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Does anyone have a tube just sitting around gathering dust? I'm interested in getting one more hash board from a tube. Currently have 2 tubes but only 7 hash boards (sent one for rma, but that process is completely stalled). I'm not willing to pay much, but maybe we can work something out and I can help de-clutter your house. Please pm me if interested.
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Friedcat or phasebird please reply to my emails or private messages. I'm beyond frustrated with your lack of communication.
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With the ckpool software upgrade, asicminer tube users should now be able to mine on the pool, all going well.
This is a no go for me. Is kano.is just not running the latest? |
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Just an update. Emailing the ASICMiner folks has been much more productive than trying to contact through the bitcointalk forum (I believe bitcointalk is blocked for them). I have worked out a return for my bad hashing board. If anyone is still having issues, I suggest emailing sale@bitquan.comEDIT: line of communication completely dropped. Advise lessening their rating again. |
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No Emails, No PM, No explanation on RMA. HEY FRIEDCAT or PHASEBIRD are you still alive or did the mass kill you yet?
Trying to RMA these POS fire hazards...
I'm in a similar boat, although luckily in only have 1 bad hashing board. (actually had 3 that were bad, but CanaryInTheMine replaced 2 on his own before claiming it must've been something I was doing to make them go bad... When in reality I haven't changed a single thing about my setup and the 2 replacements and 5 of the originals are still hashing steady 3 months later). I've been emailing with sale@bitquan.com so far they offered to buy back the board and pay for shipping but when I clarified that this is a TUBE not a PRISMA they retracted all of that, said I can send it in for repairs, but that I would have to pay shipping. I have replied to that email stating that I shouldn't be responsible for shipping and I should receive a new board or refund I'm BTC as well as compensation for lost revenue. This is all aside from the fact that I already sent the bad board to Hong Kong to a name and address provided by CanaryInTheMine at a cost of around $65 for shipping and insurance. The package got there but no one ever claimed it and it was returned to me undelivered. A total waste of money. Ive been patient, friendly, and courteous throughout this whole process. If this doesn't get resolved soon, I'm gonna completely abandon ASiCMiner for future purchases. Just because there are some really bad actors and scammers out there doesn't mean that doing the bare minimums makes you a saint. When you ship something that NEVER WORKED it should be replaced free of charge and free of shipping. If ASICMiner thinks that would put too much of a financial strain on them, then maybe the solution is a better QA and QC process during manufacturing. |
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I for one am NOT buying anymore chinese boards w/out FREE RMA process. FYI @ these BTC prices 5% is all that's left, so either STOP selling every GD BTC you get and HEY invest in the f'ing market you are profiting from or enjoy your noodles too.
Totally agree. I had 3/8 go bad. Canary was awesome enough to facilitate the exchange of 2 of them, only requiring domestic shipping on my part. The third I had to ship overseas because canary said he had no more inventory. Clearly he did or was getting some (see posts above) and just didn't want to deal with it. I don't really hold this against him since it is expensive and a pain in the ass to do all that shipping back and forth from overseas. Even with canary's generous help on the first two, I've spent well over $100 in shipping and insurance to do these exchanges and I'm still at 7/8 functionality since one board is still in the RMA process. I get that smaller run runs of hardware probably can't be as picky about what is discarded in the QA process (if there is a QA process) but if you're going to cut corners on that end, you should offer free RMA, INCLUDING SHIPPING, on the other end. |
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Maybe. I know I had some chips the "misbehaved" until I updated. Can't hurt. Check the frequency also. One of my tubes had a blade that chips would disappear on.
Had to clock that one at 260 to get all of them working. And keep it super cool (2 fans).
after updating my board cards listed as board 11 dead. what could be?  My uneducated guess is bad chips. Send to your seller for an RMA. |
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Yup. And after the amount of name calling & childish insults the BAN shills posted - they can stay on IRC too  Wow... Still at it eh? |
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In an unexpected but most welcome move, the driver for these was submitted to cgminer. I've reviewed their driver and suggested some changes which they've already resubmitted so the driver is now part of mainline cgminer and will be in the next release due out today.
What device do we need to interface? The usb-PIC cable? I have no idea. I just reviewed the code and helped the code merge so I don't know what they anticipate cgminer will run on to run these devices since I don't own one. I volunteer as tribute.... To test... If you need it. But I don't have the usb-pic adapter. Happy to buy one if it's like $10 or something. I'd welcome the chance to move off bfgminer proxy especially given recent developments. |
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In an unexpected but most welcome move, the driver for these was submitted to cgminer. I've reviewed their driver and suggested some changes which they've already resubmitted so the driver is now part of mainline cgminer and will be in the next release due out today.
What device do we need to interface? The usb-PIC cable? |
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I too have a little coin in BT and have done for sometime.
But if I was going away on holiday (i.e. John off sailing). I would probably not take the cold storage keys with me. Especially to China. I would probably have them in a safety deposit box in a Bank.
Perhaps we are just waiting for his return to get things moving?
Or perhaps we have all indeed been screwed.
Perhaps the BearWhale was BT cleaning out their wallets before running?
All we can really do is give it a few days. If nothing.....the hunt is on.
The Bitcoin would not be in Cold Storage if it was supposed to be in arbitrage 5 days a week.. The simple fact is that if they indeed held bitcoin, the shares that where expiring where bought at 650 and had to be bought out at 290 or so.. That would be reason for a cash flow crunch.. Actually, if you bought shares at 650/BTC, sent to BT, and if they hold deposits in USD to avoid volatility, they'd have the opposite problem. If I just want my BTC back, then it will cost them less to convert back to BTC and send it back to me. |
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What makes no sense is sending a payment doesn't require you have the blockchain fully downloaded and updated. You just have to broadcast the transaction.
Most BTC companies require the ability to generate new random addresses on the fly for deposits, and what not, as well as a wide range of other functions that are accomplished using API commands directed at full node. That's the rub though. We aren't talking about deposits, we're talking about sending the bitcoin from the BT account to the people who placed withdrawals. Sending from their wallet, not receiving on their wallet. For what it's worth, my past cashouts from BT have been from new addresses. Also, it is considered best practice to generate a new address with each send. |
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Hi Kano,
Any chance of setting up an instance for tubes like CK has on the solo pool or would it be too much trouble?
Thanks
I know a bunch of prism's that will most likely still not be worth a shit will be arriving soon
His changes aren't in git - but I presume they are just to mess with the stratum nonce sizes in the coinbase, since that's where the problem is with the tubes. So to implement that would be to run two ckpools, one hacked and one standard. However, ckdb doesn't support running two ckpool instances on the one host yet (that's a way off yet) Maybe when they arrive a greater mind than mine will figure out a workaround. Possibly through a proxy, just looking for the lazy man's way. I use bfgminer running on xubuntu on my old eeepc netbook as proxy with my 2 tubes. It's plenty stable, but of course requires another running device. My main gripe with the ethernet controller is lack of failover, as it works fine with the pools I generally mine on. |
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Working the tube miner hard at 300MHz results are great, ambient at 16 and 1250w power and the powerdraw from the wall is 1000 W  Chip temps measured at 45C How are you measuring temps? |
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Woah we're potentially getting a firmware update? That's good news. I didn't say that at all? I was asked where I thought the repository was, so if it was to be published, where it would go up. I said I was guessing at the above link. ...probably why I qualified it with "potentiallly".... |
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Woah we're potentially getting a firmware update? That's good news. |
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@ friedcat and rest of the team...
Have you given any thought to possibly selling upgrade kits when we move beyond the BE200?
What I mean is, shouldn't it be possible for the next generation of chips to design boards with the same form factor so we can all reuse our nice, tube-shaped heatsink?
Just an idea I had... I know it's something I'd be interested when/if my tubes are no longer profitable. Should save on manufacturing and shipping. And I guess it's eco-friendly too (reduce, reuse, recycle.... In this case, reuse!).
of course its possible - look at how sales were done this time with each component being priced individually. Shouldnt be any rason not to build a compatible BE300 PCB well of course it's possible. Just wondering if friedcat/ASICMiner/BlockErupter/whoever has given it real consideration. |
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My analysis is very simple if you are under 3th point it here at ck's pool.
Basically the math is simple if you have 1 watt gear or better the math favors solo mining. Not pool mining.
can you elaborate? |
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@ friedcat and rest of the team...
Have you given any thought to possibly selling upgrade kits when we move beyond the BE200?
What I mean is, shouldn't it be possible for the next generation of chips to design boards with the same form factor so we can all reuse our nice, tube-shaped heatsink?
Just an idea I had... I know it's something I'd be interested when/if my tubes are no longer profitable. Should save on manufacturing and shipping. And I guess it's eco-friendly too (reduce, reuse, recycle.... In this case, reuse!).
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So this'll be kinda like a larger sized tube?
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