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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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on: October 01, 2018, 10:19:32 PM
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hi all,
I have a question, I'm newbie and I have, I think a little problem with my ML2 usb stick when I plug (on my laptop, not usb hub) and start the
fan does not activate... and in the pool I lose mhs as time goes by. it's comes from power ?
THE FAN SHOULD SPIN-- Even in a USB 2.0 port, the fan should spin. Without it, the ASIC may become damaged. Is the fan plugged in to the micro-molex? Are the fan wires damaged? Is there a particle interfering with the fan blades? Check the close-up photos in the beginning of thread. --scryptr   the fan connector mounted correctly? Try unscrewing the fan and seeing if it spins when you plug it in...could be that it was tighten too much and was stuck. Either way if you ran it for a lengthy time without the fan running you have most likely damaged the ASIC beyond repair. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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on: September 27, 2018, 08:33:43 PM
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i have one that is consistently slower than the other ones. i haven't adjusted anything, should i try for the core or memory? im running them at speed 796.  Definitely should tinker all of them. You have 35%-40% HW error rate !!! ( HW are hardware errors) ... your miners are actually working only 60 - 65% capacity) I'm keeping HW under 3%. EDIT: Read the OP. There is guide how to test them (using --benchmark flag). the hw rate on minera is calculated by accepted vs error. its not accurate. im running on a solo pool with very high worker diff.. so the accepted will be a low number compare to hwe in bfgminer log its only 1.5% [2018-09-27 19:24:18] 20s:34.65 avg:34.79 u:33.88 Mh/s | A:64840 R:230+0(.35%) HW:40689/1.5% ive tried speed 756 and 768 and it still is the same. Then it's ok. Suprised you can go that high. Might be some lucky batch. About the one miner try this: I was running Moonlander 2 for a couple of weeks, from internal USB of the laptop and had stable 4.7MHz/s speed at 832 freq.
Now, I got a good quality 2A USB hub. I put the core voltage slightly up and frequency 852. For a couple of hours it gave me speed of 4.9MHz/s and then stopped. I put the voltage back to previous position but now, no matter what frequency I put I get a speed of 3.1-2.4 MHz. Anybody knows how to check if I damaged the device? E.g. is there a way to check number of alive cores?
Thanks!
Put "-D 2>log.txt" at the end of the bat command. Start it up and it will spit out the log.txt file in same directory. In there you will see startup sequence and it checks for number of active cores. Should say 64. Yea I don't know why minera does not pull the HW error rate % directly from the miner instead of doing its own wrong calculation. I should probably update the driver to normalize the error shares based on the difficulty its mining (each HW error is hardwired to the internal ASIC difficulty which is very low). |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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on: September 27, 2018, 08:30:43 PM
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SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR MOONLANDER--
Did you do any adjustments to the Core voltage pot? I just got my MLD and have not touched the voltage pots. It does OK on 700Hz frequency on stock settings but hardware errors get big at 720Hz.
Just asking before I touch the pots. I am going steady at 3.9 MH/s at stock settings, 700Hz frequency. I am running a single stick on a USB 3.0 port of the PC, running Ubuntu 18.04.
Thanks for any help. --scryptr
P.S. Looks like a piece of Astroturf was pitched in the trash. Good riddance! (spam post was deleted). -scryptr
Never touched the pots. Just ran it as usual in a powered USB strip. I'm just super unlucky. Mine screamed like a banshee after a few weeks I couldn't stand it and removed the fan. Then added 2 external fans. It ran cooler that way and much more stable. Then it decided it was done hashing. Le sigh. Shoot me a message...I have had almost zero failures reported from all of these shipped, so I'm always curious on what fails on these over a really long time. Would be interested in getting yours to dissect. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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on: September 24, 2018, 05:23:39 PM
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Hmm. Been running no issues for a long time and today as I walk away from my computer, bfgminer says moonlander2 stopped hashing trying to restart on loop. Shut down bfg checked the moonlander. Green light is still on. Weird. Restart bfg and says no device. K. Shut down bfg, unplug USB strip, unplug miner, give it a good blast of air, all clean , plug it all back in, restart bfg and blam no miner. So did it just die? Green light is on but nada. Thing doesn't even run hot as I have 2 fans on it and it's fall weather. Basically was mining all night and up until a about 30 minutes ago.
Windows do any updates? Make sure the moonlander shows up in the COM port...sometimes updates kill the UART driver and needs to be re-installed. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 21, 2018, 05:34:54 PM
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Hello,
Power to the independent miners.
Ideally, the centralized mining cartel which is comprised of for-profit miners dumping into the markets can be overthrown.
The price point on these scrypt ASICs is just fine for any newcomer.
Can you tell us more about the platform's capabilities?
You mentioned a quad-core A7 ARM based controller.
What I would like to do is assemble a small swarm of them which report to a local P2Pool and coin daemon.
What's in the image for the controller currently?
Where are the sources for any modified miner which is required by them?
If some high quality work is contributed to help improve the platform software to give new buyers an easy way to join a P2Pool with their Apollo miners, would it be accepted upstream and be included in future images?
I'm looking for a way to do two things well.
1.) provide the common man an easy to use accessible miner which doesn't sound like a jet engine
2.) customize the control interface with retail branding and support options
Would love to hear your thoughts about the expectations new mom and pop miners may have with regards to support.
Best Regards,
-Chicago
Yes this is exactly what I intended to do with this platform. Probably wont make it into the initial image release, but eventual I want to give people the ability to run full nodes and connect to a p2pool for a true decentralized mining ecosystem. Definitely send me a PM if this is something your interested in, I'm looking for more software devs for the UI side of things. i was wondering about the same thing. i am hoping in your web interface we need the full address of the wallet or pool. ie http://192.165.0.2:3389stratum+tcp://bills.pool.com:3389 that would be super if its done that way. thanks most of the other manufactors get hung up on making you only put a strattum address nothing else. Miner still needs stratum responses though, as long as the pool/website is configured for the protocol should not matter what what the URL formatting is. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 20, 2018, 03:59:10 PM
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Hello,
Power to the independent miners.
Ideally, the centralized mining cartel which is comprised of for-profit miners dumping into the markets can be overthrown.
The price point on these scrypt ASICs is just fine for any newcomer.
Can you tell us more about the platform's capabilities?
You mentioned a quad-core A7 ARM based controller.
What I would like to do is assemble a small swarm of them which report to a local P2Pool and coin daemon.
What's in the image for the controller currently?
Where are the sources for any modified miner which is required by them?
If some high quality work is contributed to help improve the platform software to give new buyers an easy way to join a P2Pool with their Apollo miners, would it be accepted upstream and be included in future images?
I'm looking for a way to do two things well.
1.) provide the common man an easy to use accessible miner which doesn't sound like a jet engine
2.) customize the control interface with retail branding and support options
Would love to hear your thoughts about the expectations new mom and pop miners may have with regards to support.
Best Regards,
-Chicago
Yes this is exactly what I intended to do with this platform. Probably wont make it into the initial image release, but eventual I want to give people the ability to run full nodes and connect to a p2pool for a true decentralized mining ecosystem. Definitely send me a PM if this is something your interested in, I'm looking for more software devs for the UI side of things. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 10, 2018, 05:47:27 PM
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Thanks for the quick response guys. I'm searching ebay and amazon for the requisite power supply. I'm running into difficulty finding a 6 pin PCI-e.
I have until October though.
Yea 250 watts is just be being generous. Always add at least an 20% margin on top of the wattage you will be running at. So if your not planning to go past 100 watts on these and run them on eco mode, all you would need is a 120 watt PSU. The MAX you would eve need for one of these is ~240 watts if your running them at 200 watts. Problem is all good consumer power bricks usually only go to ~ 100 watts so I couldn't really bundle one of those with the miner which was my original plan for these to be complete plug in play. Anything in the 200 watt range are those shitty chinese aluminum screw PSUs, and then past that your in the ATX PSU territory. Im going to do some research and see if I can source a good ~250 watt for people just wanting to run one, otherwise if your running 2+ you might as well get a good 500 watt server or ATX PSU. Thanks, this will be helpful Apollo is ordered. Also hoping to get this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Switching-Power-Supply-750W-DPS-750AB-3-A-HSTNS-PD29-643955-101/153066774374?hash=item23a37d9f66:g:VDwAAOSwbzVbKBm4 plus a breakout board. Should be ok for upto 3 in future.? Yea server PSU + breakout board is always a safe bet...youll get really high efficiency and reliable PSU. That could run 3 as long as your not running them all full speed. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Moonlander 2: The Most Powerful and Efficient USB Stick Miner!
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on: September 10, 2018, 04:21:53 PM
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yep appears to be a rip off, different circuit board design but most likely the same ASIC chip.... a certain country is very good at reverse engineering things.... LOL, reverse engineering? You think someone is that industrious? I could be wrong, but whomever jstefanop contracted out with to manufacture the ML2 either offered to remake these for this other person or the schematics were shared (possibly for a price) with another manufacturer. Could be an enterprising employee that has access to the schematics or even the owner him/herself. Electronics have a shelf life and the closer to obsolescence it reaches, the easier it is to have access to the schematics. Its all about the relationships and who you know in Hong Kong & mainland China. No one has my schematics/designs...the only possible source would be a PCB design leak from the Chinese PCB manufacturer I use. Even so they don't have the full BOM so they would still need to at the very least reverse engineer resistor values and guess on capacitors. On top of that they needed to pull off my UART controller code thats embedded onto the chip, since the stick can't work with my bfgminer code without it. You'd be surprised how industrious the chinese can be when they can copy a relatively successful design. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 08, 2018, 09:55:13 PM
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Thanks for the quick response guys. I'm searching ebay and amazon for the requisite power supply. I'm running into difficulty finding a 6 pin PCI-e.
I have until October though.
Yea 250 watts is just be being generous. Always add at least an 20% margin on top of the wattage you will be running at. So if your not planning to go past 100 watts on these and run them on eco mode, all you would need is a 120 watt PSU. The MAX you would eve need for one of these is ~240 watts if your running them at 200 watts. Problem is all good consumer power bricks usually only go to ~ 100 watts so I couldn't really bundle one of those with the miner which was my original plan for these to be complete plug in play. Anything in the 200 watt range are those shitty chinese aluminum screw PSUs, and then past that your in the ATX PSU territory. Im going to do some research and see if I can source a good ~250 watt for people just wanting to run one, otherwise if your running 2+ you might as well get a good 500 watt server or ATX PSU. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 07, 2018, 04:58:31 PM
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It is reasonably expected that miners should be rewarded with profits for their effort in securing networks. To encourage miners to become mere hobbyists after they have spent substantial amounts of money to acquire mining hardware, is simply disingenuous.
The first priority of any genuine ASIC manufacturer, is to produce mining hardware that will maximise mining profits and provide worthwhile gains for customers.
Just because crypto prices are down has nothing to do with ASIC manufacturers being disingenuous (and I agree that MOST ASIC manufactures have been nothing but disingenuous and greedy in the past year). The best I can do is offer the most efficient hardware possible, at the lowest cost possible, which is what I have done with this product. You seem to think this costs $50 dollars to make and I'm making hundreds of dollars in profit lol. Currently Batch 1 is break even (just the ASICs alone on this cost hundreds FYI). We can't control crypto prices and the profitability of ASICs, and yea the market sucks right now for Bitcoin/Litecoin ASICs but prices are recovering already as you can see. Also what kind of Bitcoin/Litecoin network would you like too see? 1,000 large scale centralized farmers dumping coins onto market every day skimming for profits OR 1,000,000 "hobbyists" as you call them all mining on their personal desktop devices earning Litecoins for the price of one lightbulb and holding these coins for the future? Sorry, but I'm not in this for "profits" I'm in this to encourage as many people as possible to become "hobbyists" and join a new decentralized revolution...not another one centrally controlled by pure greed. The main point is to NOT to encourage miners to become hobbyists. Instead, focus on creating a highly profitable ASIC miner that can compete with the "large scale centralised farmers". In such a situation, it's likely that there would be 1,000,000+ genuinely profitable miners as opposed to 1,000,000 non-profitable / low-profitable hobbyists who are simply mining for fun or educational value, while spending hard-earned money. The simple message, and the best thing to do, is to encourage serious ASIC mining by producing highly competitive and highly profitable hardware. My main focus is to encourage more people to join mining that are not mining or would ever consider it....miners that are not hobbyists wont consider this product nor am I encouraging them to become "hobbyists". You do understand that profitability has very little to do with ASIC tech at this point. All ASICs have caught up to node tech, and even if I somehow found 100 million to develop a 7nm top of the line scrypt ASIC that would still be ~ .5 watts/MH and you would still be complaining how unprofitable a 2GH 1000 watts miner that costs 2k would be. That all depends on where the coin price is and how profitable the latest tech is. The Apollo is currently the most efficient scrypt ASIC, and I have produce a miner that is more than competitive with Bitmain and Innosilicon, and offers more features that home miners want. There is lots of value in that, I understand your a large scale farmer and only care about profits, but for someone just buying one or two of these and generating "free" coins while heating their house in the winter find this product a good fit for them. |
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Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner!
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on: September 04, 2018, 09:27:04 PM
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It is reasonably expected that miners should be rewarded with profits for their effort in securing networks. To encourage miners to become mere hobbyists after they have spent substantial amounts of money to acquire mining hardware, is simply disingenuous.
The first priority of any genuine ASIC manufacturer, is to produce mining hardware that will maximise mining profits and provide worthwhile gains for customers.
Just because crypto prices are down has nothing to do with ASIC manufacturers being disingenuous (and I agree that MOST ASIC manufactures have been nothing but disingenuous and greedy in the past year). The best I can do is offer the most efficient hardware possible, at the lowest cost possible, which is what I have done with this product. You seem to think this costs $50 dollars to make and I'm making hundreds of dollars in profit lol. Currently Batch 1 is break even (just the ASICs alone on this cost hundreds FYI). We can't control crypto prices and the profitability of ASICs, and yea the market sucks right now for Bitcoin/Litecoin ASICs but prices are recovering already as you can see. Also what kind of Bitcoin/Litecoin network would you like too see? 1,000 large scale centralized farmers dumping coins onto market every day skimming for profits OR 1,000,000 "hobbyists" as you call them all mining on their personal desktop devices earning Litecoins for the price of one lightbulb and holding these coins for the future? Sorry, but I'm not in this for "profits" I'm in this to encourage as many people as possible to become "hobbyists" and join a new decentralized revolution...not another one centrally controlled by pure greed. |
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