ASICMINER TUBE first look :) IKEA style miner first time ever

[bbxx]

Got my units hashing.
Shipment with controllers arrived today.
I will post more tommorow.

[iglasses]

I haven't jumped on this yet because I can't see myself buying a miner that will only work on ghash...I think it's rather ironic that for all the 'stop using ghash' threads on here this is the only pool this beast will work with.
Didn't they test it with any other pools before unleashing it?
weird...JMO

ig

[davecoin]

I haven't jumped on this yet because I can't see myself buying a miner that will only work on ghash...I think it's rather ironic that for all the 'stop using ghash' threads on here this is the only pool this beast will work with.
Didn't they test it with any other pools before unleashing it?
weird...JMO

ig

Friedcat posted a guide for using bfgminer.  Mine is working on Eligius right now.

Ref:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=735728.msg8549984#msg8549984

[Blazed]

So to not use ghash.io you have to buy another piece of hardware?

[hayseed]

So to not use ghash.io you have to buy another piece of hardware?

if you don't already have something else to run it on.

You would think they would just fix their crappy firmware!!

[hayseed]

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

[bbxx]

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

But... you have to wait till end of sept for ants
and they are more expensive

here is photo of part of my farm

[philipma1957]

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

But... you have to wait till end of sept for ants
and they are more expensive

here is photo of part of my farm

yeah this gets about a .3btc head start in coin over 1 pair of s-3's and it is a little cheaper 1.04 btc and say  .06 to ship a total of 1.10 btc vs 1.16 btc  that means this has a .36 btc edge over the s-3.  If you plan to mine this for 3 or 4 weeks and then sell it on ebay it is absolutely better then an s-3.  if you just want to mine for 6 months the s-3 may be better.

[hayseed]

Hope you don't have a feline 

Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !

I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.

Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.

[hayseed]

Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?

Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.

Just a thought.

as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.

[bbxx]

Hope you don't have a feline 

Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !

I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.

Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.

october delivery, no thanks
at october my miners would be replaced with newer ones
like i usually do
but i allways put aside one miner as collectible, some of miners are at shelf now

[bbxx]

Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?

Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.

Just a thought.

as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.

it is not like this.
i had one tube offline at chain (unplugged due to power loss) and rest is working
one cutoff dont slice chain, just signals pass the dead tube

dont forget to reset/power on/off controller after adding/powering on tubes

[hayseed]

Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?

Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.

Just a thought.

as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.

it is not like this.
i had one tube offline at chain (unplugged due to power loss) and rest is working
one cutoff dont slice chain, just signals pass the dead tube

dont forget to reset/power on/off controller after adding/powering on tubes

One of the other people in the GB posted that his would not start until bad board's were removed
thus my assumption.

[dmcdad]

Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?

Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.

Just a thought.

as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.

it is not like this.
i had one tube offline at chain (unplugged due to power loss) and rest is working
one cutoff dont slice chain, just signals pass the dead tube

dont forget to reset/power on/off controller after adding/powering on tubes

One of the other people in the GB posted that his would not start until bad board's were removed
thus my assumption.

It will likely depend on how it fails. Some failures will keep the chain up, but some really wonky boards can probably bring everything down. My guess is that (total failure of the chain) would more likely be caused by a malfunctioning board that never works (thus, is identified when it is first tried), and not a marginal board that just flakes out after use.

[bbxx]

thank you for info.

new pictures






and new location

[s1lverbox]

More accurate would be to point every box as separate worker.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.

Just thought.

[bbxx]

More accurate would be to point every box as separate worker.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.

Just thought.

I mine at polmine , love PPS 1% and merged mining and many fancy stuff like below


but didnt have time to setup proxy for those tubes so i mine at ghash with them

[chairforce1]

new pictures

Looks great.

[iglasses]

Hope you don't have a feline 

Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !

I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.

Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.

Block Erupter cube?  I still have three cubes throwing 100Ghs into the network making $1 a day....lol

[bolehvpn]

If anyone wants a video tutorial of almost all the steps to build an ASICMiner Tube I recorded my process. Hope it helps It talks about all the little quirks and stuff and things to watch out for so you don't have to learn the hard way.

http://youtu.be/zEL5EKWwBx0