[Guide][Lee Goup] SilverFish 28MH Scrypt Miner– Notlist3d (Picture Heavy)

[notlist3d]

SilverFish 28MH Scrypt Miner

0) General information + Hardware Needed
1) Unpacking
2) The Miner
3) Install
4) How to order

0) General Information + Hardware Needed
This miner is an open air design that might remind some of the S1 Ant miner design at first glance.  It’s a compact little miner that still packs a punch with 28 MH of Scrypt mining power.  Between the two blades it has a total of 40 SF300K01 chips.  This miner is rated to run on about 440 watts.  

Hardware needed in addition to SilverFish 28MH miner.

• Standard power supply with 2 PCI-E 6 Pin adapters (suggest 500 watts or bigger)
• Computer to run SilverFish mining software
• Network cables - 1 network cable to go to your network, and other to link blades

1) Unpacking
I was very impressed with the packing.  I received mine within two boxes.  The miner was well insulated with styrofoam covering the miner as shown.  You can see it appears to have taken shipping to customer as a priority with amount of protection on miner

2) The Miner
Below are images to showcase the miner.  In comparison to showcase it’s size in one picture it’s beside the A2 30 MH miner.

For Slideshow and higher resolution: http://s100.photobucket.com/user/notlist3d/embed/slideshow/SF28

3) Install
A)First off you will need a standard computer supply with 2 PCI-E 6 pin adapters, each blade uses one adapter. I suggest using a 500 watt power supply or more to save a headache as mine seemed to run in range of pretty steady right around 430 watts but could reach 450 occasionally.  I used the paperclip trick to get the power supply to run without a computer.  As always if you do this be careful with electricity.

B)Below shows how to connect your miner network cables.  Closest Ethernet slot to PCI-E adapter goes to network, outer Ethernet slot allows you to connect next blade:

C)With this miner you are provided with software to run on Windows that makes it very easy to control multiple SilverFish Miners. It very easy to install through provided official link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1ntK9cql

Simply extract the following files into a folder on your computer, and open the application.  There is a Chinese and English version of the program.  The English version if followed by "_EN"

D)Once ran it will automatically find your miner on your network.  It’s as simple as that.  Below shows how it has found one SilverFish 28MH miner and within it the two blades:

E)Simply add a pool if not there by hitting operate then add pool.   Most likely it has one default one there simply right click on it to change the miner pool settings as shown below and click ok after:

4) How to order
Simply go over to the Lee group buy located at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0
Shipping scheduled to start shipping on 6/15.

Thank you for looking at this guide.  Feel free to post question's.  My 2 bit disclaimer: Please be careful with electricity I can take no responsibility if you are hurt with equipment.  I also do not make the equipment and am not responsible for their products or your use of them.

[notlist3d]

Reserved for future questions and answers

Additional facts:

"Two or more SF-28M miners can link together with ethernet cable,thus you can run as much as 100 unit with only one computer"


If hashing speed seems low try these possible solutions:

For me personally I experienced more stability and speed with very cool air going through it.  Proper air-flow can effect your hashing rate and stability.  Cool air and not just air flow can make the difference if your unit seems to be un-stable.

Second would be to try the new firmware.  If your SilverFish miner on the performance (M) tab goes to 14 on both blades and stabilizes then most likely you are on the most current firmware.  If you are having good luck with older firmware I would not upgrade, but this new firmware can help unit's that were less stable on older firmware.

You can use these in combination together and that is also the third option.  Using both seems to help some.  

It does seem some blades can preform lower then others.  Some will work right out of box with no additional cooling needed or firmware updates.  Others will notice the above hopefully has had a positive impact on stability/speed.


Windows 1 Hour restarting batch file
This will restart the software at a one hour interval.  This might help some that have a significant drop after a few hours of running.  You can change the .exe file name below if batch file if you are using the English version or a different version of the software. Note you must edit the task killing .exe and start .exe both if you edit it to different version/language.
Steps

• Open up notepad
• Paste the following in notepad:
  
  Echo "Lee Group - Notlist3d - SFMinerR2.1 Hourly Restart"
  TaskKill /F /IM SFLMiner_r2.1.exe
  timeout /t 3
  start SFLMiner_r2.1.exe
  timeout /t 7200
  start restart.bat
  EXIT
  
  Or R3.04
  
  Echo "Notlist3d - SFMinerR3.04 Hourly Restart"
  TaskKill /F /IM SFLMiner_r3.04.exe
  timeout /t 3
  start SFLMiner_r3.04.exe
  timeout /t 7200
  start restart.bat
  EXIT
  
  
• Go to file save as then select any file as type and name it restart.bat in the same folder as your SilverFish mining software
• You are able to now run this by clicking it within the folder

[sikman]

Keep us updated on stability or any issues you encounter.

[sikboy]

+1

[pcfli]

nice evaluation, i had to say you have done an exclent job:)
just want to add one comment, two or more SF-28M miners can link together with ethernet cable,thus you can run as much as 100 unit with only one computer

The price of the sf-28M miner adjust to 1999$ now

[sikman]

I'm looking at buying 2 or 3 of them to add to alongside my GPU farm, so far this is the only review I have seen. I'm not convinced yet as there is no history of how stable they are or if they crash when mining on multi-pools,reboots, lockups, etc.

Hopefully will get a more comprehensive review with stats, uptime, etc...

[notlist3d]

Still using and reviewing unit.  Software is extremely impressive.  Was easiest install how it detected the miner automatically.  They have made it very easy for those who buy multiple unit's to change settings for all units in a matter of seconds, and only doing it once.

Will keep using and let everyone know more, as I believe this is first post of SF-28 showing in hand on this forum.

[bobsag3]

Still using and reviewing unit.  Software is extremely impressive.  Was easiest install how it detected the miner automatically.  They have made it very easy for those who buy multiple unit's to change settings for all units in a matter of seconds, and only doing it once.

Will keep using and let everyone know more, as I believe this is first post of SF-28 showing in hand on this forum.

Id love to get my hands on a few of these

[popolite11]

Looking forward to some more details about the product .

[notlist3d]

Still using and reviewing unit.  Software is extremely impressive.  Was easiest install how it detected the miner automatically.  They have made it very easy for those who buy multiple unit's to change settings for all units in a matter of seconds, and only doing it once.

Will keep using and let everyone know more, as I believe this is first post of SF-28 showing in hand on this forum.

Id love to get my hands on a few of these

Contact Mr. Lee/PCFLI in group buy here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0  . There is discount's for multiple.  Should start shipping on 6/15 .

[bobsag3]

Still using and reviewing unit.  Software is extremely impressive.  Was easiest install how it detected the miner automatically.  They have made it very easy for those who buy multiple unit's to change settings for all units in a matter of seconds, and only doing it once.

Will keep using and let everyone know more, as I believe this is first post of SF-28 showing in hand on this forum.

Id love to get my hands on a few of these

Contact Mr. Lee/PCFLI in group buy here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0  . There is discount's for multiple.  Should start shipping on 6/15 .

Already Pm'ed him as usual

[notlist3d]

Still using and reviewing unit.  Software is extremely impressive.  Was easiest install how it detected the miner automatically.  They have made it very easy for those who buy multiple unit's to change settings for all units in a matter of seconds, and only doing it once.

Will keep using and let everyone know more, as I believe this is first post of SF-28 showing in hand on this forum.

Id love to get my hands on a few of these

Contact Mr. Lee/PCFLI in group buy here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0  . There is discount's for multiple.  Should start shipping on 6/15 .

Already Pm'ed him as usual

Glad to hear good to see you again.

[notlist3d]

Over the past few days I have been able to test the SilverFish 28 MH miner and have had a great experience so far with it.  It has a good combination of hardware and software features I have enjoyed.

First I will start off with the SilverFish 28 MH miner itself.  It’s something you will notice many great features that I think you fellow miners will like.

• Small Form Factor- These take very little space compared to other current scrypt miners in this speed of miners.
• Electricity- The SF-28 is rated for 440 Watts for 28 MH in comparison the Zeus Thunder 28-30 MH miner suggests a 1200 watt supply.  For ROI if your electricity is in your equation this will add up overtime, and allow you to remain profitable much longer running.
• Expandability- With two Ethernet ports they have designed the miner to be able to easily expandable.  You can start out with one cable going to network, and from there just link the miner’s together.  If you decide to buy multiple miners you will really like this feature.

Second a little bit about the software.  This is possibly one of the easiest installs of a miner, simply run the application on your computer and it will automatically find your miners and blades within them. 

• Setup Time- Upon opening the box it’s as easy as plugging miner or miners in, and clicking on a single application you are up and running in no time
• Expandability- The software is made where you change the pool once and it can change the setting’s for all of your SF miners within seconds.  No going to multiple IP’s or bulky or advanced software.  It’s simple and works great.
• Live Stats – You can use the SF application to monitor 1 or 100 miners the software put’s total hashing rate where you can look and see for your entire set of miners.  Quickly the ability to go deeper and see each miner’s hashing speed and then each blade if you want.

There is also a SF-70 if you want something bigger.  And the SF-70 is rated at 1100 watts still under one Zeus Thunder 28-30 MH recommended power supply!

To order simply go over to the Lee group buy located at: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514758.0
Shipping scheduled to start shipping on 6/15.  Discount on order of multiple miners.

[notlist3d]

You will notice price drop in SF-28.  Also reminder there is discount if you order multiple discount rate is shown in starting post in group buy.  With expandability hoping that might save a few a little money

And you will now see SF-28 and SF-70 no longer have a future shipment date, and have moved to the < 48 hour shipment date from order.

As always happy mining!

[bobsag3]

I have 5 of these on order from PCFLI, great service as always. He showed me the performance over team viewer, exactly as advertised.

[notlist3d]

I have 5 of these on order from PCFLI, great service as always. He showed me the performance over team viewer, exactly as advertised.

Glad to see thanks for choosing Lee Groups for your purchase. 

If anyone else want's specific pictures etc.  Please just let me know.  Happy to spread this miner.

[bobsag3]

Just got my 6 today, seems like they are all working, except that there is no english software file.

[alienesb]

Just got my 6 today, seems like they are all working, except that there is no english software file.

Lets see some pic dude

[bobsag3]

[notlist3d]

This video shows the SilverFish 28 miner from the Lee group buy.  It contains unboxing, overview, hardware setup, and software setup:

Click on image or link to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUIrqGsaaTw