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and more importantly, where are you??
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If Barntech is this quiet, hopefully it means the team is busy packing away........
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Sweet, can't wait to add 4 boards to my Adelaide hosted pool to mine alongside my many block erupters  So if Barntech receives the boards tomorrow (Friday) and posts them the same day, does that mean we might receive them on Saturday? I've heard about AusPost doing Saturday deliveries for the Christmas period this year, hoping this might mean the Drillbit packages are delivered before Monday  he might even get them later today if we are lucky. |
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Has anyone tried avalon gen 2 chips on a k16 board?
I saw at one stage Avalon said the chips were pin compatible.
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..~~~GOD SPEED little boards, GOD SPEED~~~..
*nb, this is easily my most useless post.
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I keep getting the "no block source available - 9 weeks behind"
even after creating the asiccoin.conf file with the addnodes
addnode=173.71.201.121
addnode=14.161.68.183
addnode=192.3.79.186
addnode=98.214.94.227
I have successfully done this with other Alt-coins, this is the only client that doesnt work.
it's all ok now, just took a few days for some reason.
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Is the postage in Australia via post or courier?
All my post goes to a PO Box (no roadside postage where I live) but if it's via courier they need a street address.
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Not sure the technicals of what they are doing or if it applies to the drillbit boards but the bluefury usb bitfury miners are now being "pencil" modded to raise hashrate from 2.2 ish GH/s per chip to 3+ GH/s per chip. More info can be seen here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319419.400What sort of GH/s on each of these chips are we seeing on the drillbit boards, would what they are doing help boost hashrate at all here (pre-release I guess different resistors could be used so that "pencil mods" are not needed), I suspect its more the design of the boards so may be limited to just them but one of the "pencil modders" theorized that they may be able to push the bitfury chips closer to the theoritical 5 GH/s using this technique (I think they gave a number > 4.5 GH/s) but I'm no hardware expert so I just wanted to leave this here for those that are to mull over. Wow, that's quite a jump!! Hopefully this will work out for us as well. From what I'm hearing talking to people the pencil mod is pretty risky since the graphene doesn't necessarily stay put where you draw the line. If something could be done during fabrication I'm down but I'm not gonna take the chance once I have it in hand.
you could use something like this for a slightly more permanent solution:
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=NS3033Edit: my bad, didn't realise there needed to be some resistance. Haven't done any pencil mods since connecting bridges in Athlon XP days. (you could use conductive paint on those) |
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We already have some samples. Our Avalon next gen design is currently in prototyping. I won't touch Avalon with a 10 foot pole, and I would imagine a lot of other people feel the same way. I'd give them a try. I'd even buy some chips off you :-) Maybe thats because i wasn't badly burnt by their last little stunt....... |
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I'm personally planning to direct my Drillbit USB at alternative SHA-256 coins when they are more profitable to mine than BTC, particularly PPC and TRC. No real need to stick solely to mining BTC, IMO.
The sha256 coins are under priced, none of them have a strong support community like say LTC does, so the strategy is simple, you mine and hold them, don't dump like you would a scrypt coin, and wait for rallies and pumps to sell softly only when you are sure the price is fetching more than the portion of BTC it represents when you mined it, that way you keep ahead. The trouble with mining BTC is you won't find a block unless you have many TH/s in your pool, by doing the alts at least you are getting something! Yeah nice one. It's a bit like BTC when it was about $5. The difficulty started going up and it cost more in electricity to mine than profit. (pre asic for anyone new) Anyone who kept mining (or brought) and kept those coins are laughing now. I remember getting 1000's of LTC when gpu mining first started and it was worth nothing. Lets just hope some of these alt coins stick around and don't die. I think the worst thing will be if we get over saturated with all these useless little alternatives. I don't think anything else will ever get close to BTC or LTC. If scrypt asic mining ever happens, those will be interesting times. |
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I already have my own heatsinks organised so won't need any.
lucky i have some sizable ones i can cut to size (from old Amps and a junked solar inverter)
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Latest steamboat email: Update:
Assembly status:
We have completed both board level and final assembly. Unit testing has been delayed due to firmware issues and lack of ktest utility. We have been testing with rough values using the old firmware, which will assist us in expediting final testing, which expect to complete within two days.
The firmware bug causing high error rates has been discovered and corrected as of early this morning. We are continuing to run tests, but believe the base firmware is now stable. We have also greatly reduced the performance issues when connecting multiple units within CGminer. Currently, we are running stable at 300mhz at 4.9gh/s, with less than 0.5% errors.
We are continuing to work on the USB bootloader, which we hope to have finalized this week. Once the USB bootloader has been completed, we will begin work on the I2C connection and optimizing the firmware, while continuing to optimize CGminer.
We have received requests to ship the units in their current state, without the ability to update the firmware via USB. We are now accepting requests to ship units as-is, but advise against it. This option should only be considered if you have a large order and are comfortable with programming. Currently, the only method of flashing the units is to use a Pickit3 Pic programmer with a suggested pogo pin adapter, connected to a host running MPLAB IPE/IDE. This is a fairly complex process for those unfamiliar with programming, and materials costs are ~$80. Units shipped without the USB bootloader will require initially flashing the units using the on board ICSP pads to update the firmware to allow USB updates.
If you would like to request your units shipped as-is, please ensure the shipping address provided on your liquidsyndesigns.com account is correct, and reply to this email with the subject “Please ship my units without USB bootloader”.
Assembly refunds:
We have been working on the assembly refund process as time permits, and will be sending an email with instructions in the next few days. We appreciate your patience in this matter.
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Hey Barntech,
If you want to provide us the other forum and use it, gotta clean it up a bit.
i cant see a fuckn thing the whole first page is spam!
might have to resort in those silly screen captcha things where you type in the numbers/word in the picture.
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The 5 days hosting does not mean we keep the miner permanently, but only for 5 days so we can test the units for a longer time while you will benefit from the mining revenue of your unit. After the 5 days it will be send to you.
This 5 days hosting is something Black Arrow offers. If our resellers have the facilities and/or decide to offer the same it is up to them and their possibilities. This is not something mandatory for them to offer to their direct customers.
is this using your own pool? or do we have to provide existing pool credentials? |
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Kano said not to use rasberian and a page or 2 back "Kano" gave instruction here or on cgminer page. how to use a different pi OS. I still did the dumb thing and installed raspberrian anyway and have a record of 1minute and about a half till it stopped working.
good thing I bookmarked in case I decided to follow instructions.
That's strange. I'm running rasbian (from noobs install i downloaded about 3 weeks ago) and cgminer 3.6.3 It's running my USB block erupters without any issues. (just follow the asic readme and go from there) |
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As far as surplus parts go, one would think that TerraHash would lots of extra stuff.
They were going to build K16's before they got a refund on 20,000 ASIC's.
If any one wants to sale a few Avalon ASIC's (like maybe 4 parts) let me know.
Also is anyone interested in continuing this project and adapting it to the new gen 2 Avalon parts?
yeah same here, after parts for 1 k16 and 4 k1's might be more pain than gain, but i'm keen to make some of these suckers now that i have the chips in hand. |
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I'm surprised that others haven't chimed in with what they have done. I got my chips from the steamboat buy last week (unfortunately missing the PCB's from bkkcoins) sounds like steamboat might have a working klondike based on this email I got back on 3rd October: Chip refunds:
The majority of the eligible chip refunds have been processed, with the remainder to be sent tonight. We received enough requests to process 4 batches of refunds. To date, there still have not been enough requests to fulfill the fifth batch. Of the remaining two batches, we have processed and additional 200 BTC worth of chips using our own funds. Those who have submitted a refund request which cannot be fulfilled will be contacted shortly regarding their order.
Chip status:
Batch 1 and 2 have arrived, and have been sent to the assembly house. Those with a chip only order will be sent an email shortly confirming their information. Shipping will be provided free of charge for all chip only purchases.
Assembly status:
We have successfully determined the source of the hardware issues, as well as a portion of the software/firmware conflicts, and are now hashing on all 16 chips at 4.6-4.8GH/s, at 350mhz. We are still receiving high hardware error rates, which we believe is a combination of the on board PIC and suboptimal firmware, and are in the process of optimizing the driver to reduce the error rates. Overclocking testing has also shown the thermal vias were not being fully filled due to the way they were designed. The assembly house has developed a two-step process to address this, and will be ready to assemble today pending final verification after we have tested and approved the process. During testing the 3.3v regulator was operating over spec, using more amps than it is rated for. While the unit functions and the component appears to be stable, we have chosen to replace it in order to ensure there are no failures during extended long term operation.
There are several firmware issues which need to be addressed before the units are ready for end use. The first priority is a USB bootloader. This is necessary to flash the units with firmware updates via USB without the need for additional hardware and software. Additionally, there is an issue with cgminer which does not allow multiple units to be connected to the same instance without severe performance degradation. This is not essential to shipping the units so long as the USB bootloader is properly programmed, but does increase the amount of time required to test the units as the ktest utility remains unfinished. We are also working on auto-serialization code to allow us to step-program the units with a unique serial number without the need to rebuild the hex file for each board. Lowest on the priority list is I2C implementation to allow chaining between boards. While it greatly reduces the amount of USB cables and hubs necessary to connect multiple units, it is not necessary for the unit to function.
Assembly refunds:
We will be releasing information as soon as we can regarding assembly refunds. We understand you are anxious to receive your refunds, and we are working on it. Our first priority is fulfilling our obligations to those customers who have chosen to receive their units. This unfortunately is not a process we can rush. Please continue to be patient with us as we work to catch up.
I would like to devote more time to explaining in more detail where we are in the process, how we plan to proceed, and provide more timely updates, but there simply is not enough time. Our silence does not mean we are not doing anything. Quite to the contrary, we are working overtime, and have been for quite some time, to make the best of this situation. I have to cut this update short because the assembly house is awaiting final testing to begin production, but felt it could not wait any longer. A more detailed update will be sent as soon as possible describing the process and how to proceed from here. |
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My Order arrived Friday, Super fast delivery and I really love the Gold colour! Thankyou very much.
I'll be looking to order some in the future.
Julz,
Do you have any more info on the USB hub deal from Friedcat?
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Just ordered, looking forward to it!
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