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To the future winners: please let John K. collect your postal address and telephone number for us. We will ship them via DHL like we did in the last auction.
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Winners' List - Please check your bids to be sure. PM John if there's any errors, thanks!Credits go to Randombob (for creating the Unofficial count and saving my sanity), Vjain (for starting the GoogleDoc spreadsheet), JaredR26 (for the estimated countdown), and all participants! Thank you! | Name | Quantity | Price (฿) | Remaining | BTC Count | Post | | lenny_ | 1 | 65 | 49 | 65 | #796 | | lenny_ | 1 | 63 | 48 | 63 | #796 | | Airwaves | 1 | 55 | 47 | 55 | #826 | | lan787 | 1 | 53 | 46 | 53 | #762 | | bclcjunkie | 1 | 52.5 | 45 | 52.5 | #831 | | WinVery.com | 2 | 52.5 | 43 | 105 | #833 | | candoo | 1 | 52 | 42 | 52 | #819 | | simtel12 | 1 | 52 | 41 | 52 | #822 | | drlatino999 | 1 | 52 | 40 | 52 | #829 | | phiz | 1 | 51.5 | 39 | 51.5 | #816 | | Fury! | 1 | 51.5 | 38 | 51.5 | #827 | | teek | 10 | 51 | 28 | 510 | #807 | | win07 | 1 | 51 | 27 | 51 | #818 | | desired_username | 4 | 51 | 23 | 204 | #828 | | Noitev | 1 | 50.5 | 22 | 50.5 | #752 | | Omen1855 | 1 | 50.5 | 21 | 50.5 | #773 | | ok | 1 | 50.5 | 20 | 50.5 | #798 | | kibblesnbits | 1 | 50.5 | 19 | 50.5 | #802 | | Tulkas | 4 | 50.5 | 15 | 202 | #803 | | michelet | 3 | 50.5 | 12 | 151.5 | #805 | | lightbox | 5 | 50.5 | 7 | 252.5 | #809 | | Gomeler | 1 | 50.5 | 4 | 50.5 | #824 | | BlockChains | 2 | 50.5 | 2 | 101 | #830 | | dogie | 2 | 50.5 | 5 | 101 | #838 | | Caesium | 2 | 50 | 0 | 100 | #735 | | 50 | | Total: | 2578 | |
Auction time left (informative: THE FORUM TIME is binding!): Check summaries by John K.Ends at April 29, 06:25:32 PM forum time (roughly UTC). Freebie for bidding 10 or more boards: This neat rack! (http://imgur.com/a/PkOcu#4)Shipping is FREE!This is the second round of our auction series. The organizer is also John. K. To the future winners: please let John K. collect your postal address and telephone number for us. We will ship them via DHL like we did in the last auction.
The first round can be found here (with FAQ, photos and etc): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178275.0The (extending) user tips can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VMO3VfIBy3KIwUaaQ8XhKrSVEbXeeMEqsVhhk6Bz9io/edit?usp=sharingThe album of our blades' pictures are here: http://imgur.com/a/PkOcu#0Differences to the First RoundThis round also have a 96h period in total. But it's divided to 48h (auction) and 48h (payment and info collection), instead of last time's 72h (auction) and 24h (payment and info collection). The postal address and the telephone number of winners will be collected by the organizer (hopefully John. K.) this time. While the first round's customers will have a free upgrade to newer blades, this round's customers will have the free upgrade of the newer power modules and ethernet controllers only. ImprovementsThe package of the devices will be better placed to prevent potential shipment damages. The voltage output is pre-tuned to 1.2V for directly available overclocking. But if you don't want to overclock because of cooling issues, you may like to adjust the voltage output down below 1.1V to save power and reduce heat. Again, happy bidding! FAQ 2: 1. How much is shipping to Australia (or x country)? Shipping is FREE!2. Is these boards the newer revision used by the farm now, or older versions? They are newer revision, including the firmware.3. Differences to the First Round
This round also have a 96h period in total. But it's divided to 48h (auction) and 48h (payment and info collection), instead of last time's 72h (auction) and 24h (payment and info collection).
The postal address and the telephone number of winners will be collected by the organizer (hopefully John. K.) this time.
While the first round's customers will have a free upgrade to newer blades, this round's customers will have the free upgrade of the newer power modules and ethernet controllers only. What does this mean exactly? What upgrade are the first round's customers getting that the second round customers aren't getting? What does that entail for hash rates? At the bottom of the post it says these blades are the newer version, are they not the same version as the previous auction's blades? Questions above. 1. The second round's customers get upgrade of the power module and controller module. It will allow more stable overclocking and better firmware. The first round's customers gets upgrade of the hashing board as well as the power module and controller module. This might entail hash rates and might not, but the newer hashing board will definitely not be slower.2. The first and the second blades are the same version (v2), but newer than what we used for deploying for the first batch (v1) in case of firmware. And what the free upgrade will involve is (v3).4. IIRC, when driven at the 'overclocked' voltage setting, which this batch is as shipped, these boards must have active cooling.
What does it take to keep these boards as shipped sufficiently cooled for 24x7 operation, please?
From our testing, keeping your ambient temperature below 30C, then one 12V/0.3A fan will be enough for keeping two boards run 25x7. You could use 70C on the heatsink as a safe upper line to determine the smallest airflow the blade needs. If the small fan along with our boards is not powerful enough, you could use a bigger DC fan, and power it with the two unused poles of the terminal block.5. For x reason, I can't pay in time. Can I still bid? Sorry, but the rule is here. If you could not pay in time please don't bid to avoid being blacklisted.6. Also John did you find out about what I need to buy to get this working? (Power adaptor wise)
Sorry if this has been asked before, so if I have a standard PC PSU (for example from a GPU mining rig). I would be able to power these BE blades, without buying anything extra? is the "adapter" in the videos included in the package?
No problem This has been asked a few times, so ill clear it up standard ATX PSU is fine, get something over 400 watts to be safe - youll need to supply 80watts down to the blade (to be safe) - so make sure the PSU can provide 7amps on 12v rails (to be safe) - the 4 pin CPU plug should do the trick (yellow wires) - or preferably the PCI express. Also, bond the neutrals together and wire into one port on the green adapter, otherwise, in my experience you'll over heat. I would recommend buying about 4-5 8cm fans to keep this bitch cool, at 1.2volts per lane, she gets hot and needs 2 x on the heatsink, 1 x on the chips, and 1x on the power module to make me feel "ok" about it. 7. Is the blades compatible with P2Pool? Our blades implements only the diff 1 getwork protocol. So p2pool is possible, but should be with proxies.8. Can I submerge the pcb in oil without losing the warranty? You can submerge it in (non corrosive) oil to cool it. If you handle this correctly its lifespan might be even longer than with fan cooling.9. Let's say I purchase a Blade, and it mines for a week and then breaks (for whatever reason). Do I then send the unit back to Hong Kong, and wait for you to repair it and ship it back to me? And - if so - will there be any compensation for this, in case it happens? We all know that a month can literally make or break the profitability of a miner like this, so I would like to know how this will be handled. No, the warranty means we send you a new one immediately when we confirm that we could get the old one (in case of anti-abusing the warranty).
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The 15TH/s is just the following one week's schedule.
Some of the rest hashpower will be sold, some of them will be deployed in the weeks following the next week. The larger portion of them will still be deployed by ourselves.
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Thanks for the feedback im going to be setting up a getwork / stratum proxy tonight https://github.com/slush0/stratum-mining-proxySome other observations: * ive seen / heard the blade randomly restart (upon restart you can heard a quiet audible clicking sound - which must be the voltage relays), im assuming this is a auto/feature of the blade if a ASIC chip locks up / has issues / or overheat? Feature suggestions * the MH/s counter seems to be the average since bootup to now(). Would a 1, 5, 15min mh/s counter be possible? (is there a onboard clock the "microchip" uses at all)? * how do you perform upgrades of firmware / software? Thanks! * The ethernet controller restarts when the network connection times out or it experiences a long time of no accepted shares. * It is possible, and we will include it into the TODO list of our later versions of firmware. * You need a Microchip PICKit 2 to program the new firmware in. |
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Hey, my first ASIC mining rig is up an running! Two blades working stable at 9.5-10.5 GH/S each!  I had to set up a stratum server to get the full hashrate (thanks to slush for his work!). A big THANK YOU! to friedcat and all the other people involved in this, also for providing the User Tips. Didn't have that document before. One question remains: What's the clock switching for? If I switch the clock to "high", the power consumption increases by about 15W, but the board stops working (hashrate displayed on the pool website goes down). After 2-3 minutes, it resets itself and starts up with low clock. If I save the high clock settings, it starts up with high clock, doesn't work and restarts after a few minutes. To do overclocking, you will need to do an overvoltaging by adjusting the trimmers on each power lane (8 in total) with a screwdriver and a multimeter. Please check 4 and 5 in our user tip: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VMO3VfIBy3KIwUaaQ8XhKrSVEbXeeMEqsVhhk6Bz9io/edit?pli=1# |
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Update
Deploying
Heading to 15TH/s or more in the following 7 days.
USB Stick
The sample batch will be ready in 5 days.
Also, we will announce more news before the next update.
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Initial thoughts:
* Blade can take up to 10-15mins to get to 10Ghash/s
* After and hour, acceptance rate is around 97%
* drawing about 70-80watts power.
* Yes. But sometimes some of them will be quicker. * 97%-100% is the normal range * With downvoltaging to 1.03-1.05V the power consumption might be even under 70watts. But of course this excludes the power loss on the PSU. Issues / problems found so far:
* Stratum worker isnt supported? i cant seem to get it to connect to btcguild's stratum server
* DONT wire up with just molex 12v power - use a video card power connector 12V lines - 2x 12V cables. (should be added to a guide)
* You cant tell which wires should go in where for the power adapter - but quickly solved once you flip over the PCB - and you can see +'s and -'s
* Hard to mount / stand up the blade vertically, would be nice for some drill holes along an edge of the PCB so you can fix struts to mount the blade onto something
* Stratum worker is not supported. But the boards could be connected to a stratum mining proxy. * The one-cable-two-layer output of some 12V power sources are indeed hard to wire up. We also suggest using a PSU with two output cables. * Yes. The back side of the PCB has a mark of polarity. And you only need to power (any) one + and (any) one -. The additional ones are for nesting. * Yes. This is what in our mind in our improvement design. |
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Friedcat The wording on the document is a bit off - ""4. To change the output voltage of each power lane, attach the red stick of the multimeter onto the joint space between the lane’s 2R2 inductor and the two capacitors nearby, and the black stick onto the negative input of the 4 pole connector, then use a small screwdriver to adjust the trimmer. "" see video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0i4Z_nPtZE&feature=youtu.bewording should be changed to: " 4. To change the output voltage of each power lane, attach the red stick of the multimeter onto the lane’s 2R2 inductor metal connector, and the black stick onto the negative input of the 4 pole connector, then use a small screwdriver to adjust the trimmer. " What I really meant was to insert the red stick (deeper) to the space between the 2R2 inductor and the capacitors to make the stick more stable to handle by hand. The metal pins on the 2R2 inductor is also OK. |
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About the overclocking: I just found this: Over-Voltage For overclocking, you will need to adjust the trimmers on the power module to increase the voltage output.
Would be happy for more information: How much can you increase the voltage without damaging the board? Regarding the proper cooling: what is considered as safe operating temperature? Thanks to anyone who can shed some light here! Please check 4 and 5 in our user tip: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VMO3VfIBy3KIwUaaQ8XhKrSVEbXeeMEqsVhhk6Bz9io/edit?pli=1#And we suggest using a non-metal screwdriver to avoid possible bad results of misoperation. 1.2V is what we use for overclocking. For many boards, if making it a little less it would still work, but 1.2 is a safe value. Also, all eight lanes' output voltages needs to be adjusted more or less consistently, since the clocks from the oscillators are global over the whole board. |
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first Blade just arrived and in production!  Thanks AsicMiner Venice - Italy Well please make it vertically placed if you could. The chips are packaged via QFN, but not all the heat are absorbed by the PCB. The back side will also become hot. And if you have no mechanical setting to lift it and have to lay it on the supporting table, please make sure that there are no heat isolation material under it. |
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The following auctions of blades will be after the collection of the feedback and (possibly) the modification and improvement of the design/manufacturing. But before that there will be auctions of USB sticks as soon as they are available. Shipping will also be immediate.
The users of the first round of auction are granted a free upgrade option to the blades of the improved design with the timescale the same as the free replacement warranty.
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The following auctions of blades will be after the collection of the feedback and (possibly) the modification and improvement of the design/manufacturing. But before that there will be auctions of USB sticks as soon as they are available. Shipping will also be immediate.
The users of the first round of auction are granted a free upgrade option to the blades of the improved design with the timescale the same as the free replacement warranty.
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All transfers are processed.
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Tracking numbers are sent to customers. They are all shipped from Hongkong via DHL.
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Update
We are getting ready for the arrival of our assembled blades. The development of USB-stick miners is actively on the way and heading to its sample batch. The series of the auction will last for several rounds and include the USB-stick miners in later rounds when they are out.
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THE WINNERS:
| alexuk | BTC76 | | eb3full | BTC76 | | waterpowered | BTC75 | | LainZ | BTC75 | | Batteryfire | BTC75 | | Pinwheel | BTC75 | | Pinwheel | BTC75 | | pixel75 | BTC75 | | MacDschie | BTC75 | | MacDschie | BTC75 |
Auction time left:Timer removed. End time: 2013-04-19+16:02:08 FAQ1. What is the delivery time for this? Do you have current stock on hand for immediate shipping after the auction has concluded?Immediate delivery. We have current stock on hand. 2. They are the same with these pictures. They are all 32-hashing chip ones. The smaller chip near each hashing chip is the 74LVC126 buffer. 3. Are there any sample photos of the blades? (Note that these photos can be reused at a future auction so getting some will be great) Yes. They will be provided soon. 3 i. Are these just raw boards with no chassis? (answered easily with the photos) Yes. The boards come without case. 4. Does the direct network connection support stratum? No, a stratum proxy is necessary. 5. Are backup pools implemented?Yes. The board will switch to the backup pool if the primary pool fails to give the work within the timeout. 6. Just to confirm, is the boards shipping from Hong Kong?Hong Kong or Shenzhen. Most probably from Hong Kong. 7. Warranty period?Six months from the day of shipping. 8. Software of the blades?Written from scratch by one of our partner companies. It runs on the PIC18F67J60 MCU on our ethernet controller.
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UpdateDeployingAt the same time waiting for the new place's power supply system and our second batch's assembly, we have tested the fully enclosed rack approach, which turned out to be denser and has better cooling over the devices. The projected earliest date to start installing new hardware and releasing brand new hashrates is 22th this month. The whole deploying process will take at least two weeks, with the final hashrate decided by how much we are going to sell to consumers and how much we will keep for ourselves. Device SellingApart from the same boards we use for mining, we also have an adapted version of the mini boards which we used at early January for our first arrived chips that are nice as small gifts. Here is a picture of a not-yet-assembled one with 300MH/s. It can be powered by merely the USB port:  Since the most important mission of ASICMINER is the maximization of profits for shareholders and the security of the network (hashrates should be in hand of good people and decentralization has to be preserved), we will balance the ratio of kept and distributed hashrates based on our portion and the market price of devices. Financials and Business PlanWe are always aware of the openness and transparency of how we operate. We keep almost if not all the agreements, trading receipts and bank/exchange records, which could be used for restoring a full history of financial report when put in the hands of an accountant with some knowledge of Bitcoin and some of our help. Sooner or later it has to be done, and most likely it would be in the period between the next batch and later batches, during which we will expand our core team with both technical and financial people. We will start a google-doc-based business plan for us and all board members to edit and update. I will make a stub version as a basis for extending and modifying first this week.
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Pre-Update
Everything is fine. We have no funds locked anywhere in any exchanges. All modules in the second batch is under assembling and the deploying is on track. Last night we have been testing the new deploying mechanism till 5 am. And this afternoon I went to see the doctor for my cough and sniff.
We will give the update tonight.
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