I reached out to Bitfury recently. They quoted 8.15 U.S. a chip and minimum buy of 2 million dollars. not realistic for the hobby engineer.....
Even *if* does one get hold of chips you then still have to write a driver for them. It is not just a matter of talking to them via I2C or SPI. You need to format the data and establish the work protocols the chips use. Ever since the s7 Bitmain has stopped providing any of that information. If you do manage to get chips from BitFury only then will they provide the needed resources to write a driver. |
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Bob pease, RIP.
Ja. Losing both him and Jim Williams so close together was a huge loss to the electronics design world. At least their articles live on in the archives of Electronic Design and a few books. Frankly most of them should be required reading for all EE's in training. Especially the one behind this 'revolutionary Patented' idea. |
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If Robert Pease was still with us his response to your very correct view on SPICE and other simulators -  SPICE et al are great for knocking out ideas but as you noted pretty much ignore Real World effects. Start quantifying those you can think of then plug into the sims and things go south very quickly... And that is a good thing - provides a Reality Check so you can design around them. Then there is the matter of effects that didn't occur to you or in the case of ones you did think of the dual-edged sword of either over or underestimating their values. Such fun. |
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Damn Sam! ^^^ Think we might have a new contender for the Not-so-fuzzy-warm club. A hearty Tip o' the Visor to ya on that.  |
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Oh that is PRICELESS! Was going to do a Wayback of Tuplipminer in case the site goes away but someone beat me to it on Nov 23. Just to F'in funny and spot on! Makes ya just wanna  |
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Thank you guys very much, I'll keep trying with the factory. If you have any advice you would like to share, please do  I'll be keeping an eye on the forum to learn even more, and hopefully share my experiences. Personally I say screw Bitmain and go with Avalon's from Canaan.io. They *will* respond to your inquiries. FYI Canaan's Global Director of Marketing hangs out in their official A7 thread. |
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Your tech pitch smells like bullshit, would you mind posting the links to your patents that seem to be absent from your site before you pitch your ICO?
Exactly. With CMOS you have to go rail-to-rail. With Unipolar you have to go over the threshold a little bit and back under the threshold a little bit. So all you need is a design margin around the threshold. Rail-to-rail allows for a clearly defined data eye without being too concerned about the actual switching thresholds of the gates vs temp. Yes it is a brute-force approach but it works very well without having to closely monitor/actively control bias currents vs temps. Just how do your unipolar circuits handle the very wide range of switching thresholds you will see as chips change temps? Oh, that's right -- it would be a point in your patents. Again -- link to it please? Oh btw, this belongs in Mining Speculation. Mod has been notified so expect it to be moved. |
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Edit: It looks like Francis Pouliot will soon demo the miner at an university. Can't wait!
Who? Don't think I've ever heard that NAME, much less have any clue who they are supposed to be. I take it they are today's crypto Social Media Darling? If so could care less. This is a technical site with a fair number of very talented technical folks here. Not out-for-the-PR 'media celebs'. If someone has serious creds re mining hardware then they should have an account here. The Bitcointalk Forum *IS* the largest on the planet after all. Not to mention is inhabited by a good number of hard-core hardware folks  |
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I was looking to get a few more antminers but after reading some more and seeing that the avalon a8 was going to be release with what i am guessing 20 th/s I am going to try and get those.
What I am asking is, Where do the people that own Avalons buy them from if they live in the US. I have seen a few places but do not know who is reliable. Thank you
Look on Canaan's website, canaan.io They list the Authorized dealers they use. Advantage to buying only from Authorized dealers is that you get full Factory warranty. Buying anywhere else on eBay, Amazon, probable scam shop, etc., means zero warranty from Canaan. |
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What size copper would you pull for 20a circuit? Per my little black book, in North America most codes call for a minimum of 12ga copper. I'd prefer 10ga and 6-20 receptacles will be happy accepting it. |
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Only thing wrong is that this is a Bitcoin-only area and ya are selling D3's which are an altcoin. Mod's will move this but the correct area you want is the Altcoin Marketing area. |
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Congrats! Considering I am one who frequently reports erroneous posts I wish I had the time to help out as well but alas, no.
Cheers!
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Missing info: What miner? Avalons?
I ask because the Avalons use OpenWRT which is a <drumroll> router. Bet enabling WiFi also made it an access point router.
Problem go away if hard wired and WiFi is off?
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I think we all wish we started in the beginning...wouldn't that have been a hoot  I started in 2011. I which I hadn't spent 50 BTC on Jalapeno and Block Erupters! If we all kept our bitcoin and did "nothing with it" we wouldn't be were we are at the moment. Never forget that. Ja. To-date stats say I've earned BTC100.85342753 here A very tidy sum right now if most had not been spent on constant upgrade/expansion of the farm to my current >250THs. Nonetheless since I've stopped growing the past few months...  |
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The Image on the SD card was bad. Looks like it was incomplete. I took another SD card and imaged it with the newest controller firmware and it looks like it is working now. Not sure that is a good sign for a new unit.
Cool. At least it wasn't a return of the unflashed AUC converter issue. |
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For a start, set and try to save the user/pool info before changing the IP address. Personally I have an old ThinkPad set to the default Avalon address range and use that to set then up. Once user/pool info are saved/applied to the miner, Then I finally change the IP. I use DHCP so when miner reboots link to the laptop is broken but when miner is plugged into my network - voli'a! Works and shows up on the Router.
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i tried the configuration page, I also set the pools. Nothing. it will not save anything.
Well all I can say is repost in Official Avalon A7 thread in Hardware where all the Avalon A7 owners hang out and close/lock this thread... Someone there probably has seen this but can't say I have. FYI, Canaan's Directer of Global Sales hangs out there and monitors it... |
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Ask these questions in the Official Avalon A7 thread in Hardware ya fools... Ja know -- where all the users of them hang out? Not to mention that it IS monitored by Canaan and their rep posts a fair bit there... |
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Um, a. Read the Getting Started link on Canaan.io home page.
b. click Configuration to setup user and pools...
That is the Avalon simplified but pretty main page you are on. For raw cgminer with OpenWRT interface click on Advanced.
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