At this price I will have to think my miners before summer if it continues to drop. 

With very low price of BTC it will be interesting to see what miner prices do.

My guess is that at $280 we would see a 0% change. every $10 more or less than that will probably be a 1% difference.

right now i think -6% is pretty damn likely. Ive turned off the S2 and the BTCGarden for now, but all my SP-tech gear is still profitable and raking in btc.

Thanks all.

3 blocks in 4 days

I think at the highest my Hash Rate when they were found was 500Th (can anyone confirm?)

So it was found without the 2ph

8.20% - not too shabby, Im really happy that it was <10%. I think we will see a lot of hardware turn off at this new difficulty, and next jump could be around -2% if price doesnt move upwards drastically and soon

How much do you guys pay for rental services?

I only run a single S3.  That's 480GH on a good day.  It's more than the dozen other ASICs I have put together (which are in a box, they're pointlessly slow now and a pain to keep running as they're all stupidly fussy Avalon-based things).

I think it's a but naff setting a low limit so high, it's precluding those of us who are supporting this pool with our little home miners.  I mean, it's very, very unlikely that someone like me with 480GH would actually find a block, but there's no hope of winning if we're excluded.

But, anyway, me and the other 12 named users at less than 800GH will probably keep on mining despite this.

I'm hovering at 2TH. I doubt I will find the block but it's fun to hope nonetheless

with a single mining account or mining address with between 800GHs and 50THs
I don't think your logic is right. The winner must have before 50THs.

Well I got the Delta Fans up and running - special thanks to Tom and Dogie and everyone for their help!

Only oddity is that the fan is not communicating with the miner dashboard - it just shows 0 speed.

My temps look ok '55-59'  And from what it seems the fan is just going full speed.

I'm clocked at 387.5 and getting 1260ghash.

I clocked it up to 400 and ran it for a few hours with no issues; but decided better safe than sorry.  425 Crashed a Blade and had to reboot.

Any thoughts on why I'm not getting fan speeds?  I tried reversing the two wires - but then the fan didnt work at all.

Thanks again!

Strato

P.S.  The Delta Fans are about 1/2 the noise level - so much better!  Kind of sounds like a small space heater on high-- as opposed to a small shop vac.

okay thanx alot

could you tell me please which one would be better from http://www.future-x.at
so i can exchange them?

best regrads



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update:

what i tried now works stable ... with your information about voltage and the psu :

0,67 v for all 4

max 0,67

wait wait wait .... 288 watts ??
regrads

0,69 for all 4 psu settings

0,79 for maximum

ps how can i attach a picture?

best regards

Hy guys can anyone help me about my new sp20

i´m using 2x Inter-Tech Combat Power, aktive PFC, 750 Watt  (    http://www.future-x.at/inter-tech-combat-power-aktive-pfc-750-watt-p-73253/    )

what i´m getting is a shutdown after slow start

as long as i have the settings on 150 w everything works great

when i put it to 170w or more the shit breaks and first the psu and few seconds later the sp20 shuts down.

best regards


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12/01 11:23:04:---- RUNNING SLOWSTART -----
12/01 11:23:04:Started!
spond-manager stop
Stopping MG
12/01 11:23:13:Signal
spond-manager start
12/01 11:36:27:---- RUNNING SLOWSTART -----
12/01 11:36:27:Started!
Stopping MG
12/01 11:42:27:Signal
12/01 11:42:27:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [2]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D=ff 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:42:27:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:2
12/01 11:42:27:restart_asics_full (Dc2Dc i2c error)
12/01 11:42:27:Testing LOOPs (verbose=0)
12/01 11:42:27:Testing DC2DC
12/01 11:42:27:Testing LOOPs done = ret=0
12/01 11:42:28:Restart ASICS done :)0
spond-manager start
12/01 11:42:34:---- RUNNING SLOWSTART -----
12/01 11:42:34:Started!
12/01 11:42:36:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [1]: 7B=0xa0, 7A= 0, 78=11, 7D= 0 79=4011 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:Testing LOOPs (verbose=1)
12/01 11:45:29:Testing DC2DC
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING

• : 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1

12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING

• : 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1

12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING

• : 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3

12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING

• : 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3

12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [1]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [1]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [1]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [1]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [2]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [2]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [2]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [2]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [3]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [3]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=1
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [3]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:DC2DC ASIC WARNING [3]: 7B=0x 0, 7A= 0, 78= 0, 7D= 0 79=0 80=3
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:4
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:5
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:6
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:7
12/01 11:45:29:ERROR: Loop failed 2 (1) - look for bad ASICs there!
12/01 11:45:29:ERROR: Loop failed 3 (1) - look for bad ASICs there!
12/01 11:45:29:Testing LOOPs done = ret=6
12/01 11:45:29:Data Timeout on read fffe:70 (0), (problem:6)
12/01 11:45:29:restart_asics_full (read timeout on problem or AC2DC fail)
12/01 11:45:29:Testing LOOPs (verbose=0)
12/01 11:45:29:Testing DC2DC
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:4
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:5
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:6
12/01 11:45:29:dc2dc i2c error ASIC:7
12/01 11:45:29:ERROR: Loop failed 2 (2) - look for bad ASICs there!
12/01 11:45:29:ERROR: Loop failed 3 (2) - look for bad ASICs there!
12/01 11:45:29:Testing LOOPs done = ret=6
12/01 11:45:29:Loop missing in discovery 2 (code 5)
12/01 11:45:29:Loop missing in discovery 3 (code 5)
12/01 11:45:29:Not all ASICs recover
Minergate died and restarted
12/01 11:45:42:---- RUNNING SLOWSTART -----
Cgminer died and restarted
12/01 11:45:43:Started!
12/01 11:45:44:Loop missing in discovery 2 (code 1)
12/01 11:45:44:Loop missing in discovery 3 (code 1)
Cgminer died and restarted
Stopping MG
12/01 11:46:04:Signal
spond-manager start
12/01 11:46:11:---- RUNNING SLOWSTART -----
12/01 11:46:11:Started!
12/01 11:46:12:Loop missing in discovery 2 (code 1)
12/01 11:46:12:Loop missing in discovery 3 (code 1)

Well bitwisdom is now going up not down in it's estimate.

Bitcoin Difficulty:    40,640,955,017
Estimated Next Difficulty:    43,746,172,612 (+7.64%)
Adjust time:    After 67 Blocks, About 10.8 hours

Safe to say this will be a 7 percent unless it gets a lot of hash power and goes to 8.

I hope we get in 6 percent but with less then a day left looking like low 7's

Bitcoin Difficulty:    40,640,955,017
Estimated Next Difficulty:    43,575,522,670 (+7.22%)
Adjust time:    After 100 Blocks, About 16.1 hours

So was a little bit of a weird week with such a huge variance but looks like it will end up not great but decent considering.

I turned on the S5 just to hear the fan and already had these pulled out of storage knowing I would be putting the on the S5 from the reviews I read. Strato bought a bunch of these to replace the stock S5 fans which is where my comment was directed at. I could not say if these would work better or worse than the S3 fans, I did not have the opportunity to try them as I sold my S3s. If you have S3 fans to use I would try them, I think there have been others who may be using them as I see inquires about that fans spec. I can say that my ambient is relatively low, never above 27C, while the blades have never been above 58C and the fans are about 60db max. I think it would be interesting to know how the S3 fans work though. Without taking a db measurement of the S3, my S5 sounds about the same as my S3 in about the same ambient temp.

Need to know what you suggest for a home mining set up.

I got $8000 to invest.


Cheers!

Mine didn't get down to 9v even at 100

I agree electricity price is one of the biggest factors on many thins including upgrades.  With my around 9 cent I can't bring myself to sell my S3's yet.  I keep miners longer then a lot probley do.  I just finally sold my dragon.  And the person who bought it got a good machine that just needed cheaper electric costs.

I really don't want to change out gear to much during winter.  Once summer comes and i need to do more cooling is when I personally will have decisions on what I want to do.