Compass Mining, a Bitcoin mining company, claims that three problems have been found in the ASIC design of two new Antminer S19 miners, who are mainly used to mine BTC.

Various problems may cause the equipment to overheat and, in some cases, even completely damage it.

The company's mining operations planner warned in an article on March 6 that "miners must be well prepared," especially those who bought the S19 90T and S19 XP Antminers made after 2022.

Although the company stated that "other versions may also be affected", the three shortcomings it found came from the lack of an outfield Jack control board (PIC) on the module, the use of aluminized film instead of laminated material, and the binding of parts to one side of the circuit board.

According to Compass Mining, the outfield Jack control board, or PIC, is used to control and supervise a wide range of electronic products, a range of machines, equipment and systems. In ASIC, they use addressing as an independent interaction with the Hashboard, rather than as a unit.

However, the company says it has deleted this from its latest design.

In ASIC, PIC sits on top of the hashboard, allowing each hashboard session to be independent. Without it, you would have to treat the unit as one unit instead of three discussion boards.

Compass Mining explained that the absence of such PIC means that if an exception occurs in one Hashboard, all modules will be "completely unsuccessful."

In turn, a miner failed completely. It is not difficult to find our own S19 XP 141module is such a thing, when only one computer motherboard problems, they completely failed.

The mining company also stressed that to perform aluminized film on car dashboards, it could be overheated and could lead to a higher "equipment failure rate" than the circuit board in the printed circuit board (PCB), on which the old S19 was built.

This will lead to "higher demand", the company said.

In addition, the company expressed concern about the way the mining unit was converted to an aluminum company, calling it "net negativity".

"for us, switching to aluminized film design on Hashboard is determined to be a net adverse effect-it will increase common failures and deficiencies in ASIC, as well as service and maintenance costs," it wrote.

The company also explained that the existence of aluminum alloy will make it more and more difficult to remove and replace common failure processing chips:

The lack of PIC is also fuelled by the sudden disassembly and replacement of aluminum alloy panels on all car dashboards. If a plate is overheated due to the heat removal characteristics of aluminum alloy, then all modules may be turned off, not just one board.

Compass Mining said that when they deployed S19 XP at a Texas partner processing plant, they were aware of functional failure for the first time-which could be endangered by high and high temperatures.

With regard to the third difficulty, the company stressed that the implementation of the electroplating process aluminum-the base of the ASIC-without removing and replacing the car chassis would also result in a higher equipment failure rate.

The company explained that because aluminum has a strong ability to expel heat, this kind of metal material will cause "convective heating" into the inner structure of the car chassis, and then come up with some solutions:

"in an air-cooled environment, one way to solve these problems is to increase enough air flow to store heat inside the miners-choose a different design or a sturdy fan."

Many of the possible solutions clearly put forward by the company include exploring third-party fixtures to maintain a scientific and reasonable level of temperature and humidity for the number of equipment and working voltage, so as to improve the service life of the excavator.

However, the company acknowledges that it may have just got a bad stomach from Bitcoin and stressed that not buying the first bitcoin ASIC is "common sense" in Bitcoin discovery.

"uncertain inaccuracies generally show up only over time, so try to let others find them first," it said.

Cointelegraph contacted Bitmain for comment, but had not received a text message as of press time.

Bitmain Antminers has been used to discover digital currencies that work units have proven to be efficient, such as BTC, Dogecoin (Doge) and Litecoin (LTC).