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[jowo88]

anyone else get stuck paying for shipping. I had to pay the DHL guy 20 dollars to get mine

I've bought 3 units gridseed from GAW to indonesia, shipping via USPS [edited] and very smooth, but the import tax is very expensive for me. I paid $ 170 for that.  

[schnauzr]

How is everyone's "Discarded" shares looking on the zenminer page?  After running overnight mine are double the accepted shares.



The poolside hashrates seem to be fairly accurate though.

Honestly, I'm not sure what that number actually means.  The option "no-submit-stale" is not enabled, so I don't think it has anything to do with locally discarding shares that are determined to be stale.  Thoughts?

Be nice to get the HW error count as well.

Oh, by the way, for those of you who don't see your pool stats - log cycle.  I was showing a friend the setup last night and log cycled and voila! There were SOME pool stats (not HW errors).

Yeah, zenminer doesn't show HW count.  I would check the Pi but I restarted it already because I tweaked some stuff so the old HW count is gone.

[alienesb]

Both GAW and Zeus have updated the Power Consumption. Falcon is now at 1040??

That is not going to fly.

And WOW!  What an update.  Zeus has more than doubled their power estimate/MH, in one case almost tripling it - and they recommend 20+% higher wattage power supplies than their specs.

Good news:  GAW is whipping Zeus on the price of the Fury vs. Blizzard (which appear to be identical boxes or nearly so).  Zeus also appears to have rather seriously revamped their product offering, dropping several models, varying a few others...  Black Widow looks like its going to need a price adjustment to stay in line.

This is an amazing world we live in!

And this is why getting a hosted miner turned out to be a great decision.

[jdape]

Anyone know why they chose to use cgminer 3.1.1 instead of later releases? 3.1.1 is very primitive and could be why these thing draw so much power and hashrate suffers?

There's actually not a lot of (any?) difference in the scrypt code.  3.1.1 is fine to use.  Certainly it has nothing to due with the power consumption.

[leber026]

What kind of usb cable does the falcon use? USB A- B? or a USB A to mini B like the furry and gridseeds?

A to B (not mini)

Thank you Miles!

[alienesb]

Hey GAW, have you guys considered (or are working on) truly making your own hardware using the Innosilicon chips?

[milesbitcoin]

Do we have a timeline on the firmware upgrade?

[Crypto84]

Hey GAW, have you guys considered (or are working on) truly making your own hardware using the Innosilicon chips?

this would be GAWesome! with those chips it would be more profitable to mine since they consume less power.

[AtomicFrost]

Hey GAW, have you guys considered (or are working on) truly making your own hardware using the Innosilicon chips?

this would be GAWesome! with those chips it would be more profitable to mine since they consume less power.

I'd love to see a Generation B Fury with 1-2 of the Innosilicon chips for about the same price. 

[tyknee]

What kind of usb cable does the falcon use? USB A- B? or a USB A to mini B like the furry and gridseeds?

A to B (not mini)

Thank you Miles!

Mine came with a USB cable and a network cable. Both had good lengths (i.e. longer than the usual 3 footers you'd usually get).

[tyknee]

How is everyone's "Discarded" shares looking on the zenminer page?  After running overnight mine are double the accepted shares.

https://i.imgur.com/BcEc6iA.png

The poolside hashrates seem to be fairly accurate though.

Honestly, I'm not sure what that number actually means.  The option "no-submit-stale" is not enabled, so I don't think it has anything to do with locally discarding shares that are determined to be stale.  Thoughts?

Be nice to get the HW error count as well.

Oh, by the way, for those of you who don't see your pool stats - log cycle.  I was showing a friend the setup last night and log cycled and voila! There were SOME pool stats (not HW errors).

Yeah, zenminer doesn't show HW count.  I would check the Pi but I restarted it already because I tweaked some stuff so the old HW count is gone.

I've been looking into HW errors and I'm starting to think it's not a big deal. On a GPU I've always believed you should never see any HW errors and that if you do it's something you need to resolve (i.e. lower intensity). With ASICs (even the Gridseeds) I'm thinking it might just be something normal that we're not used to seeing.

Just MHO though.

[AtomicFrost]

Is anyone else having this issue?




This seems to occur pretty regularly. It'll sit there for like 8 seconds chewing on a share; then it either submits it, or it says it's stale and then it moves on.

Seems to be affecting the hashrate on the pools I've tried.

[verloren]

Hello.
When starting week two? Time??

June 2nd I think.

[alienesb]

Are you using a coin switching pool? Try a single coin pool like a litecoin pool and see if it happens there. I have my Fury working at Clever and it's not jumping like yours.

[DriverDan]

Man those numbers are high.  

   I am doing 10mh at 167 watts on 2 gridseed blades and 1 gridseed  5 chip .  and one of the gridseed blades is defective .  I should be doing 11.0mh

but I have  a 1200 watt plat seasonic  which is more efficient then your psu.   still  you are 3.4x the power for   1.5 x the hash


Something is wrong with the firmware these miner should be at much lower numbers.

  I am doing 16.7 watts an mh  with the gridseeds

Which raises the $64M question:  Do our GAW miners use the same chip as the Zeus?  Odd they were both released within days of each other, at similar price points, zenminer supports both, but the GAWs power usage seems to be twice what the Zeus advertises (I haven't seen if they are actually delivering on that advertisement).

Some have been guessing the same chip, but different board designs?  If so, there might be hope for a firmware patch to greatly cut the power down.

I can confirm they are using Zeus' chips. When I first looked at the chips I thought there was no writing on them but after looking more closely I can see that they say "Zeus" and a part number.

The power use of these is completely unacceptable. My 7 voltmodded gridseeds use ~60W for 2.7Mh. That means I could run 70 of them at 600W for 27Mh. My Falcon is drawing 1135W, not including 5W for the Pi.

I looked at the cgminer config on the ZenController. It has freq set to 838 which is very different than the "--ltc-clk 328" we're seeing recommended. Is the cgminer version on the ZC different than the download? Edit: Looks like freq is different. It's still using --ltc-clk 328 param along with that freq setting.

Edit again: Also looks like the config only has 1 pool in it despite setting 2 pools on the website. Why wouldn't it have them saved in the config?

[AtomicFrost]

Are you using a coin switching pool? Try a single coin pool like a litecoin pool and see if it happens there. I have my Fury working at Clever and it's not jumping like yours.

Right now I'm on LTCRabbit to test. I'll try another pure coin pool.


The cgminer released so far is pretty unstable; seems like a lot of weird issues with it. 

[vabchgent]

Is anyone else having this issue?




This seems to occur pretty regularly. It'll sit there for like 8 seconds chewing on a share; then it either submits it, or it says it's stale and then it moves on.

Seems to be affecting the hashrate on the pools I've tried.

I got the same thing with switching pools. All my pools look like the picture above.

[vabchgent]

Are you using a coin switching pool? Try a single coin pool like a litecoin pool and see if it happens there. I have my Fury working at Clever and it's not jumping like yours.

Right now I'm on LTCRabbit to test. I'll try another pure coin pool.


The cgminer released so far is pretty unstable; seems like a lot of weird issues with it.  

Its not just the CGminer. Try the zencontroller its giving the same results.

I think they need to work the firmware on these.

@ GAW any idea when we can have a more stable Cgminer(and or zenminer) and more Stable firmware.My poolside and Client side hash rates are jumping like a frog on a hot plate. I am also getting nonces and HW errors.Also the power supplies are getting hotter then hades on the furys. Thanks

[numanoid]

Can someone with a Fury and a gridseed verify the barrel connector is the same size?  2.1mm I think?

I'd like to get a PCIE --> Barrel adapter but need to know they are the same size and polarity.

GAW, you sell these on your site, can you comment and let us know if they work with the Fury?  I have 5 on order and do NOT want a bunch of hot power bricks.

Thanks!

[alienesb]

Can someone with a Fury and a gridseed verify the barrel connector is the same size?  2.1mm I think?

I'd like to get a PCIE --> Barrel adapter but need to know they are the same size and polarity.

GAW, you sell these on your site, can you comment and let us know if they work with the Fury?  I have 5 on order and do NOT want a bunch of hot power bricks.

Thanks!

I just checked with the barrels that Zoomhash sent me with my Gridseeds and yes, they are the same size and it fits.