I do indeed have PGP docs and can get some images to you as soon as i have a minute to upload them to a cloud somewhere. Great condition and i relocated them fromt he roll directly into airtites on Day 1 using a fresh pair of nitrile gloves. If i was in the states and not canada I would certainly send most of them for grading.

whats your advanced voltage settings? if your max voltage is set at default then that may be the limitation.

Looks like one of my chips doesnt work?  Ive rebooted the miner, have the latest firmware, and have tried tweaking the voltage settings but with no avail.
perhaps switching over to 208V will kick some sense into the machine - otherwise it is running great right now at 1.3TH with the fans tuned down a little

I have a few questions though:
1) what is the HW error rate? is it the 'errors'/'accepted shares' on the main page? - because the initial power up makes a huge error rate seemingly. Pool stats seem pretty good though so wasn't sure if its like the antminers where a few other variables need to be accounted for in the error rate %
2) how accurate is the wattage reading on the asic stats page? Assuming its correct then these units really are outstanding at 1.34TH/1100W

edit: rebooted the miner to see if that remedies the odd chip, and now am getting weird results. The miner will spin up and sound like it is mining properly for about 45seconds, then drop to idle for 40 seconds, then spin up all the fans to mining speeds again.  pool shows alive and a few various chips read as 7fdf or 7fbf or 7ffd. Every spin up/down seems like it might be reducing thre number of weird chip codes

edit 2: something is bugging my miner. I disabled a file upload and it seems like that may have corrected the issue with hashing starting and stopping (I guess my upload speeds were too limited??). most chips but one (7fdf) are reading 7fff and miner is stabilising slowly. time for bed - i guess ill have to upload files another way?

^can someone confirm the bandwidth needs (especiall the upload speeds) of the miner? I was uploading files at ~66kBps which i know is slow but i thought is more than sufficient for mining

I have a few 2013 1BTC silver w/ gold (1Ag6) that I am looking 2.3BTC each

wow - I just found a big deposit of NMC in my wallet - more than i imagined possible

he overlooked the AC by a long shot though. 170TH was planned and only 100TH could be delivered and late. That means that the space they are using has only ~half of the needed cooling....

This DC needs to grow faster than the network to succeed, which means adding about 50%/month.  At this point I don't think ken is interested or able to do that

ha.

ken has not done anything to dissapate my fears recently. sure, he built a datacenter with a ~$150,000 worth of hardware. That would be impressive for the regular person doing this wiuth a few investors, but for ACTM this is pathetically small. For the shares to be properly valued the DC should have been at >250TH already with clearly laid-out plans to expand to 1PH by the end of 2014.

you failed to answer the two most important questions, and only managed to say "we are doing poorly at selling to individuals, so we will focus on selling in bulk for much cheaper" which basically just means fewer profits per board.

this is getting ridiculous ken.
1) WHEN WILL THERE BE A FINANCIAL REPORT?
2) WHAT IS THE TIMEFRAME FOR FIXING THE WEBSITE?
3) WHAT IS THE TIMEFRAME ON EXPANDING THE DATACENTER?  (we need a date and accurate hashrate, not like the 170Th there should have been already but cant seem to go past 60% of that)

I think these are three easy questions that can be answered accurately in only a few words. no vaugeties, just a promised date and result. The shareholders will be lining up to press securities complaints and charges very soon if not.

i personally think that bitcoin will be the highlander - there can only be one cryptocurrency that will take the world by storm in the next ~2 years and that will be bitcoin with the largest market cap by a longshot. LTC is rapidly losing value and the introduction of ASICs is pushing away the hobby miners that originally touted the asic-resistant scrypt algorithm.

if you can run things in a basement/garage with ventilation and soundproofing, go with the SP10 units for bitcoin. you could get 1 for well within your budget, or two for about ~$6000 total including shipping and taxes.

if you have a butt-ton of cooling and power, and perhaps are more sensitive to noise the S1/S2 antminers are great products but currently need to undergo a price drop

an HVAC unit capable of handling another 50TH (~60kW) is a $5000-10,000 investment. were talking a few dozen BTC at the most. Whats going on is more disturbing

He claimed only a week or two ago that while the DC would not be capable of 170TH it would be able to run 120TH. (seriously, he fell short of promises by more than 30%).
now it looks like the DC cant run more than 100TH, which either means his 120TH spec (given when the DC was 80TH) was also out of touch with reality, or that he is mining elsewhere with 20TH+ just like he did with the 737GH of avalon equipment owned since late 2013.

its hard to believe he is sitting on his hands with a shitty out-of-date website and 50TH of boxed cards that wont sell as a result. I am willing to make a small bet that a proper audit would find equipment mining on a 'stealth pool' if someone actually inspected the amount of equipment in the DC and compared that to what is in the known eligius pool. And with the financial report nearly two months late this is even more concerning

following some of the large transfers, a lot of money ends up here: https://blockchain.info/address/14e7XAZbepQp9MXXzjNG3fNLoAUpaBAXHW


it almost seems like ken put money into what is now being complained as a scam as recently as a month ago: https://blockchain.info/address/1HtoMBUKzRgS5X9WdnwZiQKQccvWBCPGx   (it goes through about 3 wallets first, but its a large enough amount that the movement to the coinmarket wallet is clear)

of course, most of this is meaningless without the financial report that was promised over a month ago.

pencil mod is very stable. just remember that over the first day or two of operation the graphite is baked with heat and oxidized, and becomes *slightly* less resitive, lowering unit voltage so that clockspeed might need to tune down ~12MHz after 24hrs to remain stable. 90% of the time you wont notice unless you were finely tuning the clock to start with.

i would not suggest the actual resitor swapping with an iron to anyone but a pro - if you are not sure if you can do it with the tools you have - theres a huge chance youll end up desoldering nearby components and going in to a proper repair shop monday so a pro can fix your mistakes / burn marks. I personally like tinkering with solder as much as the next guy, but these itty-bitty SMD resistors require a lot of precision

Received a unit today - very thoughtful design and packaging (my unit came from a skid holding several) The noise at startup with 100% fans is hilariously highpitched and loud.

currently running at 1.25TH  with 40% fans and 84C at the exhaust. At 40% fans the PSU is distinctly a bit louder. I might tweak it down aiming for 80C soon


edit: got this thing up on the windowsill and built a nice housing for it out of the carboard box/form it shipped in. does a very good job bringing noise down by about 50%. However, while the miner webpage says I have a speed of 1.295TH my eligius pool is only reporting ~1.1TH http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/userstats.php/1Kt7LQ2MgGmyAWVFr8L8qQzwPhubK2QtCM.  Input/exhaust temps are 30C/66C  (inlet is more like 23C in reality).

is this issue just related to needing a better 3hr sample or is something in need of tweaking?

+1. shed is a smart move. Anywhere you locate them you are looking a $500-1000 rent or more, is a remote location, and likely would require some initial modification (electrical work to run 30A 208V wiring/panel/fuses will cost $1000-2000. That doesn't include AC installation if its needed or the shelving/power bars/networking/fans/lights/smoke detectors to run everything properly.

even for a full $4500, saving even $500 a month to host in a remote location will pay off in 9 months. Its a permanent installation and you keep the shed forever

try the DPS800 with the gigampz board. You can have a 1000W supply at 208/240V for about $50-70 after the cost of breakout board, PCIe cables, and PSU

This kit is just badly priced. If Bitmain priced it reasonably (about $1500) it would probably sell. Considering that they save significant money on the costs of a case, asembly time, and the size/weight of the shipping package, it must cost about $200 less than the S2 did.

really looking forwards to the next gen, since i feel these kits could do very well with a 28nm chip. The current prices of both the S1 and S2 kit are out of whack with reality and the SP10 units are becoming a better GH/$ and GH/W

just do a pencil mod. its easy enough that anyone can do it.  All you need is a pencil and a multimeter, and about 10-15 minutes per antminer.  (a 4B pencil is a bit easier to work with than a 2B/HB since its softer lead).  Its not as precise a method as actually soldering a new resistor, but its ~95% as effective and far faster and less likely to do permentant amage then using a soldering iron to remove/replace a SMALL resistor

only what you can afford to lose. 10-20% of your 'investment money' is a goo place to start - don't go treading in all your blue chip stocks for BTC

My original batch of cables is pretty much sold out completely!

I am preparing to order a new batch with revised design that will be 36", 16awg, and the ends will NOT be tinned to allow better twisting and flexibility (0.75cm stripped at the tips)

I expect I will be able to sell these for a similar price as the original batch/listing, perhaps for slightly less.  If you are interested in 50+ units please email me and I will be able to secure a larger order and pass on the bulk savings. The last batch was only 100 units and so far I am looking at 400+ units demand this time around.

I am also looking into Y-splitters made with 16awg cable

depends how far off the next gen is. If its still a month or two away it may serve bitmain well to release a slightly undervolted version of the S1 in order to keep competitive in poth price and efficiency.

I 'know' i cna undervolt my antminers when the time comes (very soon), but i really dont look forwards to repeating the process 16 times...