That has been my experience as well.  All my 1080Ti's, be it air, hybrid or water, have been mining @ 200 watts since the day I got them without a single issue.  Re. the MSI 1070 Sea Hawk that failed, don't get me wrong, I pretty much ended up scoring a 1080 Sea Hawk for $400, so no complains on that front from me!

Thanks for the link to the overstock/auction solar panels from SEP.  ~$100 for a 230 watt panel is way better than the ~$190 I have been paying for 280/290 watt panels.  Granted they are poly-crystalline panels vs. mono, but at that price, I'm not complaining.  So you just keep an eye on that website and sometime you see deals on similar panels as low as $50 each?

Looks like they have a warehouse in Indiana.  How are their shipping rates?  I typically buy 24 or 48 panels at a time to get close to a full pallet (or two).  I also like to pick up shipments directly at the local terminal, which often saves me a little on shipping.  Very tempted to bust out another 24 panel ground array.  If I do, I'll go with just a single converter vs. micro inverters, to bring cost down even further.  I can pick up a 5,000 Watt (output) SMA Sunny Buy for around $600 shipped, which works out to about $0.10 per Watt, or $25 per panel.  Micro inverters typically run around $100 a pop.

So right around $3,000 for a 5,520 Watt array before the cost of a 24 panel Ironridge ground mount kit (about $1,300 plus locally sources 3" iron pipe) and wiring (about $200 if you make your own).  I'll check with SEP to see what their ground mount kits cost compared to what I've been paying Renvu.

Phil, I had one of the 3 MSI 1070 Sea Hawk X cards I got from you die on me almost 2 months ago.  Some sort of short that prevent the rig from powering back in.  Once I removed the failed card, all was well with the rig again.  Opened RMA with MSI and it took 6 weeks before I got the replacement.  It worked for about 2 hours, then started overheating.  It didn't even come with the fan for the radiator.  Raised a stink with MSI and they said they didn't have another 1070 Sea Hawk they could send me, and that I would have to wait until one came in.  Was able to convince them to send me a 1080 Sea Hawk instead.  Got it 3 days later and it too overheated as soon as I started mining with it.  Turns out this 2nd one had a concave mounting plate that kept the cool plate (copper part) from making contact with the GPU.  Once I fixed it, it was good to go.  The 1070 did have a failed pump, but just picked up a Corsair H55 and swapped the parts I needed to get it going again.  MSI is going to charge me $350 if I don't return the 1070, but I figured I'll just keep it since that's still a good deal for a 1070 Sea Hawk.  And of course I'm keeping the 1080 as well.

I also had a EVGA 1070 air card fail.  Their process is so much better than MSI.  Sent them the failed card and had a replacement back within a week.  And it was a brand new card one model newer than what had failed.  Compare that to a 6 week turnaround with MSI, and you get a beaten up used card back that might not work.  Needles to say, I'm going to focus on EVGA cards going forward...

I have some ANTMINER T9, may I know if anyone have the computing power enhancing programme for T9 can help me?

Meh. The real ones at fault are Halong & company. It is not the fault of their customers that Halong took such a disreputable approach to their marketing. Folks should not have to pour through the thousands of posts here to discover that the T1 only works with AB pools but that is exactly the problem that Halong created by not telling anyone about it in their advertising. To Halong it is just Someone Else's Problem.

Heck, we should find two blocks in a row w this menu.

It looks like bitcoin will have a very strong dip and be back under 1k.  My prediction is telling me it will fall to around the 500 dollar range within a month.

Roasting food is the most underrated method of making a great meal. Sure it takes time, but it takes almost no effort, and ends up being a fine meal. Might bring a red along as accompaniment for this block party then.

That party is over. That was three hours ago. "What have you done for me lately". We need steak guy and beer guy to do their thing to start a new party.

Out of my 10 rigs I have one rig with 11 gpus that the miner crashes every couple hours.  The rig has 8 GB ram, cleron processor, 100 GB ssd and asus mining board.  The CPU is near 100% a most of the time.  The risers seem good.  Do I need more ram or a faster processor?  

its nice awesome miner restarts the miner.

Which begs the question:
Knowing that, wtf are you on about? 

or even noon PST would be good  

@Phil to your solar idea, i think most time you would "only" get 90% of your max solar watt/panel. And if it drops because of the short? cloud it always fall down, and miner stops hard. Doesn't cool down, could be much cycles/day. Isn't it there where you are, you could get the same rate for solar, as from the grid?  Even if only in short times of clouding, you could get lets say 30-60% power from solar, and the rest from grid. And after sun is down, stop mining. Or is it to much expensiver if grid is avaible? How long miners need for startup?

What is there to celebrate about?  
I just did a reality check on the true stats we've enjoyed since I started mining here in Oct.
some of us are really getting hurt bad by being here... and have been taking an average of -20% beating for 9+months?
That is just on the block find luck variance.
Add the losses due to an insane diff increase and my ACTUAL rewards here are about 35% of expected..vs a 2-3% PPS pool with NO TX fees.
 
Thank God I hopped off often and caught Slush on some 200% upswings after his bad luck runs or I would have been bust months ago.
I made far FAR  more on BCH and alt's than BTC...Even after dumping most of my BTC during the Dec/17 High.
I was stupid to reinvest in more Sha-256 Asics with 30% failure rates, shit service, expensive RMA shipping and down time.

BTC by PPLNS is a black hole death spiral.

Now we must watch and suffer further as Halong pushes months worth of our shares completely out of the 5nd window.
I read earlier.."One block quickly can change our luck % pretty heavily." BULLSHIT if we hit 5x successive 1% blocks right now it would not come anywhere near close to making up for the losses already suffered.

I'm staring to feel the service which small PPLNS pools do to the Bitcoin community is to take idiots like me out of the game.
It worked.

Hydro Quebec did me an even greater favor refusing an upgrade.
Ciao fellas...

At least I won't be paying any taxes as I have not made a dime in profit. Not even close to ROI...

Would you consider postage to Australia? Can you quote a price for that? (one unit)
I can pay in BTC through Phil.

It never stopped being flat.

And in that regard, I have two MSI 1080 Ti hybrids, water cooled, with Corsair maglev fans (white LEDs) that I want to sell.  $715 for one, incl. shipping within the US, or $1400 for both.  PM me if interested.  Both are working fine.  Can take PayPal, Bitcoin, or Ether.