[ANN] Spondoolies-Tech - carrier grade, data center ready mining rigs

[Bicknellski]

SP10  Farfegnugen
SP20  Farfegnugen
SP30  Farfegnugen
SP31  Farfegnugen
SPXX  Farfegnugen

Whichever you choose pure "driving pleasure".

BFL Schadenfreude
HashFast Schadenfreude
BlackArrow Schadenfreude
AMT Schadenfreude
Technobit Schadenfreude
KnC Schadenfreude
Avalon Schadenfreude
Bitmine Schadenfreude

And this list goes on for the pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others who bought from less reputable companies.

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[Soros Shorts]

SP10  Farfegnugen
SP20  Farfegnugen
SP30  Farfegnugen
SP31  Farfegnugen
SPXX  Farfegnugen

Whichever you choose pure "driving pleasure".

I'll do a Kim Dotcom and make a custom "SP3000 Turbo" sticker for my SP30.

[Unacceptable]

KnC...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/09/05/for-kncminer-time-to-forget-selling-bitcoin-machines-to-at-home-miners/
see comments

well ...looks like us home miner types yelling on here about noise/elec use etc were listened to I'm shocked.......no asic company ever listened before

(have to sit down...world is tilting)

Searing

p.s. bet the price point is $1500 usd at best imho......still tough to justify at these BTC prices and 15c kwh in my case
... and the difficulty being completely nuts...imho they should be priced at end of Oct time line at
around $1000 usd....even then tough to make ROI but at least conceivable? maybe? kinda sorta?

But hell I might even pay the extra $500 usd over the $1000 to mine with the beast .just to decentralize BTC (take that KNC my 1.7TH will put a dent in your profits by golly!)
and WTF I have no life....so again nice whirly noises...pretty LCD's and winter is coming...there it is ..thats the ticket...it is a HEATER we need someone
good at math to prove to me that at 15c/kwh I can bank money back on this beastie with costs/elec figured in...yea..ROI via HEAT (man am I grasping
at straws or what)

(delusion is a foul fiend that follows home miners everywhere don't ya know)

ah....another hopeless ROI guest......my life is now again as normal as it ever gets........some people gamble some people get home miners
it is all the same.....keeps us in line placid and in worker drone mode......(off to get a lottery ticket)

Searing

Kinda complicated to read but:

http://www.mhi-inc.com/Converter/watt_calculator.htm

1000 watts in 24hrs=81950 BTU.

@ 12,000 btu per 1 ton of A/C=6.82 tons (seems kinda high IMO,something is off     )  At that rate you could heat a 1500 sq ft home quite well....maybe not in snow country 

Or:

http://rapidtables.com/convert/power/Watt_to_BTU.htm

[Searing]

KnC...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/09/05/for-kncminer-time-to-forget-selling-bitcoin-machines-to-at-home-miners/
see comments

well ...looks like us home miner types yelling on here about noise/elec use etc were listened to I'm shocked.......no asic company ever listened before

(have to sit down...world is tilting)

Searing

p.s. bet the price point is $1500 usd at best imho......still tough to justify at these BTC prices and 15c kwh in my case
... and the difficulty being completely nuts...imho they should be priced at end of Oct time line at
around $1000 usd....even then tough to make ROI but at least conceivable? maybe? kinda sorta?

But hell I might even pay the extra $500 usd over the $1000 to mine with the beast .just to decentralize BTC (take that KNC my 1.7TH will put a dent in your profits by golly!)
and WTF I have no life....so again nice whirly noises...pretty LCD's and winter is coming...there it is ..thats the ticket...it is a HEATER we need someone
good at math to prove to me that at 15c/kwh I can bank money back on this beastie with costs/elec figured in...yea..ROI via HEAT (man am I grasping
at straws or what)

(delusion is a foul fiend that follows home miners everywhere don't ya know)

ah....another hopeless ROI guest......my life is now again as normal as it ever gets........some people gamble some people get home miners
it is all the same.....keeps us in line placid and in worker drone mode......(off to get a lottery ticket)

Searing

Kinda complicated to read but:

http://www.mhi-inc.com/Converter/watt_calculator.htm

1000 watts in 24hrs=81950 BTU.

@ 12,000 btu per 1 ton of A/C=6.82 tons (seems kinda high IMO,something is off     )  At that rate you could heat a 1500 sq ft home quite well....maybe not in snow country  

Or:

http://rapidtables.com/convert/power/Watt_to_BTU.htm

argh i had it all figured with your above link...dumped my last post...anyway

...with my 15c/kwh and what it took off my $125 gas bill in the winter....it came out to a 35% cut off my equiv costs on the electric bill ...so
it would mean I could run a miner in the winter and get 35% off elec costs to run it

again from what I figured from the savings in gas to heat house (saved 9 days in heat) and converted to elec savings equiv to get the elec cost
of the miner down (not paying those $$$ to the gas company)

..in the heat (it is in the basement so not exactly where I can use it..but hey
denial ..I'll take what I can get)...so the price w/the heat credit to run a 1000 watt say sp20


https://tradeblock.com/mining/

using the above

at say $0.7/gh in cost lets say the spondoolies sp20 is $1190  (w/o power supply) kwh for me is 15c/kwh and the elec costs (minus the HEAT applied)

runs the numbers

remember 35% less on watts in above calculator at 15c/kwh to get the supposed savings on HEAT

20% ave growth till around the middle of NOV when you probably would get the beastie....and I get a $367 usd loss (at current exchange rate of around $475)

if I just go by how much BTC I could make off the unit w/o expenses for 6 months looking at 2.59 btc so..if BTC went back to 500 usd in 6 months I'd MAYBE
break even...take the equip cost off and the elec no way

and this is with my HEAT THE BASEMENT $$$ savings

sigh

If I BUY BTC now at 475 usd and the unit costs me my guess above of $1190 usd....that would be 2.5btc w/o the equip loss above and elec of $367 or .77btc
2.59btc -0.77btc with equip elec costs above again with my HEAT savings on winter home heat that is 1.82 btc vs again the 2.5btc I could just buy now

math is cruel

anyway I probably mucked up the above and all of the above is me being obviously very very bored...but at EVEN  a 1000 usd price...you would still be down
around $308 usd loss on such a sp20 unit

anyway ugly ugly ....anyway those with better math fix/trash the above or whatever...but with my 'very blatant' guesses the ballpark figures as it were...
all to make a very nice cozy basement heated up (likely only the basement..mot like I can move the air..boiler heat) so the real savings above are also suspect..

but then again if I do get the miner I can strike back at the evil centralization of BFL/KNC and others ...strike my puny blow for decentralization!

yeah er sheesh

Searing

[Bicknellski]

SP10  Farfegnugen
SP20  Farfegnugen
SP30  Farfegnugen
SP31  Farfegnugen
SPXX  Farfegnugen

Whichever you choose pure "driving pleasure".

I'll do a Kim Dotcom and make a custom "SP3000 Turbo" sticker for my SP30.

Can I get a few for my SP30's?

[Biffa]

Did we ascertain whether the SP30's come with zero, one or two power cables?

[nhminer]

Its my article and I pester them a bunch for info on stuff.  They were good enough to allow me to break the story first and I appreciate it so much.
I really do like the the SP20 as it does fill the gap in the miner realm right now.  Adding in they are talking a few week ship time as opposed to months and months this is a great choice. 

Quoted in part:
Spondoolies-Tech is releasing a new miner named the SP20-Jackson that will start shipping in October.

Specifications as of press time:
Hash Rate: 1.7 th/s +/- 5%, Over Clockable to 1.8 th/s, 8 ASIC Chips
Power Consumption: 1100 watts at the wall with a Gold rated, 90% efficiency PSU suggested
Power connections: 4x PCIe
Smaller Form Factor 1/3 size of the SP30, 60dB or less estimated

What I like a lot is 60dB or less! By comparison sp-10 is at 80 decibel
Decibel Levels of Common Sounds:

Decibels	Degree	Sound Source
80	Loud	Average City Traffic
60	Moderate	Conversational speech

[wh00per]

Most of the noise was coming from the PSU fans anyway. If they don't ship the PSU with the new design, that noise is yours!

[bobsag3]

Did we ascertain whether the SP30's come with zero, one or two power cables?

2

[Biodom]

KnC...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/09/05/for-kncminer-time-to-forget-selling-bitcoin-machines-to-at-home-miners/
see comments

well ...looks like us home miner types yelling on here about noise/elec use etc were listened to I'm shocked.......no asic company ever listened before

(have to sit down...world is tilting)

Searing

p.s. bet the price point is $1500 usd at best imho......still tough to justify at these BTC prices and 15c kwh in my case
... and the difficulty being completely nuts...imho they should be priced at end of Oct time line at
around $1000 usd....even then tough to make ROI but at least conceivable? maybe? kinda sorta?

But hell I might even pay the extra $500 usd over the $1000 to mine with the beast .just to decentralize BTC (take that KNC my 1.7TH will put a dent in your profits by golly!)
and WTF I have no life....so again nice whirly noises...pretty LCD's and winter is coming...there it is ..thats the ticket...it is a HEATER we need someone
good at math to prove to me that at 15c/kwh I can bank money back on this beastie with costs/elec figured in...yea..ROI via HEAT (man am I grasping
at straws or what)

(delusion is a foul fiend that follows home miners everywhere don't ya know)

ah....another hopeless ROI guest......my life is now again as normal as it ever gets........some people gamble some people get home miners
it is all the same.....keeps us in line placid and in worker drone mode......(off to get a lottery ticket)

Searing

Kinda complicated to read but:

http://www.mhi-inc.com/Converter/watt_calculator.htm

1000 watts in 24hrs=81950 BTU.

@ 12,000 btu per 1 ton of A/C=6.82 tons (seems kinda high IMO,something is off     )  At that rate you could heat a 1500 sq ft home quite well....maybe not in snow country  

Or:

http://rapidtables.com/convert/power/Watt_to_BTU.htm

I don't think that you have correct math because you multiplied by 24hr.
Correct number is 1000W=3412 BTU/hr
http://www.rapidtables.com/convert/power/Watt_to_BTU.htm
One ton of A/C removes 12000 BTU in an hour, hence ONLY 0.28 tons of A/C is needed for 1000W
If 6.82 tons were needed, my house would be at the outside temp of 100F

[Biodom]

Its my article and I pester them a bunch for info on stuff.  They were good enough to allow me to break the story first and I appreciate it so much.
I really do like the the SP20 as it does fill the gap in the miner realm right now.  Adding in they are talking a few week ship time as opposed to months and months this is a great choice. 

great sleuthing
Congrats

[jjiimm_64]

Yeah, isn't it crazy. This year is very strange: ~70 fold difficulty increase since last November, but more than 50% BTC price decrease.
I would have never guessed that this would be the case. I don't think that this dichotomy can continue much longer, but who knows.

this!   a shakeout is in progress.

[RoadStress]

Did we ascertain whether the SP30's come with zero, one or two power cables?

2

The SP30 comes with 2 cables for power, but not the ones that you plug into your socket. They are only an extension that goes between the power cord and the PSU. You still need to provide 2 PSU power cords.

[wh00per]

The SP30 comes with 2 cables for power, but not the ones that you plug into your socket. They are only an extension that goes between the power cord and the PSU. You still need to provide 2 PSU power cords.

It's about being datacenter ready .. so these TWO cables plug OK in a PDU.


Commonly used for data servers, this power cable has a C14 and a C19 connector.  The C19 connector is commonly found on servers while the C14 is found on power distribution units.
Features:
Length - 3 Feet
Connector 1 - IEC C14 (inlet)
Connector 2 - IEC C19 (outlet)
15 Amps 250 Volt rating
SJT Jacket
14 AWG
Certification: UL Listed, RoHS Compliant



A pic with what's in the box :  miner + installed front ears, uninstalled back ears (supporting type, in the plastic bags in the corners of the box) + 2 cables and .. 4 rubber feet  (you can't see those in the picture)

[Biffa]

Did we ascertain whether the SP30's come with zero, one or two power cables?

2

The SP30 comes with 2 cables for power, but not the ones that you plug into your socket. They are only an extension that goes between the power cord and the PSU. You still need to provide 2 PSU power cords.

Yeah I know they come with C14 to C19 cables for plugging into PDU's.

Problem is I found out that that only sent one cable with each SP30 instead of two, which means I'm running half speed till I can get Amazon to deliver to the datacenter on Monday.

[RoadStress]

Yeah I know they come with C14 to C19 cables for plugging into PDU's.

Problem is I found out that that only sent one cable with each SP30 instead of two, which means I'm running half speed till I can get Amazon to deliver to the datacenter on Monday.

Care to share where are you hosting them? A DC should have all sort of cables around. I think they are required by their internal rules for safety reasons.

[bobsag3]

The SP30 comes with 2 cables for power, but not the ones that you plug into your socket. They are only an extension that goes between the power cord and the PSU. You still need to provide 2 PSU power cords.

It's about being datacenter ready .. so these TWO cables plug OK in a PDU.


Commonly used for data servers, this power cable has a C14 and a C19 connector.  The C19 connector is commonly found on servers while the C14 is found on power distribution units.
Features:
Length - 3 Feet
Connector 1 - IEC C14 (inlet)
Connector 2 - IEC C19 (outlet)
15 Amps 250 Volt rating
SJT Jacket
14 AWG
Certification: UL Listed, RoHS Compliant



A pic with what's in the box :  miner + installed front ears, uninstalled back ears (supporting type, in the plastic bags in the corners of the box) + 2 cables and .. 4 rubber feet  (you can't see those in the picture)

This. We went right from Miner > PDU.

[Biffa]

Yeah I know they come with C14 to C19 cables for plugging into PDU's.

Problem is I found out that that only sent one cable with each SP30 instead of two, which means I'm running half speed till I can get Amazon to deliver to the datacenter on Monday.

Care to share where are you hosting them? A DC should have all sort of cables around. I think they are required by their internal rules for safety reasons.

The fault of not providing the correct power cables is not with the colo, it with the supplier of the equipment.

The C14 male and female is fairly common I would be surprised if they didn't have them, but the C19 usually comes on only really high end servers and things like massive switches and UPS's PSU's

[forzendiablo]

so how are this machines now?

[RoadStress]

The fault of not providing the correct power cables is not with the colo, it with the supplier of the equipment.

The C14 male and female is fairly common I would be surprised if they didn't have them, but the C19 usually comes on only really high end servers and things like massive switches and UPS's PSU's

Never blamed the DC for not having cables. I was just trying to find a backup plan/solution for the missing cable not provided by the manufacturer

so how are this machines now?

Hashing steady and stable!