No apparently it is a "thing" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2705607.0

And here is a link to Theymos discussing it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=711968.msg8044683#msg8044683

Personally I don't care who makes them for Halong, as long as they are affordable, perform close to spec and are reliable.

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Link here it was launched on 1st April so make of it what you will

If anyone wants a £100 bitmain coupon free please pm me.

I've had the tracking information emailed to me. I know most of you know I've been mining a long time, so as soon as they hit the ground I'll get some photos of the unboxing made and the setup even if I have to pay support costs to do it

You don't need to enter any for your hardware, you just let the pool automatically adjust it.

Currently my experience is similar to other manufacturers in the past, in that their ability to get the paperwork done and tracking numbers entered into their system is lagging behind the shipments. Heck even bitmain still does it now and then.

Now I may be being very generous to them, but that's the feedback I am getting from their support team, and given ck's involvement I'm more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt that the hardware exists.

Obviously hardware existing is no guarantee of it arriving in a timely manner.

Unfortunately mine are not arriving into my hot little hands but going to a datacentre, I'll ask them for some unboxing and setup photos/videos if they have a chance.

IF there were no increases in difficulty, which is almost impossibly unlikely, then 60TH would take  2868.73 Days to mine one block.

However difficulty tends to increase by aprox 5-15% every 10 days or so, so in that case the likelyhood is never.

Of course you could get lucky and mine a block in the next second or so.......

That's the nature of luck and mining. More hashpower increases the probability but not the luck.

Mines at .104%

When you look at the blocks page and see your name there

OK if you switched off the other machines and just ran a single S9 and still had the problem then its probably something to do with the S9 that doesn't like the power switching. Could be all S9's thing is most people probably haven't experienced the problem you are running into as most people don't run miners on UPS' because, well, its hard enough trying to get a return on your investment on the miners alone without having to get it on a EUR 1600 UPS as well

I still wonder why you are noticing it so much, do you have many power outages in your location?

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AFAIK APC Smart-UPS XL only comes in 1500VA or 3000VA neither of which would be enough to run the 2 S9's on their own let alone with the other kit on there as well. The APC Smart-UPS XL Modular 3000VA only provides 2500W.

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Why is your power switching on the UPS so often?

Could be the UPS isn't providing enough juice for all the miners, you could try:
a) getting a second UPS
b) moving some of the other miners off the UPS temporarily
c) just shut down the L3+ and A3 miners and test the power switching scenario on the UPS with just the S9's connected.

I think the length of time is dependent on if its having any trouble with any of the strings or individual asics. Sometimes I've seen the log files spin through multiple attempts at different frequencies (maybe depending on temps) to get started, thats when its taken the longest. I just brought it up because its not "instant" which might be what the op was expecting.

Also how long did you wait? It can take up to 10-15 minutes for a S9 to start hashing after you have changed configuration settings.

Ck does.

Who's website told you different? And what's the url?

I'm not a mulitipetahash miner. And I'm not saying this is a regular occurrence on kanos part, but maybe you should just trust in the man who runs this pool and who ahs contributed so much to this technology space. (See below on the last block i found here)

So here's the rub, and I'll quote my question from another thread.

It requires hardware support, so you can't add it to miners that dont support it in hardware. Also there is a difference between Overt (Dragon) and Covert (bitmain) versions of Asicboost so unless bitmain add overt to their miners it won't help them.

Thing that I'd like some clarity on, ASICboost was only suppost to improve the efficiency of a miner, not its hashing speed, so it did the same but used less power. Overall of course this would lead to either being able to push the miner faster for the same power usage (if the hardware could handle it) or running more individual miners but using the same power. (e.g. if it gave a 25% reduction in power, you could run 5 miners for the power you used to run 4 miners)

Is this new version of overt ASICboost different? There are hints that the Dragonmint miners will only run at 1/4 speed on non-asicboost pools. That sort of doesn't line up with how we all thought ASICboost worked.

Apparently the code for overt Asicboost is already live in slushpool and ckpool and prototype dragonmints have been Mining at both pools. There is a lot of interest in this new miner, and if it's going to only perform at spec on pools with overt Asicboost support then it would be worth looking into Including the code (once checked and approved) in kanopool I would have thought. Although I already suspect kano has seen the code by now and has already considered all this as it's already in Ckpool git https://bitbucket.org/ckolivas/ckpool