BM1384 Pod Miner plus trade-in/recycling - an interest and feasibility poll

[hurricandave]

A while back, I pointed a Btcgarden v2 at the burger addy to verify my attempt to fix it for someone else (36 hrs). Anyhow, I've kept looking back at that chart, to see what your testing.
So I think it's cool that you hash too a publicly known/available address.
 Now I wouldn't want to donate some add. hashtime by pointing to your live test run data collecting/sharing spot. Throwing the chart off in other words.
But, I could point my ten Compacs @ default too something (other than solo pools) ie.burgerfund for a time and maybe others with Compacs could join in and see how much GH/s we collectively generate too/for the project (milKshakefund), over a specific time like 24, 48 .... hrs?

anybody?
 

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[sidehack]

If you use a worker tag, the data from that is charted separately. I've got some leftover Compacs (mostly Novak's toys from the first half of the run) on the burger, but pod testing has been pointed to slush pool because having a vardiff below 512 is handy for getting good data quicker on low-hashrate gear.

[notlist3d]

I'd be in.  I kind of dislike the unlimited tickets option as one person can basically make sure that no one else has a shot.

However, I'd still be in.  The rules are yours to set and I'm entirely down for supporting the project in whatever small way I can.

Well if someone decide to throw 1 BTC in there, then maybe Sidehack could use that BTC to give that person one pod in the first place and raffle off the other 2, keeping the rest.

Or not, but it would be good for the project.

Even if someone spends 1 BTC it does not guarantee win since random, just raises the chances of them winning.  I think everyone that participates is doing it knowing money goes to dev of pods.  So if a few go wild i view that as a good thing.  The more dev money I think benefits people wanting pods.

So even with unlimited tickets I still think it's win/win.  And eventually we will be able to buy it once it comes out so there will be other way's to get eventually even if you don't win.   

[hurricandave]

If you use a worker tag, the data from that is charted separately. I've got some leftover Compacs (mostly Novak's toys from the first half of the run) on the burger, but pod testing has been pointed to slush pool because having a vardiff below 512 is handy for getting good data quicker on low-hashrate gear.

Think I got it going now. I'll have to look into the slush side later.

[Jake36]

I'm in for a ticket or 2. 

[kipper01]

I am in for a couple tickets.

[Landy1264]

One Ticket here!

[alienesb]

Posted in another thread but it feels more appropriate here; I have a lazy S5 I'd be willing to trade for some of these 8x pod thingies. I'm in the US.

[vapourminer]

im in for 2 tickets

[zOU]

Think I got it going now. I'll have to look into the slush side later.

Looks like they're running at default freq

Good to know

[Mikestang]

I would buy a raffle entry or two.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I am in...

Same here. What wallet address do we send to to get a ticket?

As for s5's... I have 3 that I'm willing to donate to the effort. They generally are fully functional but every week or so will drop one board, a simple hard reboot and they are happy again.

[sidehack]

I've got this guy running at 350MHz, pointed at the 1BURGER as _testpod. If everything stays golden we should see 154GH average. I'll let it run overnight, might play more tomorrow afternoon. Right now it's only been running 10 minutes but I'm seeing dead on 154GH and 0.03% errors, machine-side.

Right now there's no raffle going on. I'll talk with Novak and see what we want to do, and see if I can get two more boards running stable and with solid wiring - basically, good enough to let outside the building. If I can do that in the next couple days maybe I'll open something up with a facy vanity address.

[Meech]

I'm in for a raffle!  2016 looks golden.

[Searing]

I've got this guy running at 350MHz, pointed at the 1BURGER as _testpod. If everything stays golden we should see 154GH average. I'll let it run overnight, might play more tomorrow afternoon. Right now it's only been running 10 minutes but I'm seeing dead on 154GH and 0.03% errors, machine-side.

Right now there's no raffle going on. I'll talk with Novak and see what we want to do, and see if I can get two more boards running stable and with solid wiring - basically, good enough to let outside the building. If I can do that in the next couple days maybe I'll open something up with a facy vanity address.

heh ...looks cute..I'll get one ..but I mean really...in my case this make NO SENSE AT ALL

I am in no way sure what kind of sickness I have ....I could just pull 1 asic out of my 550 KNC Jupiter Miner and pretty much do the same.....in that
it would look pretty much like the above and do 137.5 gh...sheesh...what am I thinking?

Ah well....got to fund such independent projects anyway....but got this 'home mining asic sickness" real bad ....sheesh  Issues it seems I have indeed!


anyway look at the pic below... for such a setup if I ever got fired up enough to do so ..... Note 'knc evil twin picture below"




too many projects...too many toys ..all them LCD's and whirly noises etc

[sidehack]

Your uh, ahem, your Jupiter probably wouldn't downvolt to 0.3W/GH though would it? Just throwing that out there.

I honestly don't know how many BM1384 pods I'd make. Could be weeks or a month before I have a final design around that chip, and by then they're getting pretty tired. Maybe someone will get back to me about new chips once they're recovered from whatever holidays fancy people use as excuses to not do any work.

[Searing]

Your uh, ahem, your Jupiter probably wouldn't downvolt to 0.3W/GH though would it? Just throwing that out there.

I honestly don't know how many BM1384 pods I'd make. Could be weeks or a month before I have a final design around that chip, and by then they're getting pretty tired. Maybe someone will get back to me about new chips once they're recovered from whatever holidays fancy people use as excuses to not do any work.

yeah point taken....was just pointing out I"m Insane from an ROI point of view

too many toys....then again I have a bitseed v2 node ..and that won't make me any btc...but it is pretty when the LCD on the cable to it flashes in the basement...

for me its all about having something going in the basement ...when the KNC Titan Scrypt Miners go to doorstop status

(damn home mining bug...damn btc kool aid in 2013...) sheesh

Also your unit is 'pure' for the projects sake....all KNC stuff is EVIL ...I dare not make direct eye contact with the Titans in the Basement when doing Laundry or they

will try to "Brick Themselves" out of Spite

So again you units are 'angelic" in comparison

[sidehack]

So the test pod is currently running 400MHz. I have it marked at 11.9V 7.3A for 86.9W; 400MHz calcs to 176GH so 0.49W/GH board-level. This does not include fan or controller. Because of the heating problem with the strapon power, I have a small fan pointed directly at it keeping the thing cool. As it is, I wouldn't want to run 400MHz without it. Could be fine, but I don't want to risk it. Hopefully it picks up but right now hashrate is a bit weak and I'm seeing 0.4% errors but the buck is topped out for voltage. I'll let it run a while and see if it looks like it'll behave, but I'm quite pleased with 350MHz and 375MHz performance.

Tomorrow I'll see about building a few more boards and see how they behave. Hopefully they're good, and I can get some raffle-able setups, and we can get prototype pod boards in and tested quickly. It's entirely possible we don't end up batching BM1384 pods, but then I might see about a small batch of 50-100 for y'all if the demand is still there when we're ready to roll.

Edit - thing ran like poo on 400MHz, average hashrate was way low so I put it back to 375MHz and it's gonna run there overnight. I'm still a bit short on hashrate - 156 instead of 165 - but that's not so bad. Errors at 0.07% and drawing about 78W of DC juice.

[Mikestang]

So cool to start seeing the numbers come in.  At this rate I will unplug my S3 for a couple of these - same hash rate but way less wattage.  Plus I can sell my S3 today for more than I paid for it a year ago.

[valkir]

If there is a small production, I will do a group buy for Canada 

Great job Sidehack as always