Yep. Got a five or six week backlog though, trying to pick it up if I can get some more help around the shop.

Why would you need a barrel adapter? The fact it's got a 6-pin PCIe on it was the subject of discussion about four posts ago. That's been a standard feature - by request - since the first version.

Were they aluminum, or were they tinned copper? If you scratch the surface of one of the wires instead of just peeling back the jacket will tell you more. My cables are tinned copper so they show silver inside the jacket as well.

Give us a readout of the exact messages cgminer is giving you.

Is the -p parameter optional?

Can you ping pool.ckpool.org from your controller?

Well your first problem is terminology. There are no GPUs anywhere near the stick.

Running 200MHz will require increasing the core voltage, and running on a USB port capable of pushing at least about 7.5 watts - that's 1.5 amps.

Without knowing your command line configuration (see the first post for examples) there's no way to know what's wrong with your connecting to a pool.

Seems more likely than the stick dying and coming back to life. That's why everyone recommends using a powered hub instead of plugging directly into a computer port.

I'm setting them for 550MHz (3.7TH max) and around 880-900W stable, but I've got some boards that aren't behaving at low threshold voltage so I can take them back to approximately stock power and hashrate. I say "approximately" because I'd probably tune them individually for more optimal voltage at stock hashrate, which should save some watts. Or, if you were interested in buying one, I could tune it to the optimal hashrate for whatever maximum power draw you wanted to deal with.

PM me if you're interested and we can probably work something out.

I can't think of any reason any designer who wasn't an idiot would make you power both jacks.

Not saying that probably hasn't happened, just saying the person who designed it was an idiot.

This thing takes in 12V. Doesn't care which jack you use.

Earlier on there were people speculating about it taking in power via USB and the barrel jack both. That's also a pretty terrible idea so don't bother asking if it's that way either. Runs on 12V. From either barrel or PCIe. Pulls zero power from USB. Sources power to USB on the A jack only.

If it's got the right size end, this thing would absolutely love a 12V/7A brick.

Yeah but "I got the wrong brick because I didn't bother to read the specs and assumed this one would work and now it's on fire" isn't covered under warranty so it ain't really my problem. But there are folks who probably do have power bricks left over from other things that'd be fully compatible and why should I charge them extra for stuff they don't want or need?

The standard package will have a brick and USB cable, but "no accessories" will be an option for them that want it.

Is it staying adequately cool?

I was thinking of packing one with a brick and USB cable in a USPS Regional A box, which I can get for free and allows decent room for padding without getting crazy.

Smaller might be nice for folks who don't want a brick. Should make that an option.

Your stocking would need to be a bit big. The thing's a rectangle 10x10cm and about 6cm high.

Jeez. I should really figure out how I'm gonna package these things, huh? Maybe stock up on some power bricks and USB cables and stuff.

You looking for stock units? Or would a quiet undervolted 900W/3.7TH unit do the trick?

So I know y'all are a "pics or it didn't happen" kind of skeptical about miners, but I can't find the battery charger for my camera. It's somewhere in the mess on my workbench, I'm sure.

Anyways. I have the first Version 0.4 pod miner assembled and working. It's currently hashing away on my test bench, been running 250MHz/110GH for an hour or so on kano (http://www.kano.is/address.php?a=1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr). The onboard controller has been removed because, unsurprisingly, the first version firmware didn't work.

I'm not surprised because it was written based on a hand-drawn schematic and a couple datasheets by someone with no access to the actual hardware. Partly because the actual hardware didn't exist until sometime yesterday afternoon.

So right now all I'm really proving is the updated hardware. We've got 12V power from both PCIe and barrel jack, USB-mini for your data connection, and a right-angle USB A (the standard rectangle) tied into local 5V (up to about 2A) for powering a Pi or other external controller. Core voltage is adjustable. There's hardware in place for the onboard controller to automatically reset the ASICs if the string locks up (y'all might recognize this as the "Zombie" condition on the 2Pacs), which isn't uncommon during efficiency tuning. The installed fans are PWM-speed-regulated based on temperature readings. All of this hardware has been tested to work.

So I've got one or two tiny changes to make to the board, mostly to make unit-testing during manufacture easier, and we're off to the races. And by the time I get PCBs back from the board house the controller firmware should be finished and tested. So I figure we'll be mass-producing these about the middle of November.

Now that the design is finalized I'll work up a full BOM so I can get a sale price estimate. And eventually some sweet photo-graphs.

Probably replying to a spam post that got deleted.

The new prototype PCBs arrived literally two hours ago. I'll work them up tomorrow and hope to have tangible results, but the first ones will go to some coders so they can improve drivers and firmware.

So you're trying to compile it for Windows and then run it on the Linux build for a Pi, instead of compiling the Linux build on the Pi?

Yeah but this is the BTC board, where people go to talk about mining BTC because they want to mine BTC. GPU coins and the people who want to mine them instead are talked about somewhere else.

Are the prebuilt downloadable Windows binaries not working for you?