Yes, the share counters look to be 5 minutes + behind.. My shares are increasing, but from shares I did 5 minutes ago or more, as far as I can tell. Not too worried about it atm.

Yes, it was never really made clear if these "hopeful" bids are binding or not. If not, the entire thing is a bit meaningless.

Probably would have been if the forum could cope with it. This one was such a mess towards the end I suspect they didn't want a repeat showing?

Think I found it. It requires the entire HTTP POST in one packet, I noticed it was sending the "rebooting" response right after the first packet. It also seemed to require having the "update=Update/Restart" field in otherwise it only updated some settings but not others, but it seems to be working now.

friedcat, could I possibly pick you brains for a moment please?

I'm trying to automate reconfiguring these blades by POSTing up a webform generated programmatically, but I must be mucking something up, because the changes aren't taking effect. I've noticed that on a successful submit from my browser, I get code "631" in the return string, and when trying to do it programatically I get "148" - what do these mean and any quick tips about what I might be doing wrong here..

Example request I send up:

In this example I only sent user/pass and ports since that's all I wanted to change, but the same happens if I set any/all combinations of fields as far as I can tell..

Thanks

Confirm this works, that used to be really annoying, thanks.

It's still not perfect; I have "Minimize windows into application icon" enabled, and if you minimise the window then click on the app dock icon it doesn't un-minimise it whereas other apps do. You need to select Show/Hide from the menu to see it again with Bitcoin-QT. But at least it's not possible to get stuck in a situation where you can't see the UI anymore.

Which pool/setup?

I see 99% efficiency with a local stratum proxy on 50BTC, and 97% with the same on EMC. I suspect this an EU/US difference, there's a bit more latency to EMC from me.

Not extensively tested other pools yet. Have you experimented with a few, do you get 92% on a few different ones? I think a local stratum proxy is probably the single biggest step though, that will help massively. I tried them direct to a getwork supporting pool for a bit and was in the 70% efficiency range, terrible.

Oh I do run mine at High, absolutely

So it sounds like I'm doing quite well then, probably my PSU is even higher than 90% efficiency. If your tests show 120W for 1.2v at High (thats what you mean by Overclock?) then I'm pretty much spot on the money and my fans are barely taking anything

Thought it was 80 odd watts at low clock and stock voltage?

As I posted earlier mine are 480W for 4, including fans. The fans are 0.17A @ 12v, so 2W * 6 fans, call that 12W.

I reckon I'm getting about 90% efficiency out of the CPU (65% load or so, so should be near its peak efficiency).

So 48W burnt by the PSU and 12W for fans leaves 105 watts per blade for me.

You're right, that is worth nothing. That's not really what I had in mind.

John K has pretty good procedures for verifying someone's identity. This is the sort of thing I was getting at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=195052.msg2046295#msg2046295 (first half of text below the quote, obviously the Q&A escrow bits are irrelevant).

But anyway, I'll stop beating this horse and derailing the thread now, I think I've got the answers I was seeking.

So why not do it? If you think it won't stop you running off with our money then you've nothing to lose really?
I'm not even asking for you to disclose it publicly, just to one trusted escrow agent.


I don't really see how any of this will achieve much. Past performance is all well and good, but it can always be leading up to a long con. The bigger the money, the longer people are willing to do the setup.

Very happy with mine, this is one of them..

Total MHS:    12988
Received: 0000448881
Accepted: 0000444397
Per Minute:177.47
Efficiency: 099.00%
Up Time: 1d,17h,43m,58s

Local stratum proxy certainly seems the way to go, I tried direct getwork to some pools and efficiency dropped down into the 70s, and something like 9/10GH was actually being achieved.

I'm hoping for payback by October or so, taking difficulty into account

I suspect the cost of maintaining (read: replacing) the batteries will by far outweigh any gains you make by continuing to mine while the power's off.

UPS (lead acid) batteries are rated for a given number of cycles, so the more you use it the faster you'll have to replace it. I'd also replace them every 6-7 years at a maximum as well.

Any justification/evidence for this accusation?

Suddenly I don't feel half as bad

 Total time logged in: 11 days, 20 hours and 40 minutes.

clearly I have too much free time

Also noticing it, site seems pretty much unusuable. Also have yet to see a deposit show up in my balance despite having 7 confirmations.

No, I'm using stratum on 3333 - though it is with slush's stratum proxy (asicminer blades, can't do stratum) but that shouldn't matter. 50BTC still just sees stratum at the end of the day.

The share queueing seems to come and go, there's periods where every single block backups, then other times it's good going for hours. It just feels a bit like there's a database waiting to do inserts while it processes shares or something. Note I see this on any block on the network though, not just 50BTC blocks.

Packetloss seems to have cleared up now at least.

TradeFortress, I know you've said in this thread that you have no desire to make your identity known.

Would it interest you at all to provide your identity to John K, to his satisfaction, for our depositors peace of mind? You may well find that with this your deposits would grow substantially? I'm certainly a little bit nervy of putting in any more than I already have. There really is literally nothing to stop you running off with it right now.

I interpreted it as simply not flat on the desk, so some air can get to the ICs on the other side from the heatsink. Mine are mounted with the power/ethernet ports sticking out sideways but I've seen a couple of pics in this thread where they point up and both seem fine.