Blue Fury Support Thread.

[FrontLineFodder]

Kabopar,

I found drawing a line along the side was easiest, one to two lines did it for me.

my initial scribbling over the top was not necessary :-)

i'd measure the resistance again after, I'd not let it go below 0.84.

you might need the eraser and a couple of attempts to get the right result.

[FrontLineFodder]

its going to be summer over here soon, I expect mine to fry

[mikejones]

I disagree in regard to running -S bigpic:all.  I am running my single BF with bfgminer 3.5.1, with the 'alfa driver' provided by Beastlymac, through a batch file called #MINE.bat on Win7 64, the content of this batch file is
bfgminer.exe -S bigpic:all -o [pool url] -u [user name] -p [password]

You can use -S bigpic:all as long as you don't also have USB Block Erupters.  As has been discussed before, using -S bigpic:all will screw up erupters, and using -S erupter:all will screw up BFs.

Thanks Norby! I was trying to say that. I hope everything worked out for you Lou!


BTW G'morning all

Hi,

I got the driver installed on Win8.1 but none of the Blue Fury's are showing up in bfgminer 3.5.1 on my PC or MinePeon 0.24rc2(with git pull). Does anyone know what commands I should use to get them all to show. I have 4 of them on 2 usb hubs(2 each hub). I have tried plugging into USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports and a no go for both. Anyone have any ideas? I would prefer to use them on Minepeon.

This is what i'm using below for Minepeon.

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
/usr/bin/screen -dmS miner /opt/minepeon/bin/bfgminer -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM0 -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM1 -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM3 -S bitfury:/dev/ttyAMA0 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

This is the list of the devices listed using "ls /dev/tty*

https://i.imgur.com/ZHqSJN6.jpg

Thanks.

Try changing the bitfury to bigpic or bf1

How do you know which tty belongs to what miner?

Not sure about Arch but on Debian like systems

Code:

udevadm info --query=all -n /dev/ttyACM0 | grep ID_VENDOR

Just replace the ttyACM0 (above) with the device you need info on. Same goes for ttyUSB devices.

GNU/Linux Debian armhf on SoC. BFGMiner 3.5.1

Hi,

Still can't get it to work with the suggested settings. What versions of cgminer and bfgminer work with Bluefury's? Are they the same settings for both? Can someone assist me by entering the settings under each one if it is specific to that miner or if it is both the same put it under both. I am running Windows8.1x64. The driver for the miners have been installed and COM ports have been assigned.

cgminer = 3.8.0-3.8.1?

bfgminer = 3.5.0-3.5.1?

both = ?


Thanks.

For me Cgminer, but I'm running it on a rasberry pi (Unix based O/S)

[kabopar]

Kabopar,

I found drawing a line along the side was easiest, one to two lines did it for me.

my initial scribbling over the top was not necessary :-)

i'd measure the resistance again after, I'd not let it go below 0.84.

you might need the eraser and a couple of attempts to get the right result.

Thanks for this suggestion, I just tried it and it does work, finally the resistance moved from 0.97K to 0.94K.  after 4 minutes I'm getting 2.40/2.38/2.33 (bfgminer 3.5.1), which is better than anything this BF produced before.  So far there is no noticeable heating, but it could be too early to tell.  (It's going to be summer here soon too, hopefully the bushfires will not be ignited by overheating BlueFuries...

Cheers

[kabopar]

its going to be summer over here soon, I expect mine to fry

Thanks again for your suggestion.  Here is the result after about 15 minutes

Clearly better than the 2.26 GH/sec that it was getting originally.

Cheers

[Zeek_W]

Still haven't received compensation from julz. Not even a reply in his thread.

[OleOle]

Still haven't received compensation from julz. Not even a reply in his thread.

Yeah, it's time they got serious about the compensation. I bought twelve of them, one of them needs replaced or refunded as it only hashes at 0.5 GH/s, the other eleven did not make the advertised rate of 2.2-2.7 GH/s, they all perform at about 2.1 GH/s... and all twelve of them did not arrive on the 'first or second week of October', they arrived a month late.

 

[Beastlymac]

The compensation has been sent out to all groupbuy leaders. If you have a faulty unit you need to contact your groupbuy leader to go through the process of a replacment device.

[OleOle]

The compensation has been sent out to all groupbuy leaders. If you have a faulty unit you need to contact your groupbuy leader to go through the process of a replacment device.

Ok, thanks a lot, I'll contact Dabs.

Appreciate your help.

[Atomar]

Anyone know how to clear my com ports out. Every time I switch from Zadig to Alpha driver it keeps ahold of the old com port and uses a new one.
They don't show up in the Device manager not even when I unhide

Try this site: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/misc_tools_e.html
Name of the tool: COM Name Arbiter Setter -> half way down the site ...

[elpenguin]

I wonder if I have a bad unit. I've read through this thread, and I've never seen anything better than 1.2GH/s. Different setups, always powered. Screen shot below shows bfgminer 3.5.1, but I've tried cgminer 3.7.2 and bfgminer 3.2.0. Linux and windows.

https://i.imgur.com/kqXAxOX.png

If this is a bad unit, can I send it in for a replacement/repair?

https://i.imgur.com/fx5KSts.jpg

I am having the same problem and I have also tried Linux, Windows, cgminer and bfgminer. Have you made any progress?

[Eternity]

Are your devices still available ?

If yes send me message

[btljuice]

I wonder if I have a bad unit. I've read through this thread, and I've never seen anything better than 1.2GH/s. Different setups, always powered. Screen shot below shows bfgminer 3.5.1, but I've tried cgminer 3.7.2 and bfgminer 3.2.0. Linux and windows.



If this is a bad unit, can I send it in for a replacement/repair?

I am having the same problem and I have also tried Linux, Windows, cgminer and bfgminer. Have you made any progress?

Yes, I contacted my group buy leader. Sending the unit back to him for replacement.

[albon]

Quick question

How can you run these and usb erupters at the same time in one instance of BFGMiner?

[bitterdog]

pencil mod definatly worth the few seconds it takes

[Mudbankkeith]

I wonder if I have a bad unit. I've read through this thread, and I've never seen anything better than 1.2GH/s. Different setups, always powered. Screen shot below shows bfgminer 3.5.1, but I've tried cgminer 3.7.2 and bfgminer 3.2.0. Linux and windows.



If this is a bad unit, can I send it in for a replacement/repair?

I am having the same problem and I have also tried Linux, Windows, cgminer and bfgminer. Have you made any progress?

Yes, I contacted my group buy leader. Sending the unit back to him for replacement.

Under BFGMiner the first figure is 5 sec average, second figure is all time average, third figure is average for pool (corrected for rejected).

How long were you connected?  It could take an hour or more to settle.

[crudpuppy]

I also did pencil mod and after a bit of playing got some good results and had to erase my lines and start over cause went bit too far :-)

I had no idea what a pencil mod was so googled it for other like me : http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=106&pgno=6

It does help but be careful how much you push it.  If you don't have a voltmeter that can measure resistance get one they aren't that expensive then reference frontlinefodder's posts about resistance before/after.

I do wonder with some upgraded cooling just how far I could push this lil thing :-) :-/ >:-)

[bitterdog]

Anyone know how to clear my com ports out. Every time I switch from Zadig to Alpha driver it keeps ahold of the old com port and uses a new one.
They don't show up in the Device manager not even when I unhide

You could try the device manager cleanup instructions in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300638.0
It helped me with multiple Com port settings for BE's.

Cheers

Thank you worked like a charm!

[bitterdog]

Talk about a PAIN IN THE ASS!

Finally able to get 5 going at once




and then PENCIL MODDED!

[OleOle]

Talk about a PAIN IN THE ASS!

Finally able to get 5 going at once

Jeez, your Furies are performing well compared to mine, are they standard or did you mod them in any way?