MY 4 NEW FUTUREBIT APOLLOS LTC - BATCH 2. * MINER MODE: ECO (AUTO-VOLTAGE, FREQUENCY & FAN) * HASHRATE: AROUND 100 MH/S. * MINER TEMPERATURE: AROUND 155 FAHRENHEIT * HARDWARE ERRORS: AROUND 0.6%. * POWER CONSUMPTION: AROUND 545 W/H. * MINING ON LITECOINPOOL.ORG AT 400 MH/S DURING 30 DAYS PERIOD: AROUND 0.23 LTC ($19.80 AT TODAY'S PRICE) NICE PRODUCT FOR THE HOME MINER. WELL BALANCE FEATURES. GREAT PACKAGING BOX. COMPACT. SOLID. LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN. GREAT METAL HOUSING. HIGH QUALITY PSU UNITS WITH SIDE FANS. THANKS FUTUREBIT. KEEP THE GREAT JOB!!. CHECK THE IMAGES OF MY "LIVING ROOM-MINING RIG":     Nice setup and thanks for the kind words! You wattage seems a bit high though, are you sure your not running them on balanced? You should be closer to 450 watts in eco with 4. |
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MY device made it to the UK in perfect condition, batch 2 case is spot on, batch2 wifi seems to work a lot better than the batch1 miner.
Very pleased with it and looking forward to seeing what happens in the future.
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Received my miner 8/5/19. Even though USPS beat the box up pretty bad and tape holding box closed was broken all was well inside. Set up and running in less than 30 min. Eco mode runs .5 HW errors. Balanced mode runs between 1.7 and 2.2 HW errors.
Would really like to experiment with custom mode ,but not knowing baseline voltage and frequency setting for balanced mode I am afraid of burning unit up.
Can we get standard values for balanced and turbo mode please?
Overall happy with miner except fact that included power supply will not run it in turbo mode.
FYI the power supply CAN run it in turbo, but due to regulatory requirements for the connector we used, we were forced to put that sticker on there. We have tested in in turbo, you just have to be careful and make sure you feel the power cable housing after running it in turbo for an hour or so...in some cases if the pin contacts are not secure the cable can heat up a lot, it should never feel more than warm to the touch. |
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Any update on the remaining orders as far as shipping is concerned?
Thanks
All remaining pre-orders are going out this week, we just have tail end of June orders and July orders left to ship. |
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Has anyone had a problem with your Apollo miner not coming online?? I can connect to the dashboard but cant get the miner to start. The miner powers up and then a solid red light. Mined for a day before this happened.
Try setting fan speed to manual at around 25%. There is a known issue with some batch 2 units where the auto fan function will trigger a fan issue and shut down the miner. Setting this to manual fan speed in settings is a workaround until we issue the next firmware update. |
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Hey I just got my apollo miner with the power supply and SD card included. It won't boot tho...? I have it plugged in but I just see a static yellow and green light by the ethernet cord. No fan noise or nothing. Any idea whats wrong? Or does it take a while to boot?
No LED on the front? Do the ethernet lights flash when you turn on the power supply? If not it could be a corrupt SD card. |
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Got my Apollo LTC up and running today. I got the full package including power supply and pre-loaded Micro-SD card. Got it up and running pointing to litecoinpool.org in 5 minutes including unboxing. Currently inside the house due it is close to 95 F in the garage. Thanks FutureBit team.  Very cool! I was also impressed by how fast everything was to get up and running. Question, if you did not notice my post...is your power supply fan spinning? Can you tell how hot your power supply is? Mine is warm to the touch running balanced mode around 40C. Yes fan on PSU only comes on over a certain temp, its normal if it never comes on in ECO mode in a colder room. |
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Received the miner, configured the pool but I get this on the dashboard
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4028
Not sure what to do now. I restarted the miner, rebooted the system but same thing.
Led blinks yellow and I can see that miner is ONLINE (but 0.0 H/s) on the top of the dashboard
Edit: After a while, miner goes offline with red led
edit: So I switched off and on the donation pool and it looks like it did the trick
What pool were you trying to connect too? Litecoinpool. It looks like when I turn donation pool off I get this error. Do you have a worker setup @ litecoinpool.org? Yes I'm mining now. As I said it looks like I need to have the donation pool ON in order to not get this error. While I don't mind donating I'd like to have the option. I'll try again later to turn donation pool off and see. Donation pool has no effect on this unless you are on a multi pool or mining a different coin other than litecoin. Are you sure your even mining to your account and not 100% to donation pool? Sounds like your credentials are wrong so it’s defaulting to donation pool. |
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Received the miner, configured the pool but I get this on the dashboard
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4028
Not sure what to do now. I restarted the miner, rebooted the system but same thing.
Led blinks yellow and I can see that miner is ONLINE (but 0.0 H/s) on the top of the dashboard
Edit: After a while, miner goes offline with red led
edit: So I switched off and on the donation pool and it looks like it did the trick
What pool were you trying to connect too? |
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my miner is acting funny. not mining.
started from scratch, new sd card, new image, new etch.
it loads up, see it on the dashboard, starts mining then goes offline within 10 seconds
starts back up.
repeat. repeat.
this pops up.
Error: ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4020
thoughts?
Do you see a Red LED when it does this? I do yes. It seems to be in a cycle of restarting. When it boots go set the fan speed manually to around 25% and see if it stops. |
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I received the PSU the other day and went to check on it after a few days of being used. The PSU is warm which is normal but the cable from PSU to the miner is warm too. i would say just 1/4 of length from PSU to miner is warm. I'm not sure if the cable is supposed to be warm?
When i had my other PSU plugged in the cable wasn't warm. So just want to double check on this.
Thats fine, that's just residual heat from the PCB being dumped back into the copper cables. You only have to worry if the black housing on the 6 Pin connector or the cables near it is super hot...this means some sort of bad electrical connection, and you should shutdown, unplug, and replug the connector and make sure its firmly in there. |
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my miner is acting funny. not mining.
started from scratch, new sd card, new image, new etch.
it loads up, see it on the dashboard, starts mining then goes offline within 10 seconds
starts back up.
repeat. repeat.
this pops up.
Error: ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4020
thoughts?
Do you see a Red LED when it does this? |
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I recd my new PSU - thanks! But, I notice it only has one output plug whereas the Apollo has two plug receptacles. My off-the-shelf PSU had a cable with an extra head on the end and that worked fine. How should I plug in the new PSU to the Apollo unit?
Just plug it into the right port. Remember to never plug another PSU/PSU cable into the spare port, this will either blow up one of the PSUs or cause a fire. Thanks! That worked. For clarity the "right" port is as viewed from the back. Maybe better noted as the VGA power port nearest the edge of the box? Yea were working on "official" support docs that will have all this stuff clarified. Its does not really matter which, they are both electricaly connected the same, the right one is just closer to the mosfets. |
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I recd my new PSU - thanks! But, I notice it only has one output plug whereas the Apollo has two plug receptacles. My off-the-shelf PSU had a cable with an extra head on the end and that worked fine. How should I plug in the new PSU to the Apollo unit?
Just plug it into the right port. Remember to never plug another PSU/PSU cable into the spare port, this will either blow up one of the PSUs or cause a fire. What? your only supposed to plug in ONE PSU cable?  the quick start guide says to "Plug in both 6 Pin PCIE power cables from your ATX or server power supply" never mind I think I miss read that... Yes thats for ATX power supplies. We designed our PSU to run with one cable because it has thicker wires, some ATX supplies come with really thin wires which can overheat them. |
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One minor miner issue: The first one I set up was working fine, but as I restarted the 3 units on the same PSU, that first one didn't have the amber LED at startup. Then I set up wifi, and restarted them again. It took a while for the green/red to start blinking. Now that unit has no front LED indication at all. Tried putting it back on wired ethernet, as well as reflashed the SD card for grins, but no change. Otherwise, it appears to be humming along just fine.
Q: Is there a connector that may have come loose, or could this be a harbinger of things to come for the board?
Thanks!
Just throwing this back out there since we're on a new page. Wondering if it is worth opening up. Thats weird, you could try lifting the controller board a bit out of its socket and re-set it in there and make sure its seated in there well. If its still not working just shoot me a PM, could just be a bad LED module that need to be replaced. |
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hoping to see mine shipped soon. been just over 6 weeks since order - I think its only been delayed 2 weeks so far though, I believe was supposed to ship the week of the 15th.
Orders placed in end of June/july have been delayed a bit more since you guys have been waiting he least. We are still sending out all May/Beginning of June pre-orders this week. thank you for the update - would have been nice to see it ship on time though but I understand that sometimes these things happen Yea, unfortunately everything that could go wrong went wrong with scheduling this time around, and we ate weeks worth of delays over small things :/ I have upgraded everyones order to USPS 2 Day priority from a week fedex ground shipping, this should make up a bunch of lost time for most of you. |
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hoping to see mine shipped soon. been just over 6 weeks since order - I think its only been delayed 2 weeks so far though, I believe was supposed to ship the week of the 15th.
Orders placed in end of June/july have been delayed a bit more since you guys have been waiting he least. We are still sending out all May/Beginning of June pre-orders this week. |
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Is there a way to reset dashboard password on the box or I need to re=flash the image again on SD card? For some reason my password is not correct even thou i was able to access it before.
Unfortunately no, this is by design. You need to re-image the sd-card if you forget you password. |
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I recd my new PSU - thanks! But, I notice it only has one output plug whereas the Apollo has two plug receptacles. My off-the-shelf PSU had a cable with an extra head on the end and that worked fine. How should I plug in the new PSU to the Apollo unit?
Just plug it into the right port. Remember to never plug another PSU/PSU cable into the spare port, this will either blow up one of the PSUs or cause a fire. |
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has anyone made any adjustments to the voltage or frequencies and wish to share them? And also I seem to be getting a lot of HW Errors is this normal? I'm fairly new at this so any input will be appreciated  Yes this is normal. The number of hardware errors does not really matter, just keep an eye on the HW % on the top box. Even the best units won’t have anything less than .5% errors. As long as it’s under 2% your fine. |
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