Just Curious... How many of you guys running S5 over clocked? How is the result on power consumption and HW error side? Also, OC, you definately need 4 PCI-E plugs connected but for normal stock operations anyone running S5 with just 1 PCI-E connection to each hashing PCB? We know it works, but again, being curious if anyone is successfully doing so on the customers end.Please DO NOT burn the chips while OC them. Keep them plenty of air flow and keep them as cold as you can be. RMA techs may birth a cow or two when they see burnt BM1384 chips  And if your Ants happen to be a lucky one to find a block or blocks, Show US your Ants Porn!!!! I received my S5 yesterday. Damn it was a LONG day at work.  Anyway. As I am STILL waiting for stock of the Raidmax RM1000. I decided to give my Gigabyte 730w PSU a go. 1x PCI-E plug per blade. Runs for 4hours stable @ 175mhz @ 42C. Funny thing is ambient temp last night was 38C. Weird. I dont want to push it and damaged the S5 in anyway. Going to try build a 'vertical' case for the S5 this weekend. 38C is not a problem, I've tested my unit up to 45C and it doesn't make a huge difference over 35C. Some weaker PSUs [100% loaded CX750Ms] start to drop out, S5 fan RPMs are maxed but temps are still acceptable. [Actually answering your question this time, misread  ] Do both blades report the same temps? |
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Do you guys think this is good stats for two ANTMINER S3's and one S5 ?
Why on Gods green earth are you crunching diff 2048 shares ? I would recommend setting the S3's at diff 256 and the S5's at 1024. Yeah drop down the S3 difficulties and you'll get more balanced earnings. Are you sure it would change his earning? From what I understand, it shouldn't. He'd only get a more accurate hash rate reading pool-side. Average earnings will be the same, but he'll get more day to day variance, and hour to hour harder to see if units are behaving or not. [Potentially a minor reduction in earnings due to more stale shares.] |
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And with air conditioning included, you basically will have to double your power usage (it will emit 99% of the energy as heat, you will need equal amount of energy to cool that heat)
Isn't AC roughly 1/3 the energy again to remove the energy, not 100%? And to the OP, if you limit the SP35 to 800W per PSU it is crazily quieter as the PSU's fans remain low @ 40C. Or 950W @ 36C, 1100W at 30C, 1200W at 26C. Your numbers might vary slightly as my temp readings may not be entirely accurate. |
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Do you guys think this is good stats for two ANTMINER S3's and one S5 ?
Why on Gods green earth are you crunching diff 2048 shares ? I would recommend setting the S3's at diff 256 and the S5's at 1024. Yeah drop down the S3 difficulties and you'll get more balanced earnings. |
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Seems like every day I'm hearing about brand new accounts with names very similar to long-standing trusted accounts who are PM'ing people about offers to buy/sell coins. Examples: 1. sndvb impersonating shdvb2. Blaizedout419 impersonating Blazedout4193. deuthedev impersonating devthedev4. dooqlas impersonating dooglas5. 0gNazty impersonating OgNastyThe list goes on ad nauseum. They'll PM a new user with an offer that's too good to pass up, dropping a link to the real user's trusted profile. I can't help but think that there are actually people who fall for this. So can we revisit the idea of putting some sort of time/Activity-based restriction on new users with regard to sending PMs at least? I've raised this issue several times before but nothing has been done about it... It's unlikely something will be done at this point... Another approach is the use some sort of phonetic matching (eg. soundex algo) and detect if a new user id being created sounds like an existing one... Then you can check if existing id is of some membership level with some trust score etc... etc... If there's a match, apply some restrictions or add some "red" badge to help with scamming... Many of those look like the same person / group of persons trying to run the same scam. They all put a member level in the sig in the same style. Hopefully if he has enough failed attempts in a row he will give up. |
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This setup is returning about 0.014 - 0.015 BTC per day on Nicehash.
Thoughts? Should I be concerned about the HW Errors?
No, still statistically insignificant. Thanks for that but could you elaborate please. 0.06% hardware errors is the equivalent of your 1239GH miner hashing at 1238.3GH. It makes no difference what so ever and is perfectly normal. |
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This setup is returning about 0.014 - 0.015 BTC per day on Nicehash.
Thoughts? Should I be concerned about the HW Errors?
No, still statistically insignificant. |
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edit: if the price (which I was unable to find) is low enough then it could potentially be a good deal, however it would still need to compete with the secondary market of other miners with similar efficiency
https://ehash.com/product/avalon4-module-1t/ |
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Too bad the controller is such an issue, would be a perfect noob home miner otherwise.
Its still pretty much plug and play when purchased with a preflashed Pi. Not as easy as an SP20 but compared to the Blade / Cube days its relatively straight forward. |
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I have been on support with spondoolies and they cannot get this working either.
If they [Remo / Zvi] can't debug it, its unlikely any of us will be able to. My SP35 to is sick and has a non operational board for unknown reasons. If you've just purchased it from minersource, contact them and arrange an RMA. They can be quite difficult to get a response out of if its not for a sale but keep trying. |
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so I would be at a heat load of 70 KW per rack rating.
 What is your proposed cooling arrangement, that's one hell of a density. The specifications suggest those PDUs downrate to 24A for 24/7 usage, so keep that in mind. It makes them an awkward size as you'll only get 1.5 SP35s per PDU. I am unsure if there is an alternative though, hopefully someone will be along shortly to help. |
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Since the voltages are set for Avalon 4.0 and not 4.1 I found where to change them and now the fun really can begin Cool
Voltage isn't fixed for 4.0, it just can't 'auto voltage' like 4.1 can. And due to that, remember that whatever voltage you fix for 4.1 will just act as a starting voltage if you leave auto voltage on (which you should). Auto voltage seeks to find the lowest possible voltage that each mini module is stable at given the set frequency. |
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Now now, keep your fedora on and calm down. A question was asked and I answered it.
Actually, as the OP said, you didn't. You posted an older model. I request that you remove your off-topic posts. Thanks. As the OP didn't say, the Avalon 4.0 and 4.1 are identical externally, apart from one is coloured black. |
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insert dogshit by dogie here
 FWIW I don't read any of your guides so don't spam them in my thread they are in too many places already...and your post is off-topic and misleading to a different product  please kindly keep your unrelated dogieshit out of this thread...that is 360 of AVALON 4, NOT 4.1 as in my review...keep your off-topic self promoting dogshit out of this thread and stop plastering the internet with blatant spam which serves no purpose other than self promotion... it is not wanted or needed hmmm I was wondering why dogie support for bitmain ended till I saw the support page for ehash.com if so why isn't there a "passing this on to engineers" or anything on-topic to the OP...we know how well that worked with BitMain shoooo doggie shooooo Now now, keep your fedora on and calm down. A question was asked and I answered it. |
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Dogie's Miner Setup Guides:Nicely formatted version available at dogiecoin.com!  Contents: 0a) What to Expect0b) What You Need1) Powering2) Cooling3) Case4) Configuration5) Troubleshooting6) Where to buy0a) What to Expect (top)HashCoins' Ares utilises 256 chips across 7 hashing boards to achieve 256MH. An internal controller is provided, although no power supplies are included. Mounting ears are included, along with an LCD screen which reports hashrate and IP address. | Chips | 256x ASICs | | Hashrate | ~256MH | | Rated Voltage | 12V | | Rated Current | 205A | | Power.Consumption | ~2500W |
     0b) What You Need (top)You will need some accessories and power supplies to get started. Click your flag to find everything* you need to get started at Amazon!       1) Powering (top)Ares do not come with a power supply, and you will need multiple PSUs to meet the power requirements. Power consumption varies based on ambient operating temperature, and so to be safe a total of 2400W is recommended as a minimum. 8xPCI-E 6 or 8 pin power connectors are required, with each ideally on its own cable rail. The right most seven PCI-E sockets individually power a hashing board (~300W), while the left most PCI-E socket powers the controller board (200W). The recommended power supply configuration is 3x Corsair CM1000s: CM1000 A: 3x Hashing boards CM1000 B: 2x Hashing boards CM1000 C: 2x Hashing boards + controller We also need to tell the PSUs to always be on, as there isn't a motherboard to do this. Cut a paperclip into a U and insert it into the green wire and either black wire to the side of the green wire. Tape it up for safety. The power supplies are now controlled by their switches on the rear sockets.   2) Cooling (top)Three Delta AFB1212SHE 4000 RPM fans exhaust air out the back, while a further three intake fresh air. Each mining board is covered by an oversized finned aluminium heatsink, which also serves to secure the board to the case. Airflow is directed through the heatsinks by custom cut ITW Formex sheets to achieve maximum cooling. Noise levels are extremely high and surpass that of Antminer S4s due to the extreme amount of cooling employed. Units were tested in up to 40C ambient temperatures, and while hashrate remained constant, power consumption did creep up. There are no temperature monitoring functions, nor hashrate or fan control accessible to users.    3) Case (top)The Ares' case is a large 4U, rack mountable steel contraption which is extremely solid. Modules are screwed in via their heatsinks like generation 1 Avalons. The front of the case features an LCD which reports hashrate and IP address, while the rear features the 8 PCI-E 8 pin connectors and ethernet port. A shipped Ares weighs 23.5kg and the shipping box measures 600mm x 450mm x 300mm while the unit measures 500mm x 425mm x 175mm. Click here to see a 360 degree view!    4) Configuration (top)Setup is straight forward due to the use of a Web UI and custom controller. Wiring: - Prepare the paperclips for the PSUs' 24 pin connectors.
- Plug in the eight PCI-E cables to the miner.
- Plug in an ethernet cable from the Ares to your router.
Configuration: - Power on the power supplies using their switch at the back.
- Make sure that your router's DHCP table is turned on. You can assume it is already on if you have a typical router.
- Using a browser, navigate to your router and find the IP it has assigned the Ares and navigate to that IP.
- Login using "admin" as the password.
- Navigate to the page "Mining". Enter your pool information in the below format. GHash appears to be the only pool Ares are stable on. Click "Set".
- Navigate to Dashboard to check mining has started.
- Navigate to your GHash miners page and next to the delete button enter "16284" to manually set the difficulty. Without this, the Ares may get stuck
at 20MH or so as the controller becomes overloaded by low difficulty shares.
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Servers : stratum+tcp://ltc.ghash.io:3333
User : username.worker - auto creates workers!
Password: anypassword
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  5) Troubleshooting (top)TBD as problems arise.     Legal disclaimer: This information is for general guidance and does not constitute expert advice. We are not responsible if you, your property or a third party is injured or damaged as a result of any interaction with this information, and no warranty is provided. All text and images are covered by copyright. 6) Where to buy (top)
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I won a Avalon from Kano's pool. I can't get it set up. When I go to network settings my only choice is LAN network settings but no WAN network.
Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks in advance
I'm not sure what I did but it's hashing now! If anyone else needs help I can always teamviewer in. Sometimes these things need a little jiggling. |
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Can you load balance on these again? My brother wants to buy half a miner with me, and we want to make sure we can split the hashrate 50/50 to both of our pools, also any other variation split 40/60 and/or 30/70?
Thanks,
DebitMe
you can but you have to edit some files on the miner with SHH or WinSCP i haven't figured out which ones hold the setting it's not like the S3 or lower you could set the /usr/bin/ CGMIner file to --balance on a line Polly still can but haven't had a need to balance farm yet these things are nice just farming straight up bit coins. If you encounter the problem that changes are wiped on a reset [once you find the config file via SSH], we should be able to get around that. If you flash a 4GB+ SD card with the this image [old firmware, will need updating], you should be able to run the S5 off it. SD card takes priority over the flash memory (when you /etc/init.d/pgnand.sh) and so acts as primary OS. Changes to that should be permanent. Can also be used if you network brick / get corruption on the flash OS which reset doesn't fix. [I say 'should' a lot as I've not tested it, but its from an internal Bitmain report.] Thanks man I was wondering how to use the SD part of the S5 or how it worked, i was about to look it up . I'll write it up properly for if others need it again once I've tested it myself. |
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Can you load balance on these again? My brother wants to buy half a miner with me, and we want to make sure we can split the hashrate 50/50 to both of our pools, also any other variation split 40/60 and/or 30/70?
Thanks,
DebitMe
you can but you have to edit some files on the miner with SHH or WinSCP i haven't figured out which ones hold the setting it's not like the S3 or lower you could set the /usr/bin/ CGMIner file to --balance on a line Polly still can but haven't had a need to balance farm yet these things are nice just farming straight up bit coins. If you encounter the problem that changes are wiped on a reset [once you find the config file via SSH], we should be able to get around that. If you flash a 4GB+ SD card with the this image [old firmware, will need updating], you should be able to run the S5 off it. SD card takes priority over the flash memory (when you /etc/init.d/pgnand.sh) and so acts as primary OS. Changes to that should be permanent. Can also be used if you network brick / get corruption on the flash OS which reset doesn't fix.
[I say 'should' a lot as I've not tested it, but its from an internal Bitmain report.]Edit as of 17th Feb: Don't do this, it'll only cause you trouble / likely to brick. |
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I got my avalon 4 today along with a usb. No software no controller and I am struggling with setup of with the nano4 usb and the avalon 4
so this thread seems to be my best shot at setup help.
I have
a rasp pi
I have a windows 7 pc
I have a mac mini
I was give a link to try to make an sd card to get the rasp pi to run the avalon 4. any hints or tips would help.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=922558 for Pi / WRT instructions. For cgminer its got mainstream support so should be plug and play. I've PMed you a direct link to the SD card image for 4.1's, I don't like posting direct file links on here as people discover them months after and end up with old stuff. |
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