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Extending on that, you don't want to run your car at idle for power generation - you want to run it at the peak torque RPM most probably, very often something like 1800RPM-2200RPM. Larger the engine, lower this is.
Also, the typical car here consumes more like 1.5L/hr, so more like 0.35gallons/hour, and at 1800RPM you are probably looking at 0.5-0.6gallons/hour.
Car engines are not designed for low load constant speed - you need to increase the load ie. alternator capacity and utilization dramatically to get the best out of the engine, even at 1800RPM low load you are running perhaps 2% efficiency, while a traditional, older car engine could reach 20%.

for thought experiment, let's think about a modified engine JUST for this purpose.
Turbocharged engine, with mild cams for lower RPM peak output (Where you want to run, or close to it), running lean -> slightly below stoichiometric value (Complete burn, slightly more air into engine than required for complete burn). This kind of engine could reach upto 30% efficiency.
Now we can calculate from energy content and alternator efficiency.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Energy_content_.28high_and_low_heating_value.29
13kWh/kg or 9.7kWh / liter.
Let's assume we tune this engine for 30kW load, this means we need to burn 100kW worth of electricity, dismissing alternator disefficiencies. After alternator efficiency we get perhaps 27kW of electricity.
That means just more than 10liters per hour.
Please note: I chose 30kW load as load is required for something of that displacement to get to good efficiency rates, even 30kW might be far too low, but let's give it a chance for being tuned for this usage.
At the gas rates like here 95E10 going for about 1.5€ per liter = 15€ per hour and we get under 0.5€/kWh efficiency.
The remaining 70kW could be used to heat your house, or alternative methods used to collect electricity from it. But even at 100% efficiency in all parts it would still cost 0.15€ kWh which is more than double what i'm paying locally right now.

When you are moving it's not free either, but small load disappears in to the existing inefficiencies, 20RPM lower idle RPM don't matter. Even if you are going highway, and trying to get best MPG possible, it will show up there, but it's marginal.


Teal: Big Diesel has higher efficiency than tiny 4 banger. Diesel as a fuel has higher efficiency from chemical to kinetic energy.
Reason tiny 4 bangers gets so high MPG is because they are lightweight and small surface area, not exceptional engine efficiency.
For a gasoline engine 25% is pretty much the norm efficiency rating, depending upon how modern it is.
Many of the tiny 4 bangers getting huge/good MPG (80s-90s Renault Clio, 80s Peugeot 205, Subaru Justy, 80s Nissan Cherry) actually has kind of low efficiency engines in them. They are simply lightweight cars. Subary Justy actually has 3 cylinder engine in it, 1.2l carburated, very peaky output, very low torque at low rpm, even normal driving requires some 3k rpm yet even 4WD on during winter you can achieve better MPG than many big cars. Summer and no 4WD it can achieve 50MPG.

That's just 10A. Many modern cars need that for ignition alone, and performance cars may require double that for fuel pump. Racing cars might require 40A just for the fuel pumps!
Even 80's corollas have 55A alternators. Getting a alternator rewired for higher amperage is not even very costly, just make sure the alternator controller is able to work with the increased amperage.
Friend had 110 or 120A alternator on his M3 for the audio setup.
And that's just those cars which aren't especially power hungry ... Let's enter the SPL competition scene: These guys might be consuming 20kW ...

Hell, just last week i sold one amp with 4x30A fuses and rated RMS power of 5000W to 1Ohm (very short peak).

been away from bitcoin stuff for a few months, and lots happened
GLBSE ... *sigh*
and some securities asking real life identifying informaiton - No, i'm not going to be sending a copy of my driver's license to some random person overseas. I don't like inviting up identify theft

Finally did like week ago to fill the information form @ GLBSE.

Hopefully everything gets sorted out for Asicminer. i purchased quite a bit of asicminer!

that is a long time, hopefully i now get a reply
i emailed them again about my order

I asked them via e-mail on how to do this but yet to receive a reply - so how to proceed?

GoDaddy was supporter of SOPA, they only backed out of it because of the huge backlash.
As a hosting professional for 12-13 years now, GoDaddy is in my books one of "those trendy, fashion things", not necessarily good, but it's trendy "because everyone has it".
That being said, it's better than most of the large webhosts, like dreamhost and bluehost who oversell like crazy, provides practically no support.

If i were you i'd choose a cloud and operate a VM from there, which constantly, via secure tunnel, backups the DBs etc., maybe in a master<>master config.
Then again, i don't do that myself, i'm perfectly happy with simple DDoS protections etc. basic stuff for a dedicated server. almost no downtime during couple of years to speak of.

NEVER EVER go with bluehost or dreamhost.

Yes, i know, i'm again late to the party! grr

I use home server + irssi
but ZNC is better for many.
Since our chan is on freenode too, i guess i'll join to idle in ##bflusers as well

you got the newsletter too
they sent it to me many times

Cool looking equipment tho! and posting it all with the cool pictures and all is a cool marketing "gimmick"

Sounds like a major headache for you right now.
If you need to sort out your IT contact me and let's get it handled properly - the way you want it
Whether just getting you the e-mail server you need, or maybe you want a fully redundant setup for the shop too, i can help you.
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You really should get those limits sorted out. Then again, even i don't send that much e-mail as we use ticketing

273 being mine!
was wondering how high was my order, was hoping to be first to order bASIC

EDIT: Yeah were a bit late to the party, i usually catch up now and then and just got angered by the continuous drama (AGAIN). I hate seeing it, i'm here for information, not drama

FFS GUYS!
Stop the stupid drama already, that is so freakishly unprofessional it's unimaginable!

Makes me want to stay away from BTCFPGA Products, a little from BFL products too! Guys, time to grow up and even try to act like professionals. just try even.

Cablepair: If you feel that strongly, open a lawsuit for slander, or vice-versa but keep the drama off the public.

I'm sick and tired of seeing this drama wasting space in every 2nd thread, and makes me want to keep off the forums all together and just forget about products of EITHER company for being so unprofessional.

Inaba: You might be posting as Inaba, but we all know you work for BFL, you are *ALWAYS* representing BFL. Act like it. Otherwise you are going to loss significant business for BFL. We had this happen, we had a dramatic character in our team and we lost a deal which had a potential for more than 7k € PROFIT PER month as a direct result.

Both: Ignore each other completely if you must, or ignore the remarks. Just try to act professional.

*END OF RANT*

Wow! Immense
Count me in for more orders soon

Now after you get the device finished if you guys could also design and mfg a case for it too as accessory, that would be sweet!
Potentially someting which not only looks cool but allows good cooling as option, ie. adding a fan say 80x80 low rpm low wattage one.

well here you guys go:

mine are running at 54-56c oO;
the default 832 firmware.

bASIC product details do not mention power supply, only DC barrel connector in the specs.
So do i need to acquire separately a power supply and connector?

Or is there even the barrel connector supplied with the device so i can easily hook it up to any power supply providing sufficient 12VDC?

It would be really nice if bASIC is just as finished product as BFLs are, ie. everything supplied in a case + fans, just plug it in.

and these fees will continue to increase as BTC gains value and smaller and smaller sums are being transmitted.
Besides, 0.611BTC is more than 6$ at this moment! Sure it's still farcry to the over 500$ value of whole block, but it's worth a small meal still!

Businesses like Paypal lives on transaction fees. We pay enough transaction fees each month that we could hire another person with the transaction fees alone.

1U and 2U rackmount case hardware is *EXPENSIVE*, with 3U you can still use standard heatsinks etc. Maybe with some luck some models on 2U.
A proper low height heatsink is going to easily cost 60$ alone.
Then add a properly sized PSU there, and your 750W Corsair is starting to look cheap.
Then for lower height you need to use smaller diameter fans which are by ORDER OF MAGNITUDE less efficient, infact, in modern 1U server the biggest electrical expense can be at times the fans!
Because adding depth to fan is not efficient, but a must do in small diameter, and to drive sufficient airflow you need to spin it at really high rpm these fans can  use considerable amount of electricy to even reach half of what an 230mm fan @ 2.5W can do. Some say these might use even upto 10-15W *EACH* and you need like 4 of them (that's why they are also RPM controlled)

Since depth of a rackmount chassis is not set you can make half depth chassis, and you can load any rack in standard setup DC from both sides, mount them from both sides and drive the hot air to the center of rack for gravitational dispension of heat by rack top ventilation hole, creating a natural rack zone hot and cold aisles
How well it works depends on the DC, some DCs don't have hot and cold aisles, others does. I would use one without hot + cold aisles for this setup other than which sucks hot air directly from top of the rack and keeps everything else cool

Ofc, to get it to work efficiently you need fill up the whole rack, which means that even on 42U rack you need 27 (1 slot for the switch) of these, or atleast near so putting separator plates makes sense
That's 75600$ investment per rack for a total of 2.16TH, at a operating cost of roughly 500€ a month depending upon location, electrical rates etc. plus network capacity. many DCs include 10-100mbps with the rack, not really free but "cheap", and backup connection probably will cost about 30-40€/mo for crossconnect + 50-150€ a month depending on provider, how low they are willing to go.

If someone wants a low cost location for several Us we should have spare capacity in near months

oh, so much useless drama

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