@ anyone - what are 'you guys' using for the 4th module with your V850s?
mine came with 3 'twin' connectors, so im using one connector 'twice' and it is HOT!
@ paladin69 - please stop lying!
@ Zelek Uther - same here, terribly variant and not an ounce of advice that helps consistently. Hold your breath for the 'tuning suite'
@ opentoe - careful with those facts mate, they'll have you tarred & feathered as a troll/shill/liar.
Speaking of hot wires, I use a cheap 12v adjustable power supply (ebay, 12V DC 30A 360W Regulated Switching Power Supply, eBay item number:261198916470) and a BBB power supply combined to power my Merc. I used 120vac extension cord wire from the 12 supply to 6pin PCI connectors. The 120vac extension cord is rated at 15 amps. It was getting warm while running firmware 0.94 so I doubled up, two lengths of extension cord in parallel to the 6 pin PCI connector. I was going to power the Merc with two supplies, 720 watts, but it turned out not to be necessary. I've ordered a module and will power it with the second. For the price I don't see why one couldn't power each module with one of these even on a Jup. What does a high wattage supply go for to power a Jup? Just have to be careful to adjust the voltage on each to same - the grounds are common, I'll measure supply to supply and adjust for minimum difference. Power supply to the Merc has not been a problem. (Noise I saw on an Evo N610c screen with cgminer for a Jalapeno seems most likely to be from the Jalapeno or its supply. I had used a USB extension to a USB2.0 high speed port (not a USB 2.0 full speed port). I moved the Jalapeno close to the N610c and now no noise.) |
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https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-66Today is the 15TH of November and we were due to start shipping, There is some bad news and some good news, The Bad news is the delivery of parts which we needed to begin today has been delayed by about 5-10 days We found this out two days ago and have been working with the suppliers to get it as fast as possible but it’s not been possible I’m afraid, But the good news is we can announce yet another performance improvement, All November batch boxes have a new PCB board and our engineers have been working overtime to improve the board as much as possible. We can now announce that the speed will be minimum of 650 GH/s in turbo mode or MORE depending on individual chip performance. It’s important to note that the new turbo mode is not overclocking and will not void any warranty. But it’s also not available on the September/October Devices. For the November shipments we are using UPS only and have increased the strength of the boxes to reduce the shipping issues. We appreciate that any delay in shipment is not good news at all and we are doing EVERYTHING we can to decrease the delay. Thanks KnCMiner Team Shipping delays applicable to miners, modules, both? |
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I notice my last payout from Eligius has a regular icon rather than the usual crossed hammers. Anything?
Manual payout to catch up the payout queue. Happens occasionally. Lately about once every few days, actually. I saw that 10 block line ahead of my last payout as well as some strange effects last night, since explained, and wondered if the reward for those 10 blocks had gone astray. Also wondered if the connect failures to mining.eligius.st:3334, now understood to be depreciated in favor of stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 or getwork.mining.eligius.st:8337, could have reduced funds for payout. But you say this happens every few days? |
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BTW.. Upon further investigation, I found this inside the CB700 PSU...
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Blew my mind.....
What is it? Notice the plastic shield blocking nearly 1/2 the airflow? This 700w psu should have been fine on a saturn, but overheated catastrophically in less than 5 minutes... no fault of the Saturn, they run great on the cx600's... at one point, I had two hashing boards patched into my desktop's psu(while running), a tx750. I even messed up once(which I rarely admit to)  , and plugged a hashing board onto a live pci power lead, from the desktop....a few sparks flew... but everything still works fine... they are actually pretty durable high-quality electronics on these boards. Forgiving, yes, but I'd never recommend doing that...just to be clear! Actually it is by design. The baffler is there to force the air to go over all of the internal PSU components instead of the more direct and shorter path out the exhaust vent. Here are more examples of other PSU manufacturers (Corsair and Seasonic) employing similar bafflers that partially covers the intake fans (toward the side of the vent). yep... guess they don't realize that severely reduces the overall cfm & cooling ability doing that, it actually does less "Directing" and more "Restricting" IMHO... my example would be the unit that toasted using barely 300 watts (and freshly pulled from a running desktop) What works in a desktop might not power a miner. I had a power supply label that said good for 15 amps on the 12v rail and the supply tests good and ran a computer but when I tried to power a Blade it failed miserably. Days later I remembered many inconstant sometimes failing DVD burns so it actually hadn't been powering the computer properly. |
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656  . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago 400 yuan isnt even close to 400 USD(it's 65), and 2656 yuan is 435 USD, so they broke 400 around the same time, not looooong ago.... Just sayin' Okay. I was figuring it slow from them whilst between $399 and $500 but I suppose the dollar value has no influence on their calculations. (ROFL) Darn, my merc just went down. troubleshooting.......... 25 seconds to the white light......... I had done work earlier today changing/shortening cables. I had forgotten I needed both a free 12v lead and a ground to intregrate the 12v supply and the BBB/controller board supply and only provided the ground. So, I ran a single 12v line up to the connector. Must have been noisy. My hashrate had dropped to 36GH/s so I had gone into putty and quit cgminer and commanded reboot. After putty closed I killed power, waited a few seconds and restarted. White light wouldn't come on tho the RJ45 light was flashing. Shut it down and swapped the module ribbon cable to another port on the controller board and restarted, still no white light, no red/green. Disconnected the 12v to the module, shut down and restarted just looking for the white light. It worked. Now back up at: KnC 0: | 153.0G/144.6Gh/s | A:11646 R:129 HW:176 WU:1971.7/m. While it was off I skinned back the insulation on one of the yellow 12v leads to the module plug and spliced in a yellow wire and insulated. Then did away with the long single wire to the 12v supply. Must have been a noisy loop. That or bad luck a.bout 3+1. Might be something to this luck thing. Lifted the top off my rice maker and the plastic handle broke off. Will JD Weld it back latter. |
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I notice my last payout from Eligius has a regular icon rather than the usual crossed hammers. Anything?
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656 . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago 400 yuan isnt even close to 400 USD(it's 65), and 2656 yuan is 435 USD, so they broke 400 around the same time, not looooong ago.... Just sayin' Okay. I was figuring it slow from them whilst between $399 and $500 but I suppose the dollar value has no influence on their calculations. (ROFL) Darn, my merc just went down. troubleshooting.......... 25 seconds to the white light......... I had done work earlier today changing/shortening cables. I had forgotten I needed both a free 12v lead and a ground to intregrate the 12v supply and the BBB/controller board supply and only provided the ground. So, I ran a single 12v line up to the connector. Must have been noisy. My hashrate had dropped to 36GH/s so I had gone into putty and quit cgminer and commanded reboot. After putty closed I killed power, waited a few seconds and restarted. White light wouldn't come on tho the RJ45 light was flashing. Shut it down and swapped the module ribbon cable to another port on the controller board and restarted, still no white light, no red/green. Disconnected the 12v to the module, shut down and restarted just looking for the white light. It worked. Now back up at: KnC 0: | 153.0G/144.6Gh/s | A:11646 R:129 HW:176 WU:1971.7/m. While it was off I skinned back the insulation on one of the yellow 12v leads to the module plug and spliced in a yellow wire and insulated. Then did away with the long single wire to the 12v supply. Must have been a noisy loop. That or bad luck a.bout 3+1. |
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656 . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago 400 yuan isnt even close to 400 USD(it's 65), and 2656 yuan is 435 USD, so they broke 400 around the same time, not looooong ago.... Just sayin' Okay. I was figuring it slow from them whilst between $399 and $500 but I suppose the dollar value has no influence on their calculations. (ROFL) Darn, my merc just went down. troubleshooting.......... 25 seconds to the white light......... |
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656 . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago 400 yuan isnt even close to 400 USD(it's 65), and 2656 yuan is 435 USD, so they broke 400 around the same time, not looooong ago.... Just sayin' Okay. I was figuring it slow from them whilst between $399 and $500 but I suppose the dollar value has no influence on their calculations. (ROFL) Darn, my merc just went down. troubleshooting.......... |
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656 . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago 400 yuan isnt even close to 400 USD(it's 65), and 2656 yuan is 435 USD, so they broke 400 around the same time, not looooong ago.... Just sayin' Okay. I was figuring it slow from them whilst between $399 and $500 but I suppose the dollar value has no influence on their calculations. (ROFL) |
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By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline.
BTC in China is currently at ¥2656 . They broke the 400 yuan barrier LONG ago Okay. |
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Do the modules at least come with mounting screws? I don't want to be climbing into my car and driving 23 miles to Lowes for screws when it arrives. They look like M3x.50x6 and M3x.50x20.
Screws, bar, ribbons, cables....all included...no "running to the store" necessary....two of the small pcb board mounting screws come from the arctic freezer box to hold the board to the unit, peel the sticker off the base of the cooler, blob the thermal paste onto the center of it.... gently set heatsink on top of chip, wiggle till thermal squeezes out, while centering the heatsink onto the chip mounting surface.. then you stick one spacer over each bar mounting hole, slide the bar in, and thread in the two longer bar-mounting screws, tighten gently while double-checking alignment.... once secure...that's it. plug in the ribbon, fan, and power cord...fire it up. I see. So, are you saying the cooling tower I just bought on Amazon isn't necessary or that those screws and the bar are included in the Arctic Freezer. More clearly, is KnC shipping an Arctic Freezer tower and fan as well as the module? And thanks. NO, the arctic i30 you bought is necessary, and contains the two screws you need to fasten the board.. no other screws or spacers are used from the i30, the rest are supplied, as I stated. Okay, thanks again. This: ARCTIC Freezer i30 CO Extreme CPU Cooler - Intel, 320W Ultimate Cooling Power, for 24/7 Operation Sold by Amazon.com LLC $48.95 has tracking which said Out for Delivery; checked my PO Box but not yet, tracking still says the same. Not worried, it will be here well before the module. The small 12v fans I have, under 2" diag., I'm thinking of putting on the module board, in front of the tower, fixed in place with RTV, one on each side facing the VRMs and cardboard inserts between the VRMs and the ASIC. |
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Tech note**
one of the saturns that had a not-so perfect vrm was brought back to life permanently, by removing the blue pci patch-cord, and plugging the pci power directly into the hashing board.... I attribute to a loose connection...
Phoenix, what made you decide to try this out in the first place? I am a fuel technology researcher, specifically in the resonant electrolysis field (also consultant to a large Swedish gasification firm), and know through many many experiments, that by eliminating "Weak links" and resistance in general, ALWAYS improves efficiency, always. Our equipment relies heavily on electronic efficiency. So, with that in mind, looking at those long pci patch cords, had to try. When my module gets here I want to be ready. I've a second cheap power supply and today made cables much shorter than I made for the first. I've been concerned about some oscillations that make it to the screen of an EVO N610 which has cgminer on a jalapeno. Short leads. So, I shut down the Merc and swapped leads then shortened the originals. All set from a power supply and cabling point of view. |
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Do the modules at least come with mounting screws? I don't want to be climbing into my car and driving 23 miles to Lowes for screws when it arrives. They look like M3x.50x6 and M3x.50x20.
Screws, bar, ribbons, cables....all included...no "running to the store" necessary....two of the small pcb board mounting screws come from the arctic freezer box to hold the board to the unit, peel the sticker off the base of the cooler, blob the thermal paste onto the center of it.... gently set heatsink on top of chip, wiggle till thermal squeezes out, while centering the heatsink onto the chip mounting surface.. then you stick one spacer over each bar mounting hole, slide the bar in, and thread in the two longer bar-mounting screws, tighten gently while double-checking alignment.... once secure...that's it. plug in the ribbon, fan, and power cord...fire it up. I see. So, are you saying the cooling tower I just bought on Amazon isn't necessary or that those screws and the bar are included in the Arctic Freezer. More clearly, is KnC shipping an Arctic Freezer tower and fan as well as the module? And thanks. By the way, thinking today about Bitcoin getting thru the $400's. Chinese who have been buying with gusto may have slacked off in the $400 range as the numeral 4 is bad mojo for them. I would expect once it hits $500 it will take off at an even greater incline. |
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Do the modules at least come with mounting screws? I don't want to be climbing into my car and driving 23 miles to Lowes for screws when it arrives. They look like M3x.50x6 and M3x.50x20.
Screws, bar, ribbons, cables....all included...no "running to the store" necessary....two of the small pcb board mounting screws come from the arctic freezer box to hold the board to the unit, peel the sticker off the base of the cooler, blob the thermal paste onto the center of it.... gently set heatsink on top of chip, wiggle till thermal squeezes out, while centering the heatsink onto the chip mounting surface.. then you stick one spacer over each bar mounting hole, slide the bar in, and thread in the two longer bar-mounting screws, tighten gently while double-checking alignment.... once secure...that's it. plug in the ribbon, fan, and power cord...fire it up. I see. So, are you saying the cooling tower I just bought on Amazon isn't necessary or that those screws and the bar are included in the Arctic Freezer. More clearly, is KnC shipping an Arctic Freezer tower and fan as well as the module? And thanks. |
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Do the modules at least come with mounting screws? I don't want to be climbing into my car and driving 23 miles to Lowes for screws when it arrives. They look like M3x.50x6 and M3x.50x20.
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2:10AM EST something wasn't quite right. Pool hashrate went over 600TH/s, my own hashrate showed an additional 100GH/s I wasn't hashing and that moved up into the 256seconds slot then both the 256seconds hashrate and the 128seconds hashrate dropped to roughly half my actual hashrate but these oddities weren't reflected on the graph. Then the pool hashrate dropped from 600TH/s to 400TH/s. Now the pool is up to 680TH/s and my own hashrate is showing twice what it should be. Something is flukey. Also, I usually see my payout behind one or two blocks, but right now it's behind 10blocks. Is that right or is the pool getting ripped off somehow?
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after weeks of board 3 (slot 4) being my hottest at around 74.5 it now has an issue with Output Current of 0.438 A
since today, board 2 (slot 3) is now hotter as it was during previous fw, however i have not had any hardware concerns until now.
is there a newer fw on the horizon that will sort this, or should i expect to incur losses upon losses?
After hours upon hours of rebooting, resetting, reflashing, re-enabling & reading (& waiting) i have a 40Gh loss in actual performance - shall i just reflash it and wait 3-4 more hours...?
is there a newer fw on the horizon that will sort this, or should i expect to incur losses upon losses upon headaches upon time wasted?
Hi Edgar, I have exactly the same problem. Was 565GH/s at the pool - now 515GH/s at the pool. One board with 0.4XX A according to Bertmod. As far as I am aware the only 'fix' is to try heating the board in question up to a higher temperature and *hoping* it comes back online. I haven't tried it as I am also hoping for some kind of firmware fix in the future. So, when the hot VRM drops to 400 milliamps, and you close cgminer in putty, then upgrade to an early firmware like 0.90, then run enablecores.bin, then finally shut down the system, restart after a little cool down, it wakes up, you apply bertmod, you look at the cores, and the one core, even after a cool down and an enablecores.bin before shutdown, never again runs more current than 400milliamps? (edit - wasn't thinking clearly there.) If the VRM isn't damaged then running enablecores.bin on firmware 0.90 should reenable it. (enablecores enables cores not the vrm, again I wasn't thinking clearly) If it doesn't I'd guess it's damaged. And I'd guess the damage was the result of the VRM having the cliipon heatsink epoxied high and not cooling the VRM properly. Enablecores isn't going to wake up a bad VRM. Cooling might. If it starts then stops providing current then maybe pressing on the VRM snapon heatsink will help but if it never puts out reasonable current again, maybe it got so hot as to melt solder and create an open. Wasn't thinking clearly earlier. Was back from a 7+ mile jog and tired. |
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after weeks of board 3 (slot 4) being my hottest at around 74.5 it now has an issue with Output Current of 0.438 A
since today, board 2 (slot 3) is now hotter as it was during previous fw, however i have not had any hardware concerns until now.
is there a newer fw on the horizon that will sort this, or should i expect to incur losses upon losses?
After hours upon hours of rebooting, resetting, reflashing, re-enabling & reading (& waiting) i have a 40Gh loss in actual performance - shall i just reflash it and wait 3-4 more hours...?
is there a newer fw on the horizon that will sort this, or should i expect to incur losses upon losses upon headaches upon time wasted?
Hi Edgar, I have exactly the same problem. Was 565GH/s at the pool - now 515GH/s at the pool. One board with 0.4XX A according to Bertmod. As far as I am aware the only 'fix' is to try heating the board in question up to a higher temperature and *hoping* it comes back online. I haven't tried it as I am also hoping for some kind of firmware fix in the future. So, when the hot VRM drops to 400 milliamps, and you close cgminer in putty, then upgrade to an early firmware like 0.90, then run enablecores.bin, then finally shut down the system, restart after a little cool down, it wakes up, you apply bertmod, you look at the cores, and the one core, even after a cool down and an enablecores.bin before shutdown, never again runs more current than 400milliamps? (edit - wasn't thinking clearly there.) If the VRM isn't damaged then running enablecores.bin on firmware 0.90 should reenable it. (enablecores enables cores not the vrm, again I wasn't thinking clearly) If it doesn't I'd guess it's damaged. And I'd guess the damage was the result of the VRM having the cliipon heatsink epoxied high and not cooling the VRM properly. Enablecores isn't going to wake up a bad VRM. Cooling might. If it starts then stops providing current then maybe pressing on the VRM snapon heatsink will help but if it never puts out reasonable current again, maybe it got so hot as to melt solder and create an open. |
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Today is party day for me...
The whole BTC endeavor has surpassed itself investment wise.
I lost plane ticket money, office lease deposits, internet service installations, not to mention all the tables, cords, and power supplies I shipped to Washington, directly from amazon, just to get the miners into a 2.4 cent electrical situation...
The "Powers that be" saw to it there was a glitch in the address change online, and my machines were subsequently shipped here to hawaii Instead of Chelan, which meant an emergency PSU re-order for home...but Chelan would have been a total disaster in hindsight, with all the things unforeseen that needed worked out. Thank the stars. I'm VERY Happy they are here at home, even with .43 electric. In approx. 27 days, so far, I've earned about 33.5 BTC total. By today's price, that covers Every cent spent, and more... but wait!... I was able to re-invest the BTC, and now will ultimately end up with over TRIPLE my current hashpower by...(Nov.?th)... certainly out-pacing the diffchanges by a significant margin. All thanks to KNC & The ASIC Godz!
**Just had to get that out.... AAAaaaah.
This is exciting.
man stop with ... the in your face... not all of us are so lucky it is getting annoying Let him enjoy his moment. Tomorrow BTC could crash to $1 and then we all will suffer until the end of time  I agree. Enjoy the moment, the period, the spell. I go jogging with my dog and today I was just chuckling at thoughts of my upgrade module, the Winklevoss prediction, my future millionaire status.... |
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