Note: Please do not comment this batch file; leave it out of your quote/replies on this thread to: save space, and more importantly not confuse people when a new update to the batch is made. Thanks! REDISTRIBUTION OF ANY PART OF WHOLE OF THIS CODE FOR PROFIT/DONATION IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. This code is provided for public use, not redistribution under another name for profit. JK's Network Failure Monitor: Want a batch file to reset your network adaptor when the connection drops or is unresponsive? Click Here. JK's Silent Miner launcher V 1.0: Want to launch your miner app and batch file silently in the background like a system service? Now you can easily. I didn't have to install any extra support packages on windows 10. YMMV. I put this together for another member here on the site whom promised a reward, but in true old fashion; no answers after providing it to them... This relies on a simple .vbs file. You can't execute the script without admin privileges; that's how VBS works when it handles system commands, can't ever change that. (people have asked). First, create these files, and leave them all in the same directory: hider.vbs CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False
miner.bat ccminer.exe -a skein -o stratum+tcp://skein.mine.zpool.ca:4933 -u 1PHSDYvVp6HpqtuUPocK41DrdeHbbezaeP -p c=BTC,skein,stats
hiddenminer.bat wscript.exe ".\hider.vbs" ".\miner.bat" Just run "hiddenminer.bat". Should be self explanatory on how it works by looking at the code, and you can modify it to launch any program hidden in system space in this manner. It's extremely simple. JK's Manual miner V2.0: Click Here. This is the new and improved, self-updating all-included miner batch and applications package to replace the Manual Farm batch. JK's Manual Farm Control Batch V1.0: Click Here. This gives you the ability to update the algo certain farms are using by changing the contents of a text file on the web. Make one file for all farms, or make several files for separate miners. This eliminates the need for remote login to the device in any way aside to update the mining software itself.. The miner is simply fetching a single word from a text file through http, and that single word is the algo name. JK's Automatic Miner Batch file V 1.08@echo off
SETLOCAL EnableExtensions
SET ADDY=1PHSDYvVp6HpqtuUPocK41DrdeHbbezaeP
SET DEV=
SET ID=i7-920
REM NOTE: ADDY is where you put in your wallet address. DEV is for device numbers to mine on. If you have
REM two video cards, then you will set it as 'SET DEV=-d 0,1' . If you wish to only use your second
REM and third video cards, you would use: 'SET DEV=-d 1,2' ... and so on. ID is just a string to
REM identify your miner's connection on the wallet page via the password field preview displayed.
REM leave DEV blank to select all cuda devices.
REM
SET A=ccminer180.exe
SET B=ccminerx11e.exe
SET C=ccminerlyra2.exe
SET D=ccminerlbry1.exe
SET E=ccminerlbry.exe
SET F=ccminer.exe
REM NOTE: A,B,C,D,E&F are all the ccminer file-names. You should be able to use path:\to\ccminer.exe if you
REM so desire. I highly suggest putting a copy of each ccminer version you are using, in one folder
REM with this naming structure to keep it simple. 'C:\zPool.ca\ccminer.exe' etc...
REM
SET POOL=mine.zpool.ca
SET COUNTER=0
SET LAST=N/A
SET A01=x13
SET A02=x11
SET A03=qubit
SET A04=x15
SET A05=lyra2v2
SET A06=neoscrypt
SET A07=decred
SET A08=blakecoin
SET A09=c11
SET A10=quark
SET A11=groestl
SET A12=blake2s
SET A13=x14
SET A14=x17
SET A15=nist5
SET A16=skein
SET A17=sib
SET A18=x11evo
SET A19=lbry
SET A20=keccak
SET A21=myr-gr
REM NOTE: Above are all the algos listed with a shorter pointer name. You can use this reference to disable
REM an algo in the lines below beginning with 'start "%DEV%:%...' by using the REM command before them
REM just like you see used to comment this text you are reading. Be sure to add/remove
REM the corresponding algo's normalization in the 'SET PASS=%ID...' line. The currently disabled ones
REM can be found at the bottom of this batch file outside the main loop.
REM
COLOR 0A
:START
SET CURRENT=NONE
SET /A COUNTER=%COUNTER%+1
SET PASS=%ID%,c=BTC,x17=7.7,nist5=41.9,x11evo=11.8,sib=1.7,x13=10.3,x14=9.6,x15=8.2,x11=12.1,qubit=18.5,blakecoin=4.1,blake2s=1.7,neoscrypt=0.9,decred=2.2,skein=400.0,lbry=270.0,c11=12.74,groestl=37.1,quark=18.4,stats
ECHO Starting miner processes....
START "%DEV%:%A01%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A01% -o stratum+tcp://%A01%.%POOL%:3633 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A02%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A02% -o stratum+tcp://%A02%.%POOL%:3533 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A03%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A03% -o stratum+tcp://%A03%.%POOL%:4733 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A04%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A04% -o stratum+tcp://%A04%.%POOL%:3733 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
REM START "%DEV%:%A05%" /min %C% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A05% -o stratum+tcp://%A05%.%POOL%:4533 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A06%" /min %D% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A06% -o stratum+tcp://%A06%.%POOL%:4233 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A07%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A07% -o stratum+tcp://%A07%.%POOL%:5744 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A08%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A08% -o stratum+tcp://%A08%.%POOL%:5743 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A09%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A09% -o stratum+tcp://%A09%.%POOL%:3573 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A10%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A10% -o stratum+tcp://%A10%.%POOL%:4033 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A11%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A11% -o stratum+tcp://%A11%.%POOL%:5333 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A12%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A12% -o stratum+tcp://%A12%.%POOL%:5766 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A13%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A13% -o stratum+tcp://%A13%.%POOL%:3933 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A14%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A14% -o stratum+tcp://%A14%.%POOL%:3737 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A15%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A15% -o stratum+tcp://%A15%.%POOL%:3833 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A16%" /min %F% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A16% -o stratum+tcp://%A16%.%POOL%:4933 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A17%" /min %A% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A17% -o stratum+tcp://%A17%.%POOL%:5033 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A18%" /min %B% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A18% -o stratum+tcp://%A18%.%POOL%:3553 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
START "%DEV%:%A19%" /min %E% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A19% -o stratum+tcp://%A19%.%POOL%:3334 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
REM START "%DEV%:%A20%" /min %E% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A20% -o stratum+tcp://%A20%.%POOL%:5133 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
REM START "%DEV%:%A21%" /min %F% %DEV% -r 0 -a %A21% -o stratum+tcp://%A21%.%POOL%:5433 -u %ADDY% -p %PASS%
REM
REM These are the normalizations for the disabled algos. IF you enable them, add them to the PASS field in with the rest.
REM ,keccack=550.0,lyra2v2=37.2,myr-gr=50
REM
ECHO Miner processes started. Waiting for connections to resolve.
CHOICE /c · /n /t 20 /d ·
REM NOTE: If your machine needs more time to wait for the instances of ccminer to close, modify the above line's value
REM of '20' to the number of seconds you wish it to wait.
REM
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A01%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A01%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A02%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A02%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A03%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A03%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A04%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A04%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %C%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A05%"') DO IF %%x == %C% SET CURRENT=%A05%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %D%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A06%"') DO IF %%x == %D% SET CURRENT=%A06%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A07%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A07%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A08%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A08%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A09%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A09%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A10%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A10%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A11%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A11%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A12%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A12%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A13%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A13%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A14%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A14%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A15%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A15%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %F%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A16%"') DO IF %%x == %F% SET CURRENT=%A16%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A17%"') DO IF %%x == %A% SET CURRENT=%A17%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %B%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A18%"') DO IF %%x == %B% SET CURRENT=%A18%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %E%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A19%"') DO IF %%x == %E% SET CURRENT=%A19%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %E%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A20%"') DO IF %%x == %E% SET CURRENT=%A20%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %F%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%A21%"') DO IF %%x == %F% SET CURRENT=%A21%
REM Algo detection for display purposes only.
REM
ECHO Currently mining: %CURRENT% on device(s): %DEV%
ECHO Total number of algo switches: %COUNTER%
ECHO Previously mining: %LAST%
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %A% ECHO Waiting for %A% to close...
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %B%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %B% ECHO Waiting for %B% to close...
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %C%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %C% ECHO Waiting for %C% to close...
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %D%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %D% ECHO Waiting for %D% to close...
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %E%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %E% ECHO Waiting for %E% to close...
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %F%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %F% ECHO Waiting for %F% to close...
REM Above checks processes for all instance-names of ccminer, and displays which one is running.
REM
:END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %A%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %A% goto END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %B%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %B% goto END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %C%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %C% goto END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %D%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %D% goto END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %E%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %E% goto END1
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %F%" /FI "WINDOWTITLE eq %DEV%:%CURRENT%"') DO IF %%x == %F% goto END1
REM Checking processes for ccminer, if any version found, start looking again until none is found to continue
REM
SET LAST=%CURRENT%
CLS
GOTO START
JK's nVidia zPool Miner Batch V1.08 An updated version of the "lite" batch file will be added soon to add the new algos, I just need to go through it separately at another time, I ran out of steam today. It has no algo detection, and just rotates through them all. The original version can be found by clicking here and you could easily add the algos yourself. I had issues with this update (thus the long wait) as when I would get a 19th-21st algo added to the batch, stratum wouldn't send disconnects to two other algos on top of the favored one leaving multiple algos mining at once. I still can't figure out why this is happening, and my only guess at this point is maybe there's something funny with long passwords on the stratums for the algos I have disabled: lyra2v2, keccack, and myr-gr.... very odd... but it's working now as long as the offending algos were disabled. I haven't tried to disable others and enable these ones... but It starts once the password gets that huge is my best guess (see batch). I removed the intensity settings from the batch since 90% of you aren't going to be using the miners/terminals and don't need trimmed intensity for usability while mining. The new base normalization for this batch is an EVGA GTX 1070 FTW DT ACX3 8Gb. The normalizations I have on hand right now are as follows: GTX 750Ti
x17=1.8
nist5=8.5
x11evo=2.7
sib=0.725
x13=2.3
x14=2.14
x15=1.8
x11=2.7
qubit=4.2
lyra2v2=6.2
blakecoin=1.4
blake2s=0.89
neoscrypt=0.155
decred=0.475
skein=73.5
lbry=44.2
c11=2.74
quark=5.0
GTX 980
x17=5.2
nist5=8.0
x11evo=7.7
sib=1.1
x13=6.8
x14=7.0
x15=5.6
x11=8.2
qubit=12.5
lyra2v2=22.0
blakecoin=1.4
blake2s=1.2
neoscrypt=0.651
decred=1.7
skein=293.0
lbry=157.0
c11=8.3
groestl=24.5
quark=11.5
GTX 1070 FTW DT 8G
x17=7.7 ccminer 1.7
nist5=41.9 ccminer 1.8-dev
x11evo=11.8 ccminer 1.8-dev
sib=1.7 ccminer 1.8-dev
x13=10.3 1.5.74-git(SP-MOD)
x14=9.6 ccminer 1.7
x15=8.2 ccminer 1.8.dev
x11=12.1 ccminer 1.8.dev
qubit=18.5 ccminer 1.8.dev
lyra2v2=37.2 ccminer 1.7.6
blakecoin=4.1 ccminer 1.8.dev
blake2s=1.7 ccminer 1.7.6
neoscrypt=0.922 ccminer 1.8.3
decred=2.2
skein=400.0
lbry=270.0
c11=12.74
groestl=37.1
quark=18.4
keccak=550.0 ccminer 1.7.6
myr-gr=55.9 ccminer 1.7 To get to my original batch file post with more info such as how to normalize, links to miner software, and other tidbits including old versions of the batch: by clicking hereThe Equihash miner I am using: EWBF zCash MinerThe current most-used miner app is the ccminerAlexis78 build. It can be compiled from source, or if you are unable, check out the nemosminer zpool link and download it by itself from his package/github. Donations not necessary but always welcomed: 1pz4yZ6DAjn4ho7x2FiEqE6VVEvefFxK9 |
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Since mining traffic to the cards isn't all the latency/bandwidth dependent; I don't see why a software driver and protocol interpreter would be too terrible to do. Just wrap the pcie data into a serial stream, and reverse it out the adaptor....
Yes on a technical level it should work. Sadly I can't see gpu drivers supporting this though if the protocol is properly coded in the driver; the GPU driver is not a concern, as the PCIE ports added will be a system device, which would accept commands just as the driver for the physical on-board PCIE would be in windows.... They already emulated PCI/PCIE ports (in a pseudo sense) in the past with the early virtual pc emulators; before VMx was a thing. Pure software emulation with system level hardware control capability. (super early vmware versions for instance). I've done something like this only once when I was about 15 years younger; and I only did a small portion of the entire project. We had to code a driver for a network packet protocol that was just coming out... But for the life of me, I don't remember exactly what it was... Something about it being universal.... The main part I did was I had to write the functions that built the packets based on input source, size and type.. My friends dad did something similar designing the first PCMCIA universal docking station for laptops in the mid 90's... so I have people to bounce ideas off of.... (sorry for skew, but we are all curious) |
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Will it work if I attach USB mining machines on a raspberry pi computer? Or it is likely to fail?
A Pi would need to connect to a powered hub if you plan on powering the miner through USB only. The usb ports on a Pi are NOT for supplying power (such as charging a phone or miner). I used minerA, and it worked great for controlling U3's and things like orbs, or g-blades. At one time I had a CRAPton of devices hooked to one pi. The mess of soo many orbs was insane =) |
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Putting a GPU like that resting on a PSU is a fire issue.
The metal housing will short out the GPU.
Nope, its risen up by an insulator. like .5" Only temporary until I get some rivets and some framing material to build a rack to replace the chassis. That pc was a "throw away" picked up from next to the trash cans.... it only had a bad HDD. The real fire hazard was running it with the ~225w PSU powering the GTX960 and mining.... Tis why it sat outside then... |
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The things we do to keep all of our cards up and running when you perform an upgrade.... so..... How about contributing to this thread of ghetto-fabulous GPU miner configurations.... Just think duct tape and bailing wire sort of thing  For instance, this PC has a 215w power supply, yet it houses a GTX980 and hosts a GTX960SSC as well =) Luckily the temporary 1600w power supply was tall enough to let the PCIE riser just baaaaaarely reach. Previously it was able to (surprisingly) host the GTX960SSC all by itself; while now the 1600w supply is supplying solely PCIE-plug power on both cards. I am amazed the OEM power supply didn't melt after running the 960 solid for months.  I know you guys got some juicy photos to share..... |
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Since mining traffic to the cards isn't all the latency/bandwidth dependent; I don't see why a software driver and protocol interpreter would be too terrible to do. Just wrap the pcie data into a serial stream, and reverse it out the adaptor....
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I should have a pretty interesting announcement on this front in the next few weeks ...if I were you guys don't buy anymore of these cheap switches (they suck and are not even designed properly), or even GPU risers. I will have something that will change the way we GPU mine  Same, i'm interested. maybe it's the PCIE thought USB people have discussed for a while...... I have a few boards with one 16x and one 1x slot that I plan to make into 4-5 card rigs... which would make it cheaper in the end to make the miner; because those mobo+CPU+memory are typically coming from discarded pc's and are free to me usually =) Even if I buy the $40 1-3 adaptor; it's still cheaper than sourcing a newer board, etc. |
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We've had to drop the argon2 algo. I've struggled to keep the coins alive but alas I can't get any peers anymore.
R.I.P.
Sad to see it go. Kind of liked the relatively rapid findings of coins, even though they aren't worth much. They sure added up. I switched my CPU's to xevan a while back myself; seemed more profitable in the end. Even though it's a trickle. diamond use a non standard groestl
yeah, I've tried adding it before and doesn't work. I remember mining on DMD-GR for a hot minute; never got a block though. That was near the beginning of the switch from xpool to zpool. Glad to see a new thread for the pool. Ill try and keep up to date and useful as before. Crackfoo, Probably sometime this weekend ill let you know when I get 1.08 of my batch file updated with the new algos. I finally had my surgery and have been crap-tons better the past few days. |
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outside meaning just outside the breaker box which is usually indoors or accessible from indoors here in Cali.
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Thanks for all of the input. I think I will probably go with an ATX and not server PSU with your help. It looks like people may run a single circuit, even 110v, for their miner(s). I'm trying to save money as I only have two S9s that I want to turn into a multi-billion dollar business (don't we all  ). I have a limited budget. Is there anything wrong with plugging two S9s into an existing outlet using a 1600W ATX? If spending additional money, would you either put the money into the efficiencies or dedicated circuit? Any chance of blowing the hashboards if not done correctly? Thanks a BTC! NOTE: I've added a poll and appreciate any submittals. I admit, I currently have my S3 plugged into a power strip  Each antminer will need to be on its own circuit. One on one breaker with nothing else attached to that circuit, The first one on one breaker, and another on another breaker with nothing else attached that that circuit as well. Hopefully this clears up when I am trying to stress. This is a key way to be safe with using a high power draw in a home. For reference, a 1300W space heater can fry out a typical outlet switch; so do not run them on switched circuits unless the switches are meant to handle the load.... Just use a non-switched outlet. The antminer will be stress on the power lines for older buildings in the US; and you could end up with issues if you aren't careful. A touchless thermometer (infared or FLIR) are best to seeing how the outlets/cables are when you have it up and running. Ideally, you want the power draw to be as close to the source as possible, simply to have less that can go wrong in the end.... but its not 100% necessary to do that. Just a smart thing to do. This is why a small conduit and outlet near the main breaker is what people often do. These guys are giving good advice. It would be smart to find someone who knows enough to check the wiring installed and see what it's rated to. should be stamped on the sleeve. Or if you bring in an electrician for advice, you could do that as well. The power coming out of the power supply to the miner is relatively safe. You really only stand a chance on hurting the power supply or miner in that regard. Just don't open up the power supply, or use dodgy power cables. You should be safe from the mains voltage if you aren't messing with it. |
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If he hires an electrician to visit him, then he might as well have one two-pole phase-to-phase 208V group installed and use the Bitmain APW3 PSU.
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Ok, if you want to power it on a single 110V circuit;
Use a power supply that is rated ~1600W to be safe. There are several brands, Just make sure that the PCIE portion of the 12V rail can support 1400W. For instance I have a Cooler Master I used on an S7 (about the same wattage draw you are looking at), and I used it on a 120v circuit fine. I just had to re-pin the two 8 pin CPU plugs into PCIE plugs so I wouldn't overload the single 50A rail that supplies ALL of the PCIE ports. The extra 50A rail only powers the CPU and the power supply would fry without this mod (it did fry, and the rest of these power supply models I was using were re-engineered to not let it happen again)
::Advice::
Run the antminer on it's own circuit. I.E. Not just one Outlet; if any other outlets are turned off when you cut the breaker the antminer is on; Then those are on the same circuit. Do not run this through a GFI plug, or behind one on the same circuit. You will have problems if you do not heed this warning.
If your power supply wiring or outlet its hooked to get warm at ALL... you are waiting for disaster.
What is best, is to have an electrician use adequate gauge wiring to add a breaker for a plug specifically to hook up the antminer only. One 20A 110v breaker; and one outlet. If the electrician over-spec's the wiring gauge between the breaker and plug, you will be sure to not have a failure with the wiring.
One circuit: one Antminer... when it comes to running them all on 110V. Be smart, not on fire. Trust me; I ran the razors edge with an S7 for the better part of a year. Melted many plug ends and a few outlets. But; it was what I had to work with (at that time with that machine and location) and the circuit HAD to be shared.
I suggest avoid step up/down converters. you are adding inefficiency. Just use one supply or the other. Most supplies nowadays can simply just take a 250v input and auto-sense.
The main issue with server power supplies, is they usually supply one amount of wattage when running on a 250v supply, and another wattage when they are running on 120v. Such is the case with a supermicro supply I have; it does 1444/1000w respectively. I personally don't know the breakout for it, and haven't (yet) been able to get it to power up (there's an enable pin just like an ATX supply) and plus, the card-edge connector is quite unlike a LOT I have seen in the past... so id have to make a custom adaptor with sockets scrounged from an old ISA slot.
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I made the mistake of buying the AntRouter without digging to see if it was a good product. Now I'm stuck mining on SOLO, does anyone know how to get it off SOLO or change the firmware to get it to mine differently?
I believe it's solely just set up to mine solo from the factory. I havent heard of anyone reverse engineering them, but i am sure its a similar product to the TP Link 703N.... but ive never seen one in person... yet. But it would make sense. Plenty of sense. That's the same thing they cloned for Wiiboxes, openWRT, etc. |
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GTX980+GTX960SSC mining skein+Intel i7-920 mining xevan == ~$5.25-$6/week.
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Digging into the php I find this: $cmd =sprintf( "sudo ./cgminer %s --fixdiff %s --chips %s --clock %s --api-listen --api-allow.... and the cgminer executable is in the /var/www directory.... is my only guess with the cgminer file that's about 692Kb. Ill have to figure out how to copy it to another linux installation..... IDK. I have tried several different LKETC cgminer builds; none see this USB device. In windows it shows up as "USB Serial Controller D"; I can't get the system to install lets say the CP210x drivers like most other dragon devices (I have some USB scrypt sticks). Maybe this is the issue with windows and this miner.... I have a full tree backup of the ext2 filesystem.... But I know with copy/paste things like this and linux; File ownership/permissions will be all out of whack and things will be broken... Kinda stuck ATM. Maybe its all the driver.... IDK yet. |
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there are many apps out there that will help you read the sd card from the pi, many times it is not possible to transfer directly from a full sd to a micro for the pi as much of the firmware also changes and if you simply copy and paste the files you wont have much success. but if you read the sd even from windows you can go into the folders and find out what make and model of cgminer is being used and that is more valuable then the sd card its self
So I used "Active Partition Recovery" to look at the folders on the hidden partition in windows. I was able to see the .cgminer folder in the root folder, but not access it (its just a placeholder/link or something).... I was able to look through the PHP in the var/www folder but not make sense of how it's controlling cgminer yet, or where its launching the app from (i learned C, not php)... so still kinda lost on that idea. but I do have the SD card... that's a big plus. If you have any specifics on a utility that will do it better, I am all ears =) holy shit those chinese really take "mining" down to the literal sense when they deploy these things. What your looking at is the LKETC dragon miner http://titanminer.com/?product=dragon-miner-litecoin-asic-30mhs-scypt-lketcIm 90% sure this was a partnership between zeus miner and LK group, so they most likely use a varient of the zeus chip/board. If thats so I developed a bfgminer version with some other guys for the zeus hashboards back in the day, and all you would need is a USB to serial adapter to run the boards with a PC. Not sure why youd still run this thing though  That looks very similar to the one I have here, I would venture a guess that this is one of the very early LKETC ones. The hashboards have a single PCIE plug, and a "usb micro B" plug. The drivers do install and recognize on windows... so I am a little curious on why you think ill need to use some sort of USB->serial/TTL adaptor to talk to the hashboards.... The Pi did it through the USB ports before it's USB controller fried.. The web interface on it looks; very basic, and nothing like the screenshots in the link. Literally there's almost nothing displayed or to configure..... Now the controller/pi fried because I hooked it up back in its original config to test more than one hashboard, and I had it hooked up the way it arrived, with no usb cable in the Pi's power port; Well, the back-feed of the pi drawing power through the USB chip from the internal hub was a bad thing and fried it... So I am seriously scratching my head at how the pi was powered as its mounting location left no room for a cable to get plugged into it's power port. My only guess is theres a dongle that's missing that went between the fan header and the pi's IO ports to power it. Still confused on that one. Took the power supply apart; it's a 250v model (duh, it was in china....) so that explains the no power when I hooked it to the mains here in the US. See; he has the ability to put it as a permanent install on a rack in a major corporate office (Think big like google, apple, yahoo, cisco, etc).... so power cost is not a factor. They are contracting me to build some rack mount GPU systems that will be installed as well. The network tech there gave him a whole rack to utilize in his building.... not a small thing to ignore =) I gotta stay silent on what corporate place it is; but knowing them, Ill have to make all the devices on the rack connect to a unit that will act as a server; being a VPN link to my home network for all the miners. This way I can access them from the outside world and update if necessary. Ill also be making an S7 he has rack-mounted. Being stuck to only coming on an odd saturday to update them in person is too much of a hassle when it comes to security and whatnot. Our only issue will be hard-boots. I can deal with that, as Ill email him and say "go reboot machine x". MY only concern is the S7... it was very finicky when I hosted it at my home for a year..... solo mining on ck it was solid; but when on zpool, it kept getting odd disconnects. IDK if that problem still persists. |
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So my frined; long story short, had his miner shipped to the states after being neglected in china. They lost the free power at it's location, so it just sat there for quite some time. Got rust damage; magic smoke came from the USB hub/fan controller that's inside the machine (can be seen in photo), but it still powers the fans. The power supply in it did nothing; I strung PCIE lines from my home PC for testing. The pi had it's SD card slot smashed off in transit. Soldered it on; figured out the IP, and was able to reconfigure for zpool. Tested one hashboard, then magic smoke from the USB controller on the pi.... so I am waiting on a replacement from that... at least the ROM and the one hashboard are known good so far. Two hashboards' USB ports were torn from the PCB; one lifted traces, the other is missing a little bit of trace... this will be hard as sin to replace with just an iron; Id probably need a heat gun.... The hashboards have the ID: LK-L55-1 REV1.1, and one hashboard was ~7-8Mh. There are four total in this machine. With one hashboard hashing, The wattage for the one board was hovering between 210 and 260w (reasonable, I am assuming the unlabeled power supply is 1200w rating). I wish I could have had a second hashboard hooked up to test to be sure it's truly that number. I went to test the hashboards with cgminer on my PC, but no ports that I have will recognise the ASICS... so.... yeah. (yes, I zadig'd the drivers) What it boils down to right now is: Anyone know what make and model this miner is? Also the build of cgminer that will run these hashboards so I can continue my diag on the unit using a PC instead of the pi that no longer functions? I am going to try and read the SD card and create a copy of it onto a microsd and pop it into a RPI3 I have... maybe that will be my only option... but the community hasn't failed me yet. Thanks guys =)  |
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The data processed by the video card is all processed (for the most part anyways) on the video card.
The PCIE bandwidth is just that, how much data can be sent at once, vs how fast can it be sent at once. You are just adding more independent connections by increasing the PCIE spec up from 1.... so the actual speed of the transmission isn't really any faster in basic terms; there are just more lines you can send larger amounts of data at the same time.
Mining apps aren't sending butt-loads of data to the video card like a game is; it is sending an instruction set and a few strings/integers for it to calculate instead of a giant map and a bunch of texture data as well.
The bandwidth on the bus that's actually used by the miner app is a fraction of a percent overall; compared to the slot's bandwidth capability; in many if not all respects. Remember, the video card is basically just returning jobid and nonce information for the most part.... that's a tiny set of bits compared to the amount of data that can be sent over a 1.1 bus.
Can anyone here that knows more than I, reference a coin that is bus-heavy when it comes to it's workload? I can't think of one that I know of...
That is very good to know. It would be very useful to utilize that old HP. Already have an aftermarket PSU. I can probably lay the original tower on the side and weld some bars to hold the GPU's over the rig The only drawback to older machines and faster GPU's, is the miner apps typically verify the nonce before submitting; and that's done on the cpu. It isn't a huge impact, but I do know that can be a facet with multiple GPU rigs on older gear. (lets say pre lga 1155 or so?) and algos that are pretty intensive such as X11evo and neoscrypt. |
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You have to factor if it is a USB 3.0 (gen 1) or USB 3.1 (gen 2)
I am confused in a thread of my own about how a GTX 1080 that has 256 GB/s of bandwidth w/o overclocking isn't bottlenecked by the PCIe bandwidth limit. The USB 3.1 only does 10 GB/s
if im not mistaken that's memory bandwidth between GPU and GPU RAM...... not bus speeds at PCIE.... Those have been relatively constant and the same for many many years; they have just added more of them to be able to increase data amounts that can be sent at once... |
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The data processed by the video card is all processed (for the most part anyways) on the video card.
The PCIE bandwidth is just that, how much data can be sent at once, vs how fast can it be sent at once. You are just adding more independent connections by increasing the PCIE spec up from 1.... so the actual speed of the transmission isn't really any faster in basic terms; there are just more lines you can send larger amounts of data at the same time.
Mining apps aren't sending butt-loads of data to the video card like a game is; it is sending an instruction set and a few strings/integers for it to calculate instead of a giant map and a bunch of texture data as well.
The bandwidth on the bus that's actually used by the miner app is a fraction of a percent overall; compared to the slot's bandwidth capability; in many if not all respects. Remember, the video card is basically just returning jobid and nonce information for the most part.... that's a tiny set of bits compared to the amount of data that can be sent over a 1.1 bus.
Can anyone here that knows more than I, reference a coin that is bus-heavy when it comes to it's workload? I can't think of one that I know of...
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