together, is a complete reverse of taking it apart.

The first thing to remove the Antminer from service

                          

If it has a case remove the case from the Antminer, and you should get this. Note this is an Antminer S5, but the actual style is exactly the same as the Antminer S3. Also most Antminers have the same components, The case housing, the fan motors, the hashing boards, the cables, the control board, the coils are all similar.

First we are going to remove the fan motor. Only four screws, and the power cable inserted to the board. Pretty easy.

With the fan motor off you can now see and inspect the cooling coils

As you can see, these coils are in desperate need of cleaning, so we must remove all the cables, then all the sides, and finally the hashing-boards with the control board and mount in order to clean the entire coil.

Remove the plate screws and the plate


 

Now remove the cables from the board all cables must be removed.  

                

                        

Take out the control board

You will need to unplug the control board from both sides of the hashing board and remove all the machine screws from the hashing-board which is attached to the coil. Antminer S3 has a heat sink that is in the center, you will need to remove this. Keep the screws all together.

Hashing Boards can be cleaned with mineral oil, or Rubbing alcohol and a good air compressor. Once they are cleaned you can reattach the Hashing Boards, and re-assemble the Antminer in the exact reverse steps that you dis assembled it.

Maintaining the Antminer will allow you to have the maximum efficiency of the mining operation. I hope this article helped you.