[Guide] cxboyminer BTC-Garden AM-v1 Setup Guide

[cxboyminer]

Content

• 1 Specs
• 2 Packaging
• 3 Setup
• 4 Web Interface
• 5 Update Firmware
• Where to Buy

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

What a greate guide! Thank you cxboyminer for doing this for us

We are pretty sure the miner using in thie guide is our btcgarden-AM-V1

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
1 Specs
The BTC-Garden AM-v1 miner is one of the quietest miners right now in the market. It has the noice level of 85 decibels*. Each miner has 2 mining blades and each blade contains 16 40nm ASIC chips developed by Friedcat.

Chips	32 (16*2) 40nm ASIC Chip
Hashrate	~310GH/s
Power Consumption	324W

2 Packaging
What you get in the package:

• 1 BTC-Garden AM-1 Miner 310GH/s 324W
• 1 Raspberry Pi Model B Revision 2 Board
• 1 4GB SanDisk SD Card with RaspBian installed (inside Raspberry Pi package)
• 1 USB to Micro-USB cable
• 1 1A Mains to USB adapter
• 2 GPIO 26 pin to 8 pin wires

The foam paddings are strong and the cardboard box is tough. Overall the packaging is flawless for me.


The miner got 2 130mm fans to blow the heat released from the heatsinks. Because of the 2 130mm fans, the miner is effective and quiet.

3 Setup
To setup the miner, all you need is a power supply producing a wattage of more than 324W. I will be using the Corsair CX750 Bronze 80+.

Firstly, you need to paper clip the green and the black pins of 24-pin connector, like below:


As well as connecting the raspberry pi provided with micro-usb (for power), ethernet (for internet connection), SD Card provided (for OS) and the GPIO 26-pin to 8-pin wire (for the miner to connect to the internet and web interface)

Remember the 26-pin's red wires MUST be next to the yellow analog plug (on the right side from this view of your pi), otherwise it will not work!

There are 6-pin PCI-e plugs in each board, plug 1 6-pin PCI-e plug on each board in order to give power to the miner.


Connecting blades together
The following part is extremely important and if you do this wrong, your miner won't work.
There are directions when connecting the two blades together: top to bottom or bottom to top. Connecting it top to bottom is different from connecting it bottom to top.

Bottom to Top method
If you want to connect the Rpi to the top blade, then follow the picture:



Top to Bottom method
If you want to connect the Rpi to the bottom blade, the follow the picture:


The wire must connect the blades diagonally, and remember that the wire that connects the blade to the rpi always has to be on the right side of the two wires.

4 Web Interface
The web interface is extremely easy to navigate. The default ip address for the miner is 192.168.1.123.

cgminer tab

What you need to pay attention to is the board num row. If you are mining with one board, change that to 1. If you are mining with 2 boards, type 2 like above.

network tab

This is the default settings for the network tab. You have to change your router's internal ip to 192.168.1.1 in order to connect for the first time, at least. If you change the ip of the miner, you must remember it. If you forget it, then you will not be able to connect again.

cgminer status tab

This is the cgminer status tab. It's like any other web interface basically.
There is something wrong with one of my blades, but at least it's mining at 310GH/s. There is a high percentage of your miner working perfectly fine. Do not judge them with my stats.

Where to Buy
You can purchase the miner @ http://www.btcgarden.com
Some regions are starting to have resellers, please check the btcgarden am-v1 thread for updates: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622439.0
                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Overall, my guide might not be as good as dogie's, but at least I tried Hope I helped.

[cxboyminer]

5 Update Firmware
Updating the btcgarden firmware for Rpi is important if you want to control more units using 1 Rpi controller.

The latest version is 2014-07-05

To update the firmware, you need:

• SD Card (should be given by BTC-garden along with the miner)
• SD Card reader (either external or internal/laptop)
• Internet connection
• Win32DiskImager

Download Win32DiskImager here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ We will need this to burn it into the SD card.

All the firmwares are at: http://pan.baidu.com/share/home?uk=3914243793

Download the latest compressed firmware (zip or rar) in the link above, and extract it using winRar, 7zip (etc.)

Then insert the SD card, and choose the .iso image in the Win32DiskImager as well as the correct drive to the card. Click flash -> yes.

[ZBC3]

Can you take a couple of close up shots of the wiring so people
can see which way the wires should face please?

[cxboyminer]

Can you take a couple of close up shots of the wiring so people
can see which way the wires should face please?

Sure will do that asap.

Thanks

[btcgarden_miner]

What a greate guide! Thank you cxboyminer for doing this for us

We are pretty sure the miner using in thie guide is our btcgarden-AM-V1

[cxboyminer]

What a greate guide! Thank you cxboyminer for doing this for us

We are pretty sure the miner using in thie guide is our btcgarden-AM-V1

Thanks for the positive feedback.

[ZBC3]

Thank you for the guide. It makes an easy assembly even easier!

[CrazyGuy]

Excellent guide! A firmware update has been released which allows up to 4 miners running off of 1 RPi. I'm waiting on extra ribbon cables to test it out. These are very efficient machines at a great price.

[cxboyminer]

Excellent guide! A firmware update has been released which allows up to 4 miners running off of 1 RPi. I'm waiting on extra ribbon cables to test it out. These are very efficient machines at a great price.

Thanks, I have yet to update the latest firmware. I will add it as soon as possible when I am free.

Good night all for now!

[mstrongbow]

Thanks for posting this guide. I will be utilizing it very soon!

[Glizlack]

Did I read that correctly that a 327w machine needs 6 pcie cables? Wow I am very surprised if so that there isn't a simpler way to connect each blade without requiring a psu with so many pcie output.

Steve

[xtoff]

Hi,
No you are false, "There are 6-pin PCI-e plugs in each board" you must understand one PCI-e plug on each board.
This PCI-e plug is a 6 pin one, (existing 6 and 6+2 and 8 ).



You can see the 2 wires on the top left, each wires has 2 PCI-e  plug. This is the power supply uses by cxboyminer. You can use 2 miners with this corsair power supply because you have 4 pci-e plug

 

[cxboyminer]

My English is bad sorry for the misunderstanding. Above post, who is wrong? Me or the other guy?

Thanks.

Expect more close up photos soon!

[xtoff]

Non tu as raison cxboyminer, j'expliquais juste à Glizlack que tu disais que c'était un cable PCI-e à 6 broches par carte donc 2 en tout  et non 6 PCI-e par carte ce qui aurait fait 12 LOL

Merci pour ton guide, moi je tombe dans la rupture de stock. BTCGARDEN OUT of STOCK :-(

[cxboyminer]

Non tu as raison cxboyminer, j'expliquais juste à Glizlack que tu disais que c'était un cable PCI-e à 6 broches par carte donc 2 en tout  et non 6 PCI-e par carte ce qui aurait fait 12 LOL

Merci pour ton guide, moi je tombe dans la rupture de stock. BTCGARDEN OUT of STOCK :-(

Translate to english: No you're right cxboyminer, I just explained to you Glizlack thought it was a cable PCI-E 6-pin card so 2 in total and not 6 PCI-e card which would have 12 LOL

Thank you for your guide, I fall into the out of stock. BTCGARDEN OUT of STOCK :-(

Thanks xtoff

[Yeos]

I have a Silverstone Tek 500W(ST50F-ESG) that only has 1 PCI-E cable(2x 6-pin), question will that be enough to power the AM-V1 or would I neeed a MOLEX-to-PCI-E or SATA-to-PCI-E adapter? TIA.

Silverstone Tek 500W(ST50F-ESG)
Product link
http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=460

[xtoff]

Hi
I think it's enough but only for one miner.
 

[Swimpool]

Thank you for the nice guide..it helped me set up my garden miners

[cxboyminer]

Thank you for the nice guide..it helped me set up my garden miners

You welcome. Did you get rejects?

[mstrongbow]

Pics are super helpful!
Thanks!