Hello fellow miners! Happy new year to you all. I bought a R4 batch 2 and an APW5 PSU and they have worked very well so far. I would like to buy another R4 when a new batch is available. I have a question about having 2 R4s: Can they be stacked, one on top of another?  Thanks!  I don't see how it could be possible considering that you would be blocking air input openings on the bottom one, but i go just by the pictures, as I don't have one at home. Maybe if you buy a cheap home depot shelving, then you can put them on two shelves above each other. Ha, I checked, and this looks perfect: http://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-3-Shelf-23-3-in-W-x-13-3-in-L-x-30-3-in-H-Storage-Unit-31424PS-YOW/202353582609mmX355mm for ea shelf with R4 size of 515mmx110mm. Height is also enough. You can put two R4 on it and use the third shelf for either a couple of EVGAs or some other PSU that can feed R4s (or your APW5). EDIT: Since R4 are so narrow, someone might even be able to position both on one shelf as long as output fans are pointed in the opposite direction. Yes, the R4 fits those shelves perfectly. I have my new R4 in my office on one. Been a big fan of those shelves for along time... Old pic of my farm at work on them  |
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If everything works as expected, yes that's the plan. The actual interface on Compac, 2Pac and Biggie are pretty much the same so VH's cgminer should be forward-compatible with the Biggie as well, though there may be some tweaks once the Biggie is actually rolled out.
Hi there, any idea if it'll be possible to set different frequencies for Compacs and 2Pacs (and later Biggies) running on the same instance of the VH's cgminer? As long as each stick is reported as a separate device I'd guess yes. |
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And what are you powering with the supply now? Still the s1 or now an s7 or s9? Please do remember that the HP 1200 CS server supply is derated to 800w when fed 110vac.
The early s7's pull around 1,100-1250w at stock speeds which is at the limit of the HP's fed 220v and powering an s9 with one even if fed 220v is out of the question.
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Either way this has been floating for a while and yet to see a review or post on anyone actually having one?? Which is why this thread should be in Speculation vs Hardware.... To date this is just vaporware. |
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hello there, i got GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer, used the bfg miner
when running it said : no divices found . anyone no why please help.
i download the zadig driver already.
I use BFGminer to run my stick. BFGminer uses a built-in driver for the Compac and does not need a 3rd-party one eg. Zadig. Just start BFG and after it says 'no devices found' unplug the stick and then plug it back in. BGF will then see it. edit: A thought - if you have Zadig installed you might need to remove it 'cause it might possibly grab the stick before BFG does. |
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someone sell antminer S9 12.93 with power supply and cord cable by 1500$ ( Shipping inclusive ) 12 months warranty i asked him if this machine from BM in china he told me there are 2 company ( japan - Taiwan ) have permission from BM to make this machines and he working on Marketing department on the company on Osaka, japan his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/BITCOINTOOLSPRO/is that true ? The simple fact that the ASIC chips themselves are boutique items (produced in small batches vs in continuous mass-production cycles) and ergo in extremely short supply means ONLY Bitmain will ever make and sell miners based on their chips. Plain and simple fact is that Bitmain has absolutely no reason to have bare chips produced that are destined for resale to other manufacturers. |
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Again, file an RMA with bitmain. I have dozens of the supplies and many are several years old -- zero failures. Once Bitmain fixed the problems with the batch-1 supplies they have been pretty bullet proof with very few reported failures.
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yes my country standard wall socket is 220-240v.
It works initially for about 20 minutes. How do i troubleshoot this? any internal fuse or something?
If you are not experienced with servicing electronics DO NOT OPEN IT OR ATTEMPT TO SERVICE ANY PSU! The line power side can at best give a heavy poke and at worst KILL YOU.
I assume the fan runs and it does not get warm/hot? If it simply shuts down and is not being overloaded then time to start an RMA with Bitmain. |
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Tip to Bitmain re: Auto-tune.
How about giving us say 3 modes to run in? Say Standard for 'normal' operation, and 2 'Eco-Modes'. One to underclock with fast fans to handle high ambient temps and the 2nd to underclock with slow fans for low noise. All auto-tune has to do is use different criteria when it runs to find what works.
Should be simple for them to implement and would end most of the bitching about us being locked out of the settings.
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I have a B10 11.85Th S9 running original firmware (File System Version Mon Jul 11 18:23:27 CST 2016) could I use the "Generate Archive" button to save a copy of the firmware? Has anyone ever used the Generate Archive button?
Im a bit apprehensive to press it without checking here first seeing as I've got all my BTC tided up in it.
no, it does not do anything, really. It will save the file on the desktop, that's it. You cannot update it back (rollback from another firmware verssion) from that archive, I tried. Maybe it could update your pool settings if you changed them, etc. The archive function has always only backed up the miners settings eg, pool info and such, so you don't have to renter the info if the miner is reset. Why in their Infinite Wisdom BM doesn't also have it backup the firmware -- who knows... |
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Couldn't pass up another round of these so finally ordered a batch-4 for the office or maybe home.
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take el-cheapo small fans and break off the blades so the hub spins free or rig up a pulse generator to feed the fans tach line (yellow wire). Gee how terribly inconvenient that the miner firmware looks for dead fans...  |
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bitmainwarranty would not quote me without the machine shipped to them. I'd rather expect this to happen to all repairs involving batch-16 and higher (auto-tune rigs) and sounds like same for the R4. Chips/boards that perform near perfect are rare. Call it curse of 16/14nm. That said, the point of autotune is so Bitmain can pick and choose between 'meh' and better boards so the miner as a whole gives advertised hash rate. They don't want to use a better board than needed nor send out a weak sister one when it was a better board that croaked. |
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Something I will be interested to find out is if BFGminer will work with the 2pac. Per the author BFG is supposed to work with Antminers from the S1 up to the s5. I know its pre-built binaries for Win and 'UX works perfect with the 1-chip Compac with no special switches needed. Link to BFGminer thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877081.0 |
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Phew.. took some time to read this thread through  Haven't had much time to visit forums lately as things are moving at pretty crazy speeds here at Bitfury, but rest assured I'll do all I can to support community miners such as the pod and the compac also in the future. P.S. Sidehack show photos of the boards already!! P.P.S. Chips are going to get shipped tomorrow Happy Happy, Joy Joy!! Thank you very much! |
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Yes. This is exactly the answer I'm looking for. I can't say I fully follow what you are saying, but I think I got the gist. I'll do more research so I can understand properly.
For the application I am thinking about, I will be using somewhere around 30-80 kW. Would you say this is too low for me to consider the solution you are suggesting? It would just be nice to avoid purchasing individual PSU's and instead design the electrical distribution system around it.
The incoming AC mains to high DC bus feed is by no means an off-the-shelf item... As in ALL high power distribution systems they are custom-built per order often by companies such as ABB, Siemens, NTT, et al. The DC fed PSU's on the other hand are made by most commercial server-class PSU makers excluding Consumer type stuff. The main link I have to folks who design & provide everything related to Data Center power gear is http://www.schneider-electric.comAlong the same vein they also do the cooling design as well. Many good whitepapers on power and cooling to be found there as well. Found this which covers the topic in detail http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/06/25/380v-dc-power-shaping-future-data-center-energy-efficiency/and http://blog.stulz-ats.com/dc-power-data-center |
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Is there not a better or more efficient and large-scale way to supply power to the miners than by purchasing individual PSU's for each? IF you are talking about a few hundred KW of power on up, then yes using a high DC bus fed from the mains followed by local bus DC-to-12vDC is worth considering. HP, IBM and others all have DC fed 12v PSU's available just for that purpose. The power eff advantage comes from losing all of the the normal input brute-force mains-to-DC and PFC power conversion stages found in each of the normally AC-fed local 12v PSU's. Instead a single several hundred KVA 3-phase transformer with full-wave rectified delta-wye secondary provides what is essentially pure DC with less than 0.7% ripple and no further filtering needed. Typically that high DC bus is around 300vdc or more which is also what the input stage to a normal 208vac PSU feeds to the power conversion stage that make the 12v. |
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