What's with the 1 week delay? Are you going to be mining with it during that time?
Oh yeah! extra burn in testing for the buyer :-) I'm such a nice guy. |
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Looks distinctly... old, scratched and used, not a nice polished surface. Maybe it's just the photos...
Have fun mining! Make sure to update with power usage.
Now you say that, I kinda see where you are coming from! I reckon BFL held off are and still holding off sending out LOADS of miners because they themselves are mining a MAJORity of them first >.< simple test..... Open it up and check for dust/signs of heat marking. If there are none, then I would suspect the bubble wrap, we have a similar problem in the China factories, we find the Bubble wrap is sometimes CRAP and will actually damage a products painted surface due to impurities in the BB wrap..... Also certain types of poly bag has the same effect...., it depends on the paints chemistry. The other thing is that if you ordered early it should be a 60GH/s unit......... Yeah, I'm not the best photographer, but you nailed it. It was from the bubble wrap and the surface seamed a little porous. I was able to wipe it off with a slightly damp cloth. |
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That's awesome! get it up and running and let us know how she runs  It's been running for over an hour now. Seems to be averaging out around 56+ GH/s. Just wish I had not lent out my killowatt meter. I really need it right now. |
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Did it not ship with its own power supply?
Edit: Grats!
nop :-( |
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I guess making multiple orders the first day and paying extra on shipping has paid off. Received BFL single today and took some screen shots to share. I'll admit that I did receive an email when it shipped from BFL asking me to share PICs and I agreed. This has made my day. Good luck to all those still waiting. I'm still waiting for many other BFL Miners I have ordered for friends, family, and myself. Forgot to mention: I had lent my kill-o-watt meter to a friend so I will have to get back on that one.      Powered with two PCI-e power connectors (same as the GPUs)  Stop at Fry's on the way home to get a good power supply.  Here's the miner setup and working away. approximately 50+ GHs (average looks around 54, but need to let it run longer to know for sure)  |
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Building a miner for the BFL ASIC chips. Design will be shared with the community. It will use 4 chips that will fit snugly underneath an off the shelf CPU FAN  The PCB will have the ability to expand to 8 chips using a customized water block. Also, going to make a PCB with a socket similar to this for testing purposes. Don't want to mount DUDs on a board  Plan to do all this in eagle. If you want to work on a similar design, please let me know and we can share work. Programmers and coders neaded. This is something I do on the side and can't pull it all off. thanks, Allten |
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Offer: $3.00 dollars / credit.
Thanks.
hope you get the deal you are looking for.
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Interesting Program by BFL.
I'm currently offering $3.00 Dollars for a credit Paid in BTC.
My offering will rise over time to a maximum of $15.00
Sorry, but what do you mean by this? That you will pay $3 (paid in BTC at market xRate) for credits now? But you will pay more tomorrow...? "That you will pay $3 (paid in BTC at market xRate) for credits now? " YES "But you will pay more tomorrow...?" YES There are some that want to liquidate ASAP. Might as well get a good deal. If no one bites or if people stop taking my offer then tomorrow (or next weak) I'll change my offer to $4.00. I'll inch up over the next several weeks to $15.00. |
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no thanks
"no thanks" to selling chips? "no thanks" to buying chips? "no thanks" to what? Why make a post? |
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Are you writing the firmware for this project ?
Will this hardware be supported by cgminer?
I could sure use some help, that is for sure. Been too busy to get anything started. BKKCOINS has a very identical setup and I'm hoping he won't make me reinvent the wheel, but we'll see. -Allten I've been following your work, and was going to chirp in about relaying a couple chips if I end up with too many, but thought I'd better wait and see what I actually get. Anyway, my firmware will be open and should work for your design with perhaps some small changes. It's just a matter of when I feel confident to release it. If you were going to work on software you'd be better off putting energy into the cgminer driver as I stalled there when hardware started arriving and needed my attention. Thanks BKKCoins! Appreciate your support. Seems like Luke-JR was offering help. Can't remember for sure. |
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Are you writing the firmware for this project ?
Will this hardware be supported by cgminer?
I could sure use some help, that is for sure. Been too busy to get anything started. BKKCOINS has a very identical setup and I'm hoping he won't make me reinvent the wheel, but we'll see. -Allten |
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intron, saw your work for a 16 AVALON ASIC in another thread. Nice work. Do you plan to sell a DIY version? One of my goals is to get all the DIY offerings out there and do a tutorial and writeup and add it to this thread. thanks. |
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Very disappointing indeed.
If there's room for just one to come my way. I would really appreciate it.
thanks,
Allten
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*Sigh* so once again, if some redneck in Arkansas orders a singing fish off Amazon, and they're currently backordered, does Amazon halt shipping on all orders, until Bubba's singin' fish comes back in stock? You know, so that it's "fair"?
People do not stand to lose money in that situation. This is completely different. Also, BFL said they would ship all product lines at the same time so there would not be unfair advantage. See this post: https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/3092-latest-news-jalapenos-shipping-en-mass-now-ls-s-mr-boards-done-shipping-soon-5.html#post38652Well, originally they had planned to ship all of the various products at the same time, and build up a large supply to ship out all at once, and not just let a few trickle out here and there. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=139375.msg1109145#msg1109145Right now, we plan on shipping a mix of all three types of units and yes, 1/3 from each amount we plan on shipping. Each class of mining hardware will be treated on it's own 1/3's balance sheet, not all lumped together. Does that make sense?
As far as what's "early" and what's "late" is going to depend on how many units we ship in the first batch. Like I said, we do not want to ship out just a handful of orders in the first batch and trickle them out. We want to ship a large quantity in the first batch. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=139375.msg1108821#msg1108821No, what I don't want to happen is that we ship out a handful of units here, a handful of units there, and those units that get sent out first give the first deliverables a huge advantage and pump the difficulty. We want to have all the participants lined up and released at the same time, so no one has a marked advantage. I don't mean we are going to send out minirigs or probably even singles to anyone. We would send out the a Jalapeno to a few individuals that are trusted by the community to evaluate and report back that yes, they in fact do what's claimed and it's not a big scam. Frankly, I am really boggled by the fact that people are seriously complaining that we are trying to be open with the performance of the product and send it to people that have no vested interest in BFL conducting a scam. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102040.msg1179157#msg1179157BFL has said that units of all types will come out at about the same time. This is correct. But I understand things don't always work out as planned. Still, I'm hoping things will work out to be as fair as possible given the circumstances. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=102040.msg1205251#msg1205251We have absolutely no plans to raise the price after the pre-order phase. I'm having trouble envisioning a scenario where we would do that. TL;DR: read the bold part. There was a lot that happened that they didn't want to happen. Things were delayed WAY more than they intended. Back during the BFL pre-order days, they were they only game in town, so shipping out ASIC units to a few people would have really skewed the market. Well, nothing went as anticipated, and now there are MANY ASICs out in the wild, already driving difficulty. Things definitely went badly for BFL's plans, but we're to the point where we're talking about what's best for them to do NOW. No doubt things were handled poorly on their part. Their only chance at this point, to make things right, is to get as much hardware to as many customers as they can. They didn't anticipate requiring twice as many chips on their machines (hence not anticipating a cost increase). They didn't anticipate being delayed to the point where other ASIC developers beat them to market, they didn't anticipate the higher-density solutions giving them so much more trouble in development, they didn't anticipate missing the mark on power consumption, etc, etc. We all agree they did a poor job in planing things. And were way more optimistic about things than they realistically ought to have been. But the question is what is the best course of action from this point? I think they're taking the best course of action that they can, with how totally off the mark current reality is from their original vision. Best course of action? Regarding the OP, it is simple really. Give customers the option to change their orders to jalepenos while maintaining their place in line. I had ordered several jalapenos but then I was reassured by BFL staff that the bigger stuff was shipping at the same time and they gave an option to Upgrade. That was several months ago. Well, now give us an option to downgrade. Seems like a no brainier. They are probably too stressed out to try to do any thing for their customers other than just shove product out the door with little regard to the issue in the OP. The fact they "appear" to still be holding things together and trying to get product to customers is really amazing. I'll give 'em that. |
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One thing I noticed on your schematic rev 0.3 R12 connected to lead 7 on the ASIC this part should be a magnetic bead it's an inductor. The one used on the Avalon board has 30 ohm resistance at 100MHZ it's probably .2 or .3 ohm at DC. Good Catch! thanks. I could not figure out what those "MB" resistors were all about. I guess I should have checked the BOM after they updated it. I'm currently looking at this part: http://au.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Bourns/MU1005-300Y/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtoiMfofRG0LbhzMfk9mut9DLkB8NWOFVo%3dwhat do you think? Sorry I gave you the wrong specification for the Avalon board it is 60 ohm at 100MHZ. I would go with something 60 to 200 ohm at 100MHZ. Also I would consider using a Schmitt trigger buffer on the report n and report p because they are wire OR and the rising edge is slow. This will only be a problem when both report signals go high at the same time (idle) it might cause the NOR gate to send several clock pulses. You might be able to work around this in software because the nonce should have all ready been transferred when the ASIC goes idle. The communications protocol information was a little sparse so this could be wrong. Thanks for the correction. This one should work fine: http://au.mouser.com/ProductDetail/ABRACON/ACML-0402H-750-T/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtoiMfofRG0LSMefMivMbzvCYz%252b0wYmZAM%3dThe serial clock input to the PIC should be Schmitt trigger. Hopefully, with the RC delay setup, any potential spikes coming out of the NOR gate will not be seen by the PIC. What do you think? It is one aspect of the design i do worry about a little. Won't really know how good of a solution we have until we get to try it out. |
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