No, almost sold out of the current batch and will probably do one more batch with a cheaper price. Probably will be another year or so before I release an updated stick.

This is used for third party software that can directly control the miner settings through the local network. For the Apollo this only applies for pool settings though.

Is the fan not spinning at all? Try manually setting Fan speed to 20% or higher in settings.

I commend you for open sourcing this...good to see other like minded people still around here  

What are you getting on Vega VII, im sure over 100MH is easily achievable with timing changes.

This might entice me to play around with GPUs again

NEVER do this. Mixing different power supplies on the same input terminals will either destroy the power supplies, the Apollo, or both and almost certainly cause a fire.

This is because power supplies never have the exact same voltage output, and connecting two imbalanced PSUs will cause a high surge current going between them...this usually translates to the terminals melting and/or going up in smoke.

So once again in case others are reading and thinking about doing the same

NEVER PLUG IN DIFFERENT POWER SUPPLIES TO INPUTS THAT ARE ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED

The only exception to this rule is devices like Antminers, they have multiple boards per device...you can connect a different power supply to each board, but not different power supplies to the same board.

You need to jump the PSU enable pins, otherwise it won't turn on. Follow this video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1dcJ0QyAE

Yea thats definitely an issue of not enough power on the port. Like others have said run it on the lowest frequency and see if it runs stable.

This is all relative. For some people the L3 will make ZERO profit while the Apollo will be more than profitable. This is because the Apollo is 60% more efficient than the L3.

Same way you can also make zero profit with an L3 because you cant run it in your living room which is the only place millions of people can actually run a miner...with the Apollo you can.

Also L3s were over made then dumped on the market, the only new scrypt miner that is shipping for a comparison to be made is to an innosillicon A4+ which costs 1500 bucks for 620 MH, you can get the same hash power with 5 Apollo's which cost the same amount...if anything im undercharging considering my way smaller economy of scale.

On your last point...people have said the same thing for the last 3 cycles..and they will continue saying the same thing for the next 3

Regardless I hate getting into the discussion of profitability, since thats not the point of this. Its a miner anyone can run on their desk and collect crypto without thinking about it and not worrying about the single light bulbs worth of power cost...the more people on the network that are supporting it and more importantly evenly distributing and decentralizing the mining rewards the better in the long term.

Batch 1 has been sold out! Thanks for everyone that made the initial Apollo launch a success!

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Yea we are dealing with the memory limitation and is one of the reasons we are testing different approaches to enabling full node functionality on the Apollo. Were looking into ways to do a full node download instead of syncing from scratch.

As long as its 10-14V output and can output 200W I don't see why not. You would most likely have to make your own PCIE 6 pin connector for it though.

No, any future updates will increase the reliability of mining, and probably some voltage/efficiency gains but hash speed will remain between 100-140 MH/s. Im focused on brining the big functionality updates like full node/wallet functions etc.

Please visit the support thread here for support questions: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5081750

This sounds like a pool setup issue (ie your not putting in the correct pool username and password and its defaulting to the donation pool because it cant connect to yours).

Double check what the pool requires for username and password, and make sure you put it correct (they are usually case sensitive).

Think I have been around long enough to know what most large mines think...its not rocket science. Garbage is what the large ASIC companies and their large customers have done to crypto, and will keep doing what im going to shut that down.

And I wish im a millionaire, but selling hardware at cost so people can be part of this revolution does not make millionaires.

This is the reason why im trying to put more value to mining than the dollar cost of what your mining vs electricity.

Mining was supposed to be a distribution method for crypto that anyone could partake in, not the centralized manipulated space it is now.

What needs to be done is actually counter intuitive (and what im trying to do with my miners). Get small ASICs in the hands of so many people that the hash power of that group of people > the hash power of the small centralized elite.

What happens then? People running 100 watt crypto platforms on there desk don't care about what it costs to run one lightbulb 24/7 because its negligible. The value of running a full hardware and software stack is much greater than the pure mining rewards for an individual that cares about crypto and its future. The large mining farms then start becoming unprofitable since all they see in crypto is pure profit and greed, and will start shutting down.

Thats the idealistic place I hope crypto gets to in the future.

Have you installed the latest firmware image? You were probably experiencing the MCU overheat issue, and the latest image fixes this issue. If you want to make sure your MCU does not overheat pull it out of its socket and put a heatsink on the ARM processor (the big black chip on the other side of the blue board).

Thats probably the best use of all those heatsinks

The main heatsink/fan for the ASICs is way overbuilt. They can both dissipate over 300 watts of heat at max fan airflow.

R44 is the inductor to the main power stage. This is designed to run a 90C+ ...60C for this part of the power stage is pretty cool. There is no need to put heatsinks on it, if anything the smaller heatsink right behind it probably helps the most, since thats the main MOSFET block and produces the most heat. These are rated for 125C but cooling them down helps with power efficiency and longevity of the mosfets..but again this is not needed.

Hoping to have at least the full node feature released in the next month or two. Made a big mistake in hindsight and ordered the 256MB RAM version of the MCU instead of the 512, so trying to see if we can get the node to run stable with just 256MB of RAM, or if we need to swap the MCUs out.

Guess ill have to point over some of my test Apollos here

This means you put in your pool credentials in wrong.