Yes thanks. 
Just had a look at the GekkoScience R606 Pod Miner  Terminus R606 on Amazon.  There aren't many around but it looks interesting. 300 ish dollars.  About 270 quid.
I might go for one next month if i can locate one.
I'll see how far i want to go.
I'm not going to shut the little Gekko down either.  I love the thing.
:-)
Andy.

Yeah.

I've also got a GekkoScience NewPac USB miner.  It says on the net that you can push it up to 135GH/s but i don't want to harm it so I pushed the frequency up to 425 and it's mining a 100GH/s.  I put a cpu cooling fan in front of it and it's nice and cool and mining faultless.

It's pulling 5V 2Watts but after a couple of days the power pack falied so i bought a 4 amp rack PSU and it's now perfect.

You're right about the power.
This little thing is only pulling 10 Watts. That's working out at 3.9 pence a day ($3.04).  Painless !!!
So i'm leaving this one running on an old very battered laptop using ubuntu and cgminer and see what figures i get from it.

I'm only doing it out of interest.  All good stuff.  I'll have a look at the one you've just mentioned as well
:-)
Andy.

Hello, i just wanted to share some information with you guys.
i've been reading this site for well over a month.  Also I've been trying to find out on Internet searches how much money can i make out of mining bitcoin as an individual.
I've found absolutely nothing.  I'm a database programmer by trade in the UK and crazy about stats!  So, i decided to go out and buy an Antminer and find out for myself.

I got one brand new Antminer V9 including BitMain power supply off ebay for 130 pounds. $158.

Out of the box and up and running and connected to Kano Pool in less than 5 minutes including making a cup of Tea.  Dead easy.

I've had it running for 10 days. 

It's very noisy.  Noise monitor said 83 decibels at 3 foot away.  75 decibels at 10 foot away.   That's ear protection stuff if being by it for long times.

I got it plugged into a power monitor and it's pulling 1100 Watts. 

In the UK, my energy provider charges 16 pence a kilowatt ($0.2).  1100 x 24 Hours = 26.4KW.  That's £4.22p a day.  ($5.15).

So we just mined first block by schmokeandapancake.

I've just gone to my rewards page and after 10 days i've earned 0.00015919BTC.

Bitcoin today has just passed £10,000 a coin.  So i've just earned £1.59p ($1.94).  For £42.20p of electricity ($51.48).  OUCH!!!

Basically, in the UK, you need to get a Wind Turbine installed in your back garden.  I don't think Solar panels will cut it with our poor weather.

I just though somebody might be interested in this sort of info.

Thanks
Andy.