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Yes, I didn't mean Avalon would adjust pricing just that Bitmain may bow to the competition and release a price competitive miner.
Anyone know electric costs in San Francisco area? Avalon seems to have wised up and got a US
distributor this time finally. That is what hurt their sales previously with the 4.1 and if I can
remember you couldn't buy them as a single unit.
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Looks like Black Friday may come early this year for us.. Let the "Price War" begin!
As long as it's the least expensive and quietest I will buy it. My luck that won't be the
trait of just one miner.
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So it begins...... Nice!  |
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You may try restarting it after shutting it down for a 1/2 hour or so and see if the x's go away. If it's
dirty inside the case you may blow it off so it's able to cool properly. While the case is off make sure (Unplug First) the connections are all tight and the boards are securely tightened down as well as the power connectors.
* If it's the stock power supply that is usually the culprit, it's under powered and not supplying enough juice to the hashing boards. Do you have a power meter to see if it's not pulling close to the 1400w it's rated. Mine wouldn't pull more than a 1000w from the wall and appeared that one board was bad. New power supply plugged in resolved what I thought was a bad board.
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As long as it doesn't have a red led of death light on it we're happy.
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Possibly the $/th ratio we have been waiting for. But yet another preorder for hash with equipment not yet confirmed.
Still we know the chip is coming soon.
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Apologies if this has been asked/answered already. I have a 220V plug in my basement where I will run my new S7 + APW3-12-1600. But the 200V outlet I have looks like the kind in laundry room, i.e. a round outlet with non-standard plug sizes compared to a regular outlet. Like this:  But does the PSU come with a standard computer power cable with a regular 3-prong that goes in to something like this?:  If so, how would I make the square peg fit in the round hole?  You can buy a laundry cord like this at the hardware store with bare ends and then buy a 20-30a socket with lock. Then purchase a power cord that fits the psu and other end that fits the locking socket which you can buy online. If you plan to run multiple miners then a pdu would benefit you. The latter cord then would need to fit the pdu. Exact cord and socket types I'm not able to provide right now, I'm away from my computer. |
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No, but I guess I got one on the museum shelf I could pull a cooler out of and see if it meets spec. My assumption is "probably not" but that' just an assumption.
If you would that would be cool. There's a local guy that has a ton of them and if I can get them at $20 a piece I would have a case and possibly two coolers as well.  |
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Any idea if the chip coolers on the Bfl singles would work or know if they fit a certain socket. Looking to build the Bfl Pod possibly.  |
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No, this is the correct thread for selling hardware. The other is for information on new and old hardware from companies but not
for private sales. Post is in the correct place.
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Revolutionary idea... wish we would of all thought of that!  Sorry didn't mean to poke fun. Yes, if it is a Sha-256 algo then you will be able to mine it. But Blake has it's own algo which is an off shoot of Sha-256 I believe and was changed to prevent the use of Asic chips to mine it. Resorting back to Gpu to mine with. All of this info is easily attained by Googling it and doing some research. So which is it? Mining large terahash machines or small usb asic miners that you are planning? If it's small usb miners then look at Sidehack's thread for his new stick miner, that's your best bet and mine some low difficulty coin. If it's running a large miner realize although you will get large amounts of some coins their value will be so low that you won't be able to support your large electric bill to compensate the cost of doing so. |
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I was comparing to Hashra since very few were ever seen and only 1 or 2 videos on them even working.
They also started strong with a communication up front then nothing and Poof! "F" the Fib's and FT's of
the world.
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I think I finally have the pod PCB finished. It's going to need to be verified (this thing is easily the most complex PCB I've ever laid out) and it looks like I need to draw up a BM1384 test board with a QFN socket and also verify Novak's newest project PCB before sending out for prototypes. If we put 'em all on one order we save on shipping, you understand.
In any case, it's almost sandwich time and whatnot so it won't get done today but it might get done tomorrow.
The pod PCB is 10x15cm and has both 3- and 4-wire fan headers, each with its own PWM implemented so you can use pretty much any kind of computer fan ever made. Also tach signals are hooked up so it should report fan speed. The onboard micro will be able to measure and modify on-the-fly your VRM voltage, and it can measure the output current. Power comes in from a barrel jack and a 6-pin PCIe, and we've got both USB-B and USB-mini jacks. All in all, it should be pretty flexible. Heck, I may go ahead and add LGA775 holes for the heck of it.
Is there or is it possible to have some sort of fan or temperature protection? For instance the stick does not have a temp sensor so if its clocked high and has a fan, no problem. If it does not, its going to melt. Not too bad on a USB stick but the pod start being a bit more pricy and worth protecting, imo. Really with giving us so much possibility on how fast to push them, I think it's kinda up to customer not to melt it. We will be given a certain spec and we will buy our own coolers. If you push it to a point it melts.. you went to far. Most I think will watch pretty close and be able handle knowing if you OC to far you can damage gear. When you give people so much versatility on speed it's kinda up to them not to push it to hard I think. As likely there will be a big difference of CPU coolers people choose to use, some much better then others. I understand what you are saying, but its possible for the fan to fail and stop. At which point it does not really matter how far you pushed it, even just running at "standard" speed, the chips would probably overheat. I don't mean to implement a idiot proof protection, just if the fan suddenly go dead, turn off the miner, or something. It could be done software side fairly easily, i believe. In that case asking Novak(?) might be the better idea? Good idea also like the flexibility of retrofitting pretty much any fan and/or power connector you have laying around, Nice! So I'm trying to picture it... a little far from a pod but more like a small board with heatsink/cooler. More like a (do I dear say_) Technobit setup. If so is the pcb safe to sit around ala Raspberry Pi like or can feet be added for stability. Since those coolers can get pretty heavy and tipsy. |
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The few minor reviews of them seem to be possitive. Sounds a lot like Sfards is the new Hashra.
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L1's would have been amazing to own and would have sold well.
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Thought I'd share my misery for the last 24 hours.
Tried playing with voltage and frequency (for the contest) on my two sticks and minera-cgminer pi.
Everything went to hell. Only this morning do I think I got things back to where they were- 24Gh at 225.
Also edonkey gave me this so I didn't have to wait for a 1K share to appear, which is what cgminer seems to require before down regulating my share difficulty. But it doesn't work. I did put a space and a number (80) after 'diff'
/var/www/minera/minera-bin/cgminerStartupScript: line 4: --suggest-diff: command not found
Any thoughts on this one?
Good job! Just a lil curious at what voltage your running. Seems incredible to reach 24ghs at 225 freq. |
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I have a lot of blades of all of the ones you need, how bout I send in enough blades (mixed variety) for say 10 pods - I will then donate 5 Pods to be auctioned off to raise barbecue money for SideHack and Novak and only take delivery of 5 Pods. Essentially I am offering to pay twice as much for the Pods. Not because I am loaded but because I have a bunch of blades that are doing absolutely nothing for me. It's stuff like this that is really neat to see. A maker who cares about his customers. And customers who care about the makers. Wish all miners had this cooperation between miners and makers. Seems like a team atmosphere in these threads which is a nice breath of fresh air compared to some miner threads. Yes and no. I think we are all too anxious and we all have boards that we would happily donate even to get 1 or 2 pods plus cash possibly and whatever else. We need to stop ( for now ) flooding the posts with our own personal deals until the time sidehack lets us know what he needs. He stated it would be on a one on one basis when the time is due. I may be reading into this all wrong but let's not get too apprehensive and piss off "The Maker". |
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His best bet is Craigslist if he hasn't already tried it. Going rate is $20-$30.
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I will have time this weekend to tinker with mine. Was trying to keep the cooling quieter since the Compac Cube runs in my bedroom. But at my settings and cooling they are hot to the touch.
My 7 port hub says it's able to push out 2.4a per slot as long as all ports aren't full. We will see.
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I think you know the direction, you just needed some feedback. Push on!
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