As I understand it, the only parts that have short out potential are the pins on the bottom of the breakout board; nothing on the external of the psu itself should be conducting electricity.  Would be a pretty crummy psu design if you could electrocute yourself by touching the outside of it while it was running.

What does 1/2 a miner look like, do you just run it 12 hours a day?

Why is the reasoning for putting the miners up high, just to get them out of the way?  They'll run cooler if they are pulling in cool air down at the bottom of the barn, the hot air will naturally rise to fill in the head space at the top and then you can vent it via a ridge vent or some gable vents, or vents at each end of the barn up high.  You say that the "air can go far", but warm air travels vertically, not horizontally.

Except that if you guys use industrial tape to hold things down what happens when you need to move them?  Seems inconvenient.

Foot note, the only way it could make a difference is if there was a difficulty change mid-way through your "less hash for longer duration" rental.  So if you're doing long rentals time them to happen in one difficulty period I guess.

Dumb questoin - is the percent we're guessing (and what the pool dashboard reports) a pool luck percent where we'd expect a block at ~100%, or is it a display of CDF as a percentage where we'd expect a block at 0.50 (i.e. 50%)?

Any pool that does not mine empty blocks and does not spv mine is better than antpool.  Don't support lazy pool code that's bad for bitcoin.

Everyone has different methods they try, some people believe one way is better than another.  As for your chances at solving a block, statistically it's the same for a small amount of hash over a long time vs. a large amount of hash over a short time, assuming that the total number of shares submitted is identical for each method.

It could be bad chips, I forgot where I saw it, may have been a command in bfgminer, but you can look at the hash each chip is producing.

Also, my last U3 went from 60GH to one day it wouldn't go higher than 45GH no matter what I did (all the chips were working just fine), to one day it wouldn't hash at all.  So you could just be experiencing business as usual with the U3.

Nice looking product.  I just purchased the 1200w HP server psu from HolyBitcoin and it had a board from J4bberwock, but I like the additional features you board has.

Phil, I have my psu suspended from the metal racking that my miner sits on, I'll take a pict and post it but it allows good ventilation around the psu while not letting any of the contacts on the bottom of the break out board touch the metal racking.

Wow, what a great project!  Especially that you guys are doing the work yourselves, to me that's what a hobby is all about.  I'm going to be moving pretty soon and really, really want a solar set up at my new place.  My current home has too many trees for an effective solar layout.  Subscribed to this thread and following!

+5.8 = Mikestang

I better get a guess in before any more people pick +5.5 and all the guesses get auto-assigned.

Price is closing in on $440, but I'm more concerned with where the prices stays, not where it peaks.  If we can hold ~$440 until next period then we're getting somewhere, although with a network diff that is almost assuredly going to cross 200G before the halving even strong price isn't much of a boon for the little guys.

I think hash rate graphs could be useful, but like Rich said I don't think a graph of best shares would really convey anything meaningful.

A separate site like this for compacs would be cool, except all four of mine have happy homes so I don't know if I would be able to participate.

Is that why the website is down right now?  I'm getting a timeout error trying to access it.

That's a big part of the fun of these little sticks.  Right now I have 3 running at 262 mHz, and I have one more at 362 mHz.  It's fun to tweak them a little from time to time.

The pool appears to be back up with 231TH hashing away.  Day time temps have me turning off my Avalon 6 again during the day, but I might luck out with a few cooler days this weekend.  Gonna be summer any week now here as far as weather is concerned, and then it'll be time to host the A6 and S5, which will be kinda neat because then I can run them both at the same time!

Payment received, thank you.  Might not always be on time, but we always get paid.

I think that at this early stage in the play-offs that betting the over is almost always the safe way to go.  With only like one match-up exception this year all of these series are going to be blow-outs and I expect the winning team to win by double digits every time.

Well I tried 0.12.1 and the XP crash is still there, so I guess this means that XP will not be supported by bitcoin core past 0.11.2.

"I'll know it when I see it" is a perfectly acceptable answer to me, thanks for the detailed reply.  I really have to just find a block first, then I'll have something to worry about. 

I'm just happy that the price has been solid over $400 for quite some time now, it seems like it was only yesterday that it was stuck around $220.

You need a '+' or a '-', it's not an absolute value guess.