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[OgNasty]

Anybody ever run into a situation where you are missing a fan in the GUI? fan is on, though at a really low level and cgminer shows no fan for fan1. Bad fan? Bad board? Thanks in advance!

I ran into this problem once and it turned out that one of the fan cables had a spot on it that looked like it had been crushed.  I bent it back and forth a couple times and it was good as new.  Try messing with the fan connections, or try powering the fan with another power source and seeing if it comes on.

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[mtmining2]

Anybody ever run into a situation where you are missing a fan in the GUI? fan is on, though at a really low level and cgminer shows no fan for fan1. Bad fan? Bad board? Thanks in advance!

Dead fan, the other one is moving it.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Got any recommendations on replacements? I know they can be had from bitmain but that takes too long. Anybody see an issue using this fan from amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EA116C?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

[mtmining2]

Anybody ever run into a situation where you are missing a fan in the GUI? fan is on, though at a really low level and cgminer shows no fan for fan1. Bad fan? Bad board? Thanks in advance!

I ran into this problem once and it turned out that one of the fan cables had a spot on it that looked like it had been crushed.  I bent it back and forth a couple times and it was good as new.  Try messing with the fan connections, or try powering the fan with another power source and seeing if it comes on.

I wiggled them a bit and unplugged/plugged it back in but I will check again just to be sure... Think I am going to take this one out of the rack and back home to the bench tonight so that I can test it out

[HagssFIN]

Anybody ever run into a situation where you are missing a fan in the GUI? fan is on, though at a really low level and cgminer shows no fan for fan1. Bad fan? Bad board? Thanks in advance!

Dead fan, the other one is moving it.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Got any recommendations on replacements? I know they can be had from bitmain but that takes too long. Anybody see an issue using this fan from amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EA116C?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Here's a good one  http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00QWB1X3O/ref=pd_sim_147_3/179-3391878-1283731?ie=UTF8&dpID=518LC-uCGVL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1S4FW7HXH6NM82FMC1D8

[mtmining2]

Anybody ever run into a situation where you are missing a fan in the GUI? fan is on, though at a really low level and cgminer shows no fan for fan1. Bad fan? Bad board? Thanks in advance!

Dead fan, the other one is moving it.

Good point, hadn't thought of that. Got any recommendations on replacements? I know they can be had from bitmain but that takes too long. Anybody see an issue using this fan from amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010EA116C?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Here's a good one  http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Denki-SAN-Ace-120mm/dp/B00QWB1X3O/ref=pd_sim_147_3/179-3391878-1283731?ie=UTF8&dpID=518LC-uCGVL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1S4FW7HXH6NM82FMC1D8

Good call! Thanks for that! Prime eligible too, this is why I love Amazon!

[bbOOmm]

I need to pick someone's brain about solo mining PEERCOIN with S7's

For whatever reason I just cannot get it going and yes, I'm running a full node with plenty of incoming connections. The router is configured properly. It a matter of getting the miners to talk to the node/wallet. and yes again, I'm running the latest version v0.5.2

If someone is mining PEERCOIN with their S5 or S7, please post your ppcoin.conf file, and what you use for the URL to talk to the wallet.

Thanks

BTW.... My head hurts from beating it on the keyboard....

http://ppcoin.securepayment.cc/

Yeah.... I have a few pointed there at the moment, BUT..... there is still a "middle man" in the mix. Someone I don't know, its a very small solo pool, kinda new, etc... with how much scamming there is surrounding cryptocurrencies, I'm very leery with just about everything. The less people with their fingers in the pie the better security and stronger the network.

With PPC being a low enough diff and I have most definitely enough hash-power here, I could make solo mining worth while.... but, I would like to cut out the middle man and mine TRUE SOLO .... using the full wallet/node.

Not only to satisfy my paranoia (puts on his tinfoil has and twiddles his fingers while looking slyly out the window from behind the closes blinds)........  but also to learn... err ... relearn, how to solo mine. I did it years ago with other coins. The wife giving me gray hair and plenty of stress, the whisky and the drugs the doc wants me to take equals : "Duh.... I don't remember sh!t anymore" and the stuff that I find online is soooooo outdated.

So, to be helpful and educational, could someone could post their ppcoin.conf file and their miner settings (URL and port #), what ports to forward at the router --- there seems to be  A LOT of confusion on RPC port and the "network" port posted online IE 9901, 9902, now 9903 and 9904 I've seen mentioned more recently.


Thanks

[bbOOmm]

And, for my next question.

Has anyone dabbled with the S7 firmware and added a "round robin" command so the miner will cycle through the listed URLs in the miner configuration?

Back in the stone age when the S2 was popular, there was some people who had their S2's doing just that by editing the firmware by connecting to the miner via SSH.

Has anyone tried that with the S7?  I'm sure that will be a nifty feature to have when bitcoin is no longer the #1 coin ( actually, BTC has not been the #1 coin for some time now. )

Thanks

[elokk]

What is the number 1 coin in your opinion? Peercoin??? I thought that changes day to day?

[citronick]

I need to pick someone's brain about solo mining PEERCOIN with S7's

For whatever reason I just cannot get it going and yes, I'm running a full node with plenty of incoming connections. The router is configured properly. It a matter of getting the miners to talk to the node/wallet. and yes again, I'm running the latest version v0.5.2

If someone is mining PEERCOIN with their S5 or S7, please post your ppcoin.conf file, and what you use for the URL to talk to the wallet.

Thanks

BTW.... My head hurts from beating it on the keyboard....

i run Peercoin solo mining every weekend, about 30$ USD per block, sometimes I hit 3-4 blocks per weekend on a good day

stratum+tcp://ppcoin.securepayment.cc:3357   
Username: P-------------------------   
Password: x

You need to insert your peercoin address -- its starts with a capital "P"
Password, just put "x" - and let the pool auto adjust the diff level for you.
Checkout holytransaction.com, its a funky web multi-coin wallet, and it also gives you a Peercoin wallet and address.

How much hashrate are you talking about for those 3-4 blocks?

4 x S7s = around 18TH++

[mavericklm]

For oil cooling, the 1300watt is too concentrated not to use the fans and/or high flow pump....

[bbOOmm]

For oil cooling, the 1300watt is too concentrated not to use the fans and/or high flow pump....

Immersion cooling is not for sissies. Its an industrial solution that uses industrial parts and systems for reliability and durability. If you are going that route, I would use a PLC to control and monitor the system. Low coolant level (as in a leak) shutdown or switchover to pump circuit B, monitor for primary pump failure  with auto switch over to the secondary pump, over heating auto shutdown, an messaging/paging/system alarm...etc etc.

Sounds overkill but in reality, what you spend for the miners is not peanuts, with the amount of heat that needs to be carried and disapated, are you really willing to trust some plastic 1/2 garden pump to run 24/7 for months on end... only to fail and have the oil at a stand still which then cooks your miners? All happening with out you knowing it?

Look for hydronic furnace pumps and valves. I would not use a USED automotive radiator, too much conductive water is trapped inside which will cycle through with the oil as neat little blobs which will attach to your miner circuit boards and short out the miners. Remove the AIR COOLING FANS, use pump to circulate the oil within the tank and a separate pump with fail over pump to pump the hot oil to the cooling tower or radiator with fan.

Just my 1/2 cent worth of babble.....

[yslyung]

For oil cooling, the 1300watt is too concentrated not to use the fans and/or high flow pump....

Immersion cooling is not for sissies. Its an industrial solution that uses industrial parts and systems for reliability and durability. If you are going that route, I would use a PLC to control and monitor the system. Low coolant level (as in a leak) shutdown or switchover to pump circuit B, monitor for primary pump failure  with auto switch over to the secondary pump, over heating auto shutdown, an messaging/paging/system alarm...etc etc.

Sounds overkill but in reality, what you spend for the miners is not peanuts, with the amount of heat that needs to be carried and disapated, are you really willing to trust some plastic 1/2 garden pump to run 24/7 for months on end... only to fail and have the oil at a stand still which then cooks your miners? All happening with out you knowing it?

Look for hydronic furnace pumps and valves. I would not use a USED automotive radiator, too much conductive water is trapped inside which will cycle through with the oil as neat little blobs which will attach to your miner circuit boards and short out the miners. Remove the AIR COOLING FANS, use pump to circulate the oil within the tank and a separate pump with fail over pump to pump the hot oil to the cooling tower or radiator with fan.

Just my 1/2 cent worth of babble.....

1 tank for 10 s7's in a stainless steel custom tank (leak should not be an issue) . . . when it's hot, it will get thin.

according to my research let's say a 100 lph pump in mineral oil it would be able to only pump about 30 lph.

yes need high flow pump due to viscosity, looking at triple 2000 lph pumps (adjustable) to circulate oil with jets at rad outlet into blades & the other pump will be sucking the hot oil behind the blades into rad's. the 3rd pump will be used to maintain/control flow of fluid from cold to hot or circulate within the tank for the up/down flow or as backup.

2*2000lph = 4000-70% (due to viscosity) = 1200 lph / 60 = approx. 20 lpm but i'll still minus about half of it for losses via rads, hoses etc still getting about 10 lpm flow rate. i could be wrong, someone to chime in would be good.

dual brand new sedan car rad's with fans.

might/might not remove fans, depending on the build but most likely removing them or replacing with the cheaper type of fans to assist in circulating the oil in tank.

looking into either phase cooling to assist in cooling or water chiller or tec but dual rad's with a cool room temp should be ok.

objective is to try to keep temps below 70 deg C, save some power from fans, each miner should be saving approx. 60W or more from fans alone so if it's 20 fans = 600W saved well still have to minus out the pumps & rad fans, but still should be able to save some power, dust free, dramatically reduced noise from 10 s7's per tank.

hunting for a small plastic container or aquarium to test on a single s7 & see how it goes. small test. i'm sure it'll work but in larger scale hmmmmm . . .

[aarons6]

I need to pick someone's brain about solo mining PEERCOIN with S7's

For whatever reason I just cannot get it going and yes, I'm running a full node with plenty of incoming connections. The router is configured properly. It a matter of getting the miners to talk to the node/wallet. and yes again, I'm running the latest version v0.5.2

If someone is mining PEERCOIN with their S5 or S7, please post your ppcoin.conf file, and what you use for the URL to talk to the wallet.

Thanks

BTW.... My head hurts from beating it on the keyboard....

http://ppcoin.securepayment.cc/

Yeah.... I have a few pointed there at the moment, BUT..... there is still a "middle man" in the mix. Someone I don't know, its a very small solo pool, kinda new, etc... with how much scamming there is surrounding cryptocurrencies, I'm very leery with just about everything. The less people with their fingers in the pie the better security and stronger the network.

With PPC being a low enough diff and I have most definitely enough hash-power here, I could make solo mining worth while.... but, I would like to cut out the middle man and mine TRUE SOLO .... using the full wallet/node.

Not only to satisfy my paranoia (puts on his tinfoil has and twiddles his fingers while looking slyly out the window from behind the closes blinds)........  but also to learn... err ... relearn, how to solo mine. I did it years ago with other coins. The wife giving me gray hair and plenty of stress, the whisky and the drugs the doc wants me to take equals : "Duh.... I don't remember sh!t anymore" and the stuff that I find online is soooooo outdated.

So, to be helpful and educational, could someone could post their ppcoin.conf file and their miner settings (URL and port #), what ports to forward at the router --- there seems to be  A LOT of confusion on RPC port and the "network" port posted online IE 9901, 9902, now 9903 and 9904 I've seen mentioned more recently.


Thanks

i tired for a couple of hours to mine from the ppcoind client on linux.. it always showed DEAD on the miner :/

i pointed my 2 s5s on here, each one has found blocks so far..

i think that is more then they would have found mining bitcoin and still a couple weeks left.

ive also mined on the digitalcoin one.. i found like 80 some blocks so far on that.

[bbOOmm]

I need to pick someone's brain about solo mining PEERCOIN with S7's

For whatever reason I just cannot get it going and yes, I'm running a full node with plenty of incoming connections. The router is configured properly. It a matter of getting the miners to talk to the node/wallet. and yes again, I'm running the latest version v0.5.2

If someone is mining PEERCOIN with their S5 or S7, please post your ppcoin.conf file, and what you use for the URL to talk to the wallet.

Thanks

BTW.... My head hurts from beating it on the keyboard....

http://ppcoin.securepayment.cc/

Yeah.... I have a few pointed there at the moment, BUT..... there is still a "middle man" in the mix. Someone I don't know, its a very small solo pool, kinda new, etc... with how much scamming there is surrounding cryptocurrencies, I'm very leery with just about everything. The less people with their fingers in the pie the better security and stronger the network.

With PPC being a low enough diff and I have most definitely enough hash-power here, I could make solo mining worth while.... but, I would like to cut out the middle man and mine TRUE SOLO .... using the full wallet/node.

Not only to satisfy my paranoia (puts on his tinfoil has and twiddles his fingers while looking slyly out the window from behind the closes blinds)........  but also to learn... err ... relearn, how to solo mine. I did it years ago with other coins. The wife giving me gray hair and plenty of stress, the whisky and the drugs the doc wants me to take equals : "Duh.... I don't remember sh!t anymore" and the stuff that I find online is soooooo outdated.

So, to be helpful and educational, could someone could post their ppcoin.conf file and their miner settings (URL and port #), what ports to forward at the router --- there seems to be  A LOT of confusion on RPC port and the "network" port posted online IE 9901, 9902, now 9903 and 9904 I've seen mentioned more recently.


Thanks

i tired for a couple of hours to mine from the ppcoind client on linux.. it always showed DEAD on the miner :/

i pointed my 2 s5s on here, each one has found blocks so far..

i think that is more then they would have found mining bitcoin and still a couple weeks left.

ive also mined on the digitalcoin one.. i found like 80 some blocks so far on that.

Digitalcoin is --->not<--- one of the coins I see frequently bettering BTC.

DGC gets to the top of the charts yes, but in little flash moments, then it will go rest down among the unprofitable coins. DGC's rapid movement is probably due to automated pump and dumps. You would be holding DGC for a far longer time, putting the DGC into an exchange with a sell order at a high amount, HOPING for another pump and dump to come along in which it would trigger your sell order and you become rich (rrrrright).  It's a good solution if you have the ability to wait - IE, not have to pay the electric or rent. However, it also puts you at greater risk for your stash of DGC to vanish due to an exchange hack, or a crooked exchange op claiming a hack, or hardware failure without a proper backup etc... Just look at Cryptsy, or the questionable happening currently at iSpace.co.uk .... a hardware crash without backup and mined coins went !poof!

Peercoin, Bitcoin and Mazacoin are usually in the top 5 coins, Its gets a little more fluid and muddy with number 4 and 5.

As I've said before, There is not one coin that remains consistently above BTC, its more or less a random rotation around BTC, but there is a definite select few that are in the rotation. Those are the coins I've been following by randomly timed noting their position within the top 5, of which I'll soon make a 1 month chart, then in the future a 2 mo, and 3 mo chart to show which coins are consistent more in rotation around BTC, then develop a "round robin" mining / investment approach.

BTC is no longer the most profitable. BTC, however, is the most consistent coin for short term mining, IE: mine today, cash out today. Where as the others are mine today, place the coins into cold storage or in an exchange with a sell order and wait till it rotates back above BTC's value - which does not take long usually less than 48hrs - automatically cashing out that coin for BTC which then is far easier to exchange for fiat. Not to mention more secure in my case because I only use one BTC exchange to convert to USD, where as the other coins have to be exchanged on many other exchanges.... why have your personal and banking data spread all around the world? Not to mention that I do not store ANY coins on the web, they are all mined then transfered to cold storage unless placed on an exchange with a sell order.

Its just a hair bit more work than set it and forget it BTC mining, but for a 10%, 15%.... 25% or more increase in profit over BTC, its worth the few extra mouse clicks.

Mining is profit investing now.... not just mine and cashing out.

[aarons6]

I need to pick someone's brain about solo mining PEERCOIN with S7's

For whatever reason I just cannot get it going and yes, I'm running a full node with plenty of incoming connections. The router is configured properly. It a matter of getting the miners to talk to the node/wallet. and yes again, I'm running the latest version v0.5.2

If someone is mining PEERCOIN with their S5 or S7, please post your ppcoin.conf file, and what you use for the URL to talk to the wallet.

Thanks

BTW.... My head hurts from beating it on the keyboard....

http://ppcoin.securepayment.cc/

Yeah.... I have a few pointed there at the moment, BUT..... there is still a "middle man" in the mix. Someone I don't know, its a very small solo pool, kinda new, etc... with how much scamming there is surrounding cryptocurrencies, I'm very leery with just about everything. The less people with their fingers in the pie the better security and stronger the network.

With PPC being a low enough diff and I have most definitely enough hash-power here, I could make solo mining worth while.... but, I would like to cut out the middle man and mine TRUE SOLO .... using the full wallet/node.

Not only to satisfy my paranoia (puts on his tinfoil has and twiddles his fingers while looking slyly out the window from behind the closes blinds)........  but also to learn... err ... relearn, how to solo mine. I did it years ago with other coins. The wife giving me gray hair and plenty of stress, the whisky and the drugs the doc wants me to take equals : "Duh.... I don't remember sh!t anymore" and the stuff that I find online is soooooo outdated.

So, to be helpful and educational, could someone could post their ppcoin.conf file and their miner settings (URL and port #), what ports to forward at the router --- there seems to be  A LOT of confusion on RPC port and the "network" port posted online IE 9901, 9902, now 9903 and 9904 I've seen mentioned more recently.


Thanks

i tired for a couple of hours to mine from the ppcoind client on linux.. it always showed DEAD on the miner :/

i pointed my 2 s5s on here, each one has found blocks so far..

i think that is more then they would have found mining bitcoin and still a couple weeks left.

ive also mined on the digitalcoin one.. i found like 80 some blocks so far on that.

Digitalcoin is --->not<--- one of the coins I see frequently bettering BTC.

DGC gets to the top of the charts yes, but in little flash moments, then it will go rest down among the unprofitable coins. DGC's rapid movement is probably due to automated pump and dumps. You would be holding DGC for a far longer time, putting the DGC into an exchange with a sell order at a high amount, HOPING for another pump and dump to come along in which it would trigger your sell order and you become rich (rrrrright).  It's a good solution if you have the ability to wait - IE, not have to pay the electric or rent. However, it also puts you at greater risk for your stash of DGC to vanish due to an exchange hack, or a crooked exchange op claiming a hack, or hardware failure without a proper backup etc... Just look at Cryptsy, or the questionable happening currently at iSpace.co.uk .... a hardware crash without backup and mined coins went !poof!

Peercoin, Bitcoin and Mazacoin are usually in the top 5 coins, Its gets a little more fluid and muddy with number 4 and 5.

As I've said before, There is not one coin that remains consistently above BTC, its more or less a random rotation around BTC, but there is a definite select few that are in the rotation. Those are the coins I've been following by randomly timed noting their position within the top 5, of which I'll soon make a 1 month chart, then in the future a 2 mo, and 3 mo chart to show which coins are consistent more in rotation around BTC, then develop a "round robin" mining / investment approach.

BTC is no longer the most profitable. BTC, however, is the most consistent coin for short term mining, IE: mine today, cash out today. Where as the others are mine today, place the coins into cold storage or in an exchange with a sell order and wait till it rotates back above BTC's value - which does not take long usually less than 48hrs - automatically cashing out that coin for BTC which then is far easier to exchange for fiat. Not to mention more secure in my case because I only use one BTC exchange to convert to USD, where as the other coins have to be exchanged on many other exchanges.... why have your personal and banking data spread all around the world? Not to mention that I do not store ANY coins on the web, they are all mined then transfered to cold storage unless placed on an exchange with a sell order.

Its just a hair bit more work than set it and forget it BTC mining, but for a 10%, 15%.... 25% or more increase in profit over BTC, its worth the few extra mouse clicks.

Mining is profit investing now.... not just mine and cashing out.

digital coin is pretty profitable..
the reason its not on the top of the what to mine list is because its flawed.

digital coin goes hours in really low diff. about 200M or so.. during that time a s5 or s7 can get 100s of blocks.
then it shoots back up to 2.5B or so and then you dont get so many blocks.

its kind of a hold coin.. you can put it on bittrex but im holding mine to see what happens.

[AriesIV10]

NEW DIFFICULTY LEVEL

Bitcoin Difficulty:   165,496,835,118
Estimated Next Difficulty:   170,978,944,443 (+3.31%)
Adjust time:   After 1999 Blocks, About 14.2 days
Hashrate(?):   1,178,961,713 GH/s

[HerbPean]

NEW DIFFICULTY LEVEL

Bitcoin Difficulty:   165,496,835,118
Estimated Next Difficulty:   170,978,944,443 (+3.31%)
Adjust time:   After 1999 Blocks, About 14.2 days
Hashrate(?):   1,178,961,713 GH/s

Do you really need to spam all the threads you can with this new diff copy paste ? Looks like to me you're trying to jump your post count ...

[hodedowe]

NEW DIFFICULTY LEVEL

Bitcoin Difficulty:   165,496,835,118
Estimated Next Difficulty:   170,978,944,443 (+3.31%)
Adjust time:   After 1999 Blocks, About 14.2 days
Hashrate(?):   1,178,961,713 GH/s

Do you really need to spam all the threads you can with this new diff copy paste ? Looks like to me you're trying to jump your post count ...

His post count is over 600. I'm sure he's just making a point in disconnected threads.
Besides, what's the point in raising post count? This isn't 1992.

[fr4nkthetank]

NEW DIFFICULTY LEVEL

Bitcoin Difficulty:   165,496,835,118
Estimated Next Difficulty:   170,978,944,443 (+3.31%)
Adjust time:   After 1999 Blocks, About 14.2 days
Hashrate(?):   1,178,961,713 GH/s

Do you really need to spam all the threads you can with this new diff copy paste ? Looks like to me you're trying to jump your post count ...

meh I dont mind it

[Finksy]

His post count is over 600. I'm sure he's just making a point in disconnected threads.
Besides, what's the point in raising post count? This isn't 1992.

Because posting once a day raises your activity level and in turn gets you a higher "status" for signature campaigns...