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[kano]

Hmm 24GH ... 100 days you might expect about 6BTC ... or less ...

[xstr8guy]

I just ordered another H board with the BTC generated by my first two boards and AM Blades.  I should be able to repeat this every 5 to 7 days until October delivery starts. 

Btw, the October preorder numbers are now just over 1000.

[greaterninja]

Hmm 24GH ... 100 days you might expect about 6BTC ... or less ...

Do you still need a starter kit?  I may have a extra Pi, version 2.0 m board and maybe a H board.

[goxed]

I wonder when will the price of H-boards be decreased. 

[superduh]

I wonder when will the price of H-boards be decreased. 

who knows - mining is cool and all but don't expect to get ROI with anything on the market today - especially not in btc

[xstr8guy]

I wonder when will the price of H-boards be decreased. 

who knows - mining is cool and all but don't expect to get ROI with anything on the market today - especially not in btc

ROI, schmROI!  Who really cares at this point?  I have an addiction to feed.   

[Swimmer63]

I wonder when will the price of H-boards be decreased. 

who knows - mining is cool and all but don't expect to get ROI with anything on the market today - especially not in btc

ROI, schmROI!  Who really cares at this point?  I have an addiction to feed.   

It should at least be passing concern.

[Trongersoll]

I wonder when will the price of H-boards be decreased. 

who knows - mining is cool and all but don't expect to get ROI with anything on the market today - especially not in btc

ROI, schmROI!  Who really cares at this point?  I have an addiction to feed.   

It should at least be passing concern.

Never!

[af_newbie]

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

What networking issues?  My rpi is not anywhere on 192.168.1.xxx?

Did it come configured on a different subnet?

[-Redacted-]

It could have.  You may need need to use keyboard / monitor to set up the interface file.  Some users have reported it set as 10.10.xxx.xxx, and if your router is set up with a 192.168.0.xxx subnet, you won't be able to see it.

[goxed]

Sorry if this has been answered already but what would the expected delivery dates be if I ordered a Starter kit and a couple of h-boards today?

   You will get it for Oct Delivery.


ps: miner will start ship out at end of Oct.

Is there a confirmation that October delivery shipping takes place in end of Oct?

I have a feeling they will ship last week of October. Mainly because I have the worst luck in the world and I will be out of my state that entire week for the Certified Ethical Hacker class. hehe.

ditto, I guess all small-time miners are SOL

[klondike_bar]

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

Same thing here; 1 H-card and about $113.60 in total duties/fees.

I did not receive an SD card though, which makes the setup a lot less intuitive, as is the lack of included instructions of any kind (just a receipt from the megabigpower account page). Ill report on setup as soon as i wipe and reformat a camera card.....bit of an unexpected drawback

[-Redacted-]

Somebody forgot?  There should have been one included in the RPi box....

[skrazy]

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

Same thing here; 1 H-card and about $113.60 in total duties/fees.

I did not receive an SD card though, which makes the setup a lot less intuitive, as is the lack of included instructions of any kind (just a receipt from the megabigpower account page). Ill report on setup as soon as i wipe and reformat a camera card.....bit of an unexpected drawback

Are you order #134? My SD card is labelled as such but thats not my order number

[klondike_bar]

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

Same thing here; 1 H-card and about $113.60 in total duties/fees.

I did not receive an SD card though, which makes the setup a lot less intuitive, as is the lack of included instructions of any kind (just a receipt from the megabigpower account page). Ill report on setup as soon as i wipe and reformat a camera card.....bit of an unexpected drawback

Are you order #134? My SD card is labelled as such but thats not my order number

nope, #13X but not 134. The Rpi box (which was cracked and taped shut, no reason why that would create concern though) obviously has a spot for the card, but no card. trust me, i checked the entire box, 1 foam peanut at a time. 2hrs downtime while i download the image.

heres my setup questions. I have the hardware all correctly oriented and ready to power up (minus the SD card):
1) do i need just the image, or the chainminer code, or both?
2) once plugged, do i follow the US setup or the EU setup method?
3) the solder contacts along the bottom of the m-board: are they hazardous to the surface the unit is on, and is there risk of them shorting on a wooden surface?

[skrazy]

I received my starter kit today that was ordered July 8th. The shipment left Washington yesterday at 5:57 pm and arrived today at 1:53 pm. The address was incorrectly labelled on the package but I lucked out on a great driver who called dispatch to contact me and sort it out. I sent him on his way with an assortment of Gatorade and chocolate as thanks.

For Canadians looking for details on import duty: Megabigpower listed the value of the starter kit as 750 USD in the category of Motherboard. This category qualifies for Canadian taxes at a 100% rate. FedEx used an unfriendly conversion to place the value of the hardware at 771.93 CDN which taxed at 13% HST for a 100.34 charge. Of course FedEx also added in their own 11.30 ROD fee. The canadian dollar amount I paid for the starter kit was 1411.51 based on my CC assigned exchange rate at the time of purchase. With taxes the total paid stands at 1523.15 CDN.

In the box was the 2.0 version of the M-Board and one H-Card. After firing up the miner it took me a good 20 minutes to sort out some networking issues. I'm hashing at about 24 Gh/s without tuning and what looks to be one dead/marginal chip. Took a bit longer than expected but megabigpower has followed through on their promise and for that I must convey my thanks and respect.

Same thing here; 1 H-card and about $113.60 in total duties/fees.

I did not receive an SD card though, which makes the setup a lot less intuitive, as is the lack of included instructions of any kind (just a receipt from the megabigpower account page). Ill report on setup as soon as i wipe and reformat a camera card.....bit of an unexpected drawback

Are you order #134? My SD card is labelled as such but thats not my order number

nope, #13X but not 134. The Rpi box (which was cracked and taped shut, no reason why that would create concern though) obviously has a spot for the card, but no card. trust me, i checked the entire box, 1 foam peanut at a time. 2hrs downtime while i download the image.

heres my setup questions. I have the hardware all correctly oriented and ready to power up (minus the SD card):
1) do i need just the image, or the chainminer code, or both?
2) once plugged, do i follow the US setup or the EU setup method?
3) the solder contacts along the bottom of the m-board: are they hazardous to the surface the unit is on, and is there risk of them shorting on a wooden surface?

Issue with mine was that the gateway was set to 10.10.xx.xx. Not sure this is the best way to fix it but I forced the RPi to take an ip of my choice by adding ip=192.168.1.200 to the cmdline.txt in the root folder of the sd card. Then I connected the Rpi directly to my laptop and forced an ip manually of 192.168.1.100. SSH'ed into the rpi and changed the ip and gateway to what I needed by modifying /etc/network/interfaces

[Morblias]

1) i am assuming you have v2 master board? if so download the v2 image and throw it on the sd card. On windows I use win32diskimager. i am assuming the chainminer code would already be built into the image so you won't need to download that. I haven't actually tried downloading it, but this is my assumption
2) the setup should be the same for us and eu  assuming you have v2 board. basically just plug it in, find your IP, ssh into it to change root passwords and such. You can go to the IP in a browser to set the pool info, then hit start miner.
3) I would recommend getting some sort of raiser type thing on it. I have no idea how hot the master board actually runs, but it just seems safer in my opinion.

Mine auto assigned an IP so I was good to go right from the bat, but check Dave's setup post on changing the gateway and IP if you need to.

[klondike_bar]

okay im stuck already. having to load my own sd card is a massive PITA.

i cant ssh to the default ip. says connection refused when using putty. can someone help list the steps to get me off hte ground, because neither the EU or US manuals seem to address this

[Morblias]

okay im stuck already. having to load my own sd card is a massive PITA.

i cant ssh to the default ip. says connection refused when using putty. can someone help list the steps to get me off hte ground, because neither the EU or US manuals seem to address this

do you have a monitor you can hook up to it to make sure the IP you are using and gateway are correct? hook up a keyboard also, and when it loads type ifconfig to check the IP and gateway

[Cablez]

okay im stuck already. having to load my own sd card is a massive PITA.

i cant ssh to the default ip. says connection refused when using putty. can someone help list the steps to get me off hte ground, because neither the EU or US manuals seem to address this

do you have a monitor you can hook up to it to make sure the IP you are using and gateway are correct? hook up a keyboard also, and when it loads type ifconfig to check the IP and gateway

This ^^^

I had to reset the IP address of the Rpi as it was also 10.10.etc. Once I set a static IP then I could SSH in with putty and did not require a monitor.  Also, it may take 1-2 'sudo reboot' for it to stick.