|
Title: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 08:42:18 PM Hey guys,
at the beginning of this week I made the firsts thoughts about "how could a bitfury custom casing look like", so I started and made some thoughts and also compared other proofen designs. Also the Bitfury developers/ Alpha testers, namely intron and cscape helped me alot with the specs of the board and dimensions, I also should get blank pcs of the boards shortly from cscape to check if the prototype housing fits nicely. (there is no prototype yet) My goal is here to make a good housing design, which fulfills the most needed requirements for everybody. See attached my first design, this is an open housing attempt with the measurements of 200x200x600mm, enough space for 3 120mm Fans, a PSU and the Raspi. Also a female RJ 45 network connector is assambled on the housing and will be internaly connected to the raspi. Such a connector looks much better as when the raspi is directly connected to the outside with a cable, also its safer to do it this way and it works as cord grip. ################################################################################################################################################ Open Casing Design: Features: #space for up to 3 - 120mm Fans #space for PSU and Raspberry PI #safely transportable #every H-boards is secured with a mounting plate #only standard H-Boards and M- Boards from Bitfury are fitting Pictures pof the open case design: 3D pictures https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255737.msg2724291#msg2724291 Manufaturer pictures: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255737.msg2981262#msg2981262 Finished and assambled case pictures: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255737.msg3075351#msg3075351 ################################################################################################################################################ Rack Casing Design: Features: #space for up to 5 - 120mm Fans #space for PSU and Raspberry PI #fits in server housings #every H-boards is secured with a mounting plate #only standard H-Boards and M- Boards from Bitfury are fitting #Size is 19" - 4HE - lengh is 350mm here is the Rack housing design, Cover will come a bit later. Pictures pof the Rack case design: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255737.msg2726434#msg2726434 ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ Hey folks, Regarding the open case design: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/200/jhb4.png Lately i put a lot of time into this project and spend nearly every evening in planning and getting offers from companies and calulating stuff, sourcing parts and so on. Finally i can tell you now that all parts which will be included in the prototype run are ordered and a few have also just arived at my place. So just to let you know what will be included, that will be all necessary parts to mount the full 16 Hboard in 1 mboard, all screws and mounting standoffs, gpio cable, power cable for raspi to molex, rubber feets, fan grill and wire straps for cable management, basicly like the picture in the thread but without hardware ;). Unfortunatly i cannot provide the 3 - 120mm Fans for the cases, just couldnt find a proper source for getting a good price at these, maybe i could provide 1 fan per housing as a bonus but lets see about that. To come straight to the point, the price for an open case prototype will be 145 EUR without shipping.(Iam located in Europe, Austria, Vienna -- to calculate your shipping) I will charge the casing price now and the shipping price before delivery if you are interested in purchasing one, please take into account that the case is quite big and the shipping costs could also be a bit expensive. (shipping box size estimated 700x300x250mm - weight is estimated to be 3,5-5kg with all accessories). Accepted payments are: bank transfer paypal BTC Shipping cost estimations: (insuranced shipping and trackable) Austria: 10 EUR Europe: 20-30 EUR USA Mainland: 40 EUR[/b] Outgoing Lead time:estimated for week 1 or 2 of September :( Unfortunatly this is very much depending on the sheet metal manufacturer, but there is only a small change to deliver these units still in august. I hope this works out and you will continue to support me with making an order for a case. If you got any question dont hesitate to ask. Currently i have 8 cases left to offer Please note this is no commercial sale, this is my private prototype run and Iam willing to produce a few more for the community here, but I cannot give you any guarantees or warrantys on the product. BR Foofighter ################## News from 07.08.2013 ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ Hey guys, some News here regarding the purchaseable open cases. Iam very happy to annouce that I can reduce the price for each open case to: 145 EUR Today I discussed the whole project with a manufacturer who could do all necessary steps of manufaturing on his own to finish the cases at very competitive prices. Before that the price was based of raw case which i had to transport to a welder and then painted the cases, so as you could imagine that would have been a lot of additional work compared to the current solution. I gave the whole saving directly to you, so you have a more competitive price for a good product. So i hope now with this price the cases are getting sold a bit faster. regards Tom Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 08:45:32 PM Would probably make sense to make them stackable vertically. Also im sure you'd get some interest if you make it rack mountable, just move the tabs to the sides.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: SebastianJu on July 13, 2013, 08:53:55 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks?
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: dracore on July 13, 2013, 08:57:14 PM Not much airflow passing across the cards -- especially if they are all seated perpendicular to the case. Are you planning to make slits in the case wall to let air in/out?
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Swimmer63 on July 13, 2013, 09:06:12 PM Not much airflow passing across the cards -- especially if they are all seated perpendicular to the case. Are you planning to make slits in the case wall to let air in/out? Unless I'm misunderstanding, sound like the side and top will remain open to the air. Is this correct? So the graphics show the case exactly as it will look? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 09:07:16 PM I think he was pretty clear. He calls it open case design, the top and back are wide open.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:09:46 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowTitle: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:12:05 PM Would probably make sense to make them stackable vertically. Also im sure you'd get some interest if you make it rack mountable, just move the tabs to the sides. yeah, but the current master board defines doesnt allow another alignment. What do you mean with the tabs to the sides? please explain more in detail Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 09:15:06 PM Like this.
http://media.digikey.com/photos/Vector%20Photos/CCA220-3U.jpg Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 09:17:41 PM Would probably make sense to make them stackable vertically. Also im sure you'd get some interest if you make it rack mountable, just move the tabs to the sides. yeah, but the current master board defines doesnt allow another alignment. What do you mean with the tabs to the sides? please explain more in detail i wasn't referring to the hash boards, i meant make your case stackable if you have multiple cases. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:17:49 PM I think he was pretty clear. He calls it open case design, the top and back are wide open. Yes, as stated this will be an open design, have to check the costs with manufacturers but this could probly be a low budget version of housing. When making a closed design i would have to add another 3 fans on the opposide and make the housing slithly more wide. Have already thought about it, if i make a closed housing also the open housing will get wider because i wouldnt wanna use too many different parts, as the lot size hardly changes the pricing of manufacture. The 3 additional fans could be placed inside of the housing cover. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:21:39 PM Would probably make sense to make them stackable vertically. Also im sure you'd get some interest if you make it rack mountable, just move the tabs to the sides. yeah, but the current master board defines doesnt allow another alignment. What do you mean with the tabs to the sides? please explain more in detail i wasn't referring to the hash boards, i meant make your case stackable if you have multiple cases. i dont see the point in this proposal, why would you stack these housing, just use a storage rack, i think this would be pretty much unlikly to happen. Have seen many pictures of mining farms and all miners were side by side in storage racks. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: SebastianJu on July 13, 2013, 09:28:49 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:36:47 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. not quite sure, just what one of the alpha testers told me, havend reached punin in this matter to get an official statement. But yes they are running on very low clock, just doing 1,55GH per chip if i remind it right. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: SebastianJu on July 13, 2013, 09:38:51 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. not quite sure, just what one of the alpha testers told me, havend reached punin in this matter to get an official statement. But yes they are running on very low clock, just doing 1,55GH per chip if i remind it right. It would be really interesting how much overclocking potential they have then. I mean the space for a heatsink wouldnt matter when you could get a reasonable higher hashrate for nearly the same price. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Felipeo on July 13, 2013, 09:40:34 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228677.0 [Test threat] ~ 2.7 GH/sec @ 0.8W/GH temp below 50 C degree :) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:42:14 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=228677.0 [Test threat] ~ 2.7 GH/sec @ 0.8W/GH temp below 50 C degree :) the clock i mentioned is right, they are using 16 chips each board and make 25gh. This was just a test value, but higher clock means also more heat and more power usage. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 09:44:07 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. not quite sure, just what one of the alpha testers told me, havend reached punin in this matter to get an official statement. But yes they are running on very low clock, just doing 1,55GH per chip if i remind it right. It would be really interesting how much overclocking potential they have then. I mean the space for a heatsink wouldnt matter when you could get a reasonable higher hashrate for nearly the same price. I recall that someone mentioned that Ocing capabilities will be limited because the power related parts have not so much free space for higher clocks or somthing, and only if you solder the right parts out and change them you are free to OC the chips as you like. But not sure here too, just red it somewhere(limited ocing should be possible) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Felipeo on July 13, 2013, 09:46:34 PM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? there are no heatsinks, as far as i knowHow can this be? If they dont get hot they arent clocked high enough for sure. All other chips need heatsinks too, why not this one? Would safe space for sure but it sounds strange to me. not quite sure, just what one of the alpha testers told me, havend reached punin in this matter to get an official statement. But yes they are running on very low clock, just doing 1,55GH per chip if i remind it right. It would be really interesting how much overclocking potential they have then. I mean the space for a heatsink wouldnt matter when you could get a reasonable higher hashrate for nearly the same price. Yes Foofighter you write final right clock value, and I posted tested value and temp for it... There was mentioned that for higher hashrate they will need some higher cost on board hardware, all is in that thread ;) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Felipeo on July 13, 2013, 09:48:11 PM BTW case looks very nice :)
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: darkfriend77 on July 13, 2013, 09:51:03 PM ... looks great ... good work ...
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: bkpduke on July 13, 2013, 09:51:25 PM Something mountable in a standard 19-inch server rack would be preferred.
With standard airflow principle (front=INTAKE , rear=EXHAUST). Based upon the height of the H-boards, this should be doable in a 3U height chassis design. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 09:51:29 PM Would probably make sense to make them stackable vertically. Also im sure you'd get some interest if you make it rack mountable, just move the tabs to the sides. yeah, but the current master board defines doesnt allow another alignment. What do you mean with the tabs to the sides? please explain more in detail i wasn't referring to the hash boards, i meant make your case stackable if you have multiple cases. i dont see the point in this proposal, why would you stack these housing, just use a storage rack, i think this would be pretty much unlikly to happen. Have seen many pictures of mining farms and all miners were side by side in storage racks. Space considerations, if you were putting them in a datacenter, density is key. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 13, 2013, 10:02:10 PM Something mountable in a standard 19-inch server rack would be preferred. With standard airflow principle (front=INTAKE , rear=EXHAUST). Based upon the height of the H-boards, this should be doable in a 3U height chassis design. k, have to look into that, have no experience so far with server housings but i think the dimensions are standardized? ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ Overview Frontside http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/200/jhb4.png Overview Backside http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6633/97p.png Topview: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/5320/e258.png Overview Bottom: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/7728/fu5r.png PSU, Raspi and RJ45 connector placement: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/3899/auvm.png secured cards: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/107/ocxi.png Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: minternj on July 13, 2013, 10:05:10 PM Yes, rack unit is standardized. Im thinking you would probably build a case for regular users and a bracket for users who want to rack mount it pretty easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: bkpduke on July 13, 2013, 10:06:51 PM Yes, rack unit is standardized. Im thinking you would probably build a case for regular users and a bracket for users who want to rack mount it pretty easily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit Yep. When designing it, please remember that any good datacenter is designed with COLD air coming into the front of the rack, and then your EXHAUST goes out the back (not the side or top/bottom). Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cet on July 13, 2013, 10:13:01 PM It looks pretty nice. Is the rPI fastened down somehow? How about clips for the fan wiring? Is h-board plug 0 on the rPI side? What’s the reason for the lip on the top facing outward? If that lip faced inwards then it looks like the cases could be stacked on top of another. Why do you have an RJ45 plug on the top rather than just routing the Ethernet cable to the rPI directly? I figure that would be one of the advantages of having an open case.
And most important… Any estimate on how much a case like that would cost? /cet Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: tytus on July 13, 2013, 10:55:44 PM The original idea was to position the RasPI like this: http://imgur.com/TegDpOQ but we have problems to get connectors that are high enough above the board. To operate the board we rotated the connector and connected RasPI in an awkward way (http://imgur.com/jV1iis9). We will fix this later but even if You decide to use cables it would be better to reserve more space in front of the M-board for the RasPI.
=> put the fans on the opposite side. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Pinwheel on July 14, 2013, 03:54:41 AM Didnt you miss the heatsinks? chip surface temp from Bitcentury test was 80C and rising, to have heatsink would be not bad idea. It may happen that we will have to run it on risers and fix heat sinks ourselves. Maybe for Russia and Ukraine with its cold climate, no heat sinks is OK, but not for India or other countries with hot climate. Here in India room temperature can easy be 30C all year around. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 14, 2013, 05:22:25 AM Do you have any idea when you'll have a finalized design? Also how much would you sell each case for?
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: madsusies on July 14, 2013, 06:03:10 AM Do you have any idea when you'll have a finalized design? Also how much would you sell each case for? :D LOL Pre-orders for empty booth, the FooFighter should get in touch with Josh. He got 8 months skills in making empty booths, o Gosh that would be bisnis selling small jala cases as ashtrays :) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 14, 2013, 07:13:20 AM It looks pretty nice. Is the rPI fastened down somehow? How about clips for the fan wiring? Is h-board plug 0 on the rPI side? What’s the reason for the lip on the top facing outward? If that lip faced inwards then it looks like the cases could be stacked on top of another. Why do you have an RJ45 plug on the top rather than just routing the Ethernet cable to the rPI directly? I figure that would be one of the advantages of having an open case. And most important… Any estimate on how much a case like that would cost? /cet rpi hast no mounting so far atm, will propably add mounting holes and put in standoff spacers like with the mboard, Yes plug 0 is on the rPI side. The reason for the lip is for easier transportation. Is anybody really going to stack these housings? RJ45 plug is mostly for cord grip reasons and in my opinion it looks better this way. The reason for an open housing are as mentioned cost reasons, because i think the sheet metal could get really expansive. No costing estimations so far, I will implement the wishes and changes you suggest and should latest by the end of the weeks send out the drawings to sheet metal manufacturers. So i could probably get an offer in week 29. regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 14, 2013, 07:19:12 AM Do you have any idea when you'll have a finalized design? Also how much would you sell each case for? I will take suggestions the whole coming week and implement them und then the design should be final. The idea was that i would talk to some reseller( like punin or buzzdave), and he would sell the housings, my intention was essentialy to make only the design, but i think i will also make prototypes of it. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 14, 2013, 07:26:37 AM The original idea was to position the RasPI like this: http://imgur.com/TegDpOQ but we have problems to get connectors that are high enough above the board. To operate the board we rotated the connector and connected RasPI in an awkward way (http://imgur.com/jV1iis9). We will fix this later but even if You decide to use cables it would be better to reserve more space in front of the M-board for the RasPI. => put the fans on the opposite side. Hey, current distance from mboard to PSU is about 132mm, the rPI in the design has the measurments with rPI housing. Do you think 132 is enough? Why put the fans on opposite side? regards ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ ################################################################################################################################################ http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2656/74uj.png http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6808/9v97.png Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cimpex on July 14, 2013, 07:30:42 PM I would really suggest to make a rack mountable case. Anyone who wants to stack them should buy a 19" rack.
There are small ones available too, like this 7HE. http://geizhals.at/p/551350.jpg I think the easiest way is to start building the case with something like that (already posted above): Just get a front and bottom plate and you are done. Cheap and perfect for racks. http://media.digikey.com/photos/Vector%20Photos/CCA220-3U.jpg Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 14, 2013, 07:51:36 PM Hey guys,
here is the Rack housing design, Cover will come a bit later. 19" - 4HE - lengh is 350mm http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2656/74uj.png http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6808/9v97.png Iam open for your feedback. One problem that came up, is that the standoffs for the M-board are to long and they stickout by 5mm on the ground of the casing. So i just reduced the height of the casing by 5mm because this seemed easier then making a second higher floor inside the housing(+ cheaper). But is that a problem at mounting? Does the mounting rack lie on a guidance or something or is it only mounted and holded by the lashes on the sides of the casing? Also I noticed there is a moveable gudance system für rack units, and a few racks on the market provide pre bored mounting holes for this matter, but I dont know the distances and hole dimensions and cant find any infos on that matter. Is this a must to have these holes at the sites of the housing? regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 14, 2013, 10:46:11 PM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: bkpduke on July 15, 2013, 12:40:31 AM Hey guys, here is the Rack housing design, Cover will come a bit later. 19" - 4HE - lengh is 350mm http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2656/74uj.png http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6808/9v97.png Iam open for your feedback. One problem that came up, is that the standoffs for the M-board are to long and they stickout by 5mm on the ground of the casing. So i just reduced the height of the casing by 5mm because this seemed easier then making a second higher floor inside the housing(+ cheaper). But is that a problem at mounting? Does the mounting rack lie on a guidance or something or is it only mounted and holded by the lashes on the sides of the casing? Also I noticed there is a moveable gudance system für rack units, and a few racks on the market provide pre bored mounting holes for this matter, but I dont know the distances and hole dimensions and cant find any infos on that matter. Is this a must to have these holes at the sites of the housing? regards Is that design 3U or 4U high? In a datacenter every U costs you money ($50-100/mo per U for a GOOD datacenter with on-site security, etc.). The holes in the rack are of standard spacing as well (3 per 1U), so you will need to make sure those line up on your chassis design. I would also recommend that if you have 3 intake fans, that you have 3 exhaust fans as well. Otherwise those cards on the end without an exhaust fan behind them will have higher average temperatures. For now this doesn't matter, but if Bitfury enables overclocking on these boards for higher GH/s rates, this will become more important. Thanks for the work, your design is coming along nicely. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 15, 2013, 01:50:55 AM Overclocking on these boards cannot simply be "enabled" There is no magical toggle or switch. You have to physically modify the boards. Future revisions may have overclocking capability but as far as I'm aware the first batch will not be overclockable.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: buzzdave on July 15, 2013, 08:08:20 AM Overclocking on these boards cannot simply be "enabled" There is no magical toggle or switch. You have to physically modify the boards. Future revisions may have overclocking capability but as far as I'm aware the first batch will not be overclockable. True. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 15, 2013, 08:21:30 AM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose. If had to check anyway how expensive this label would be in production, and i thought we can alternatively use a sticker for it, so everyone can decide if he would like to use it or not ;P Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 15, 2013, 08:31:33 AM Hey guys, here is the Rack housing design, Cover will come a bit later. 19" - 4HE - lengh is 350mm http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2656/74uj.png http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6808/9v97.png Iam open for your feedback. One problem that came up, is that the standoffs for the M-board are to long and they stickout by 5mm on the ground of the casing. So i just reduced the height of the casing by 5mm because this seemed easier then making a second higher floor inside the housing(+ cheaper). But is that a problem at mounting? Does the mounting rack lie on a guidance or something or is it only mounted and holded by the lashes on the sides of the casing? Also I noticed there is a moveable gudance system für rack units, and a few racks on the market provide pre bored mounting holes for this matter, but I dont know the distances and hole dimensions and cant find any infos on that matter. Is this a must to have these holes at the sites of the housing? regards Is that design 3U or 4U high? In a datacenter every U costs you money ($50-100/mo per U for a GOOD datacenter with on-site security, etc.). The holes in the rack are of standard spacing as well (3 per 1U), so you will need to make sure those line up on your chassis design. I would also recommend that if you have 3 intake fans, that you have 3 exhaust fans as well. Otherwise those cards on the end without an exhaust fan behind them will have higher average temperatures. For now this doesn't matter, but if Bitfury enables overclocking on these boards for higher GH/s rates, this will become more important. Thanks for the work, your design is coming along nicely. you are right ther should be 12 holes if it had a standard height of 4U. I will try to fit a third fan in the back maybe if i leave no space between the parts it will be possible. Could you please also check what i wrote , is it possible to reduce the height or it the rack lying on some guidance or something and do i have to make guidencae mounting holes on the sites of the housings? thanks for the feedback regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: bkpduke on July 15, 2013, 01:50:25 PM You can do 3U if you do the following:
Rotate the setup 90 degrees so that the M-board is towards the BACK of the chassis. This will reduce the height to 3U, and will not affect cooling at all since each H-board is in the neighborhood of 25W total heat production. You might even be able to mount the RasPi to the back of the M-board doing this and save a little real-estate on the back side. PSUs - server PSUs are longer and thinner, so you could use one of those instead and possibly cut some more space down. Here is one example: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-17-377-042 In regards to mounting, you can go simple and just have "rack ears" or if you want something on slidable rails, you can set that up as well. Rails = added cost, however. And I don't think this will weigh enough to really matter if it is just mounted by 4 bolts through a standard cabinet retainer. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 15, 2013, 07:23:30 PM You can do 3U if you do the following: Rotate the setup 90 degrees so that the M-board is towards the BACK of the chassis. This will reduce the height to 3U, and will not affect cooling at all since each H-board is in the neighborhood of 25W total heat production. You might even be able to mount the RasPi to the back of the M-board doing this and save a little real-estate on the back side. PSUs - server PSUs are longer and thinner, so you could use one of those instead and possibly cut some more space down. Here is one example: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-17-377-042 In regards to mounting, you can go simple and just have "rack ears" or if you want something on slidable rails, you can set that up as well. Rails = added cost, however. And I don't think this will weigh enough to really matter if it is just mounted by 4 bolts through a standard cabinet retainer. Hi, have already thought about that but there is no airflow just a heat accumulation, As i have to remove the rear Fans, and then only the front fans are left. About the raspi, maybe in the future the raspi is directly mountet on the mboard as showed by tytus without taking more space. Ok so i leave the rack ears as they are, there are only 10 holes because I reduced the height of the housing und so the rack ears are only 170mm in height but das shouldnt be a problem. Iam not very comfortable with your suggestion, please correct me if i got something wrong. regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Swimmer63 on July 15, 2013, 08:30:28 PM My 2 bits -
I need something to house this damn thing in so it might as well be this. I have no special requirements for space. Have my own business and I'm just going to keep it in an empty office. The only thing I would say is that I prefer the best ventilation / airflow possible. I'm in Arizona, nuff said. Also, if they do decide to replace these down the road with over clocked boards then I would like to be able to use the same case. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: klondike_bar on July 15, 2013, 09:44:57 PM my first impressions/thoughts:
1) ditch the cutout labelling. as it was mentioned, it may make these more identifiable to thieves (as if a big humming box isnt already) and may cause the airflow to be wonky, creating random circulation paths that counteract the fans and/or lead to more noisy fan rotation. A sticker/decal is equally functional and more appropriate 2) I dig the rubber feet. Without them this could be a source of vibrations from the spinning fans and sound terrible as your big hashing box vibrates against the table endlessly. 3) I like the simple design. The more basic the shape/materials, the more easily it can be replicated by anyone with connections to a CNC or laser/water cutter and generic hardware. 4) including a cutout or two for status LEDs or even a LCD would be cool. (I dont know if bitfury designed either of these into its hardware, but surely the RPi software can be modified to output status indicators) 5) A modified case that is simply a backplane might be nice for those who simply want to mount thier hardware to a surface but dont want a full case necessarily (as mentioned in #1, a simple backplane with mounting holes for the psu/Mboard/Hboards would be cheap and easy to source from local cnc/watercutting shops) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: bkpduke on July 15, 2013, 09:54:50 PM Hi, have already thought about that but there is no airflow just a heat accumulation, As i have to remove the rear Fans, and then only the front fans are left. No, the width of the M-board is much narrower than the H-board. (about 1/2 IIRC). This would provide more than enough airflow to get to the exhaust fans without any back-pressure. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cimpex on July 15, 2013, 10:32:35 PM my first impressions/thoughts: http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner :)4) including a cutout or two for status LEDs or even a LCD would be cool. (I dont know if bitfury designed either of these into its hardware, but surely the RPi software can be modified to output status indicators) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cet on July 15, 2013, 10:57:44 PM http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner :) Neat little display, but I think the rPI attaches to the m-board using the same plug that the display uses. /cet Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 16, 2013, 01:52:41 AM http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner :) Neat little display, but I think the rPI attaches to the m-board using the same plug that the display uses. /cet Yep, you are right. It uses the GPIO connector/header. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: evilscoop on July 16, 2013, 06:01:28 AM Nice design
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: KyrosKrane on July 16, 2013, 06:01:38 AM Just looking at the rackmount diagram, my first thought is that if you can find a thinner PSU, you can fit a second M-board between the exhaust fans and the first M-board. That would make the design more space-efficient for those who have to pay for hosting/colocation by rack height. I have no idea what that would do to heat management, though. I also don't know if it's possible to run both mining units from a single R-Pi and PSU or if you'd need to fit two of each in there.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 16, 2013, 08:12:51 AM Just looking at the rackmount diagram, my first thought is that if you can find a thinner PSU, you can fit a second M-board between the exhaust fans and the first M-board. That would make the design more space-efficient for those who have to pay for hosting/colocation by rack height. I have no idea what that would do to heat management, though. I also don't know if it's possible to run both mining units from a single R-Pi and PSU or if you'd need to fit two of each in there. Have to check that, because we have also to consider that in the front of the mboard the power cable will be connected, so there has to be at least10-20mm of space left. Should be ok with heat because we still have our nice forced airflow, and with the thin psu I could also try to fit a 3rd fan in the back like mentioned before. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 16, 2013, 07:15:29 PM Hey guys,
the good news is i got sample pcbs to test my prototype housing. Bad news, have decided to push the open housing today so i started with all 2d production drawings, so i can send everything to manufacturers before the weekend as Iam on holidays from Friday until next week Thursday. Hope to finish the 2D dwgs of the open housing by tommorow and push the rack design further by tommorow. I will take every feedback into account, so feel free to give further advise. regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cscape on July 16, 2013, 07:57:38 PM Looks good....
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cimpex on July 16, 2013, 08:27:07 PM http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner :) Neat little display, but I think the rPI attaches to the m-board using the same plug that the display uses. /cet Yep, you are right. It uses the GPIO connector/header. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: ultrix on July 16, 2013, 10:44:52 PM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose. Honestly, I don't know what kind of datacenters you guys are using, but if theft is a concern, you've got other problems. Personally I have had items go missing at a data center, however they were cheap tools and I'm sure taken without malicious intent. Even at extremely low end data centers, like Verio in SF (converted dog kennels), equipment removal (from premises) and cage access (if you have a cage) is supervised. At SAS70 DCs this would be impossible. Further even the most expensive bitcoin mining equipment doesn't cast a shadow on the price of 50% of the servers you'll see in racks. My company, for example, has two racks of 40 1U's, each 1U costs more (just the CPUs in fact are more) than the 400gh/s unit and would be easier to sell on ebay or the like if stolen. I dunno where the cancer and paranoia of the bitcoin community comes from, but alas its everywhere all the time and appears to be self-refining. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: SebastianJu on July 16, 2013, 11:06:00 PM I think datacentres will be safe too. The concerns are probably more about the private ventures for hosting. Hosting in a private home and so where security will be way less. There is already at least one case where an avalon miner was stolen from a private home. FPGA's werent touched, only the miner and nothing more. Thats why they are cautious i think. But maybe its part of bitcoin world anyway to stay a bit silent. :)
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 16, 2013, 11:10:47 PM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose. Honestly, I don't know what kind of datacenters you guys are using, but if theft is a concern, you've got other problems. Personally I have had items go missing at a data center, however they were cheap tools and I'm sure taken without malicious intent. Even at extremely low end data centers, like Verio in SF (converted dog kennels), equipment removal (from premises) and cage access (if you have a cage) is supervised. At SAS70 DCs this would be impossible. Further even the most expensive bitcoin mining equipment doesn't cast a shadow on the price of 50% of the servers you'll see in racks. My company, for example, has two racks of 40 1U's, each 1U costs more (just the CPUs in fact are more) than the 400gh/s unit and would be easier to sell on ebay or the like if stolen. I dunno where the cancer and paranoia of the bitcoin community comes from, but alas its everywhere all the time and appears to be self-refining. Wait, one of your 1U servers costs more than $16,000?! Are your servers also money printing machines? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: jlsminingcorp on July 17, 2013, 02:58:30 PM Wait, one of your 1U servers costs more than $16,000?! Are your servers also money printing machines? I don't know about 1U, but a 2U unit with 8 x E5-2670 & 256Gb ram (without infiniband, SSDs or other flashy bits) would cost a bit more than that. Throw a few Tesla GPUs into a case as well and it's easy for the costs to mount up. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 17, 2013, 08:22:55 PM Hey guys,
just managed it to finish all drawings of the open case design, will send these to a few manufacturers tomorrow morning. Hopefully I can continue the work on the rack housing in the evening. I will then also answer all requests regarding the rack case. BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: A Meteorite on July 18, 2013, 07:48:03 AM Do you have any idea how much a case would run yet?
Both are nice cases, though it'd be nice if a top cover could be done (possibly optional, screw in?). Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 18, 2013, 07:53:48 AM no idea yet, the rack case will have a cover, dont know about the other yet, wouldnt be possible to add a possibillity for it at current design.
It would be necessary to change the design and add 3 additional fans to the open design to still have a good airflow. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 19, 2013, 01:51:52 PM still working hard on this project, i also checked a fex heat sink solutions, news will come latest by end of next week.
regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: darkfriend77 on July 19, 2013, 02:06:59 PM Does your custom case will include a PSU option ? Any idear about the price? Anything else that is needed apart of ... - Master board - Hashing board with 16 Bitfury 55nm ASIC chips - Raspberry Pi Model B with SD card and software preinstalled - 2 x Ring terminal to Molex-Jr adapter cable - Custom Case by "Foofighter" - PSU to have the device ready ... ? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: KIDC on July 20, 2013, 03:04:39 AM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose. I am definitely interested in this case. This would also be a concern of mine too. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: allinvain on July 20, 2013, 03:17:05 AM Does your custom case will include a PSU option ? Any idear about the price? Anything else that is needed apart of ... - Master board - Hashing board with 16 Bitfury 55nm ASIC chips - Raspberry Pi Model B with SD card and software preinstalled - 2 x Ring terminal to Molex-Jr adapter cable - Custom Case by "Foofighter" - PSU to have the device ready ... ? Nope, that is all you need. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 20, 2013, 07:44:04 PM Hey guys,
as iam going on vacation by tomorow the next update will come on Thursday th 25th. BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cet on July 21, 2013, 01:26:37 AM Does your custom case will include a PSU option ? Any idear about the price? Anything else that is needed apart of ... - Master board - Hashing board with 16 Bitfury 55nm ASIC chips - Raspberry Pi Model B with SD card and software preinstalled - 2 x Ring terminal to Molex-Jr adapter cable - Custom Case by "Foofighter" - PSU to have the device ready ... ? depending on how the rPI gets attached and how the m-board is mounted in the case you may need a GPIO cable - something like: http://www.adafruit.com/products/862 (http://www.adafruit.com/products/862) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: jflowers on July 21, 2013, 04:29:22 AM Case looks great!
And I'm interested in this project. Also, and this is probably very important in order to get a better idea of interest, it may be useful to post a throw away email for people to state their interest. I've been reading posts on this forum for a month or two; however, I did not have posting privileges until just now (and I've spent the better part of today to get those rights.) So I'm sure there are a ton of people that are in the same boat as I was, wanting to express their interest - but unable to do so. Time's of the greatest importance, as I'm sure all would agree, so the quicker you know the correct interest levels and people know when they could expect the unit the better. Cheers. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: pbigmoon on July 25, 2013, 06:36:40 PM I'm also very interested in this case.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: jc328 on July 25, 2013, 07:10:42 PM This may seem paranoid, but I would suggest removing the "Bitfury 400GH Miner" marking from the case. If you're going to host this with a third party then you may not want to advertise to the world its intended function/purpose. I am definitely interested in this case. This would also be a concern of mine too. Great work so far. Just thought I would mention my interest along with all the others. Hope you can manage to ship these along the same timeline of the August Bitfury Release. I also concur regarding removing the labeling, as making this device as discreet as possible would be prudent. Perhaps a simple logo would be best. As far as the case, I would prefer closed, making it look like a standard server, easy to stack or rack up, while providing a bit more protection. Those who want it open air would simply remove it. -JC Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 26, 2013, 12:45:23 PM Hey guys,
just arrived back from my vacation, as there are many misunderstandings here, i want to clear one thing up. It was never my intention to sell casings or other stuff commercially here, my goal was to provide a design to the community and make a clear cost evaluation to keep all transparent. Any reseller is welcome to pick up my design and produce it for the community here. Which means Iam open to lease/sell or license my design, if any reseller is interested please contact me to discuss this matter in detail. What i will probably do is building prototypes and maybe sell some prototypes of, but this will only be on a private to private basis. BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: pbigmoon on July 26, 2013, 02:41:05 PM Hey guys, just arrived back from my vacation, as there are many misunderstandings here, i want to clear one thing up. It was never my intention to sell casings or other stuff commercially here, my goal was to provide a design to the community and make a clear cost evaluation to keep all transparent. Any reseller is welcome to pick up my design and produce it for the community here. Which means Iam open to lease/sell or license my design, if any reseller is interested please contact me to discuss this matter in detail. What i will probably do is building prototypes and maybe sell some prototypes of, but this will only be on a private to private basis. BR Foofighter If you do build some prototypes will anyone be able to buy one or only those interested in leasing/buying your design? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 26, 2013, 04:06:25 PM lets see if i can get the housing build at competitive costs first, this is the most important factor here, and low quantity means very expensive.
Depending on the costs i will built a few prototypes and will propably auction one or two to compensate my time investment and costs. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Pinwheel on July 28, 2013, 08:30:23 PM some idea of professional case here.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147164 Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on July 31, 2013, 06:39:49 PM Hey guys,
its gotten a bit silent here lately, as the open design is finished as it is in my opinion I will shortly give out the prototype order for it. The Rack case will be developed further with a reselling partner and i will show you the final design if everything works out fine. As mentioned I will produce a few prototypes and are willing to sell some off, this is no business for me because i would only charge as much to cover my costs, so consider it more like a small GP. The smaller parts for the open cases are already ordered and i hope to provide some final price until mid/end of next week. Final prototype could be ready by mid/end of august if everything works out. At the moment I cannot provide further infos regarding the rack design. Please let me know if you are interested in purchasing an open case per PM. Best regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on August 03, 2013, 12:27:35 PM Hey folks,
Regarding the open case design: Lately i put a lot of time into this project and spend nearly every evening in planning and getting offers from companies and calulating stuff, sourcing parts and so on. Finally i can tell you now that all parts which will be included in the prototype run are ordered and a few have also just arived at my place. So just to let you know what will be included, that will be all necessary parts to mount the full 16 Hboard in 1 mboard, all screws and mounting standoffs, gpio cable, power cable for raspi to molex, rubber feets, fan grill and wire straps for cable management, basicly like the picture in the thread but without hardware ;). Unfortunatly i cannot provide the 3 - 120mm Fans for the cases, just couldnt find a proper source for getting a good price at these, maybe i could provide 1 fan per housing as a bonus but lets see about that. To come straight to the point, the price for an open case prototype will be 168,85 EUR without shipping.(Iam located in Europe, Austria, Vienna -- to calculate your shipping) I will charge the casing price now and the shipping price before delivery if you are interested in purchasing one, please take into account that the case is quite big and the shipping costs could also be a bit expensive. (shipping box size estimated 700x300x250mm - weight is estimated to be 3,5-5kg with all accessories). Accepted payments are: bank transfer paypal BTC Shipping cost estimations: (insuranced shipping and trackable) Austria: 10 EUR Europe: 20-30 EUR USA Mainland: 40 EUR[/b] Outgoing Lead time:estimated for week 1 or 2 of September :( Unfortunatly this is very much depending on the sheet metal manufacturer, but there is only a small change to deliver these units still in august. I hope this works out and you will continue to support me with making an order for a case. If you got any question dont hesitate to ask. Currently i have 8 cases left to offer Please note this is no commercial sale, this is my private prototype run and Iam willing to produce a few more for the community here, but I cannot give you any guarantees or warrantys on the product. BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cimpex on August 03, 2013, 12:46:45 PM post some pics please. thanks!
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on August 03, 2013, 01:03:07 PM post some pics please. thanks! There are no pics, because its not produced right now, will probably look like open design in OP Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: cimpex on August 03, 2013, 01:04:28 PM wich one, there are two different.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on August 03, 2013, 01:13:56 PM I will only produce the open design, as mentioned:
Overview Frontside http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/200/jhb4.png But iam already talking to a reseller for the Rack case design. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: madsusies on August 03, 2013, 01:25:38 PM I will only produce the open design, as mentioned: At some point your design is useless. 90% of peeps count to "overclock" the units. From fact here is a small space between boards people need use the extension cables to be able use heatsink + direct fans.Overview Frontside http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/200/jhb4.png But iam already talking to a reseller for the Rack case design. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: Foofighter on August 03, 2013, 01:35:13 PM The space between boards is defined bei the standard mboard design, there is still space in the case to upgrade to a longer mboard lateron, as already meantioned the Standard hboard hab only a 30A capacitor and can not really be overclocked, this capacitor is also the biggest size for the footprint on the hboards.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners Post by: madsusies on August 03, 2013, 01:57:19 PM The space between boards is defined bei the standard mboard design, there is still space in the case to upgrade to a longer mboard lateron, as already meantioned the Standard hboard hab only a 30A capacitor and can not really be overclocked, this capacitor is also the biggest size for the footprint on the hboards. interesting fact, for vulnerable people an unpleasant to know the chips can't run a full speed. From that POV you will have a nice heater for the winter, 16 boards at 45C look hot :DTitle: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 04, 2013, 09:10:26 AM Hey guys,
I decided to add 3 120mm Fans to all cases, so these are now included in the pricing. I hope this saves you some trouble with sourcing fans on you own and the cable management of the fans. Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Coinmining on August 04, 2013, 09:28:12 AM I want one!
Sent you a PM Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 04, 2013, 11:12:39 AM For the moment, 4 Units are reserved and 4 cases still open to sell.
regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 05, 2013, 06:10:41 PM gogo guys, still 4 units open for sale here!
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Xian01 on August 06, 2013, 02:07:03 AM I'm interested in acquiring one of these for an October order.
Have you settled on a final design ? I see according to the prototype photos, that the RasPi is directly attached to the M-Board, and not compatible with your case design. I would be interested in a covered case, opposed to something exposed. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Gyrsur on August 06, 2013, 06:05:53 AM i'm also interested in the Rack Casing Design for October.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 06, 2013, 07:20:55 AM I'm interested in acquiring one of these for an October order. Have you settled on a final design ? I see according to the prototype photos, that the RasPi is directly attached to the M-Board, and not compatible with your case design. I would be interested in a covered case, opposed to something exposed. Hi, open desin is final, rack design is semi finished(would change the alignment of the inner parts probably to fit 2 mboards). For sure it is compatible with my design, prototypes uses the wrong connectors and they are hopefully changed for the mass produced boards. Additionally you can mount the raspi at my design on the ground with a GPIO cable, this would be up to you. It would be too expensive to add a cover to the open case design attempt, because i would have to make it more wide and also add fans to the cover to still have a forced airflow. The only option would be the Rack design, which was supposed to have a cover anyway. From the timetable it would be possible to get Rack case prototypes in october as the production and order of parts would take about 3 -4 weeks until my design would be finished. Many people here are talking about modded Rack cases to use for these attemts but I dont know any manufacturer which would make this alteration to a final Rack case(at least not here where I live), also the most final Rack cases which we can purchase on the market doesnt provide the necessary airflow because the lack of the necessary amount of 120mm Fans. To summarize this: I will think about that matter if this makes sense for me. I would try 2 attempts, to change an existing 19" 4U case and to ask for a whole new produced case. But maybe I will first talk to spotswood(open case reseller), maybe we can work together in this matter. Thanks for your interest guys! But for the moment i can only offer you the open case desgin. regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Gyrsur on August 06, 2013, 09:13:14 AM I'm interested in acquiring one of these for an October order. Have you settled on a final design ? I see according to the prototype photos, that the RasPi is directly attached to the M-Board, and not compatible with your case design. I would be interested in a covered case, opposed to something exposed. Hi, open desin is final, rack design is semi finished(would change the alignment of the inner parts probably to fit 2 mboards). great to hear this, definitly interested in this case for a 800GH beast! ;) Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 07, 2013, 05:44:05 PM Hey guys,
some News here regarding the purchaseable open cases. Iam very happy to annouce that I can reduce the price for each open case to: 145 EUR Today I discussed the whole project with a manufacturer who could do all necessary steps of manufaturing on his own to finish the cases at very competitive prices. Before that the price was based of raw case which i had to transport to a welder and then painted the cases, so as you could imagine that would have been a lot of additional work compared to the current solution. I gave the whole saving directly to you, so you have a more competitive price for a good product. So i hope now with this price the cases are getting sold a bit faster. regards Tom Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: pbigmoon on August 07, 2013, 06:16:15 PM Hey guys, some News here regarding the purchaseable open cases. Iam very happy to annouce that I can reduce the price for each open case to: 145 EUR Today I discussed the whole project with a manufacturer who could do all necessary steps of manufaturing on his own to finish the cases at very competitive prices. Before that the price was based of raw case which i had to transport to a welder and then painted the cases, so as you could imagine that would have been a lot of additional work compared to the current solution. I gave the whole saving directly to you, so you have a more competitive price for a good product. So i hope now with this price the cases are getting sold a bit faster. regards Tom Is delivery still planned for September? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 07, 2013, 06:24:22 PM with this new manufacturer there is a bigger possibility that i could shipped the cases in last week of august. I would try my best to manage this.
EDIT: I dont wanna make any promises i cannot hold, so i have to stay with my conservative statement here, but i think its possible Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 08, 2013, 05:16:05 PM Update:
-3 cases sold -2 cases will be kept by me 5 cases still to sell here Will order tommorow and hopefully know an excact lead time very soon. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: yurtesen on August 08, 2013, 11:26:05 PM 5 cases still to sell here Why wouldnt you make more cases and make some profit out of it? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 09, 2013, 04:59:34 AM 5 cases still to sell here Why wouldnt you make more cases and make some profit out of it? Iam already in talks with potential resellers, Iam not interested in selling cases on my own here in masses, dont got the time for it. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 09, 2013, 10:44:42 AM Hi guys,
so only 4 cases left to sell now Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 09, 2013, 12:09:13 PM Do you have the thermal flow diagram (or the equations) for ventilation? I had this same debate with BFL about 3-4 months ago, where I stated there were several problems with the case specifically air flow and thermal loss. They weren't addressed and look at the problems now... If you need someone to run the equations I'd only be too willing to help. Nope, dont have this, for this prototypes i cant change anything anymore, but Iam very open to your support for a finsihed design with a possible reselling partner! Thanks man Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 12, 2013, 05:43:14 PM still only 4 left,
order for cases is made, will talk tomorrow with the company about lead time. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Sitarow on August 13, 2013, 12:12:05 AM Do you have the thermal flow diagram (or the equations) for ventilation? I had this same debate with BFL about 3-4 months ago, where I stated there were several problems with the case specifically air flow and thermal loss. They weren't addressed and look at the problems now... If you need someone to run the equations I'd only be too willing to help. Nope, dont have this, for this prototypes i cant change anything anymore, but Iam very open to your support for a finsihed design with a possible reselling partner! Thanks man Foofighter @kelticfox can you post what you found on the BFL case designs so we can see your take on the airflow and thermal loss? Would be nice to know :) Thanks Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 13, 2013, 03:24:25 PM Hey guys, today I talked to my manufacturer.
He told me i should receive the cases on 27 of August, so if everything works out fine, I can make shippment in last week of August! regards Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 21, 2013, 06:45:27 PM Hey guys,
talked with my manufacturer today, I should get the cases hopefully on Wednesday next week. Here is the first picture, without painting. http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1010/cmhj.jpg http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/590/qtl3.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img22/5130/tkv9.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img46/7992/wdg7.jpg still 4 cases to sell here. Regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Gyrsur on August 21, 2013, 09:02:13 PM I'm interested in a case. Did send a PM to you.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 23, 2013, 08:45:51 PM 1 reserved
3 left to sell! Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 27, 2013, 04:36:08 PM Hey guys,
Unfortunatly I can not delivery the cases by this week, the manufacturer sent the cases a bit late and I will probably get them tomorrow evening or on Thursday. But I will be on vacation from 29-1 Sept.:( All parts for assembly are prepared now and at hand besides of the RJ45 connector. Worst case is, if i didnt get it until next week i have to ship without it. This means, estimated shipping will be, beginning to mid of next week (week 36). Currently 3 cases are left for sale. Meanwhile i added some more pics here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255737.msg2981262#msg2981262 BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 27, 2013, 09:38:01 PM Only 2 cases left for sale now!
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: yurtesen on August 28, 2013, 12:44:44 PM It looks like punin is not shipping a cable to extend the raspberry pi to a different location. Will it still be possible to use your case?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=250249.msg3025879#msg3025879 Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on August 28, 2013, 01:42:20 PM It looks like punin is not shipping a cable to extend the raspberry pi to a different location. Will it still be possible to use your case? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=250249.msg3025879#msg3025879 Hi, thanks for the info. I forgot to mention that, but I changed things a bit so a direct mounting of the Rasperry to mboard is possible. I will test every case before shipping, so everything will fit fine! BR Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on September 02, 2013, 08:55:09 PM Hi guys,
sorry for the few news lately, work is in progress - see pic. But there are some issues which I have to solve first and rework some stuff by hand. http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/9494/yb36.png Will come back to you with a more detailed updated when I have a bit more time. Regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on September 03, 2013, 09:42:24 PM Hi guys,
I will take the time to tell you about the problems. First I thought I could usw sheet metal screws to fix most of the stuff, but this aint working because of painting thickness and other issues. Now I have to cut a thread manually in every hole in case and mounting brackets to fix this. The next thing was the Raspi mounting. as the Mboard was changed shortly before I ordered i had not really time to adapt everything. If the Raspi will be mounted directly on the new mboard , the RJ45 connector will push on the edge of the 3rd fan but it will just work fine. As I was not satisfied with this, I reactivated the bottom mounting holes of the case and now mounted the Raspi on the bottom connected to mboard via gpia with adapter Pins. Here are pics of first full assembled case, ready for shipping: http://imageshack.us/a/img203/8167/xklo.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img824/7108/m5zm.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img7/7184/x5zg.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img835/5611/4ii9.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img856/8206/oc8b.jpg BR Foofighter EDIT: Only 1 case left to sell! Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Gyrsur on September 04, 2013, 11:19:10 AM very good job! looks great! :)
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: EvilLizardApparel on September 05, 2013, 02:34:05 PM PM'ed you...I need a rack-mountable, and you seem to be the only one who has made one...great work btw. If that one if left, I will gladly take it.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Foofighter on September 07, 2013, 01:49:46 PM Hey guys,
The last days/week I really worked every spare hour sometime till in the morning, because of reworking the cases and stuff. Iam happy to tell you that all cases will be shipped on Monday, you will get the tracking number via PN on same day. http://imageshack.us/a/img577/2316/o66f.jpg Now to the bad News guys: As you know in designing the Case I considered primarily the old mboard, the only change I made is hole alignment on bottom to fit both mboards. The big Problem is that the Raspi looks in the wrong direction when mounted directly on the new mboard to the Fans. For this I made also Raspi mounting holes on the bottom and got some GPIO cable with adapters to connect to the mboard without problems, but somehow the Miner doesnt run with the GPIO cables. see here how it was supposed to work: http://imageshack.us/a/img33/6906/2r1.JPG It is still possible to attach the Raspi directly onto the board but this front plate will be bend to the outside slithly. see in my setup here. http://imageshack.us/a/img545/7109/q37k.jpg Sorry for the inconviniece guys, I tried everything -maybe my gpio cable is broken and the ones I packed for you are ok. I hope this is alright for you guys. Current projects if you are interested is an Shash board Case. regards Foofighter Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: klondike_bar on September 07, 2013, 02:53:54 PM sounds like EMI interference along the lines. This may be a good reference/example of the issue: http://www.overclock.net/t/1424387/gallery-build-log-ultimate-wall-mount-rig-maxxplanck-v2-completed
Guy build a dead-sexy wall-mounted coputer system and used pci extension cables. basic cables caused his GPUs to not turn on. aluminum foil-shielded cables enabled the cards to run, but disconnect under 3D applications. He resorted to professional shielded cables for a working result try wrapping it in aluminum, or using a shorter cable. Your image shows that it folds over itself a bit because it is ~4inches too long, and this could be enough to cause interference Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: intron on September 07, 2013, 03:01:22 PM Hey guys, Now to the bad News guys: As you know in designing the Case I considered primarily the old mboard, the only change I made is hole alignment on bottom to fit both mboards. The big Problem is that the Raspi looks in the wrong direction when mounted directly on the new mboard to the Fans. Current projects if you are interested is an Shash board Case. regards Foofighter Try making the flat cable much shorter. It might be too long, just picking up noise. And do you have a seprate thread on the S-HASH casing? Highly interested:) intron Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Miners --> Prototypes available soon! Order now Post by: Sitarow on September 08, 2013, 01:01:07 AM Hey guys, Now to the bad News guys: As you know in designing the Case I considered primarily the old mboard, the only change I made is hole alignment on bottom to fit both mboards. The big Problem is that the Raspi looks in the wrong direction when mounted directly on the new mboard to the Fans. Current projects if you are interested is an Shash board Case. regards Foofighter Try making the flat cable much shorter. It might be too long, just picking up noise. And do you have a seprate thread on the S-HASH casing? Highly interested:) intron As far as V1 M Board the default cable would normally work. However the problem is the orientation of the connections. One end of the cable will have pin 1 row connect to pin 2 row and pin 2 row will connect to pin 1 row. Thats not good :) You have to modify one end of the cable to make pin 1 /row attach correctly. Original Cable. https://i.imgur.com/xUepPyJ.jpg Cable reworked. https://i.imgur.com/cJLjeLj.jpg Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on September 08, 2013, 03:21:57 PM cable reworked but no luck so far, also wrapped some alu foil around it, doesnt help.
Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: tom_o on September 08, 2013, 03:35:51 PM cable reworked but no luck so far, also wrapped some alu foil around it, doesnt help. Try making it much shorter, SPI communication over unshielded cables is probably the problem. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Sitarow on September 08, 2013, 03:40:06 PM cable reworked but no luck so far, also wrapped some alu foil around it, doesnt help. Have you tried it on a new raspberry pi? Not sure if that first Raspberry pi suffered damage due to having power feed on wrong pins originaly. Consider trying that first if you can. Edit: Also use an ohm meter to check the continuity of a cables 1 to 1, 2 to 2, and so on. http://www.tigerstop.com/tigertamer/Using_an_Ohm_Meter.htm Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on September 08, 2013, 03:45:02 PM Raspi works fine,
yeah maybe 1 or more pins are too short and have no connection or something. Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on September 09, 2013, 08:43:01 PM All Units shipped.
tested the cable with ohm meter -should be fine but didnt see it in network manager. Yesterday I saw it in network but couldnt connect which was a sign that the interference on the cable was too big maybe. After shorting cable, no sign of it in network manager :( Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: yurtesen on September 16, 2013, 09:46:25 PM All Units shipped. Thanks for the awesome work. I was wondering, is there a problem with the shipped cables or not? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on September 17, 2013, 05:30:55 PM There is no problem with the cable itself, but somehow the connection of the cable doesnt work :(
Havent found out why, maybe someone who got his already has a solution? Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: yurtesen on September 17, 2013, 06:56:51 PM There is no problem with the cable itself, but somehow the connection of the cable doesnt work :( Havent found out why, maybe someone who got his already has a solution? I got the case you sent but did not even open the box yet since I have nothing to put inside :) ... It would be nice to know if somebody could get their cable work or not... Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Foofighter on September 20, 2013, 09:09:05 PM I tried it again with theses adapters http://piborg.org/triborg.
But still no luck :( (again connected it directly after testing). Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: yurtesen on September 29, 2013, 02:39:03 PM I have 1 of foofighter's cases, still unopened in its box as I received it (I realized I wont need it after all). I am willing to sell it for 2.5BTC including shipping with tracking. Please PM me if you are interested.
If you prefer escrow, I have it on sale slightly at a higher price, at bitmit for (2.5BTC auction start) 3BTC(buy now) + 0.2BTC shipping. https://www.bitmit.net/en/item/63450-bitfury-custom-case Title: Re: Custom Case Design for Bitfury Hboard/Mboard Miners Post by: Gyrsur on May 19, 2014, 12:38:10 PM Hey guys, Now to the bad News guys: As you know in designing the Case I considered primarily the old mboard, the only change I made is hole alignment on bottom to fit both mboards. The big Problem is that the Raspi looks in the wrong direction when mounted directly on the new mboard to the Fans. Current projects if you are interested is an Shash board Case. regards Foofighter Try making the flat cable much shorter. It might be too long, just picking up noise. And do you have a seprate thread on the S-HASH casing? Highly interested:) intron As far as V1 M Board the default cable would normally work. However the problem is the orientation of the connections. One end of the cable will have pin 1 row connect to pin 2 row and pin 2 row will connect to pin 1 row. Thats not good :) You have to modify one end of the cable to make pin 1 /row attach correctly. Original Cable. https://i.imgur.com/xUepPyJ.jpg Cable reworked. https://i.imgur.com/cJLjeLj.jpg unfortunately I killed two raspberry pi with the original cable! don't use it! |
