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I've been able to get my 48 miners powered by a single windows x64 machine. I was using anker 13 port powered hubs and I found that you can't daisy-chain them, as windows sees each block of 4 ports as a daisy-chained "hub." Basically, you need to plug each hub into the machine or, at the very least, daisy-chain off the first port. Here is my current setup, minus a few gridseeds. When I initially plugged these units in, I couldn’t get windows 7 x64 to see the virtual com ports, and found I needed to install the virtual com driver that I found here: http://www.diffpair.com/lightningasic/LIGHTNINGASIC%20Gold%20miner%20USB%20driver.rarI’m running separate instances of the custom-coded cpuminer with the BTC core shut off for scrypt-only mining. I was able to get that from here: http://cryptomining-blog.com/1165-download-cpuminer-for-gridseed-5-chip-gc3355-asics-with-reduced-power-usage/I have been able to get about 12.8-13.4 mh when mining with 48 of these units. I’ve been running them for 24 hours straight now with no disconnects, no reboots, and 100% stability. If you are having issues with the supplied controller, I suggest you ditch it and use a computer. If you’ve still got motherboards lying around from your GPU mining days, setup a quick install of windows/linux and run your gridseeds off that. PICS: I just love the beer poster.
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 04:44:47 AM |
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I just love the beer poster. It is pretty awesome, isn't it. You need beer to make gridseeds work.
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March 06, 2014, 04:50:50 AM |
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What's your total power draw?
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 04:51:49 AM |
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What's your total power draw?
I don't have a kill-o-watt, but I'm estimating around 8 watts per unit, or 393 watts. Not bad for 16 MH scrypt mining, if I don't say so myself.
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KryptoKings
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March 06, 2014, 12:57:23 PM |
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What's your total power draw?
I don't have a kill-o-watt, but I'm estimating around 8 watts per unit, or 393 watts. Not bad for 16 MH scrypt mining, if I don't say so myself. How hot is the room they are in or how hot do they run? I have 2 miners with 6 total 280x cards and it is hot as hell in that room. I might order 20 of these to start. What site did you order from? Thanks for the great infor
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 01:19:06 PM |
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What's your total power draw?
I don't have a kill-o-watt, but I'm estimating around 8 watts per unit, or 393 watts. Not bad for 16 MH scrypt mining, if I don't say so myself. How hot is the room they are in or how hot do they run? I have 2 miners with 6 total 280x cards and it is hot as hell in that room. I might order 20 of these to start. What site did you order from? Thanks for the great infor Well, it's not hot at all. I actually disconnected the wires that cool these little guys and they are still cool to the touch. In fact, I had to turn on the pellet stove just a few minutes ago because it's cold down here. I don't miss the heat and noise created by GPU's, I can tell you that. I ordered from Zoomhash.com, he is totally legit and very helpful.
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KryptoKings
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March 06, 2014, 01:47:35 PM |
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What's your total power draw?
I don't have a kill-o-watt, but I'm estimating around 8 watts per unit, or 393 watts. Not bad for 16 MH scrypt mining, if I don't say so myself. How hot is the room they are in or how hot do they run? I have 2 miners with 6 total 280x cards and it is hot as hell in that room. I might order 20 of these to start. What site did you order from? Thanks for the great infor Well, it's not hot at all. I actually disconnected the wires that cool these little guys and they are still cool to the touch. In fact, I had to turn on the pellet stove just a few minutes ago because it's cold down here. I don't miss the heat and noise created by GPU's, I can tell you that. I ordered from Zoomhash.com, he is totally legit and very helpful. Great info! Thanks. I just ordered one unit from Zoomhash a few days ago for testing before ordering more. I am looking at selling all my miners to buy some of these up. I have extra stuff from miners so I can do a stand along pc.
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March 06, 2014, 04:29:33 PM |
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After a day of these units running I got sick of the noise of 49 small fans, so I disconnected the individual fans and pointed a box fan at them. Now they are running silently and are only slightly warm to the touch. The only sound is the power supply fans kicking on every once in a while.
Can you post a picture of it with the box fan? regards, P.
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 04:39:14 PM |
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After a day of these units running I got sick of the noise of 49 small fans, so I disconnected the individual fans and pointed a box fan at them. Now they are running silently and are only slightly warm to the touch. The only sound is the power supply fans kicking on every once in a while.
Can you post a picture of it with the box fan? regards, P. Sure. Initially I had the box fan on the top of the rack pointing down, but then it occurred to me that heat rises, so I'm basically fighting against physics. I moved it to the bottom blowing up and now more of them stay cool.
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March 06, 2014, 04:56:53 PM |
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Sure. Initially I had the box fan on the top of the rack pointing down, but then it occurred to me that heat rises, so I'm basically fighting against physics. I moved it to the bottom blowing up and now more of them stay cool.
Thanks!! Very nice! Is the Fan sufficient for the three-storage-high rack? The top are also cooled??? I ask you this because one of my Gridseeds came with a Fan that does a annoying noise....I am thinking of replacing it with a standard one... regards, P.
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March 06, 2014, 05:28:23 PM |
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Sure. Initially I had the box fan on the top of the rack pointing down, but then it occurred to me that heat rises, so I'm basically fighting against physics. I moved it to the bottom blowing up and now more of them stay cool.
Thanks!! Very nice! Is the Fan sufficient for the three-storage-high rack? The top are also cooled??? I ask you this because one of my Gridseeds came with a Fan that does a annoying noise....I am thinking of replacing it with a standard one... regards, P. If it worked for zeetak then it is good enough for me. waiting on ebay funds to clear and I have will have 20 to start. I have a similar rack also lol. Awesome setup zeetak.
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 05:32:32 PM |
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Thanks!!
Very nice! Is the Fan sufficient for the three-storage-high rack? The top are also cooled???
I ask you this because one of my Gridseeds came with a Fan that does a annoying noise....I am thinking of replacing it with a standard one...
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The top ones are cooled currently. The bonus of having the fan wires disconnected on the miners is that you can just lay a box fan directly on them, and it'll probably work fine.
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March 06, 2014, 06:20:43 PM |
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If it worked for zeetak then it is good enough for me. waiting on ebay funds to clear and I have will have 20 to start. I have a similar rack also lol. Awesome setup zeetak.
Just wait, I have 50 more arriving tomorrow or sat! You are gonna get more pics for sure then
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March 06, 2014, 07:41:57 PM |
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Great job. Could you post a close-up picture that shows the AC connection of the psu and the connections of the Gridseed units to the psu?
Thanks in advance.
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March 06, 2014, 09:06:17 PM |
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Sure. Initially I had the box fan on the top of the rack pointing down, but then it occurred to me that heat rises, so I'm basically fighting against physics. I moved it to the bottom blowing up and now more of them stay cool.
Thanks!! Very nice! Is the Fan sufficient for the three-storage-high rack? The top are also cooled??? I ask you this because one of my Gridseeds came with a Fan that does a annoying noise....I am thinking of replacing it with a standard one... regards, P. If it worked for zeetak then it is good enough for me. waiting on ebay funds to clear and I have will have 20 to start. I have a similar rack also lol. Awesome setup zeetak. IKEA Rules right?!
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March 06, 2014, 09:25:14 PM |
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So is 50 the official count? or 48? -bobby
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 09:36:39 PM |
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Great job. Could you post a close-up picture that shows the AC connection of the psu and the connections of the Gridseed units to the psu?
Thanks in advance.
Sure.
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zeetak (OP)
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March 06, 2014, 09:37:54 PM |
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So is 50 the official count? or 48? -bobby
I have 50 but i'm missing a miniusb plug so i can't plug in the 50th. Sad panda.
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March 06, 2014, 10:49:46 PM |
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Awesome. I just ordered 10 of them from ZoomHash. Hope it's as easy a setup on my windows 7 machine as it was for you!
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March 07, 2014, 12:27:26 AM |
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Also--it looks like somebody has gotten cgminer to work in LTC mode with BTC disabled so you don't need to run cpuminer. Here's the comment: what thread does this come from exactly?
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