You got that rug from IKEA didn't you? We like to call them Ant-furnace !  |
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LOL... that must have been an interesting conversation. Phil - Honey, I think we've been in NJ long enough. Let's sell our house. Wife - Where did you have in mind? Phil - Well, I was thinking about Washington. Wife - Oh, Seattle is a beautiful city... Phil - Ummm... no, I was thinking more like eastern Washington. Wife - Huh? There's nothing there! Phil - Sure there is! Spokane is the second largest city. There's the Columbia river, the Grand Coulee Dam... we'll save a ton on power costs! Wife - Alright, but the weather is nasty. Hot summers, freezing winters... Phil - Yeah! Those freezing cold winters will be GREAT! Wife - You hate the cold... what are you getting at? Phil - Well, I found a nice place on 15 acres with a barn... Wife - A barn??!!?? Why would we ever need a barn? We don't own horses... Phil - The barn used to house a welding shop... Wife - So? Phil - So, it's got a nice 200 amp service with 240V power... Wife - And? You're going to start welding stuff? Phil - Well, no... not exactly. I was thinking it would be a great place to put more of those Bitcoin miners. Wife - Bitcoin miners. Phil - Yeah, you know... Wife - You want to move us across the country... and your reason is so you can have even MORE of those damn noisy miners? Phil - Ummm.... yes? Please note, the above is a completely fictional account of the conversation between Phil and his wife. I was bored and thought maybe it might elicit a few chuckles. In all seriousness, congrats, Phil! I hope you and the wife enjoy your new adventures  . PS - can you host a couple miners for me?  Hahahahahahah !! |
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This is a no brainer... This is what the s4 should have been...
To release this now with old chips, Shame on u bitmain.. Seems like u have excess stock in your warehouse of maybe C1's and ur trying to get rid of the chips in bulk..
To high a price with S5's in circulation, To high Wattage, To much noise.
I was looking forward to an S4+ using the newer S5 chip at least at 1500w at least that would have pushed it over the 3th mark..
Bad rushed decisions... Come on bitmain, U were the best at this & now your slowly starting to run downhill at a very quick pace & u still havent fixed the voltage settings on the S4
Heres a tip for the S4 in the Freq table take out all the over clock settings & lock them down but leave the underclock settings..
Then in the voltage settings put a drop down box with the underclock voltage settings with suggested freq settings so that people cant blow these things up.. But can downclock them.
Then also put a box allowing the --bitmain-homemode or normal mode so that can be run a little quieter.
END OF LINE
Sometimes for the miner, the best strategy is to run the miners that already in hands and not to buy any new miners. Only buy the miners that is best for you. For a home miner the electricity cost is high and noise is a pain, so we should buy the high efficiency mining rigs. But for large scale miners, the cost of electricity maybe low and noise level is not a concern, they may have better tolerence with the old chips and not so sexy power efficiency. Why use old chips when new one are available that are faster & more efficient?? Leftover old stock by the sounds & if this is the case they should have sold all of them before releasing new ones.. This is bad business practice that smacks of greed!
We are both retired have pensions. I found a 15 acre place with a barn that had a large 200amp 240 watt service in it since the prior owner had a welding business.
Power is 4 cents. 200 amp 240 means 48kwatts x 80% = 38 kwatts,
I can fit 25 of these . they would be far easier to manage then s-5's the bold is how they could work for me if the example was true. So basically these are for low power cost farms and data centers. Not no one. As you think. But I agree with one thing they are forcing a guy like me out of the game Since I do not have the ability to keep the noise controlled. Nice one Phil ! Can I rent a room now ? Just kidding ;-) |
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Sorry, didn't know it was 300 block min AND Tuesday ;-)
Thanks Phil !
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It's tuesday here in Canada ! Mouhahahaha I would to pick => +1,76 - +2,00% Thanks ! |
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Anyone else got nothing in MNC unconfirmed section but we still have 2 blocks not fully confirmed ?
Sorry, I was doing some upgrades on the web server and it put the unconfirmed balances out of action for a while. Should be back to normal again now. Thanks Doc ! :-) |
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Anyone else got nothing in MNC unconfirmed section but we still have 2 blocks not fully confirmed ?
Thanks
Herb
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Hows it going HerbPean? Im at 816 hrs downtime so far
After a month of back & forths - Apr 16, 10:50
Dear Ed,
We have reviewed your situation (DOA board was DOA) and would like to resolve the issue with your machine by sending you a fully tested SP20. This will save going back and forth (816hrs) about the different parts.
I know you already sent the management board. Please ship the machine back to us at our cost and we will send you a new machine.
Anyone wanting to buy a 'new' SP20E sent direct from Israel, I may be able to accommodate. (SP-T permitting)
If SP-T would prefer to 'buy it back', that is also preferable.
Mine is shipped, had to pay for the Shipping tho (at my lost) but the changed one of my board, still have a bad ASIC on it but it's better then the one I had (couldn't use 2 ASIC). Herb |
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Plug a ethernet cable from your laptop to the miner directly.
In your laptop's network settings, configure your Ethernet card with a static ip in the same range subnet as your miner.
Example: If your miner is at 192.168.1.99. Set your computer to something else 192.168.1.34
Now you will have access to your miner with your internet browser.
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Hey guys ! Forgot to also update my RMA status here.
So RMA is closed, and I payed for shipping and they also replace one of my board that add a short on ASIC 0 that would also not allow me to mine with the ASIC 1. So they changed that board with a faulty one that only have a bad ASIC 0 which allow to mine with the ASIC 1 and also free of corrosion. The other blade will be as is.
This should ship today.
Thanks to Spondoolies for this.
Appreciated.
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It seems like it eventually caught up on the Miner Monitor...I have this in the Offline History:
Area Year Month Day DTHours
NeiMeng-1 2015 4 15 13
Everything seems to be delayed by about 3 hours in this system but it usually catches up to somewhere close after the event is over.
Lee already told us that it's the case. The Offline/Online is off by 2-3 hours. |
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Allright,
RMA is close, Unit will be on my way tomorrow (I guess).
Hope I can hash a bit more coins with it ;-)
In an act of good faith they replaced one of my faulty board that had a short on the first ASIC (0) causing the ASIC (1) to not usable. The replacement board has also a bad ASIC 0 but I will be able to use the ASIC 1. Thanks you for this ! It wasn't tested before shipping back to you? The unit will be shipped tomorrow. It has already been tested. |
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Allright,
RMA is close, Unit will be on my way tomorrow (I guess).
Hope I can hash a bit more coins with it ;-)
In an act of good faith they replaced one of my faulty board that had a short on the first ASIC (0) causing the ASIC (1) to not usable. The replacement board has also a bad ASIC 0 but I will be able to use the ASIC 1. Thanks you for this ! |
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This is not a profile link. Please put the correct profile link, thanks. /fixed |
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What happened:: Bought an Antminer S5 for 1 BTC on bitcoin-power.com He sent me a picture of an actual box of the miner via the email SEONinja69@gmail.com which I linked to a post with one his multiple account here : AlmostSingle. Requested refund to the fake escrow and now banned my account claiming I have receive the miner ... Scammers Profile Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=390268 Reference Link: Deleted post on the Goods marketplace section doing some publicity for his Fake web site Amount Scammed: 1 BTC Payment Method: Blockchain Proof of Payment: tx ID = > b929dc5937fa9f99b7f844cb27632c33e3174c644bb8b293e2fe5564d455bfb5-000 PM/Chat Logs: Threads still active in his dump marketplace Additional Notes: He's pretty much every account on the forum ... Admin, sellers ect ... it's pure shit More infos at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=732773.0
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Allright,
RMA is close, Unit will be on my way tomorrow (I guess).
Hope I can hash a bit more coins with it ;-)
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Cold air in and of itself isn't bad. I duct in cold outside air (down to -40C) and have never had an issue with corrosion. Even at 100% RH, extremely cold air has a miniscule amount of moisture in it and the RH will quickly drop as temperature rises. There's the same amount of actual water in a cubic meter of -20C air at 100%RH as there is in 0C air at 20%RH, so you won't see condensation just from the air. What can cause issues are
1. Drawing in water, in the form of snow/rain.
2. Things not running. Blowing moist air over a running miner isn't really an issue as the heat from the miner will prevent any moisture buildup. If the thing is not on (or worse, if it is on but not running or generating any substantial heat) it can have moisture buildup.
3. Running them inside a warm (possibly humidified) house. Combine this with #2 above, but if you keep your house at 20C/50%RH the dew point is ~10C. You won't get moisture buildup on a miner while it's working, but it can if the miner cools down below that temperature from cold outside air and then stops running. Running electronics below ambient is always a bit of a risk and needs to be planned around.
Thanks for the info ! |
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Wait so are you accepting the loss here? and not doing the RMA process?
Thats just money loss out the door on some production level not your fault right.. so why not do the RMA?
Edit: nevermind, just read the cost of RMA.. what the hell. is there a way to still sell this though on ebay and breaking even though? if it still mines of course, but under several conditions. so then it wouldnt be much of a loss?
It's not like i'm not going to eat for the next week, but yes it's a lost ;-) I would gladly bring it back home ... does it really worth it ? 2 ASIC down (in fact one is still running at min speed ...) is about a 400 GH/s lost at full speed. Not really a big deal. So i assume around 1100 at most. |
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I've fixed hundred of the new LG electronics that were damaged in sea water. Usually only needed replacing electrolytic capacitors.
That was five years ago, and many of them are working today.
Are you saying it was sea water that got into your miner? I guess that would explain it if so And holy crap that looked bad. Do you know how the water got into miner? I'm sorry for your loss. It was just sitting next to a cracked windows, Winter are cold in Canada I still have his twin brother rocking at 1650GH as we speak. |
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My entire point was : Guys with my "RMA experience is" ... make sure you have a unit not running in the same condition as me before sending it for an RMA.
My entire unhappiness is about the two options on the table.
1. 200$ for getting your unit back as is.
2. Pay 500$ for 2 new blades plus 200$.
so you shipped the entire unit for the RMA? IMO/IME, basic home diagnostics are usually required related to bitcoin miners. If it was a single bad board, shipping just that board for repair/replacement without having to ship the rest of the unit would allow you to continue mining with 1/2 the SP20 and drastically reduce shipping weight/cost I did that way back when a Bitmain S1 stopped hashing on one board. pulled just the board off the frame, mailed it to them, got back a brand new hashboard that i pasted and re-installed. Bitcoin isnt mainstream enough that the RMA/DOA process is smooth - being able to do modular components and repairs is crucial. (I look forwards to the SP100 having boards that can be removed with no more difficulty than in the SP20 or antminer S2 - it would make RMA simpler) ----> on a related note, i have a few SP3x units in various states of 'angst', and when looking under the hood its pretty clear that the SP3x series is not easily repaired - there are a LOT of different components and screws that lock the hashing boards in place, and thus make RMA of a single bad board nearly impossible (same with trying to frankenstein a pair of half-working units into a singular 100% unit) I totally agree, that would have been the best option, I didn't do it since I was scare the warranty would have be denied because of that. I could also have clean all the boards of all the dust prior to the shipment ... Anyway, lesson learned. |
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