Hey, thats a good start, i wouldn't be surprised that's its another simple little thing again, maybe the com lines crossed? didn't tweak your tong the right way when you soldered them down?

..and i vise versa

no prob, i'll leave it at that

one day before release, im going to ask this question, and i laugh evilly as everyone squirms and it gets pushed back about 2 weeks

the only thing i attempted (and failed, killed the other in the process) was trying to run a usb to serial into the TX/RX pins on the micro-controller.

in the mean time, anyone willing to sell me cheap hardware? (postage outside into australia will be a killer though) im happy with 200GH/s (or more? )

if you want me to move this outa here kano, just say the word (or con could just move this post as a new thread?) or delete it.

the Silabs CP2102 chips pop on them. plug the usb into them, they get hot enough to leave a burn mark on your skin

using the old BE as a USB to UART (eg: USB ->Silabs chip -> tx/rx -> atmega on the nr-b)

that be about right, i get off, blocks, blocks everywhere!

Yep, that be them and their project. 10GH/s for less then 2.5W, on a USB stick? i want 500 of them! like hell i could afford it though, i be pushing to get 10 i think, even if they are as cheap as $1/GH (i think they will be more along the lines of $3/GH).

Like i said, my only 2 "Good" miners (2x "New R-Box's" one half shot) went belly up and nothing to get any more, i think i have to sit back and wait now. unless someone knows how to repair miners with burned out Silabs chips? (i was thinking of using my only 2 good usb block eruptors and wire them up to the ATMega chip, but i don't know where my thin soldering point went.)

Tell me, would anyone know how to wire up an old Block Eruptor to one of these, and get it running? im hoping i could just pull the "mud" chip off and throw a few wires up (some single strand core, cat5 cable should do) and directly connect it to the atmega..

Well, in attempts to repair my miner(remove the dead usb - uart chip, wire up the controller to external usb - uart controller) thanks to the Lack of protection from USB to the chipset, just a little voltage spike (probably on the data line), the 2nd and last of my miners crapped out its own usb-uart chip.

Kano, CK, Thankyou for EVERYTHING. im out, not going to buy anymore miners for some time (maybe when gekko gets theirs out).

Well, attempted to wire up the UART out off the micro-controller and remove the cp2102 chip, and guess what, the second miner crapped out its cp2102. so 2 dead miners, all i have left mining is 0GH/s. Its been fun guys, but now im out of the game

you asked for it, really, you did.

basically, if you can move the warm air out (roof vent) and pull cooler air in from shaded area (screen door). it should do.

as for network, cat5, if you're going simplex or 10Mb/s you should get about 1000m (3280'). at 100Mb/s you can only get 100m (330') out of it.

Wireless could do if, and since kano recommends it try out them powerline networkers, slap one on the powerline out to the shed and the other one to the power to the miners

man didn't build Rome in a day, or 2 weeks. nether did they get to the moon with apollo 1. you live to learn, we are enjoying your stories of your adventure you're taking. i don't thing people take you kidneys or knees if you fail this concept. you have kept up on what's going on, we appreciate this.

hmm.. knock a hole in the wall? ;P


cinder should hold out most of the heat, what's the roof like? tin over beams or got a floating roof? can you pop a vent fan in it (one of them passive domed spiny things) that should remove the stale air out, other then that if the miners don't pass 70 degrees celcius (or 158.0 °F, i think) in there you should be right.  plant natives around the building? put some shade up around the side of it? make a 2nd face on the roof with a 6" airgap?

maybe even bury the whole building under 6' of dirt? pipe some air vents 6' underground and some though the roof? heat pipe the roof to ground? umm..

nah, just get a jack hammer and pop a few holes into the cinder

but kano, i Like haxn' peoples unsecured powerline networks! i think they should run Everything off it! thats how i can get into their "Nest" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_Labs) box and turn on all their lights and put the heaters on max...


oh gawd.. no magical blue smoke? that protection did its job

ive seen what lightning does to things, even when its miles away.

many many moons ago, had a storm, lightning hit the distribution block. many things like TVs, microwave, power strip, etc. had black points and melted plastics, i think i was only 5 then..

now that im in the business of repairing PCs, every time there is a large storm, 5-6 PSUs i need to replaced around the town

none the less, seeing as lightning kills things, im happy your stuff isn't dead. but replace the surge protector, it may not see you out again, if you are still using it.

im going to hunt out some wiring, solder and a 4x1 pin joby, and attempt this tonight, been a little to busy last few days to attempt it.

Whilst im at it, think its worth getting one of them silabs usb-uart converter (plug, pins and chip on a black pcb) off ebay for $1.50? just to rip off the chip and solder it into place?

i suspect that you are highly right. looking into this chip, the pins 30/31 look like rx/tx pins, so i could solder something up to them, but 1st i may have to de-solder the dead silabs CP2102 and look for the rx/tx pins to it. may look for continuity between them pins.

it just peeves me off that this is the 3rd product ive owned that does not have protection (eg: usb data bus fuses) between the usb and the uart chip..

do a 2nd one with:

hang on... i forgot how to use gimp, i'll crop the image to the pins

they are between the leds and usb port. sorry, didn't make it clear enough last post.