ASICMiner Tube Group Buy #2

[davecoin]

Thanks Canary and company.  My tube is assembled and happily hashing away.  

SO MANY SCREWS!  

I used this site to help with the setup:
http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51

I'm really impressed with the size.  It's actually 3 inches smaller in length and identical in height to an Antminer S3.  I'd say the fan is slightly louder than an S3.  On stock speed (270MHz) mine is drawing 892 watts at the wall and on 290MHz it is drawing 953 watts.  The miner is being powered with an EVGA 1300G2.  The BE Controller is also powered off of the psu using a barrel connector originally for a gridseed.

I'm using an rpi running bfgminer and it is working fine on eligius.  For those newish to mining or linux, you can edit init.d to automatically start the mining software when the rpi starts.  

Edit: Just ran into the same issue as helipotte.  bfgminer declared the miner sick after a new block was found.  It did recover after 30 seconds or so and started mining again.  After the next block was found, it kept mining without issues.  This was on FW 1.29.  Same issue after flashing the boards to 1.41, but it is very inconsistent.

[WBF1]

I think warranty is done through the reseller, but I could be wrong. So far I have identified one board for sure to be replaced, one that's behaving erratically and one entire Tube that's nonfunctional but it's probably one board hosing up the serial line. Tomorrow I should have a final count on what does and doesn't work.

yep I have one board that doesn't respond to anything and if it's in the chain it disables everything else as well.

another board will run for about 2 minutes then causes instability and then disappears. with those two unplugged, though, it's been running stable.

[philipma1957]

Thanks Canary and company.  My tube is assembled and happily hashing away.  

SO MANY SCREWS!  

I used this site to help with the setup:
http://www.iasicminer.com/index.php/action-viewnews-itemid-51

I'm really impressed with the size.  It's actually 3 inches smaller in length and identical in height to an Antminer S3.  I'd say the fan is slightly louder than an S3.  On stock speed (270MHz) mine is drawing 892 watts at the wall and on 290MHz it is drawing 953 watts.  The miner is being powered with an EVGA 1300G2.  The BE Controller is also powered off of the psu using a barrel connector originally for a gridseed.

I'm using an rpi running bfgminer and it is working fine on eligius.  For those newish to mining or linux, you can edit init.d to automatically start the mining software when the rpi starts.  

Edit: Just ran into the same issue as helipotte.  bfgminer declared the miner sick after a new block was found.  It did recover after 30 seconds or so and started mining again.  After the next block was found, it kept mining without issues.  This was on FW 1.29.  Same issue after flashing the boards to 1.41, but it is very inconsistent.

yeah I almost have mine done.  I think it could use 8 more screws!! no kidding I will point to where they could have gone.

I turned the metal square bracket out yours are turned in..   this make mine a bit longer but I think either way works.  I am just really pressed for time today and tomorrow maybe I can post on sunday.

[sjc1490]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.



Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

[daddyfatsax]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

SNIP

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

SNIP

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

[sjc1490]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

SNIP

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

SNIP

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

Mine has been up for 28 min so far but I have installed on a 2003 Server that I am pointing it at. So far no errors.

[helipotte]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

SNIP

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

SNIP

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

I am seeing this as well.  An older version of Bfgminer seems to be more stable.  It also seems to stop when a block is found on the

network.

Edit: Just checked, now the boards are showing F/W version 1.53.  Must of just updated last night of this morning.

[daddyfatsax]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

SNIP

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

SNIP

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

I am seeing this as well.  An older version of Bfgminer seems to be more stable.  It also seems to stop when a block is found on the

network.

Right now I have the tube pointed at the dark side, Ghash, and it is working fine. Sidehack has his mad scientist working on a proxy fix for slush. Hopefully those 2 will be able to come up with something in the next few days.

[sjc1490]

Has anyone experience this? Suddenly Board 3 started showing 100% error rates:

[helipotte]

Has anyone experience this? Suddenly Board 3 started showing 100% error rates:

I have seen that too.  I think it is a interface glitch. 

[sidehack]

You're not kidding about the mad scientist, that's his actual job title. He was already coding on it when I came in to work this morning. The proxy was already fixed for slush-based stratum implementations, but eligius and its ilk are still having trouble. I think he was packet-snooping BFG outputs for comparison to see what formatting was changed or repackaged for valid share submissions.

[sjc1490]

sidehack, sent you pm slush is working direct now, no proxy.

[sidehack]

Open for all miners, or just on the test port?

[WBF1]

Canary how do we handle bad boards I have one with a bad chain in it also. Hashing at 181.

SNIP

Also sidehack sent you a pm on worker.10. I was also able to get the device to work on slush running it through BFG Miner for windows.

SNIP

I got it running on eligius through the bfgminer proxy as well, but it keeps crapping out. I get an "error from bufferevent" message and then the controller stops responding.

I am seeing this as well.  An older version of Bfgminer seems to be more stable.  It also seems to stop when a block is found on the

network.

Edit: Just checked, now the boards are showing F/W version 1.53.  Must of just updated last night of this morning.

They updated themselves? Or they need another FlashMega?

[CrazyGuy]

5VDC, not sure on current but mine isn't asking for more than an amp I think. The barrel is hot-center.

I was using a 6v 500ma phone charger for about an hour last night until I found a proper adapter. It ran fine with both configurations, so the controllers seem to be flexible when it comes to input voltage. Pretty solid device, mining at ghash.io right now but I plan to load bfgminer proxy on one of my X2 RPi controllers and test out a few more pools tonight.

[sjc1490]

Open for all miners, or just on the test port?

Sorry was at lunch, all.

[philipma1957]

okay I have it assembled.

I am using a 5 volt dlink 1mp wallwart   so it works fine.  the controller has flex on volts.   5 to 12? at 1 amp seems to be good.

I am using an evga 1300 psu 4 pcie cables attached
dip switches:

  set 1
then 2
then 3
then 4


I typed in
192.168.0.254:8000/FlashMega and I am at this spot. flashings seems slow so far 10 minutes.

Any time estimates for flashing?

[WBF1]

okay I have it assembled.

I am using a 5 volt dlink 1mp wallwart   so it works fine.  the controller has flex on volts.   5 to 12? at 1 amp seems to be good.

I am using an evga 1300 psu 4 pcie cables attached
dip switches:

  set 1
then 2
then 3
then 4


I typed in
192.168.0.254:8000/FlashMega and I am at this spot. flashings seems slow so far 10 minutes.

Any time estimates for flashing?

Doesn't take particularly long. The page doesn't refresh back to the settings though.

[sidehack]

Yeah hit the back button and refresh the page manually. Flashing takes maybe 10 seconds.

[sjc1490]

Yeah hit the back button and refresh the page manually. Flashing takes maybe 10 seconds.

what version does it show after the flash I am showing 1.41 still.