I hope this message reaches every #Bitaxe user. Bitaxe lottery miners are amazing, but please be aware that this is experimental electronics. As with all such devices, you need to take proper precautions.

A few days ago, when I upgraded to version 2.1.7, the WiFi went down for unknown reasons that night. The next morning, when I entered the room where my lottery miner was located, I smelled fried components. The miner was extremely hot, and the fan was static. I unplugged it immediately and later that day downgraded it back to version 2.1.6. I'm not sure if the version was the issue because I don't want to risk and stress it again. I'm just happy it still works.

Model: BM1366

Free Heap Memory: 171436

Version: v2.1.6

Board Version: 0.11

My amateur assumptions was that WI-FI chip was rapidly searching for network for whole night and that makes the device extremely hot.

The point is, be very careful about leaving these little devices unsupervised without proper fire-proof solutions.

My DIY temporary solution 🫣