BFL Single in the wild (BOUNTY RECEIVED!!!)

[nmat]

Greetings,

Regarding USB limitations, out of each real USB port (a port that directly comes out of your motherboards
southbridge, not an internal HUB), around 100 units can function without restriction. Thus, if your computer
has 3 real USB ports (EHCI or OHCI), you can hookup around 300 BitFORCE units to it. BitFORCE does not
take any power from the USB port it connects to, and acts as a stand-alone self-powered unit.


Good Luck,

The thing is, if you have 100 devices connected to the same USB port and one of them has problems, it's gonna take a while until you figure out which one is it. Or am I wrong?

[BFL-Engineer]

Greetings,

Regarding USB limitations, out of each real USB port (a port that directly comes out of your motherboards
southbridge, not an internal HUB), around 100 units can function without restriction. Thus, if your computer
has 3 real USB ports (EHCI or OHCI), you can hookup around 300 BitFORCE units to it. BitFORCE does not
take any power from the USB port it connects to, and acts as a stand-alone self-powered unit.


Good Luck,

The thing is, if you have 100 devices connected to the same USB port and one of them has problems, it's gonna take a while until you figure out which one is it. Or am I wrong?

It really depends on whether they are all BitFORCE units or it's a mixture of different devices (Mouse, WebCam, HDD, etc). We had no problem connecting
many units to the same USB ports using HUBs. It is not recommended, however, to connect a High-speed and Full-Speed or Low-Speed device to the same
port (This applies in general to the USB protocol ). The reason being is that the controller must reduces bus-speed to send SOF (Start Of Frame) packets
or data packets to full-speed/low-speed units and switch back to high-speed again. This will reduce overall efficiency of the bus.

Regarding trouble-shooting, that is something to be determined based on your specific setup. Generally, if a USB 'device' fails, the HUB disconnects it and
it goes offline.


Regards,

[Timbo925]

subscribing and finding some money to buy one of these bad boys

[pieppiep]

If you have 100 devices on 1 usb port, you definitely make use of usbhubs.
If you have a root hub with 5 ports with each 5 another 5 port hub and on those each a 4 port hub you have a totel of 5*5*4 = 100 ports.
You can just unplug 1 of the 5 hubs on the root hub and see if 24 more or 25 more devices fail. If 24 more fail you found the hub with the broken device.
A lot faster than trying each of the 100

[antirack]

I don't know if temperature sensor stickers exist and can be used (kind of like Telatemps, but a bit different).

If they do exist, you can put a sticker on all your singles and the one that gets cold is the one you are looking for.

Kind of like this would be cool:

[BFL-Engineer]

I don't know if temperature sensor stickers exist and can be used (kind of like Telatemps, but a bit different).

If they do exist, you can put a sticker on all your singles and the one that gets cold is the one you are looking for.

Kind of like this would be cool:

The actual firmware supports temperature-monitoring, and the miner software can access it.
We may add a blink-on-user-request feature to the firmware. This way, any unit that the miner
asks for, can start blinking at a fast pace, making visual detection of the unit-in-question
easier.

Regards,

[muyuu]

If this is real, then the "Rig Box" would be still a much much more efficient beast in comparison.

50.4 Giga Hash / S @ 2,500w @ $24,980

About $4M in these would take over the network.

[SysRun]

I wouldn't rely on the specs provided for the rig box. Let's wait until we get some updated information from BFL.

Those specs were from back when the Single was still predicted as 1GH/s @ 20watts. I'm not complaining about the end result of 832MH/s @ 83 watts, but its bound to make the Rig Box Stats shift somewhat.

I wouldn't be surprised if the added heat made the enclosure impossible to engineer.

But what about a 10 unit, 8.32GH/s model? I'd jump at that in a second.

[jamesg]

As promised, here is a screen shot of cgminer after ~12 hours of mining...

[muyuu]

I wouldn't rely on the specs provided for the rig box. Let's wait until we get some updated information from BFL.

Those specs were from back when the Single was still predicted as 1GH/s @ 20watts. I'm not complaining about the end result of 832MH/s @ 83 watts, but its bound to make the Rig Box Stats shift somewhat.

I wouldn't be surprised if the added heat made the enclosure impossible to engineer.

But what about a 10 unit, 8.32GH/s model? I'd jump at that in a second.

Even "shifting somewhat", it's several times more efficient. So provided it's even close to their claims, it's immense.

[DeathAndTaxes]

awesome thanks! Btw how much is it pulling from the wall?

+1

[jamesg]

awesome thanks! Btw how much is it pulling from the wall?

+1

No wattage reader around here, I'm too busy hashing away! 

I think Inaba said around 85w....

[Splirow]

Did you play around with flags, oc?

[Epoch]

following

[jamesg]

Did you play around with flags, oc?

This is what i have in my .bat file to start cgminer...

Code:

cgminer -o http://pool.com:8332 -u name -p pw -o http://pool2.com:8332 -u name -p pw -o http://pool3.com:8332 -u uname -p pw --failover-only -S COM5 --disable-gpu

[airdata]

What a game changer!

[hmblm1245]

very exciting. its cool to see a turn key solution.

[abeaulieu]

Awesome, thanks for the updates. Definitely have to look into purchasing one.

[Epoch]

very exciting. its cool to see a turn key solution.

'Turnkey' would imply that it is an all-in-one solution needing no other components to perform its function. That is not the case; it still needs a host PC which is an additional expense (which is likely to need more power than the Single itself). I understand that most of us have PCs 'kicking around' that we can use, but still ...

[fred0]

Well I sure would like to see one of mine