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Hello, per friedcat's post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.0

09/12/204: - CLOSED

DO NOT GET SCAMMED I DO NOT PM PAYMENT ADDRESSES INDIVIDUALLY., read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735982.msg8370953#msg8370953
ADDRESS IS POSTED BELOW.

This is a domestic group buy for those of you who may want to order less than 10 units. (friedcat will accept orders of 10+ directly, contact user phasebird (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=337449))

You will need to email me a label to canary.btc@gmail.com. 1 Tube requires 1 Large Priority flat rate box & 1 Medium Flat Rate priority Box.  2 Tubes need 3 Large Priority flat rate boxes.  When you email the label, please sign the tracking numbers and include signature of the signed message. example:
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
123456789789123,789789979768464986
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN
G1OFEq4sVxv3iB9cKpOPNqM/mCTz4QbTZxRorqkG5q9whkbSY2CqosIultDH/auOl+dSntJaVPgJPXqHwvxAUmA=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
  
Payment addy:  1DDZYpAgAQNsykvM499et8XpMfRJokFrFE

Spec:

Hashrate: 800-850GH/s per full set.
Power consumption: ~0.9 J/GH board-wise. Gets higher along with ambient temperature. At the wall power draw depends on PSU efficiency.
Size: 25cmx12cmx12cm per full set.
Weight: 11.5 pounds (5.2kg) per full set.  Figure 12.5 packaged in shipping box
The hashing units are driven by Ethernet controllers. Each Ethernet controller can run up to 32 units.

Price:

1.04 btc per unit
I have some spare Pis on hand.  anyone who wishes to add a Pi to their order, let me know.

(I recommend buying 1.04 btc for USD, current cost is about $534 $493 $591 for 1.04 btc)
Although I do not expect to, I may increase pricing if some unexpected costs creep in (like import fees, if any, for ex.) (but this will be transparent).

Warranty: as specified in manufacturer's post.

Refunds: no refunds given once payment is sent to ASICMiner

I assume an assembled unit will look like this:
http://i62.tinypic.com/2zr14wy.jpg

More pics here: http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-28

reserved for additional instructions/info:

to generate a shipping label you can use fedex or ups websites to generate a label self addressed.  shipping from zip code 60181
you then save/print as pdf.  something I can print on a peelable label (regular page size, 2 peelable labels per page is what I currently use)

with USPS.com you can create a priority mail shipping label addressed to yourself.  i.e. to and from address section has your address.  shipping however is from zip 60181 (specify this).  when you generate label, it's helpful to select option (print two per page) and save the pdf file.  you will email me that pdf.

http://i58.tinypic.com/hwmqs0.jpg

got a couple questions on how to sign your tracking numbers.
this old thread might be of some help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180068.0
most wallets support signing, you may need to google it or lookup help sections on how to do it.

How easy are these to build?

how many watts?

Any noise level info on these miners?

friedcats refund policy: "2. No refunds after the generation of tracking numbers."

Yours is "no refunds given once payment is sent to ASICMiner" ?!

So, you pocket the refund friedcat would send you?! what is this?!

Excuse me?  accusing me of wanting to pocket non existent refunds... go troll elsewhere

payment is due by 16th.  at that time I expect friedcat to generate tracking numbers, so that I won't be able to refund.
and often, I do pre-payment and probably will already have a tracking number in hand when someone's order comes in.

Glad to see you are hopping on a GB Canary! Keep it up bro

in OP, Specs

I´m in for 3... but some doubts.

-This price include shipping ?
-We will receive a mounted product or a bunch of parts ?
-Please provide your email.

Interested. Gonna think on it today and get back to it after work.

- I have no indication to the contrary at this time from ASICMiner.  however, you will need to email me shipping labels for domestic shipping to you.
- you will need to assemble it.
- updated OP

It´s important to define the shipping price issue;
How I can do this ? "you will need to email me shipping labels for domestic shipping to you."

what is the "shipping price issue"?
you can generate a label via usps.com website, save it as a pdf right after paying for it and then you can email me that pdf file.  it's very easy, I promise :)

Do you have any instructions as far as putting the "kit" together?

I'm just wondering as far as if it will require any soldering?  Or if it is a friendly build kit.

it looks like you assemble it without soldering.

Based on lit of contents, I think it goes like this:

- assemble blades: install thermal pads onto pcb, attach heatsink.
- installed assembled into the cooling structure (cage)
- cross-connect serial wires. (up to 32 blades can be linked together)
- install the fan on the cage, connect power to one of the blades.
- connect Ethernet controller to one of the serial ports
- connect power and turn on.

I think that a step by step guide (pictorial) would be made rather quickly by those who receive their Tubes first.

I will order one kit. so I need to send 1.04 btc correct?

I think the shipping issue is what can they fit in to be shipped safely
  

I have your zip code 60181  mine is 07731

so if it fits in 2 regional flat rate b boxes for me it is about 11 + 11 = 22 bucks

if it fits in a regional  flat rate c it is 33 bucks.

if it is in a pair of large flat rates it is 16 + 16 = 32 bucks

 if it is in 2 med flat rate boxes it is  11 + 11 = 22 bucks


so figuring shipping  on one at 35 bucks  tops   for most usa buyers

I also don't understand pricing  1 full kit = 1.04 btc,

 but if I want add on parts for a second miner to chain from the first (ie no controller) what is that cost?
 in other words a 1.7th setup

okay I checked and the second one minus a controller is .971 so 1.04 = 2.011

for 1600-1700 gh



http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/lNE1Lm.png

How firm are you on "domestic"? No shipments to Canada?

if you are able to create a label I can drop it off at post office.  the problem with this is many have tried, but if you're outside of US you won't be able to.
also, your fedex non-US account won't work either.  but you are more than welcome to email me a label that I can use.

yep, one Tube is 1.04 btc.  I added payment addy to OP.
thanks!

I have a buddy who does shipping labels for BTC I am sure he could make you a label that works to Canada.
I might want 1 of these guys, but it really depends on how long until I have it in hand?

Flat rate box info within the US:

USPS Large flat rate box internal dimensions: 12" x 12" x 5.5"
Cost: $17.45
Weigth limit: 20 lbs

CITM,

PCIe power connectors. It looks like there are 2 per board and each connector is 6 pins?

TIA

I am located in China, can I participate in your group buy?

You can tell the asicminer to  deliver to my address directly.

I need one full set.

Thanks!

I am sending you 1.04 btc in about 10 minutes.

I will hold back on label.

this is your posted address

https://blockchain.info/address/1DDZYpAgAQNsykvM499et8XpMfRJokFrFE

this is the  tx id

https://blockchain.info/tx/fc07c66c6ac6585d49c6ca7ed787f734bae84f944c853e4197fa984e9d89216b

So I was the first to buy this from you.  

I will wait for label. Hoping you can clarify what label works  as 1 large flat rate seems too small.


Try to order some regional c flat rate boxes.  I think they will be good.

Once I get this I will post photos of assembly in this thread.

Right off the bat it looks like it wants 8 pcie connectors 2 per board  so I believe  

 this will want the evga 1300 psu.

I have some links to buy an evga 1300 psu.  once I confirm that psu works I will let everyone know.

I figure 850 x .9 = 765 watts then the psu eff so a 91 percent psu should be 840 watts. an 88 percent should be 870 watts

1.04BTC sent
https://blockchain.info/tx/ca9e4da22e6de53e69cececd6aa0680e9654339d2b156c980941236a9bbd6331

I also will wait on label until additional dimensions info is specified.

Gonna test this out on our D750 kit, which should be able to handle 800W DC just fine (stock power draw for one of these should be about two overclocked S1, which the D750 kit handles without issue).

Anyone interested in basic small-scale hosting, I can assemble your miners at no extra charge. Open-shelf setup so there's no "rackable" limitation.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622998.msg7814500#msg7814500

Here's a video that shows assembly, except the thermal paste in the video is replaced with a thermal pad in the kit for sale.  Looks pretty easy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P3U4ZHTmeKk

yep, looks that way on all the pics...

-edit: added a link to more pics at bottom of OP

At 0.9 J/GH, a full miner would come out to 720-765 Watts, correct?

Using 800 GH/s and 720W over at https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator shows me that network growth would have to average only 10% in order to turn a profit. (This is assuming it takes 20 days from today to start hashing).

I'm on the fence.

I paid top BTC for a lemon cube.

They should stick to making chips

Ill pass

edit --

Im not faulting you Canary. A lot of buyers of those
cubes got ones that would not hash high. Arrived as a puzzle you
had to pull apart and reassemble. Or like mine, all of the above
plus had to be restarted every 10 days until it just stopped working at all.

I'd still kind of like one, just for the mystique of it as a piece of bitcoin history.

Anybody out there have free electricity want to host one for me and keep any profit it earns over cost? :D

I'm in for two.  Will send btc in the next day or so.

no depends on the psu you use.   say your 800gh pulling 720 watts from the psu.  if your psu is  90%  it will pull 800 watts from the wall plug.  So my guess is an evga 1300 watt psu will read 800 at the kwatt  meter.

so some of the cheaper price is lost back on power.

if compared to a s-3   but for  much less price say 100 dollar less then 2 s-3's  you burn  back 50 cents a day in power or 15 usd a month extra for power.  so after 6 months the s-3 is better.

bottom line is   btc needs to go up in price  after you take delivery on this gear.

I do my roi in usd not btc  since I pay tax and do not want to face IRS issues.

the 1.04 btc is cheaper today in USD vs. couple days ago :)
buy 1.04 btc with USD instead of using your mined btc.

I'm in for one! I can't wait to put this sucker together, it looks cool as heck, and the price is right.

I'll wait until box size is nailed down to send the label.

txid:d99b63cb7251824da299198f83bb3565bc3454e34d9281b4ad5e986e650c7e14

yep  that is why a miner needs to have a coinbase account.
 I purchased my coins for this from coinbase at 525 usd a coin.  so my cost is 1.04 x 525 =   546 usd for 800 gh

As I have many psu's from gpu rigs. so my psu is paid for already  just waiting for this gear.

I will be back to some mining gear in house

4 s-3's
1 tube
14 gridseed blades

about 3400 watts

That actually looks super easy. The thermal pad I assume replaces the weird step with the machine I suspect.

Canary - any word on the box this will fit in for the shipping label?

exactly right on the thermal pad.

waiting on info from fc... they are checking with factory on how they're gonna package this up.  there's a possibility that each kit will come in it's own box.  so just unpack and assemble.  as soon as I have all dimensions I will post here.

Put me down for 4 of these.

I will buy 2 of these.  Is there a limited number of units in this GB?  Are you going to post a list of who has paid like in the GB's of old?

Thanks!

looking forward to this. it should be a nice piece of gear.

there's a limit, but it hasn't been met yet.  If there's a great desire for a public list of participants, I can definitely add it

I am in for one :)

Thank you!

txid:1d5a9ca8d37ce6caa594e77bffa6fd9de4f8aa79657251b08978dffe8dd6fb07

Got you PM as well. all set. thanks

Pretty interested in this. What all is needed aside from what'd come in the package? a PSU and ethernet cable I suspect... anything else?

PSU, Ethernet connection and probably some simple tools (screwdriver) to assemble.

Would this have to connect through a computer with software, or would it work to wire the ethernet cable to a router? (Sorry, I haven't been keeping up with the finer details of mining...)

Count me in for one. Will send funds this evening. Can I hold off on shipping label until you figure out the right box size?

I'm in. Txid: 04d74b6e0ba4306c82c33ca50b57f485a904c44ddfa3e126e1c9528d6ad16fcd

So far all of us have held off on the label.  At least I think that is correct.

If you are close to him they will fit in a regional c box.

I would like to order one, but don't get paid until August 20th.

Can you advise if you are still taking orders by then?

Payment sent for one.

TXID - 7f94f2edbf76e4c86656f687bd2fd3981ee8782a7843cb292923027f0da706a7

Thanks Canary.

I#m interested in 1.

Order was transmitted to fc a while back.  Shipping expected within 1 day from him.  Which implies I should get it sometime early next week.  Once tracking number is received. I'll update this thread.
I recommend anyone interested should send payments to guarantee inventory allocation, if you haven't sent btc yet.

I'll be interested to hear how these work out for those of you buying them.  I think the assembly part is kind of fun but I could use a little more information about what needs to be wired.  The youtube video seemed to do a good job of the larger pieces but for me the intricate stuff is always the most intimidating.

Has any talked overclocking capability?

Edit.

This is on Friedcats first post about these:-

You can type 192.168.0.254:8000/FlashMega on your web browser to update to the
newest firmware on each hashing unit (no internet connection is needed). After that
you can type 192.168.0.254:8000 to access the configuration page.

So it looks as though they are standalone units?

One friedcat's Ethernet controller unit can handle up to 8 tubes.
You can just connect it via your router

Seems to be like the s-1 or the s-3  .  which means a simple cat 5 switch to the router if your router is port challenged .  I have a few s-3's.


 so my router plugs into this

http://www.rakuten.com/prod/tp-link-tl-sg1016d-16-port-gigabit-switch/218839606.html

these switches are studs really nice gear.

Decided to pull the trigger and buy one!

Here's to mining difficulty plateauing. And to heating a home in a deep freeze.

Has anyone figured out if we can print out the shipping labels for delivery in Canada?   Or do we need to do a separate Canadian group buy if we want one?

I'm interested in one MIner :D


and BTW:
There's a Faker named "CanarylnTheMine"
(the i is a little L)

His Profile:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=366381


the right name is "CanaryInTheMine".




Greets
newfrozzen :)

thanks for letting me know!  I marked that profile as a scammer.
Please help me by marking with negative trust.  Especially those of you who are in the default trust list via me or other default trust member.

I guess it was bound to happen eventually.  Most reputable sellers have had scamming attempts and today is my turn.  So please don't fall for it.  The payment address I use is right in OP and not sent via PMs.

Scammer profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=366381

Sent 3.12 btc for 3x Tube miners.

TX: fd7a7d47169a4e4d2247c161ac3c54c7646f75794bf4a141281fabf656d7d08b

Please confirm receipt. 

I will send label when packaging is firm.

Wow I dodged a bullet. Was wondering why you'd send a different payment address in a PM compared to the one in the thread.

sent 1.04 BTC for 1 tube

txid: Transaction ID: 504980f653cf5a2629048fc5ffa6a08754466ada36db3d91fef9dccabc30875b

please confirm

and thanks for organizing this!

CanaryInTheMine,
Lining up PSU etc. and I noticed that in the unit that Dogie does the guide on a separate barrel type power connector like used on some lcd screens is needed for the controller card. Is that the case for this one. Trying to have everything in place for before ships, thanks.

Shows up on the ledger: https://blockchain.info/tx/fd7a7d47169a4e4d2247c161ac3c54c7646f75794bf4a141281fabf656d7d08b
Thanks!

On the ledger:  https://blockchain.info/tx/504980f653cf5a2629048fc5ffa6a08754466ada36db3d91fef9dccabc30875b

1.04 BTC sent for 1 tube miner
Tx ID:
0e7671534f3fd6d30950d1041631614cc8e475fa6453b3f96b883aa9439cae42

Please confirm.

I will also send a label when we know what size.

Thanks!

On the ledger: https://blockchain.info/tx/0e7671534f3fd6d30950d1041631614cc8e475fa6453b3f96b883aa9439cae42

I am in for one.  TX: https://blockchain.info/tx/25bf253d049ba2e8722246171860ab7885450289235fd62eeff256c9c359a0fc

Please confirm and keep me posted on the shipping requirements.  Thanks.

I am in for 1

sent 1.04+

fb1fbd861c839fad021f1f049c7bf7bb37769ac857a803f97a9b93ec1739661f

Buying 2. Sent 2.08BTC.  Thanks Canary!

Transaction ID: e37b72be03116898e59838f18b869b1fee8a451921a49c49e1f6b80d0d5ed63c-000

This sadly has become all too common. I wonder if not letting being PM under they reach atleast x activity will help solve the problem.

yeah   the real canary has more then 20 ordered for this buy.  I hope the fake one gets caught and no one gets suckered in.

In for 1. https://blockchain.info/tx/9aeebe314b89c8b14317175c909fba18c42ed691223937d59ad4862147586a44

Please confirm.

Will email label when size is known. Thanks  :D

If I buy 1x Miner,

one question:
I'm from Germany, ...
Is there someone who can generate a international label me?


Greets
newfrozzen

I see it on the ledger.  Thanks!!

You can just go on the USPS website and make one for yourself.  Pay for it with PayPal.

1 for me too please! 8)

TX:https://blockchain.info/tx/96b6e576b1a5e3d7c9f27fc257e2a1490413bc3f2aced4ec9ab3d843ffdc5c30

Here's the response from ASICMiner:

"its 12V 1A,     2.1mm  (actually 2.5mm is also available ,its compatible)"

I believe that is the standard barrel size for most connectors. Thanks for pointing this out. Need to go dig one up.

Is this GB over?  I sent payment on the 16th, did I miss the deadline?

Thanks!

This is for the ethernet controller?

I need to get my power costs down before I buy one, electric bill is already to high  :-\

Are there any left in this GB

No. it's one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Power-Adapter-Supply-1000ma-Quality/dp/B005JRGOCM

the chips are powered by a psu, but the controller in powered by above.

Yes.  You could get an adapter from 6 pin pcie to barrel or from molex to barrel. Buyahash store sells them and you can always make your own and run from the same PSU powering the Tube.
You may also have an adapter from a switch/router etc... As long as it's 12 v out, minimum 1amp.

Yes, it's still open

Turn off GPUs or any other less efficient (than this device) mining equipment. :) :)

Nope, you're good.  My order to fc went in by 16th.

I have an internal tracking number that will get out order to Hong Kong, then it's picked up by DHL.
So I expect these in a few days after DHL number is provided.

On the label do you think a large USPS Flat Rate box (square type) will work or should I wait till you have had a chance to put eyes on it? Thanks.

How many you ordered ?

he is letting us wait on the labels.  it may not get into a large .  may need other packing.  if you are close to him  it fits in a usps  region c box but that is expensive unless you are close.   he is in Illinois I am in NJ and a regional c is 33 dollars. IIRC

 I am hoping he can fit it in a smaller box.  may fit into 2 regional b's


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/661/MwZoKr.png

Thanks, I am in TN so a regional box might be the way to go. Just one miner but thinking of adding another tomorrow if he is still accepting.

How many extra units do you have coming & available left to buy for the GB?

Also, i hate to be the one to ask, but what's in it for you with this group buy? You don't seem to be marking them up any, are you just trying to get around the MOQ for an order from them?  This forum has turned me into a cynic. :(

You have barely been around a month.  This place CAN be a cesspool if you don't filter out the right people and avoid scams.  I learned that the hard way.  Yes,  I got taken for ~$2,400 so make sure to stick with well known sellers such as Canary and avoid to good to be true deals because they are truly not true.

Speaking of trusted sellers...do you have any extra units, Canary, or will you be placing another order?  I sat on the fence to long.

Payment for 1 sent

https://blockchain.info/tx/388209d2b2ded073beb9130a09e6fecded0be1e6e4da0d6105526542bd2ef062

canary in the mine has sold close to 1 million usd in gear on this site. I purchased thousands of dollars in gear from him.


  he is pretty honest guy.  and he sells to make some money.  so most likely he has done a markup which is how a reseller does business.

presumably this was the right part: https://buyahash.com/shop/molex-4-pin-gridseed-power-plug-2-1mm-dc-barrel-plug/

??

enough for a good size group. :)

there's plenty available.  the title is still OPEN, so you can order more.
when my inventory depletes, I will post that here, so that it will be clearly communicated.

FC and Co. have shipped.  Awaiting their arrival.  Will post again once I see customs have cleared.

there are still plenty available if anyone want to order more.  Keep in mind, that the btc/usd has made it cheaper for you to spend dollars to buy the 1.04 btc (about $493 on coinbase).

Good to know. Looking forwarding to getting rid of my pain in the ass Bitfury rigs.

Just reading through Dogie's guide to be sure I am up to speed on everything prior to arrival. 
The Hashratio version of the miner has the default ip address as 192.168.0.254:8000 out of the box.
I note this because most routers in the US have 192.168.1......
Therefore we'll have to do some ip address gymnastics to get them talking to our router.  Instructions are in Dogie's guide, but it can be confusing to the ip challenged.
Then again, maybe FC's are coming with different defaults.

My dlink router defaults to the 0 ip. Thanks for the heads up.

As manufacturers of miners and routers continue to release hw preconfigured to different subnets in the 192.168.0.0/16 address space (or others), the best skill to learn is how to assign secondary IPs to your workstation so that you can reach different subnets and not care about changing your router etc...

What would be the cost of four Tubes and one controller? Looks like 3.953BTC?

It would be 1.04 x 4
I ordered units with a 1:1 in mind

Alright, so no controller break. Got a guy asking me to broker a 4-Tube purchase straight into hosting so needing the price for that. I'll let him know.

4.16BTC sent, ID e69383f5853bb99974f45b2a1ce135f2c11c7fd70988f6e1eb9783720601fae9-000

I now have 5 on order. I have better luck with FedEx than USPS for online, let me know if that's a possibility for shipping.

fedex is fine.

This looks like a good product, 1.04 sent for 1.  TX 17790d46d1f775a2c0017d15bdccca537253d1fb7086906cce1400eb5e634693

Thanks CanaryInTheMine!

By the way, do you have any idea how long they might last?  Any ideas when you might run out?

Anyone who can help me create a label to Philippines??

I will post when I begin running out of them

Disregard, figured out how to create pre-paid international labels.

BTC1.04 sent, txid 2e29590e184efc179b08c22d8c10a68da980727b20570293901b3c598e088bf1

Thinking  about ordering 1 more so when will this arrive at your place Wed or Thur ?

+1

Welp, I'm in for a second. Time to decommission and sell off my GPU rigs.

Three more for hosting. Transaction 64ef954de0e5a0e825fb61e1d88a751951f648a6e0563d90f49e4be0a7b648ae-000

Canary,
Just ordered a second
b833ef1843ea44410e2e3c57ec65bf1b152d9c4a281391a1f8d0a37bc87e195c
Please confirm.

Added a fourth miner Canary.  Tx: 1d42e4913204f1ca11c191369a727eef12256c51819699cef85770cafa851d78 (http://1d42e4913204f1ca11c191369a727eef12256c51819699cef85770cafa851d78)
Please confirm when you can.

Sure, it's on the ledger: https://blockchain.info/tx/b833ef1843ea44410e2e3c57ec65bf1b152d9c4a281391a1f8d0a37bc87e195c

thanks! it's on the ledger: https://blockchain.info/tx/1d42e4913204f1ca11c191369a727eef12256c51819699cef85770cafa851d78

hopefully by Thursday, but once I know this for sure from DHL, I will post concrete dates here once I have them.

4 more for hosting here. I'll update the transaction once everything clears.

4.16BTC, txID 17e3a295fc4a757ddf9e9a836bd4b05ca704a86a48b396db67296ba7024945a7-000

Sent for 7.
https://blockchain.info/tx/555781630108743e288c1381cbc289af1d9880870e80cdb408efc8f29138a9b1

This is getting exciting.

Ps. I love how he wanted funds by 8/16 and the majority roll in after the fact haha

 Not trying to be pushy but I'm wondering if you will be able ship them out on the day you receive them?  I'm in the US until monday... I would love to be able to carry them over the border myself ;)
 

And another one for hosting

5387e1cc593e880e67c53df7ea6373e0bbec18acb5fa796d81a5772ee04fbad8-000

I am in.  Could not resist.

https://blockchain.info/tx/c455a4022d5493370174395379279513cf1509e39df10a6d606add69df9fc43f (https://blockchain.info/tx/c455a4022d5493370174395379279513cf1509e39df10a6d606add69df9fc43f)

Can't believe I just saw this. Have to ask, any left Canary?

In his past group buys he has shipped out sameday.

Looks like most of us will get them by Monday.

In for 1:
47bc1a992495cf981124ab72810e4d940d6e13d49b4c11c59ad51376980befa7

One more for hosting.

aec7e9e57f7c9db7d111de460ba631ea67852171df70ff6bc872d29a0efeb646-000

I have to reserve some space for a couple guys' minion boards, and have one more customer discussing a load, so I'm gonna have to say we're at capacity and won't be taking in any more Tubes to host.

Canary can you confirm my payment from yesterday 2e29590e184efc179b08c22d8c10a68da980727b20570293901b3c598e088bf1

Also do you have an idea of final box size so I can print an international shipping label? They're bound to be a bit pickier about dimensions than domestic.

It's in the ledger: https://blockchain.info/tx/2e29590e184efc179b08c22d8c10a68da980727b20570293901b3c598e088bf1

so you should be all set.


As for the box size, I'm hoping medium box 2, Inside dimensions are 13 5/8" x 11 7/8" x 3 3/8"

Based on the assembled pictures, it is barely larger than 120mm (the fan size) in width/height. 120mm is 4.72in, lets say 5in. You could fit heatsinks/boards across. The question is when 2 are stacked will in be to tall. I'd wait until canary fiddles with it.

yeah I know if I order 2 and use a regional c box I would need a 33 dollar label with no extra insurance.

but if 1 fits in a region b box  it is about 9 + 9 = 18 for 2 units  .

I am delaying a 2nd miner due to this. I think I am going to order a 2nd  one .  He has about 60 paid for so far.

One more for me canary, ;D

tx:https://blockchain.info/tx/37bb92988569eec27a0cb3dff8faf9646acc3051b2dd6c68819409fe00ff26b5

Thanks!

many things depend on packaging. for example, today I got the BE Ethernet controller with a few RockMiner T1 units.  the controller is in it's own foam packaging, thus increasing total volume it takes up in the box.  I suspect the rest of the components are going to have individual packaging too. so when all put together, medium might be dangerous.

I've had some conversations with Phasebird and he gave me a list of dimensions of components but the number of items on that list exceeds the number of items per friedcat's post.  so it's possible some components are packaged as two items etc... it was a list in Chinese, which he translated but it wasn't clear... I've not been able to get more info from ASICMiner on volume of 1 unit subsequently, so to give you a precise answer is not yet possible.

I did contact another forum member who has already received some units from fc.  His/her opinion is that 1 unit will be fine in a large box.  it may be unwise to squeeze everything into a medium box, per their opinion.  Once I have them, I'll know for sure but it could very well end up being a large box.

For multiple units, maybe region C would work, but there's a weight limit on C also... (exceeding that limit renders Priority shipping useless).

Hmmm.  FedEx?  Might be one large box per unit?  I guess we'll find out.

FedEx doesn't care what box you use...  they adjust the charge based on measured weight and bill your account.  I can slap a fedex label on USPS box and they'll take it :)

Thanks, I am good with waiting till you have them in hand. Once you get them I personally will go with what you suggest as I am sure you don't want to spend time chasing down 3 or 4 different type of shipping boxes from different shippers.

Maybe a silly question, but do you have extra fans coming that you'd be willing to sell along with the kits, assuming one would need the extra cooling for OC'ing?  Tried looking for the Nidec fans myself, and the rate isn't as reasonable as FC's BTC0.014.

Ok, per DHL, shipment is due to arrive this Friday.
Unfortunately, like many who've just ordered Tubes, I too experienced serious delays with fc shipping this time.
They should have arrived yesterday based on my prior experience with friedcat.
I'm crossing my fingers that shipment has all units ordered.

i got my shipment at my airport at wendsday.
so i am happy :)

but unfortunatelly customs officers have held package finding excuses to perform clearance... :(

those who need labels may want to look at: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2e55su/shipitocom_ceo_announced_on_his_twitter_that_they/

they started accepting btc

As per the OP update on 8/18 it states there are still plenty available.  Does this mean I can still order 4 from you?

If so, any recommendation on flat rate box(es) to ship 4 units? 

- yes
- not yet. Will post shipping info here when they arrive

Ok, so its acceptable to hold off on the shipping label until they arrive?

all of us 50+ units ordered for the group buy have held back on the labels.

Isn't this for sending international?

Canary?

Per OP, this group is for complete tubes

We apologize for this groupbuy's delivery time.

It's caused by a combination of three factors:

1. A one-day delay from the miscommunication from the sales department
to the logistics company.
2. The time of shipping from the logistics company to Hong Kong DHL.
3. The unexpected overfilling of DHL between 19th to 21st. This also
affected two other customers by 1-2 days.

To prevent it from happening again for this groupbuy as well as
overseas customers, we will fix the shipping process and choose more
direct shipping methods on demand.

Dang. Friday am I hope so you can get them out to us same day.

Thanks for the update fc.

Any chance of a coupon for future orders? 2-3 day delay is 0.04 -  0.06 btc lost.

of the 10 tracking numbers I have from fc and co., 1 is arriving Friday.  the other 9 are arriving Monday per DHL (just got off the phone with DHL).  I don't know how big of a truck they're gonna need on Monday, but that's another story.  The 9 tracking numbers are likely to arrive to Cincinnati Saturday and will rest there over the weekend which sucks.

It's not very clear what's in Friday's shipment (per friedcat, DHL center appears to have mixed things up).  It's either some amount of parts to make complete tubes or not.
If there are enough components to ship out any Tubes to you on Friday, they will got out.
At any rate, these will all head out to you ASAP.

Disappointing.  But unlike others in the space, it's a rarity for FC.

The delay stinks, but thanks Canary and Friedcat for the updates.  At least things are moving now.

Earlier is always better than later but I am still good with it. Thanks for the updates.

3 days delay = .05 btc

I was the first to pay on aug 13th

https://blockchain.info/tx/fc07c66c6ac6585d49c6ca7ed787f734bae84f944c853e4197fa984e9d89216b

https://blockchain.info/address/1DDZYpAgAQNsykvM499et8XpMfRJokFrFE

being first in . if  some full machines come in on fri I would like to be first shipped.

if that is not possible and shipping must be on monday

 I would like  some kind of discount = to .05 btc

Hopefully at least 20 full kits are arriving today as my transaction puts me at unit 19 and 20!  Would be nice if they shipped (to me) today too.

I am sure if enough full kits arrive today Canary will ship them in the order they where paid for, for this is his usual method.

hope so ! I will check back later today.

Shipment received... Just finished going through it all twice...

I have the following items on hand:

24 - BE Ethernet controllers
40 - PCBs (40/4= for 10 Tubes)
12 - Tube Cage kits. 12 boxes, in each box the contents are: 4 heatsinks, 1 fan, 2 brackets and fan grill <- there are no screws or washer etc... in this kit.

Of the 12 Tube Cage Kits, 3 are missing one of the brackets.  the one that attaches with the fan.  I am expecting a few extra parts for all, so hopefully those missing 3 aren't an issue.

There is no hardware to assemble them with (screws, washers) and there are no cables to daisy chain PCBs with and connect to controller.
There are no thermal pads in this shipment.

The good news:

It looks like 1 Tube will require 2 boxes:

- 1 Medium that will hold PCBs, wires, thermal pads and remaining assembly hardware
- 1 Large box to ship the Tube Cage Kit.

So you will need to send me 2 labels for a tube.  A large and a medium.  If you'd be so kind and generate both, then use the print labels without receipt option:
http://i58.tinypic.com/hwmqs0.jpg
also, please sign both tracking numbers with any of your sending addresses that are listed in your transaction

So you're still waiting on the missing screws / wires / thermal pads before shipping out?

some what confused . but here goes I am on a different pc no access to philipma1957

my question is  two regional b boxes work to ship it?

and it seems like we will all need to wait until monday for shipping correct?

if that is the case will he (fried cat)   send us a little something   as loss to us all is about .05 btc

Is there any efficiency in terms of shipping to be had orders of w or more tubes? Or are we talking 4 boxes per 2 tubes?

yes and connecting wires

Bs don't work.
you can reach out to friedcat on the compensation question.  I will mention to him you asked, that I can do.

yes, 2 Tubes can fit in 3 large boxes.  anything larger than 2 Tubes, I'd have to stage it first, and report.
most orders here are for 1 Tube.

btw, I still have more Tubes coming Monday than has been ordered on this group.

back to my philipma1957 account   and judypug1956 is me.  

 too bad the b box does not work

I will send labels soon.
 
 this email correct?

 canary.btc@gmail.com     

Ok so for 2 tubes, need 3 large flat rate box shipping labels?

Just emailed you 3 labels, just confirm all looks good, thanks.

what should we put for the shipping date?

Yes

Monday is fine, today is fine... date not that important for USPS

yes:

How much does the shipment weigh? I'm curious if the 2 box strategy is the cheapest.

don't know complete weight yet, since all components are not here yet.  the Cage Kit is heavy.
vs. which strategy?

Looks like about 8 of the first 20-odd are headed my way. The first in line (third of the order) is mine, I wouldn't mind if it shipped before the rest since that'll give me a buffer time to figure out assembly on the other 30 that will end up here from various hosting customers. I have better luck with FedEx labels than USPS, what kind of single box do you have to pack a single Tube in?

I think you can do a single shipment consisting of multiple labels using fedex. cost is same as far as I remember.  they care about weight than # of boxes, if my memory serves me right...

Canary I ordered four and will do FedEx if that's OK.
How many labels, what kind of boxes(so I can give dimensions) and can you give rough estimates on weight?
I don't need exact just approximate. They can re-weigh if they want.
Obviously the fewer boxes the better.

Alright, so weight and dimensions on whatever boxes you'll be using for a single Tube? Or was it already posted and I overlooked?

Curious is fedex might be cheaper. $30 is getting up there. Fedex ground (i know its slow) is about $16 for ~20 lbs.

I have 7 coming my way.
Let me know what I should do.

 as am I .   a regional c is 33 to howell nj 07731

If I want 2 and 2 fit in a regional c   then that beats 3 large to ship 2.

If anyone is really close to him a regional c is
 19.89 for 24 pounds from 60181 zip to Cincinnati  45201
 19.89 for 24 pounds from 60181 zip to Cleveland 44101 zip
 23.82 for 24 pounds from 60181 zip to pittsburgh 15201 zip

I do not know if he has any regional c boxes on hand.

but I would be pretty sure 1 machine fits into it

1 c box is 1993 cubic inches

1 med and 1 large is 1306 cubic inches  so one should fit

in a 'c'

in my case I am in NJ it is 33 bucks for 1 c vs  27 for 2 a med and a large

I think for the extra 6 bucks  I may pay for a c box for one miner  so no separation occurs .

There can't be any usage of C.  it has a weight limit and will not work.

okay c weight limit is 25 lbs.

1 set weighs more the 25?

I know 2 sets most likely weigh  more then 25.

I will check fedex and ups as I wanted miner to be in one box vs 2 boxes  due to separation anxiety .

 do you do ups?

 or just fedex and post office

I know you are busy but I emailed you 3 USPS Flat Rate for large box labels, when you get a chance can you confirm? Thanks.

yes, when I get a chance I will confirm.

Thanks, I appreciate it, not trying to rush know you are busy sorting, unpacking, & etc.

Yep, as predicted.
Asciminer strikes again.

got a couple questions on how to sign your tracking numbers.
this old thread might be of some help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180068.0
most wallets support signing, you may need to google it or lookup help sections on how to do it.

as of now, every email with a label got a response.
I'll respond to fedex/ups questions in a bit.

Is this open right now?

I want a tube!

Sent my label just now.

I signed my payment/btc addy

sent my email.

so hopefully we are good to go on monday.

I will be busy most of today and some of monday.  I will check on this thread as soon as I can.

Sent a PM out to those whom I've not gotten a label from, when you get a chance, please send.

What are the weight/dimensions for 2 tube kits in one box.  If I want to use FedEx?  If I choose USPS, do I send 2 large and 2 medium for 2 kits?  Looks like someone here is

using three large flat rate boxes for two tubes.  Is this also acceptable?

Thanks!

for 2 units, that would be 3 Large Box labels for USPS.  or 3 fedex labels for same boxes. weight is about 10 lbs each, but FedEx adjust weight anyway and bills you accordingly.

Is there an english version of these instruction?
http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51 (http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51)

Not an English version but see if these posts helps:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=750363

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723445

Here's to hoping for an AM delivery on wednesday before I jet out!!

Is this group buy still going?  If I purchase one right now I assume it ships with the first batch of miners?

Replied to PM and sent email. Sorry it took so long to send labels. Busy weekend!

 Canary said that as long as the subject says [OPEN] there are units available.
He's probably too busy with the shipping right now to respond.

this is gonna be a long day... partial deliveries arriving... not all packages at once... sigh...

correct.
xhomerx10, please check your email.  I need verified signed msg from you still

You PM'ed me advising that 2 units fits in 2 Large USPS flat rate boxes.  Is it 2 or 3?

Also, for any international customers, USPS will not allow non-residents to purchase pre-paid mailing labels.  If anyone has had success please PM me, but I wasn't able to finish check-out.

Just sent 1.04:

https://blockchain.info/tx/2dbe99816487a99daaa9cb768832217c8e9c110aee2a6c312143e018dbe05649

Also sent you shipping labels for a large and medium package.

 I couldn't use paypal or any of my credit cards (Canadian) to purchase my USPS pre-paid mailing labels.
If you know any americans that trust you and vice versa, send them some bitcoins and get them to pay for you through your USPS account.
That worked for me.

I love the design of these and the price point isn't bad.  A little more BTC and I'll pick one up I think.

Really wish the W/Ghs was a bit better though  :(

I'm going to need a usps miracle to get mine wed before I leave the states.

yeah mine has yet to ship and I am first on the list.

DHL just delivered 20 mins ago, opening and packing now...

No worries. It's not your fault just bad timing/shipping delays. I guess I'll get to build it when I return.

Anyone hear back from fc about any compensation?

He said he will make an announcement.

hopeful that it is worthwhile discount

 I needed one too... just got home today minerless ;(
Hope you get yours!

Don't worry folks, I am packing them up. They will all head out ASAP.
Also, Sidehack popped over and picked up the ones for hosting by him.
And we both took a stab at assembling one, it's not too bad actually.

Hi all, I need help, who can help me with pay shipp USPS  from USA to UK, and pdf labels.  all: 114USD,  I pay you on BTC.

please contact me PW

Thanks

.

Don't worry folks, I am packing them up. They will all head out ASAP.
Also, Sidehack popped over and picked up the ones for hosting by him.
And we both took a stab at assembling one, it's not too bad actually.
[/quote]

Good to hear.   Did you plug the assembled unit in yet?

well i was first to pay and not first to be shipped to as you allowed sidehack to get his ahead of me.  not a complaint in any way . I do understand he ordered more then me  and that I have not ordered as much gear from you as he has in older sales.

I have ordered a lot from you in the last year.

   I tell you what if that assembled one works well how about shipping it to me on tues.
thanks Phil
 best regards phil :)

I have an early spot in the shipment queue.  If anyone is interested in taking that spot PM me.  I am disappointed with the delay along with the seemingly complicated assembly.  

Canary is cool with the exchange.  I am open to a 1.0 BTC offer to switch the shipping to you!

PM me if interested.

I want this answer too, no one can answer me on this thread.

to both it is late i am tired and going to bed.  I will help both of you in about 8 hours from now it is 1 am usa east coast time . so 8 hours is 9 am eastern standard time

 I think that is about 3pm England time.  both of you pm me in around   around that time and i will figure out if I can help.

what is price for round#2?

I haven't purchased any units in here, but perhaps I can offer some useful assistance. PM me if any of these are useful for you:

I can help you generate a shipping label to any country from a shipping software I use for mass shipping. I've organized several group buys on other forums and have shipped out hundreds of international packages, that's why I have the software.

I also have dirt cheap electricity, so I'm willing to host a few units.

Lastly, I have a shit ton of high powered server fans if you need extras.

Anyone that has miners in this GB hosted with me, I just arrived back at the shop with all of them in hand. I actually beat the DHL truck by about 4 hours which is funny considering I had a 400-mile drive, but we got everything unloaded and checked over. I think Canary was looking at pulling an all-nighter to get stuff sorted out and start shipping ASAP. He was pretty upset with the truck delays.

In any case, I'm gonna go take a nap what with the driving all night thing, and then start putting miners together. These dudes seriously have 164 screws per machine. Also make sure you note the board orientation on the heatsinks before strapping the fan on. In fact I think I'd advise mounting the boards to the heatsinks before sliding the heatsinks together, will probably save some hassle.

Also anyone hosting with me needs to get me their pool credentials so I can load these guys up and get 'em running without delay.

I just spent about 25 minutes trying to help a buyer here by printing a label to ship to canada.  I could not get one printed so  I was not able to help him.

At   finksy   it will not allow me to enter quantity on the customs page. sorry

Shipping status?

open, as long as stated in OP title.

Sorry, I am referring to orders placed.

ah yea my bad too, didnt read carefully. dunno about shipping, maybe someone else can enlighten us.

I can't speak as to developments of the last 14 hours, but when I left last night all the boxes had been accounted for, all the various cables were accounted for, and processes had been set up to divide the bulk bag of screws quickly into individual order quantities. He mentioned pulling an all-nighter to get stuff sorted and packed. Canary's always come through before, so I'd bet on basically everything going out by this evening.

That's what I figured given no word from Canary.  When I saw no movement on my FedEx tracking numbers I assumed this was a most challenging shipping operation.

It came in 119 boxes with no instructions, if that says anything.

Seems these are quite the disaster so far...not too impressed (with AM not Canary).

Yeah, they will have to iron that out.  But as we are always cutting edge in this space, nothing surprises me.

True...I think that if AM just assembles them in the future they will be much better. They best to hurry up though with using over 1 watt per GH at the wall these will not be viable for much longer.

As a shareholder very disappointed in AM. Not good those who purchased and I'll give pause to any more orders with fc. Significant compensation is needed.

Keep strong Canary and sort on.

I predicted diaster! AM did fine on the usb sticks, semi on the blades, fell down on the cubes, now its DIY but go find missing parts else where.

Again, I'm not faulting canary, just FC/AM

Payment for 2nd unit:  6572c756e5372f6f302c00f90cd3dc0eeff77e9cef2fe91fe5ff254c913021af

I will e-mail you signed message with shipping labels for both this afternoon.

Umm... he drove 7 hours one way to pick them up in person...
DHL delivered at a time that I couldn't possibly get anything out last night.

I wish I knew you were going to pick yours up assemble them  and host them.

I would have never purchased a label and had you do mine.

moan and groan and moan some more

not at you or canary but AM/FC was a bad boy.

  I wasted 36 on shipping and maybe a week of time by not letting you host mine.

if you get them running let us know.  I am venting because since I placed this order

 1) my cooktop caught fire- 800 usd to replace it still waiting as it is on back order
 2) my 18 month old washer broke 900 usd  still waiting for it to be replaced as it is on back order
3) i replaced my out door built in grill went smooth but cost 2ooo usd  as wife wanted stainless steel
4) i have to drive 200 miles round trip to help out my brother-in-law get un expected exploratory surgery

So sitting in front of a pile of parts does not appeal to me right now.

oh welll


at canary i am sure you are as annoyed as any of us.  1 am  just venting  as i won't be able to sit around at my leisure and tinker.  in my case the post office and am/fc will do okay  i will be lucky to get time on tues next week to assemble

so sept 3 for up time at best.

if i knew sidehack was picking up and hosting jumping past me in line i simply would have not purchased a label and let him take one more and host it for me.

Glad to hear you got back and all is good!

- Looks like I should have every verified label shipped out in a few more hours.  a bunch of batches already went out.

Hi Canary,
 :)
Anymore of these available for a purchase today?

the only disaster is that ASICMiner's reshipper AND HK DHL station chocked.  they got swamped with boxes from fc and caused some serious delays.
the other part, it being a DIY kit, is not a disaster because it's a DIY kit.  this is just an opinion and all the chatter about it is noise.  some people care, some don't.  but everyone cares about shipping disasters.  it takes 15-20 mins to put it together but requires some tools, digits dexterity and patience.

[OPEN]

to be clear mine item is marked accepted  by the post office   and my complaints are not against canary or sidehack. I am  just frustrated over  delays and the events that happened to me while waiting.

so canary and sidehack please accept apologies on my part.

best regards Phil

@ sidehack let us know how the setup goes photos details  etc.

Sending soon.
Let's see IF I remember how this whole signed message works.
Have a link for the standard template?
My old computer crashed so I don't have any of those templates available.

Cutting edge? FC is making you his bitch by having you build your own miner with no instructions. And the miners aren't even that efficient.

I got one already assembled. After going over it with Canary last night, it went pretty quickly. It's not running currently as I'm annoyed by trying to find pools that will accept its apparently not standards-compliant share format. I was hoping slush's proxy might for some reason repackage and submit shares but that doesn't appear to be the case, I think it just forwards stratum straight on as is.

Additionally I did some power tests. The DC power output measurements were erroneous/bad to be sure, but I hooked up a power meter to one of the hosting circuits and got some rough measures of AC load (into a D750) at various clock settings.

MHz	GH	IAC	VAC	WAC	W/GH
270	829	4.4	212	933	1.13
260	799	4.25	212	901	1.13
250	768	4.1	213	873	1.14
240	737	3.9	213	831	1.13
230	707	3.8	213	809	1.14
220	676	3.6	213	767	1.13
210	645	3.5	213	746	1.16
200	614	3.3	213	703	1.14

Those current measurements are by no means precise, as all I had was a 0-100A meter with tenths precision. Everything still reads out as a good 10-14% worse than expected.

Also if you'd have asked for hosting I'd have turned you away. We're full up, even without these pulling 10% more power than expected.

So far, I've only gotten it to work against ghash pool

Thanks for the hustle Canary. Looks like mine have left the post office and will be in hand Thursday.

I figured if these were like the cubes that Slush's proxy would handle it. Gonna be interesting and a pain in the ass if I gotta move my whole farm to another pool just for 1 device.

The Cubes required the proxy because they only ran getwork. These guys do stratum natively, but apparently they don't do it quite right. Either that or every pool ever has implemented their standards wrong but every other hardware ever somehow compensated (which seems unlikely).

If I knew any python, and had any time at all, and knew more about the stratum packet formats, I'd consider tearing into the proxy and seeing if the erroneous portion can be spoofed and get a proxy going that'll fix the issue with these at least until there's a firmware update.

I can see my unit is on the way. Thanks Canary!!!

Sending soon.
Let's see IF I remember how this whole signed message works.
Have a link for the standard template?
My old computer crashed so I don't have any of those templates available.
[/quote]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180068.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=180068.0)

Oh, that's what is.  Thanks.

Novak did some packet sniffing while I fetched a sammich, and it looks like it might be something like the server is requesting a 4-byte extranonce but the miner is returning an 8-byte every time.

another impostor:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=370082

please leave negative trust.

Thanks Canary, all 3 labels show acceptance at Post Office.

sidehack, by chance did you try any on the slush pool itself? Just curious as that is where I mine. Really don't want to go to that other mentioned.

Would this be of any use? I've seen it recommended by various people/pools:

https://github.com/Stratehm/stratum-proxy

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8544195#msg8544195

I've got a list of pools I've tested so far, with the error messages returned.

I noticed you wrote mmpool works what pool is that?

So basically right now they only work with Ghash and probably Discus Fish?

I can deal with a small shipping delay but being able to mine only at the Ghash, not cool. Has anyone contacted FC about the situation? I emailed help@bitquan.com from FC's post with the info that sidehack posted.

I also turned in a support ticket to slush's pool to see if it is an easy fix on their end or if they had any suggestions.

side hack posted mmpool.org works on this thread


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8544195#msg8544195

Would Bfgminer work as a proxy?  Anyone tried this?  I used to use it for the blades/getwork and as I understand it supports stratum.

Has anyone tried it with Eligius?

Thanks!

Edit:  Found out from the official tube thread that Eligius is NOT supported.  Don't know about proxy though.

everything has shipped out...  a few labels are still outstanding.  when I get them your units will head out.

Haven't received any notifications from USPS. Will they not update tonight?

Thanks for the hard work getting these orders put together and sent out.
I really appreciate the time you put in.

 Great job Canary!  Thanks for getting these out as quick as you did.

You're welcome.  By the way, I do have extra units still available.

Thanks Canary. Confirmed usps shipped.

 yeah mine is due on thur.

do you ship to Canada?
and i presume this is un-assembled is that correct?

Did everyone else get their shipping confirmed? Mine hasn't changed  :(

I did but when I created USPS labels I checked the email update option. Mine is on its way.

Thanks Canary, I imagine it was a nightmare separating and sorting all those units. You must definitely be a man of patience.

Yeah I did too, but no dice. Tracking #'s haven't shown anything either.

really need it by thursday too.

Shipping confirmed. Thanks!

He will if you submit and e-mail him a pre-payed shipping label for USPS or Fedex.  Easier said than done, even with a US-address based credit card I and another member were unable to prepare shipping labels from him to me.

Yes it is un-assembled.

Mine will be here on thursday too thanks soo much!

Mines shipped. Luckily it was before the labor day weekend. Thanks for everything Canary.

how much it wil cost to  ship in philippines 1pcs only?? can i?? thank you

You will have to figure that out yourself as you handle the shipping and send him the labels already addressed to yourself.

Read the whole thread, you will find all the information you need.

That is true dedication from a hosting agent.  ;D

friedcat updated his post to include info on how to use bfgminer as a proxy then connect to any pool of your choice.
I have some spare Pis on hand.  anyone who wishes to add a Pi to their order, let me know.

Also for those not familiar with Linux  BFG 4.7 does come in a windows version. I did install it and was able to point one of my S3's to my computer running it and it did connect and mine at Slush's pool. I am going to try it with a tube just as soon as it arrives but as FC advises BFG 4.7 will work I don't see a reason why the windows version 4.7 wouldn't work also. sidehack is going to try later if he has time with an actual tube. Check FC's thread post for updates.

Shipment arrived.  Thank you Canary.
At some point there was talk of a thermal pad for these.  Can I assume past or pad is not needed?

link please?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8549984#msg8549984

In the post after that I posted a solution ckolivas worked up for me using his own proxy software, which runs linux native. I haven't fully tested its limitations yet, and I haven't tested BFG proxy at all, but once I get the rest of these tubes assembled I'll do some more work on both options and post results.

Did they come with the thermal pads, if not what did your use?

Nevermind.  Found three in one box.  So I am guessing still required.

Thanks.

thermal pads are absolutely required.

for single tube, there are 4 pads.  1 sheet of 3 (pre-cut, you can use scissors to separate) and a single one.

DIY dosnt bother me, built my own 3d printer from plans not a kit.  But AM half baked equipment does. So now it won't mine without someone else's software helping out
due to their bad firmware and it is using more power than they said. This is what I'm talking about.

I would have loved for this thing to come in at 850ghs, solid, at good power ratings.
and easy to mine on pools at that price.


Like the ant miner S1, I have serval that are rock solid. One ran for 60+ days and only restarted due to power failure. (out for hours, drained the UPS)  
they do Suck power though. (will pencil mod shortly).  but they are self contained with nicely done firmware that worked from the get go.

Pulled it out of the box, didn't have to take it apart for loose screws or misaligned boards. or restart it every few days.

The S3 is quickly closing in on buy 2 to get same performance, better power specs.

A little over an hour to assemble the first one.  The next one will be quicker.  Got it up and running the first try, which is amazing for me.
Changed the Controller IP to 192.168.1.254 by using my laptop.  Did not mess with the router.
Used Ghash.io so I have not messed with bfgminer yet.
Running about 840 Gh on the GUI and but 790 Gh on Ghash.  All at stock 270 Mh.  Will try to overclock, but not until I get it to the data center.
Happy overall though I would like to get the pool speed up.

https://i.imgur.com/8H9QeHg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/k5qUelM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/8eMsHYH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NWhKDuA.jpg

Canary, thanks for another great GB.  Sorry that you had some issues that were out of your control, but you busted your ass to make sure everything was smooth on your end of the transaction.

Well said. +1
btw mine show delivery for tomorrow.

Folks whose Tubes are hosted with me, I'll be setting them up tomorrow. I got them all assembled - it took longer than I'd figured but a lot of the distractions were related to working out pool incompatibility issues. First thing in the morning I'll be finishing up the power wiring and meter installs, then firing up miners in the order that orders were placed with me. Since it's near the end of the month I'll combine the shipping, setup fees and August hosting into a single invoice on the 1st.

Anyone that I haven't gotten pool info from yet needs to get me that. I should be able to direct them at any pool without issue by tomorrow.

  I thought it was awesome that you drove there to pick up the miners and did a test assembly with Canary - I had no idea the assembly would be so time consuming.  Then I read through the various forums how you worked through all the connectivity issues on top of that - even colluding with ckolivas about the extra nonce issue.  We could not have picked a more perfect person to host the miners.  You rock.  I'm changing my sig for the day in your honour.

  

You forgot to mention how Sidehack is still honoring his hosting deal even though the device's consume 10% more power than advertised. Good job Sidehack!  ;D

Well, it is paid per KW not per device, so the only real changes on my end are worrying how much of the buffer is being eaten up on my power allocation. I'm gonna have to take out and move all of my own hardware to free up the difference.

As for picking up and everything, can you imagine how bad it'd be if I waited to get everything shipped? People wouldn't be mining until probably Saturday instead of all the machines going up today. And being able to work with other pools besides ghash.io, aside from being a no-brainer basic operating requirement, is also a specific requirement for my hosting facility since I can (and would like to) block ghash.io because they really don't need any more business. I'm seeing to it the pool compatibility issue is solved not just for my own needs, but for the good of the community (and the network) as a whole. Decentralization is not always the easiest path, but it is the essential path.

And this is why the community needs more people like you. If I could give you a high five right now, I would.

you can always leave him Trust feedback :)

Already have. You and I are his trusted feedback.

 An excellent idea!  We should also do the same for you!!
 Thanks ;)

I have one tube up and running butt I am having a strange issue.  Just want to get any opinions on it.  Seems the controller becomes unresponsive

and I have to power cycle it almost every time there is a block found on the BTC network.  When this happens, The LED to the furthest left is the

only one illuminated.  This is the one closest to the uart connectors.  I am using BFGminer  4.7.0 as a proxy  as Friedcat suggested to mine to Eligius

Also, the BFGmine windows indicates "error from bufferevent" when this occurs. Whatever that means. ???

Thanks to everyone in advance for thoughts/fixes.

Sounds like Luke-Jr might have to help...

Did you do the firmware update?

I did, the cards show V1.41 now.  But I updated them first thing.

I have a board that will not hash at all. Just shows .... for the boards. All the other boards are hashing fine. Not sure what is wrong with that one board.

edit: double checked all my connections with the white wires, that didn't fix it.

http://imgur.com/Hm28NuF
https://i.imgur.com/EKqgJaF.jpg

Post man just dropped off my Tube.  Very nice re-packing job Canary!  Thanks

Mine too! Woot woot.

I got mine too. Just gotta finish up some things around the office.

Are there any guides for getting this thing from in the box to hashing, aside from the overview video and dogie's guide?

I'd consider putting up an assembly guide and ckpool instructions but I'm still sorta waist-deep in setup. Maybe in a couple days.



Thought about saying balls-deep but then people would think I was stickin' it in their Tubes and that's not a customer service we provide.

 lol! Keep your junk outta our tubes!

That would give a whole new meaning to the term "hosting service".  Might be lucrative though.


I think there is a link to some Chinese forums and some instructions.   I am planning on checking them out when I have some downtime tonight.

Do the ethernet controllers really need 12v?

Mine has "DC 5v" printed on it…

And is it center positive, outside negative? Or the other way around?

you should use proper voltage and proper amps.  otherwise you will brick it.

5VDC, not sure on current but mine isn't asking for more than an amp I think. The barrel is hot-center.

Hence with the asking before I just plug stuff in.

Everything in this thread says 12v, mine have 5v printed on them.

The ethernet controller is the only 5V device. The entire rest of the Tube is 12V.

huh?

http://fireswamp.net/~stan/ethernet.png

So 5v like the device says, or 12v like the thread says?

I don't really care what Friedcat says, the controller is labeled with 5VDC and I've been running it on 5VDC for two days.
It's got an AOZ1021AI switching controller inside it (same as on the Blades and Cubes for providing 3.3V) with a 35V electrolytic input cap so it's likely pretty flexible. Might run just fine on 12V, I know the chip is good for that high an input voltage so long as all the input parts are. Also good to see what looks like a series input diode for reverse voltage protection in case you wire up your barrel connector backward. That's good thinking.

So tomorrow when my tube arrives...can I use a PCI-e to barrel plug on the Ethernet controller safely?  I had used these for grid seeds in the past.  Or should I find a 5 volt power brick?

well the 5 volt power brick will not kill the controller.  so if you have one and it works use it.

under volting that kind of gear is pretty safe.  

oh my gear arrived today.

 I got home really late long day in NY long ride back to NJ.  Ride was not for fun.  looks like my brother-in-law may need surgery for cancer.  will know more in 10 days or so.


puts  my annoyance  about Fried cat's shipping in perspective.

I assembled some of it.  too tired to finish it .

I think 2 of my 8 boards are dead. Who do I contact? the email addresses, usernames, etc in FC's first post?

I think warranty is done through the reseller, but I could be wrong. So far I have identified one board for sure to be replaced, one that's behaving erratically and one entire Tube that's nonfunctional but it's probably one board hosing up the serial line. Tomorrow I should have a final count on what does and doesn't work.

Thanks Canary and company.  My tube is assembled and happily hashing away.  

SO MANY SCREWS!  :D

I used this site to help with the setup:
http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51

I'm really impressed with the size.  It's actually 3 inches smaller in length and identical in height to an Antminer S3.  I'd say the fan is slightly louder than an S3.  On stock speed (270MHz) mine is drawing 892 watts at the wall and on 290MHz it is drawing 953 watts.  The miner is being powered with an EVGA 1300G2.  The BE Controller is also powered off of the psu using a barrel connector originally for a gridseed.

I'm using an rpi running bfgminer and it is working fine on eligius.  For those newish to mining or linux, you can edit init.d to automatically start the mining software when the rpi starts.  

Edit: Just ran into the same issue as helipotte.  bfgminer declared the miner sick after a new block was found.  It did recover after 30 seconds or so and started mining again.  After the next block was found, it kept mining without issues.  This was on FW 1.29.  Same issue after flashing the boards to 1.41, but it is very inconsistent.

http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag442/daveforshee1/513fd7c1-78ab-48ae-a87a-2bf427a30379_zps60870a24.jpg (http://s1375.photobucket.com/user/daveforshee1/media/513fd7c1-78ab-48ae-a87a-2bf427a30379_zps60870a24.jpg.html)

http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag442/daveforshee1/d82acd39-dfd0-4a60-bb0a-b9b47411902a_zps4d80b445.jpg (http://s1375.photobucket.com/user/daveforshee1/media/d82acd39-dfd0-4a60-bb0a-b9b47411902a_zps4d80b445.jpg.html)

http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag442/daveforshee1/a00b23f4-a070-4500-ac3f-bdc219a3c9f5_zps002c2371.jpg (http://s1375.photobucket.com/user/daveforshee1/media/a00b23f4-a070-4500-ac3f-bdc219a3c9f5_zps002c2371.jpg.html)

yep I have one board that doesn't respond to anything and if it's in the chain it disables everything else as well.

another board will run for about 2 minutes then causes instability and then disappears. with those two unplugged, though, it's been running stable.

yeah I almost have mine done.  I think it could use 8 more screws!! no kidding I will point to where they could have gone.

I turned the metal square bracket out yours are turned in..   this make mine a bit longer but I think either way works.  I am just really pressed for time today and tomorrow maybe I can post on sunday.

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/sjc1490/BadChain_zps58b89c56.jpg (http://s1278.photobucket.com/user/sjc1490/media/BadChain_zps58b89c56.jpg.html)

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/sjc1490/BFGScreen_zps2260af6a.jpg (http://s1278.photobucket.com/user/sjc1490/media/BFGScreen_zps2260af6a.jpg.html)

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

Mine has been up for 28 min so far but I have installed on a 2003 Server that I am pointing it at. So far no errors.

I am seeing this as well.  An older version of Bfgminer seems to be more stable.  It also seems to stop when a block is found on the

network.

Edit: Just checked, now the boards are showing F/W version 1.53.  Must of just updated last night of this morning.

Right now I have the tube pointed at the dark side, Ghash, and it is working fine. Sidehack has his mad scientist working on a proxy fix for slush. Hopefully those 2 will be able to come up with something in the next few days.

Has anyone experience this? Suddenly Board 3 started showing 100% error rates:

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y506/sjc1490/ErrorRate_zpsc1a8bbd5.jpg (http://s1278.photobucket.com/user/sjc1490/media/ErrorRate_zpsc1a8bbd5.jpg.html)

I have seen that too.  I think it is a interface glitch. 

You're not kidding about the mad scientist, that's his actual job title. He was already coding on it when I came in to work this morning. The proxy was already fixed for slush-based stratum implementations, but eligius and its ilk are still having trouble. I think he was packet-snooping BFG outputs for comparison to see what formatting was changed or repackaged for valid share submissions.

sidehack, sent you pm slush is working direct now, no proxy.

Open for all miners, or just on the test port?

They updated themselves? Or they need another FlashMega?

I was using a 6v 500ma phone charger for about an hour last night until I found a proper adapter. It ran fine with both configurations, so the controllers seem to be flexible when it comes to input voltage. Pretty solid device, mining at ghash.io right now but I plan to load bfgminer proxy on one of my X2 RPi controllers and test out a few more pools tonight.

Sorry was at lunch, all.

okay I have it assembled.

I am using a 5 volt dlink 1mp wallwart   so it works fine.  the controller has flex on volts.   5 to 12? at 1 amp seems to be good.

I am using an evga 1300 psu 4 pcie cables attached
dip switches:

  set 1
then 2
then 3
then 4


I typed in
192.168.0.254:8000/FlashMega and I am at this spot. flashings seems slow so far 10 minutes.

Any time estimates for flashing?

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/537/LphDCr.png

Doesn't take particularly long. The page doesn't refresh back to the settings though.

Yeah hit the back button and refresh the page manually. Flashing takes maybe 10 seconds.

what version does it show after the flash I am showing 1.41 still.

I never got this message.  Not sure I am flashing right.  Do you have all the boards running when you do this?

EDIT - I change the IP address before flashing.  Maybe that's not right.

My boards say V 1.41. I think the initial version was 1.37.

Changing the IP address before flashing does not matter. I did the same thing. 

Where are you guys seeing the version numbers?

seems to be on track

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/745/iSfue1.png

I figured it out.  You have to have the exactly same case in "FlashMega"

Mine are 1.41 after initial flash.

Thanks, and so everyone know they do work on Slush Pool without Proxy.

I went to test settings found version 1.41
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/742/L36Kuu.png

   no hashing so I must have this wrong .  some help please.  Once i get this I am going to do a write with screen shots to setup a machine to the hated pool i am pointed to.
I would like to do a full write with settings for newbies.




http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/745/KhKFVF.png

Take the port out of the url

got it thanks

and pulled the port out and I have nothing

about a dozen Tubes are available.  beginning to run low.  can ship out in the next 2.5 hrs today.

Hi everyone.

I am having an issue with this purchase and I am hoping someone here can help me. I came across the ad for this buy and decided I wanted to purchase one of the tubes. I did not have the required BTC in my wallet so I sold some GH/s from CEX.io and sent it to the address listed in the ad. I posted my tx ID on this forum and purchased and emailed the shipping labels for the tube. I received an email back from Canary saying everything was fine and all I needed to do was sign the message and send it to him. I had no idea what Canary was talking about and was informed that I could do it from my wallet. When I told Canary that it did not come from my wallet but from CEX.io I was told the ONLY option was to sign the message or the BTC would be returned to the sending address. I immediately emailed CEX support and explained the situation to them and I was told that the receiving address at CEX was static but the sending address was not and if the payment was returned I would lose it.

 I then notified Canary about this and was told it wasn't true and that the ONLY option was to sign the message or he would return the BTC to the sending address. I once again emailed CEX support and my ticket was elevated to the supervisor and they responded with the same information and an offer to contact Canary and confirm the transaction came from my account. This was rejected by Canary. Canary posted a message to the admin of the GASH.io forum stating the problem and after some confusion the admin at GHASH told Canary the same thing CEX had. The admin also offered to confirm the transaction came from my wallet but once again Canary rejected this.

Canary states that I can not prove the funds came from my account. I have asked Canary if anyone else has claimed this transaction ID and to this point he have refused to answer the question. I also asked why the confirmation from CEX was not adequate and again no response from Canary. Canary also will not answer any questions about this transaction. Canary will only state that the ONLY option is to sign the message, which is not possible or return the BTC to the sending address which means I will lose it.

I sent the BTC to the listed address in good faith and have offered to show that the funds came from my account on CEX. I am at a loss at what to do now. If anyone has any ideas I would very much appreciate hearing them.

Thank you,

Stephen Scott

Does this include shipping replacement for posts that showed up broken? Please let us know how you intend to replace boards that showed up non functional, or if it's even you I should be contacting about this.

(sent you PM about this but maybe you didn't see it)

My .02, ask Canary to pick a 4 digit number in a PM. Send him that 4 digit number from the same online wallet. i.e.  Number picked is 4501, send .004501.
That should prove you own the source. Most wallets won't let you send less than a certain amount so thats why I suggest only .00xxxx instead of .0000xxxx.
you could also try .000xxxx. again every wallet has its limits.

I don't know how GHASH can prove it came from you unless they can send a signed message from the same address...

Got my 2 tubes running on 1 controller, no problems, no hiccups, no issues at all.
Getting a steady and stable 1.6T since last night on poolside on Slush. Sorry, my kill-o-watt died so I can't verify draw at the wall.
I'm using bfgminer 4.7 as a proxy, but I hear Slush got it working w/o a proxy so I'll have to try that.

Otherwise, I LOVE this product. The engineering on the kit is far superior to the usual BTC world crap. The tube concept with one fan and interlocking heatsinks is great and very efficient for cooling. And I really like being able to run 8 tubes from one controller. The other good choice was using a thermal pad instead of paste, mainly due to the apparent lack of workers skilled in thermal paste application techniques.

So kudos to friedcat, and kudos to canary for running this GB and superbly handling the daunting task of packaging all these units, and so quickly!

Now if only AM could improve efficiency a hair, they could give Bitmain some tough competition.

did you daisy chain all 8 together?

yeah this would be great gear if it used 650 watts.

my evga 1300  reads 886 watts  and I am doing 830gh.

  design is nice.  is this worth 1.04 btc plus shipping compared to 1.16 and free shipping for a pair of s-3's.
  yes because I am hashing today and will earn about .3 btc from now until an s-3 ships.
  I don't normally mine with ghash  but when other pools fix the issue I will move there.

FYI - on OS X, I always use firefox or chrome to flash. Safari sometimes just will not do it correctly. I flash lots of stuff from routers, port servers, print servers, voip etc.
If the interface does not look right or behave as expected I fire up parallels to do it from WinXP, Win7 or Linux. Some equipment will just not take being spoon fed except
from windows and never over wireless.

Canary, have you been able to determine how to RMA a bad board we purchased in your GB? I haven't been able to get a answer from anyone yet????

I'm also looking for this info.

yeah sometimes I have to use chrome or firefox or vmware/windows7

I got it going pretty good.
funky wind sound from the fan.
all in all having it mine today and good numbers on ghash I can't complain.

As usual and no reflection on Canary fried cat alway prices just a bit too high.
I paid about 520 usd and around 36 to ship with extra for insurance total of 556.

  I guess you could say it should have been at my house on monday not thur.  so a 3 day delay cost each of us . 05 btc.  that falls on friedcat again.
Still the next best thing to this is a 22+ day wait for an s-3 .

So for all of us may the hash be with us. lets see how much we can earn in 22 days.

I like this idea but it probably won't work. According to GHASH/CEX they have several wallets that funds are sent from. If it wasn't from the same wallet as the first time Canary would not accept it and I would lose whatever amount I sent.

Ask them if they can send it from the wallet. If they can do .0004501 for example that is like 20 cents

I know it is a controversial pool but it works on mining.bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com pool also without proxy.

 Well after overnight running on ghash I tried to do bitcoinaffiliatenetwork as suggested it did not run. It may be that I picked a bad server as that pool has about 7 to choose from. I am back at ghash. I would like to think that btcguild or a few other pools will do a fix for this. By fix I mean  that I can simply use the controller.

   Impressions this is a nice design small unit. Sidehack I could see 2 of these in a custom case with a hp2000 psu. Two options 120 volt with a slight down clock to freq 250 and 240 volt with the 270 ,280,290  options.   The case could have 4 fans at a little less speed to cut down the noise. My biggest complaint is the software.  It really should allow for 2 or 3 pools with a rollover option. Right now if ghash goes down I got nothing.  And even if many pools could just work  there is no switchover like the s-1 or s-3.  Bad friedcat naughty kitty. All in all I like the gear hoping for a decent firmware fix for the 2 complaints.

BTW this gear likes the 260 setting a lot.
I am using the us1 ghash server and a different worker on ghash.


   
http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/673/9xF1VX.png

When I tested I did so against east2, it had a quick ping return time.

I like the miner I like the ethernet controller.  The firmware needs improvement quite a bit.  I can't directly say enough bad about the 1 pool only choice in the gui .  seems you can pick slush or mmpool.org or ghash but only those three and only one of them at that.

I have been sending pm's and posting to ask for a real choice in the gui and a rollover choice like many other  programs and gear offer.
I now have alerts on my ghash pool and I find that to be a step back on Friedcat's part.

Shame as I wanted two or three of these not happening now  as I have a lot of real world issues to deal with for the next few months. I need set it and forget it options.  This gear does not offer that.  I know buying a rasp-pi and setting up a proxy with 2 or 3 pools is an option but I do not want that. I wanted a controller with a decent gui. oh well.  What truly frustrates me is none of this is Canary's fault it is friedcat's as he had the software-firmware put into the controller.  Now we need to deal with it.  

Well it does hash nicely on ghash for now. Setup was easy and it is small.  I use 850 watts for 790gh
An ethernet box with a good gui would be very nice. Hopefully it happens

(please Friedcat you can do it!)

Precisely, I had enough of that with the lemon cube. I would have to constantly check if it was hashing. (BTC Miner App on iPhone)
When ever I was not handy it would drop, so zero hash until I got back to reset it or got one of the kids to "power" it off and on.

Then it started needing to be off at least 30 seconds, then it would take 2 or 3 cycles to get it going. Then it died 3 months later.

Got the S1, what a relief, it just hashed without all the BS needed to keep the cube going.

Yeah but your issue was the cube itself.  I had about a dozen rockminers they worked on a doctored  cgminer with a onepool option. "sound familiar"
They were very stable.  This gear seems to be stable but once again a one pool option no auto rollover. Wrong and on the cat not the canary

You have four boards, daisy chained to a controller that needs a proxy. Too many things to go wrong.
The firmware needs fixed to at least remove the proxy.

The mechanical construction is solid> I have no fears of mechanical failure in fact I think it is better made then an s-1 and at least as well made as the s-3.
The ethernet controller is well made allows for 5, 6 and even 12 volts to power it. The heat sinks are really good quality.  Breaking this gear is not going to happen. even the boards
 daisy-chaining are not a big deal.

The provided gui in the ethernet allows one choice with no rollover.  So if I have it running at ghash and ghash goes down it does not rollover.
 I pointed my s-3 at ghash I pointed my tube at ghash. I am doing 1.25th  If ghash crashes I lose .8th until I manually switch it. but my s-3 switches.  Everyone that purchsed this should ask friedcat to provide a better gui in the controller.

I wonder if it would be possible to adapt an S1 controller board to run the tube boards.  That would be nice.

 well it is a different company so who knows.

At Canary  friedcat is offering coupons. So what is 1 unit price after the coupon. Since I purchased 1 unit from you I should be able to get a .05 btc coupon


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8608924#msg8608924


So if I want one do I send you 0.99 btc?  plus a label?

Even with the restricted controller I do like this gear. A second unit allows me a second controller I am hopeful someone will figure a way to program a better gui into a controller.

If you are using the cgminer or bfgminer as a proxy, they can be setup to roll over. even split mine (must be same coin) between two pools.

So far RMA do we go to Canary or AM?

Good question, hope you have better luck than I am having.

PM Canary. He got back to me after a couple of days. Dude has been crazy busy and is probably taking a few days off, it is the weekend and a holiday tomorrow.

We exchanged emails and he pointed me to phasebird or FC and neither have responded.

Well luckily I am not in a rush yet...someone I have traded with is giving me the controller I need.  I will let you know if I hear back from Canary and what he says.

Cool. I gotta bad board I am gonna have to send back. So I feel your pain. 

Thanks

Well remember it is a holiday weekend Canary may not be around until tues.

I added a second fan .  it is giving me very good numbers at freq 260

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/540/mGfOs1.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/540/oig5d1.jpg


http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/538/QpYoVZ.jpg

Whats the lethal looking blocks holding up the Power Supply.

Looks like they should be in "Clue" right after the "pipe"  ;D

or something that if you dropped while barefoot would remove a toe for you !!

they are used for tooling machinery.  but they act very nice to allow to psu to stay cool.

the second fan helps this gear a lot.

i am able to run it at oc of 290 and get 903 gh

Correct

thanks for info.

this gear really likes the second fan.  I ordered 2 of these from amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KESSI2A/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am 90% sure these will work.  they will move air much quieter. I should get them on thurs.
  A pair of 140mm fans will fit. a pair of these may even be better

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835220056&cm_re=silverstone_140mm-_-35-220-056-_-Product

these have the same mounting holes as the stock fan but are oversized .

Canary,
I did get an answer from FC in regards replacement which I will forward to you via PM. Thanks.

Has anyone shipped 10 of these into the UK yet?

I'm wanting to know how much the import duty is going to be on top roughly?

Does anyone know if the Ethernet controller that ships with these has any sort of API output?  I monitor all my hardware with a web based frontend and would like to

monitor these too.  I have checked port 4028 and the "system" port and found no such output. ???

I was running a UK group buy but there wasn't enough interest. The import duty should be 0. You'll still need to pay an extra 20% for VAT though.

Didn't see any sort of api on the controller itself, but if you run them through a bfgminer proxy you can enable the api in the bfgminer config.

That is what I have been doing.  But using Bfgminer as a proxy locks up the controller. :P  No web interface/nothing but a blinking light until power cycled!  If I mine

directly to Ghash.io  It works great but no api.

Edit: Apparently Slush's pool works as well although I have never used that one.

Slush's Pool works no proxy, and does so very well.

use mmpool.org it works great or use ghash.io  or use slush  my issue with this gear is no auto switching on the controller.  ghash went down I happen to be in my home so i manually switched to mmpool.org

here is a shot of my mmpool screen and the tube screen

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1280x1024q90/537/utQmfp.png

MMpool.org. Did it used to be called Bitparking?

do not know but ghash went down so i joined it today.

 i just wish the controller had two lines and allowed auto switching

Interesting, I've been trying to chase down why my controllers keep locking up and rebooting (one controller per tube for two tubes, both spontaneously reboot or freeze at the same time). Apparently bfgminer is the culprit, then.

Any leads on what the issue is exactly, or how to resolve it?

edit: running tcpdump now so i can look for oddities in the packets ahead of whenever it crashes

 Why would you join ghash because it went down?
I wish I had known about the controller issue before I purchased.
Ghash.io sucks and we're forced there.  Come on friedcat!! Fix the controller!

Sorry I'm off topic.  Needed to rant ;(

I think he saying he joined mmpool because ghash went down

He probably meant ghash went down so he joined mmpool as an alternative.

yes  I was running well on ghash until ghash crashed my s-3 auto- switched to a backup.  The tube went dead so I joined www.mmpool.org  and  I thank you for mentioning it as a second option.  In fact I am sticking with them as you get a bonus if you find the block.

  Now an update to the controller for 2 pools with auto-switching would make things very nice for me.  I found a location to mine that will charge me 6 cents a kwatt. I can only run 2 tubes but it will make them good with a 6 cent price.


   I don't understand friedcat's thoughts on this.  He would sell more of them with a properly programmed controller. I may have went for 5 of them maybe 10 of them.
 These would be an easy sell on ebay at 650 usd.   10 for 7.9 btc =  about 380 usd each.   I could sell 7 for 600 after fees and pay off the 10 leaving me 3 for free.

   I don't understand friedcat's thoughts on this.  He would sell more of them with a properly programmed controller. I may have went for 5 of them maybe 10 of them.
 These would be an easy sell on ebay at 650 usd.   10 for 7.9 btc =  about 380 usd each.   I could sell 7 for 600 after fees and pay off the 10 leaving me 3 for free.
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Believe it or not they are already up there from 697 to 829. Ahh capitalism.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xtube+miner&_nkw=tube+miner&_sacat=0

Canary, do you still have units available. I see in the op you said 12 left?

Believe it or not they are already up there from 697 to 829. Ahh capitalism.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xtube+miner&_nkw=tube+miner&_sacat=0

[/quote]  I know but I really have a good ebay rep pretty much perfect.  1300 feedback 100% and 11 years on the site.

I don't want to sell gear with a controller that is basically manual.  I saw the listings and I know how my good ebay rep helps sales for me.  If I listed these at 675 with "ebay's best buy-it-now price"  they would sell fast.  Then people would want to return them as soon as the pool crashes and they find out no switching.  I am also not sure if ghash had come back up if it would have started back again.  

So I will baby sit these in house for a few months  then sell them on ebay with clear disclosure and a low price since diff will be high in oct-nov.  Or maybe a controller fix is issued 2 pools with auto switching.

 I know but I really have a good ebay rep pretty much perfect.  1300 feedback 100% and 11 years on the site.

I don't want to sell gear with a controller that is basically manual.  I saw the listings and I know how my good ebay rep helps sales for me.  If I listed these at 675 with "ebay's best buy-it-now price"  they would sell fast.  Then people would want to return them as soon as the pool crashes and they find out no switching.  I am also not sure if ghash had come back up if it would have started back again.  

So I will baby sit these in house for a few months  then sell them on ebay with clear disclosure and a low price since diff will be high in oct-nov.  Or maybe a controller fix is issued 2 pools with auto switching.
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I agree with you, I hope that FC releases some new firmware to address all the issues that have been posted, if they did this would be a nice little miner.

 My apologies.  I guess it's time I learned to read!  Thanks for the schooling ;)

Hi Everyone-

I started a thread where we can consolidate information from the various ASICMiner Tube -related threads. the thread is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=768500

I added what info I could in the time I had to spare. All contributions are welcome. I will monitor that thread and add info to the OP as it is posted.

Anyword if these work? This machine in MUCH louder than expected/reported. Can't really have it in an area people will be...

Trying to find quiet high CPM fans. I'll probably add a 2nd as you did.

Kinda looks like the 140mm one might be good to also run air over the surface of the boards in addition to through the tube.

Is the price still 1.04 or has it dropped to reflect friedcats latest price drop?