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Has anyone dismantled their Gridseed Blade and could post the specs of the fan please?
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JoostB
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June 30, 2014, 02:05:02 PM |
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Well I have already prepared my miners. Now I have another problem. A controller does not work with more than one miner? If you see in the images. I tried to connect two units to a PI. The script Zeus detects me two usb. But only one works. You can connect more than one at a time? Thanks. PD. Makes a lot of NOISE.  I'll have to put them somewhere else and try to isolate some noise. any idea? I used Zeusminer 3.0 Pi image with more than 1 device, it should work. It seams MinerEU Pi image for Zeus can only work with 1 device. You have to configure and start the miners separately in these tabs you see on top of the program. The noise and the heat is something you have to live with. I have my miners in a separate room with some acoustic dampening material on the door. And you have to get rid of the heat. That is why I bought A2Mini, because it runs much cooler and quieter than the Zeus miners. |
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VictorBC
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June 30, 2014, 03:05:23 PM |
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Well I have already prepared my miners. Now I have another problem. A controller does not work with more than one miner? If you see in the images. I tried to connect two units to a PI. The script Zeus detects me two usb. But only one works. You can connect more than one at a time? Thanks. PD. Makes a lot of NOISE. I'll have to put them somewhere else and try to isolate some noise. any idea? I used Zeusminer 3.0 Pi image with more than 1 device, it should work. It seams MinerEU Pi image for Zeus can only work with 1 device. You have to configure and start the miners separately in these tabs you see on top of the program. The noise and the heat is something you have to live with. I have my miners in a separate room with some acoustic dampening material on the door. And you have to get rid of the heat. That is why I bought A2Mini, because it runs much cooler and quieter than the Zeus miners. V3.0 Is Good!!! Very Thanks!!  |
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June 30, 2014, 03:59:55 PM |
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Do you have pictures of the defective area?
This is a view of the capacitors, you can't see them whole through the vents but you can see they are all opened instead of having a flat metal surface. The one on the top left shows the material best.  This is the material still clinging on the vents.  This is the projection of the material mostly on the edge of the controller board in front of the vents:  And finally the verdict is: both blades died with the PSU. I found a replacement PSU that I had in storage (a brand new high quality 12V 300W PSU for large LED lighting setups) to test the a2mini and here are the results... What I believed to be a 5V line is in fact 12V (the red wire used for it is a mistake). The wiring color is wrong for the high voltage wires too: ground and neutral wire colors are swapped. You can't replace the PSU with a standard ATX one: the connectors aren't wired like standard PCI-e: the 12V and ground connections are swapped. On one of the blades there was an extra PCI-e connector whose wiring might have been standard but it was too close to the fan to be used (and the other blade doesn't have this connector). This a2mini had other problems: I noticed a bent capacitor and one thermal pad not properly aligned on one of the blades and corrosion around the screw holes on the side panel holding the PSU. I really hope the 2 surviving a2mini will not blow up like this one. I just asked for a refund or replacement. |
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pjcltd
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June 30, 2014, 04:16:58 PM |
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Well I have already prepared my miners. Now I have another problem. A controller does not work with more than one miner? If you see in the images. I tried to connect two units to a PI. The script Zeus detects me two usb. But only one works. You can connect more than one at a time? Thanks. PD. Makes a lot of NOISE. I'll have to put them somewhere else and try to isolate some noise. any idea? I used Zeusminer 3.0 Pi image with more than 1 device, it should work. It seams MinerEU Pi image for Zeus can only work with 1 device. You have to configure and start the miners separately in these tabs you see on top of the program. The noise and the heat is something you have to live with. I have my miners in a separate room with some acoustic dampening material on the door. And you have to get rid of the heat. That is why I bought A2Mini, because it runs much cooler and quieter than the Zeus miners. V3.0 Is Good!!! Very Thanks!! Hi do you have a working link to the V3 software ? |
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JoostB
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June 30, 2014, 05:23:26 PM |
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Well I have already prepared my miners. Now I have another problem. A controller does not work with more than one miner? If you see in the images. I tried to connect two units to a PI. The script Zeus detects me two usb. But only one works. You can connect more than one at a time? Thanks. PD. Makes a lot of NOISE. I'll have to put them somewhere else and try to isolate some noise. any idea? I used Zeusminer 3.0 Pi image with more than 1 device, it should work. It seams MinerEU Pi image for Zeus can only work with 1 device. You have to configure and start the miners separately in these tabs you see on top of the program. The noise and the heat is something you have to live with. I have my miners in a separate room with some acoustic dampening material on the door. And you have to get rid of the heat. That is why I bought A2Mini, because it runs much cooler and quieter than the Zeus miners. V3.0 Is Good!!! Very Thanks!! Hi do you have a working link to the V3 software ? !ZtplCYJD!X1d9QVXFVYZ4ZGGku8LI0vnHhkX3btMRAr4NnpP52DQ It seems you have to copy this link into your browser, at least with IE it doesn't work directly. |
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pjcltd
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June 30, 2014, 08:20:41 PM |
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Well I have already prepared my miners. Now I have another problem. A controller does not work with more than one miner? If you see in the images. I tried to connect two units to a PI. The script Zeus detects me two usb. But only one works. You can connect more than one at a time? Thanks. PD. Makes a lot of NOISE. I'll have to put them somewhere else and try to isolate some noise. any idea? I used Zeusminer 3.0 Pi image with more than 1 device, it should work. It seams MinerEU Pi image for Zeus can only work with 1 device. You have to configure and start the miners separately in these tabs you see on top of the program. The noise and the heat is something you have to live with. I have my miners in a separate room with some acoustic dampening material on the door. And you have to get rid of the heat. That is why I bought A2Mini, because it runs much cooler and quieter than the Zeus miners. V3.0 Is Good!!! Very Thanks!! Hi do you have a working link to the V3 software ? !ZtplCYJD!X1d9QVXFVYZ4ZGGku8LI0vnHhkX3btMRAr4NnpP52DQ It seems you have to copy this link into your browser, at least with IE it doesn't work directly. Thanks for that it works a treat |
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June 30, 2014, 09:37:44 PM |
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Do you have pictures of the defective area?
This is a view of the capacitors, you can't see them whole through the vents but you can see they are all opened instead of having a flat metal surface. The one on the top left shows the material best. This is the material still clinging on the vents. This is the projection of the material mostly on the edge of the controller board in front of the vents: And finally the verdict is: both blades died with the PSU. I found a replacement PSU that I had in storage (a brand new high quality 12V 300W PSU for large LED lighting setups) to test the a2mini and here are the results... What I believed to be a 5V line is in fact 12V (the red wire used for it is a mistake). The wiring color is wrong for the high voltage wires too: ground and neutral wire colors are swapped. You can't replace the PSU with a standard ATX one: the connectors aren't wired like standard PCI-e: the 12V and ground connections are swapped. On one of the blades there was an extra PCI-e connector whose wiring might have been standard but it was too close to the fan to be used (and the other blade doesn't have this connector). This a2mini had other problems: I noticed a bent capacitor and one thermal pad not properly aligned on one of the blades and corrosion around the screw holes on the side panel holding the PSU. I really hope the 2 surviving a2mini will not blow up like this one. I just asked for a refund or replacement. I had the same thing I guess. PSU + a blade died (and I just realised I left the new PSU in the returned miner, crap). They better sent me a decent one this time. |
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JoostB
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July 01, 2014, 07:12:49 AM |
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You guys are having very bad luck! Most of the time when a switched PSU breaks down it doesn't put a too high voltage on the equipment.
I hope you will get a decent replacement, the second A2Mini I bought was in such a bad shape that I couldn't accept it.
Why they changed to another manufacturer I don't understand, the silver A2Mini was neatly assembled, the new black one clearly not.
By the end of the week I will finally get the better PSU I ordered long time ago to replace the crappy one in my A2Mini, hopefully my A2Mini will hold until that time.
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emdje
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July 01, 2014, 01:55:53 PM |
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For anyone who want to log into the image using putty:
Username: pi
Password: innosilicon
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July 01, 2014, 04:23:04 PM |
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never though of adding load balancing? so i can mine in 2 pools at the same time....  I have now the 6 blades in 1280 (A2BOX with the scripta image) and i get around 20-30% error in coinshift... do you think with your image that will change? thank you! |
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July 01, 2014, 07:56:44 PM |
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For now I have only changed the amount of settings you have to choose from. The number of hardware errors will be a combination of your hardware, the temperature (so the cooling) and possibly the mining pool. I mine at clevermining. You might try a different pool, or a slightly lower chip frequency. Possibly the image might make a difference because I had more issues with the one from minereu than this one.
I will look into load balancing and round robin etc. But that will require some more digging for me because that's another level.
Try it out and let me know if it makes a difference.
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VictorBC
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July 01, 2014, 08:30:39 PM |
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Because you think that does not raise the value of Litecoin? I remember when before the bitcoin and Litecoin together .. and now Litecoin down and bitcoin not for uploading .. you think that much will this trend last? At this rate, I recover my investment in 3-4 months? I begin to doubt ...
Greetings.
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emdje
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July 01, 2014, 08:45:19 PM |
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My dropbox link has been suspended because of excessive traffic  Where can I upload the image for others to download without this problem? It is 7 Gigabites. |
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July 02, 2014, 01:45:10 AM |
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My dropbox link has been suspended because of excessive traffic Where can I upload the image for others to download without this problem? It is 7 Gigabites. Didn't you zip or rar it ? Shouldn't be more than anywhwere between 1 and 2.5 GB when properly compressed  |
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July 02, 2014, 04:32:32 AM
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My dropbox link has been suspended because of excessive traffic Where can I upload the image for others to download without this problem? It is 7 Gigabites. Haven't downloaded it yet. When you can't find an other solution I can eventually put it on my web/ftp server for some time. I have 100Mb upload and 6TB free space, but I don't want to get into trouble with my provider. May be even better to make a torrent for it when there are enough downloaders. You can compress it with 7zip, this should give a good compression rate. |
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July 02, 2014, 05:38:35 AM
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Because you think that does not raise the value of Litecoin? I remember when before the bitcoin and Litecoin together .. and now Litecoin down and bitcoin not for uploading .. you think that much will this trend last? At this rate, I recover my investment in 3-4 months? I begin to doubt ...
Greetings.
The main problem is that nowadays everybody dumps their scrypt coins in exchange for BTC to sell them for fiat. These multi-coin pools that pay you in BTC are also cause of the problem. This will effectively kill LTC and all other scrypt coins with it. You can wait for it, within a couple of weeks LTC will be worth maybe $2. I was so stupid to buy a second A2Mini directly from China, when everything fails I can always use them to warm my house during the winter. The two A2's I now have are bought with coins I generated with mining and trading, so I didn't invest any real money in it. |
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July 02, 2014, 06:02:17 AM |
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My dropbox link has been suspended because of excessive traffic Where can I upload the image for others to download without this problem? It is 7 Gigabites. try mega |
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July 02, 2014, 07:45:26 AM |
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My dropbox link has been suspended because of excessive traffic Where can I upload the image for others to download without this problem? It is 7 Gigabites. Haven't downloaded it yet. When you can't find an other solution I can eventually put it on my web/ftp server for some time. I have 100Mb upload and 6TB free space, but I don't want to get into trouble with my provider. May be even better to make a torrent for it when there are enough downloaders. You can compress it with 7zip, this should give a good compression rate. Sent it to me i will upload it on my server. Got enuogh date though |
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July 02, 2014, 08:53:03 AM |
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Haven't downloaded it yet.
When you can't find an other solution I can eventually put it on my web/ftp server for some time.
I have 100Mb upload and 6TB free space, but I don't want to get into trouble with my provider.
May be even better to make a torrent for it when there are enough downloaders.
You can compress it with 7zip, this should give a good compression rate.
wow that compressed it to just over 600Mb thnx. try mega
Made an account am uploading it now, will post the link when that is done. Thnx for all advice and willingness to help with hosting option etc. |
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