Avalon A10 series announced

[PassThePopcorn]

This might not be the same but the first A10 I received had a DNS issue on DHCP, I first had to set it to static change the DNS then put it back to DHCP. Whatever DNS they were using in China didn't always resolve from here.

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[minerguy255]

As PassThePopcorn said, this could very well be the issue, the radio setting issue I was experiencing was causing a connectivity issue just for the 10 series miners not anything else. Apparently it is not recommended to use a router such as the routers provided from Verizon for mining coin as they have a low threshold of the number of devices that can connect, most are 6 or 7, I would hope on miners peak on telegram that is where I was able to find this information.

[philipma1957]

Using a higher end  cisco switch could be helpful.  All my miners go through refurbished cisco switches into a verizon router.

I did verizion >>>> 16 port switch>>>> I used this to connect to all gear in warehouse including the 4x 48 port  cisco switches.

30 miners each of the 4 switches

all are 1 gigabyte switches.

https://www.newegg.com/p/0XP-003P-003H8?Item=9SIA8WVB6C7822

they may have been the ones above. Or maybe these on ebay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cisco-WS-C3750G-48TS-S-48-Gigabit-Ports-Layer-3-Switch-3750G-48TS-E-ios-15-0-2/292503559584?

almost certain they were the ones from that ebay seller.

[minerguy255]

Phillip is one hundred and ten percent correct, a switch may also solve this as well, I always recommended running a switch anyways. I knew someone else who had an issue with a cheap cheap router, put it on an old switch I gave him and worked like a charm.

[jbillk]

I don't understand why they don't have a low power setting by now. Would be nice.

Just disappointed in general with Canaan's products. You would think they would try to help people out by being able to undervolt. The efficiency is not that great on 1047, approx 66 w/th;

Even my S9s I can get down to 75 w/th with brains os, and they are almost 3 years old. My Innosilicon T3s can undervolt very well, they are in low 50w/th, to high 40w./th.

I had quite a few 741s back in the day, and regretted buying them. Yes reliable, but Canaan's miners are always the first to brick.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

... Yes reliable, but Canaan's miners are always the first to brick.

Er?
'Reliable' and '1st to brick' are completely opposite unless you are talking about taking them offline due to eff reasons.

If that's the case, ja I have a nice pile of 721/741/821's and a few 841's accumulating that are now offline because of their lack of efficiency. But, I'm still running dozens of Avalon miners - 10 remaining 841's (half in low power space heater mode), a couple 921's and the rest A10xx. Aside from losing a fan on 2 of the oldest 721's I've had zero problems with them. I prefer that to the even bigger pile of DEAD s9/T9's I have...

[jbillk]

Yep. I'm at $0.05/kw, so efficiency is important for me. I guess if you have cheap power, then they are good for that reason. The heat sink design seems far superior than the individual heat sinks in bitmain miners. But i still have 3 year old S9s that are still running today, and bought them the same time as my 741s.

[HagssFIN]

^ Just because you had some bad 741 units, doesn't mean that the overall quality is shit.

If you take an AvalonMiner next to other vendor miners,
it is a high probability that the AvalonMiner will last the longest without issues.

[jbillk]

^ Just because you had some bad 741 units, doesn't mean that the overall quality is shit.

Like i said, build quality is good. The efficiencies are 12 months behind competitors, and therefor the least profitable to run in the long term.  They are always the first miners to unplug.

Just noticed that that they posted new firmware:

https://www.canaan.io/service/447

Ill try it out and post the results.


Looks like the new firmware added fields for additional pools. No low power mode though . Just normal and performance.

I also see they added:

CGMiner Configuration:

More options text box.

I remember with the older Avalons you you could adjust voltage/frequency/fan speed. Not sure if its possible with this input, don't remember the commands.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

I remember with the older Avalons you you could adjust voltage/frequency/fan speed. Not sure if its possible with this input, don't remember the commands.

Now that the More Options entry box is back we just have to wait for someone to find what the command formats for it are. The A7, 8, & 9's all have their quirks in the the commands used...

[wndsnb]

Has anyone tested out the power consumption of the latest 1066 and 1047 firmware? The release notes say they optimized power consumption.

https://canaan.io/service/447

Also, has anyone played with the "Privileged Firmware"?

https://github.com/Canaan-Creative/avalon10-docs/blob/master/Privileged%20API/Previleged%20API%20USER%20MANUAL%20v0.6.pdf

update: I had my host test out my 1066s with the updated firmware and the power consumption came out to 65W/th in both "High Performance" and "Normal" modes. No efficiency gain for normal mode.

[minerguy255]

Hate to bring this thread back up, how is everyone's 10 series running? I ended up purchasing a large amount of 1047's from Blokforge and with my current electricty rat of .04 kwh these are like the new s9s! I have been getting random shutdowns of my 1066s though and do not understand what can cause this.

[philipma1957]

Hate to bring this thread back up, how is everyone's 10 series running? I ended up purchasing a large amount of 1047's from Blokforge and with my current electricty rat of .04 kwh these are like the new s9s! I have been getting random shutdowns of my 1066s though and do not understand what can cause this.

i had 2 1041’s one is now dead.
i had 2 1066’s one is now dead.

both were psu failures.

i was unable to source replacement psu’s

[NotFuzzyWarm]

The 1041 with separate PSU? I have 3 of them that so far are rock solid but foresee *that* PSU as impossible to get from Canaan if 1 dies.

The 1066 PSU I'm surprised at - no replacement for it?

As for the 1047's the only odd thing I've seen is that every couple days they can restart themselves. Not sure what triggers it and not all of them do it - out of 5 of them only 2 do that.

[minerguy255]

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I had the same issue Blokforge was able to source some for me after bothering them for a solid week.

[philipma1957]

I sent them 1 email maybe I will try tomorrow.

[wndsnb]

I tried a few times in the past getting the "Privileged Firmware" working without success, so I contacted Canaan directly about it. They sent this document to me that contains different commands from the one published on their github. I tried them out on a 1047 with the latest firmware (2020.3.30) and it works, allows you to set voltage and change frequency. Hopefully, it'll be possible to get a bit more efficiency out of these.

Keep in mind that using this voids the warranty.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14MulwZgt0XTjUIlgKsj1leKxddDvjr0z/view?usp=sharing

[minerguy255]

I sent them 1 email maybe I will try tomorrow.

Hey Phillip, Ask for Devin in sales, he ended up cutting me a ridiculous deal on a few 1047s, one 1047 was only double what the PSU cost. So far out of my original 5 1047s I had 1 PSU failure and 1 MM board failure. 1066's all 5 are still running strong.

[minefarmbuy]

Are people still having trouble getting PSU replacements?

[philipma1957]

Well So far I needed:

2 m20s got them
3 m10.  got them
1 s17pro got it

1 A1066 could not get it.

Sent this just now.

Hi looking for 1 a1066 psu. Do you have any?https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5125803.msg55425767#msg55425767

 I was told in this post on Bitcointalk.org  to ask for Devin in sales.

Best regards Philip Axxxxxx aka philipma1957 of Bitcointalk