Block Erupter Prisma (>=1.4 T/device, 0.75-0.78 W/G, <1 BTC/T, October Shipping)

[cathoderay]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

I agree. I had hoped for more from Canary as well, especially since I've bought dozens if not hundreds of miners from his buys in the past. I imagine he's getting lots of complaints and just didn't want to deal with it.

I've tried lots of dip switch settings. I get errors anytime more than 1 board is hooked up at a time and 1 of the boards is missing a capacitor and won't hash at all.

Wow. That sux.

Sorry about that, man.

You might want to mention this to Doggie, so he takes it into account on their ratings in his Manufacturer Trustworthiness guide.

That guide is a joke  he gets paid from a few of them...also Avalon is 2nd highest rated lol. Yes Prisma is garbage and AM does not do any QC of the hardware. These are the absolute bottom of the line miners I have ever seen. I got screwed buying a tube also...avoiding anything AM directly makes in the future. It does seem that other companies using their chips do pretty good though..RM and BTCGarden etc.. If you have not bought one of these yet then save yourself the hassle..really late and tons of issues + no support or documentation.

+100!!

Mention it to dogie my arse - WTF? This forum is piled high with dogie poop as it is........the fact that he gets paid to write his crap is absurd on it's own, but that anyone actually believes it is just too much.......

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[Blazed]

Well I think his guides are nice, but also he states it is his opinion...not like it is some official thing.

[mrpark]

The one guide  I read said to use a block erupter, it also said to use a 12v @6 amp adapter. Popular opinion is that the BE doesn't work, so the guides are not correct in regards to these tubes. I will try the RPI just because I have no choice from what actual users are telling me. I won't say anything like this on you know who's guides because he will claim I am a troll to him, blah blah blah... Don't ever try to make suggestions on the guide or you will get your head ripped of. I have all guide writer and their guides on ignore, I will just ask people directly. Those guide are highly bias and especially in regards to the AMT Miners many of us lost thousands to.

[OgNasty]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

Shall we make our PMs public to see where I said something is your fault and where I told you to fuck off??

I have no desire to bicker back and forth publicly or privately.  You sold me a miner that had a missing capacitor and does not function.  You are unwilling to replace it or accept a return.  If you are willing to do something, feel free to let me know.  Up until now all you have done is told me to contact AsicMiner, who does not respond.  I expected more.  If it is outrageous for me to assume that I would get a functioning miner in exchange for my BTC, then I apologize.

[mrpark]

Even hypothetically if Ognasty said something (I don't really know either way), he should not be denied customer service and be given help since he is a paying customer.

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

Shall we make our PMs public to see where I said something is your fault and where I told you to fuck off??

I have no desire to bicker back and forth publicly or privately.  You sold me a miner that had a missing capacitor and does not function.  You are unwilling to replace it or accept a return.  If you are willing to do something, feel free to let me know.  Up until now all you have done is told me to contact AsicMiner, who does not respond.  I expected more.  If it is outrageous for me to assume that I would get a functioning miner in exchange for my BTC, then I apologize.

[CanaryInTheMine]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

Shall we make our PMs public to see where I said something is your fault and where I told you to fuck off??

I have no desire to bicker back and forth publicly or privately.  You sold me a miner that had a missing capacitor and does not function.  You are unwilling to replace it or accept a return.  If you are willing to do something, feel free to let me know.  Up until now all you have done is told me to contact AsicMiner, who does not respond.  I expected more.  If it is outrageous for me to assume that I would get a functioning miner in exchange for my BTC, then I apologize.

I didn't sell you a miner as I'm not a reseller.  you participated in a group buy and I combined orders and re shipped it to you once they arrived same day.  I explained to you that I do not have anything to replace it with and for that or a refund, I'd be more than happy to support your contact to AM.  Don't try to twist what I said or to make me your scapegoat when you're pissed at bad hw.  Anyway, let's not sling stuff, we can PM.

[unrealistic]

So are these devices already in production ?

[SEGMining]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

I agree. I had hoped for more from Canary as well, especially since I've bought dozens if not hundreds of miners from his buys in the past. I imagine he's getting lots of complaints and just didn't want to deal with it.

I've tried lots of dip switch settings. I get errors anytime more than 1 board is hooked up at a time and 1 of the boards is missing a capacitor and won't hash at all.

[We did not participate in group buys, this is our own experience]

Hi, so, this has been a total nightmare.  But, I found this information posted by CrazyGuy to be reliable https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795477.0 and he points out flaws with the dip switches and notes on the "virtual boards".

Also, 3/16 of the prismas I've received had caps rattling around the boxes.  I have 5 of our own I've yet to open, 4 from a customer I've yet to inspect.  These all came straight from AM.  Also the Tube we received, I'm guessing as compensation, had components that had fallen off in the shipment.  This has been a total disaster. 

[ferncreekminer]

[We did not participate in group buys, this is our own experience]

Hi, so, this has been a total nightmare.  But, I found this information posted by CrazyGuy to be reliable https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795477.0 and he points out flaws with the dip switches and notes on the "virtual boards".

Also, 3/16 of the prismas I've received had caps rattling around the boxes.  I have 5 of our own I've yet to open, 4 from a customer I've yet to inspect.  These all came straight from AM.  Also the Tube we received, I'm guessing as compensation, had components that had fallen off in the shipment.  This has been a total disaster. 


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Question as to the packaging - are your units packed with the 4 blue tubes keeping the prisma in place or did they have 4 white squares shaped pieces of foam to keep the prismas from shifting?

I have 2 working units from CG GB on hand my batch1 unit had 4 white square pieces of foam & the prisma had shifted in shipment. the 2nd unit I got AM had changed to using blue foam tubes (a bit bigger) and the unit had not shifted during shipment.

Got another unit on the way from Canary's GB.

Luckily both of my units so far are working great since I have moved from the BE Controller to the Minera RPi image that CG created. When on the BE Controller it couldn't handle 8 hashboards - 1 board would cause the unit to stopping hashing after 1hr - 1.25 hrs.
Even on the RPi the unit seems to have issues if I use a pool port that is set for vardif - using a port set to difficulty 2048 works great though.

https://i.imgur.com/0RRLSU0.png

[MrTeal]

 I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

This is (as far as I'm aware) their first string miner, which is a whole different can of worms.

[SEGMining]

[We did not participate in group buys, this is our own experience]

Hi, so, this has been a total nightmare.  But, I found this information posted by CrazyGuy to be reliable https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795477.0 and he points out flaws with the dip switches and notes on the "virtual boards".

Also, 3/16 of the prismas I've received had caps rattling around the boxes.  I have 5 of our own I've yet to open, 4 from a customer I've yet to inspect.  These all came straight from AM.  Also the Tube we received, I'm guessing as compensation, had components that had fallen off in the shipment.  This has been a total disaster. 

Question as to the packaging - are your units packed with the 4 blue tubes keeping the prisma in place or did they have 4 white squares shaped pieces of foam to keep the prismas from shifting?

I have 2 working units from CG GB on hand my batch1 unit had 4 white square pieces of foam & the prisma had shifted in shipment. the 2nd unit I got AM had changed to using blue foam tubes (a bit bigger) and the unit had not shifted during shipment.

Got another unit on the way from Canary's GB.

Luckily both of my units so far are working great since I have moved from the BE Controller to the Minera RPi image that CG created. When on the BE Controller it couldn't handle 8 hashboards - 1 board would cause the unit to stopping hashing after 1hr - 1.25 hrs.
Even on the RPi the unit seems to have issues if I use a pool port that is set for vardif - using a port set to difficulty 2048 works great though.


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1 of the damaged units was batch 1

2 of them were batch 2

I'm going to put a little more effort into using CrazyGuy's RPi image tonight.

Right now I'm having a strange situation where I switched controllers and then switched back to my original controller that used to work.  Now I can only get about 2/5 hashing at full speed.

[dankefoss]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

I agree. I had hoped for more from Canary as well, especially since I've bought dozens if not hundreds of miners from his buys in the past. I imagine he's getting lots of complaints and just didn't want to deal with it.

I've tried lots of dip switch settings. I get errors anytime more than 1 board is hooked up at a time and 1 of the boards is missing a capacitor and won't hash at all.

  I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

Brand new Prisma user. Have four Antminer S3's. Got mine up and running in a half hour following CrazyGuy and Dogies Guide for the Tube. Part of both. Hashing at 1.43 THs for 4 days now.

Dan

[jdany]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

I agree. I had hoped for more from Canary as well, especially since I've bought dozens if not hundreds of miners from his buys in the past. I imagine he's getting lots of complaints and just didn't want to deal with it.

I've tried lots of dip switch settings. I get errors anytime more than 1 board is hooked up at a time and 1 of the boards is missing a capacitor and won't hash at all.

Using a Pi?  or a BE controller?


  I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

Brand new Prisma user. Have four Antminer S3's. Got mine up and running in a half hour following CrazyGuy and Dogies Guide for the Tube. Part of both. Hashing at 1.43 THs for 4 days now.

Dan

[xhomerx10]

My Prisma has never gotten more than 350GH/s. My opinion is that they are pieces of shit and should not be purchased. I can't even return this piece of shit because my reseller (Canary) basically blamed me and told me to fuck off even though it arrived with missing parts. Be warned if you buy one of these. You will waste more of your time then they're worth and will be disappointed.

That doesn't sound like Canary.  You must have really pissed him off.

Did you make sure the boards were chained in incremental order?  (Example: 01:17,02:18,03:19,04:20,05:21...)  I understand it is crucial.

I agree. I had hoped for more from Canary as well, especially since I've bought dozens if not hundreds of miners from his buys in the past. I imagine he's getting lots of complaints and just didn't want to deal with it.

I've tried lots of dip switch settings. I get errors anytime more than 1 board is hooked up at a time and 1 of the boards is missing a capacitor and won't hash at all.

  I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

Brand new Prisma user. Have four Antminer S3's. Got mine up and running in a half hour following CrazyGuy and Dogies Guide for the Tube. Part of both. Hashing at 1.43 THs for 4 days now.

Dan

 Well that's great.  Glad to hear you got it working so quickly without issues.  Nice to hear AM success stories!

[SEGMining]

So, we made some progress on one of our miners that was "misbehaving" by running it with CrazyGuy's RPi image.  The original five I was having trouble with, magically started working again for no reason.  I'm not disappointed in them working, but for 2 days they gave me hell.  I did absolutely nothing new and they started working again.  We'll see if they survive the night running well.

One unit that was previously not being detected correctly was remedied by using a new cable.

Luckily the damaged units seem to just be weak solder and one of my friends is going to fix that for us.

I do suggest CrazyGuy's pi image and following the instructions in his group buy thread.  It's spot on for most issues.

We now have 100% of Prismas that are deployed up and running, we still have some more to deploy though and some to fix.

[qiqiji]

So, we made some progress on one of our miners that was "misbehaving" by running it with CrazyGuy's RPi image.  The original five I was having trouble with, magically started working again for no reason.  I'm not disappointed in them working, but for 2 days they gave me hell.  I did absolutely nothing new and they started working again.  We'll see if they survive the night running well.

One unit that was previously not being detected correctly was remedied by using a new cable.

Luckily the damaged units seem to just be weak solder and one of my friends is going to fix that for us.

I do suggest CrazyGuy's pi image and following the instructions in his group buy thread.  It's spot on for most issues.

We now have 100% of Prismas that are deployed up and running, we still have some more to deploy though and some to fix.

Where is CrazyGuy's group buy thread please? I can't find it

[Blazed]

So, we made some progress on one of our miners that was "misbehaving" by running it with CrazyGuy's RPi image.  The original five I was having trouble with, magically started working again for no reason.  I'm not disappointed in them working, but for 2 days they gave me hell.  I did absolutely nothing new and they started working again.  We'll see if they survive the night running well.

One unit that was previously not being detected correctly was remedied by using a new cable.

Luckily the damaged units seem to just be weak solder and one of my friends is going to fix that for us.

I do suggest CrazyGuy's pi image and following the instructions in his group buy thread.  It's spot on for most issues.

We now have 100% of Prismas that are deployed up and running, we still have some more to deploy though and some to fix.

Where is CrazyGuy's group buy thread please? I can't find it

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795477.0

[xhomerx10]

 I got the feeling the Prisma was a little rushed to market.  I don't understand how they can be so problematic - I mean this isn't their first miner... it's the 4th or 5th?!  

This is (as far as I'm aware) their first string miner, which is a whole different can of worms.

 Good point.

[jdany]

Brand new Prisma user. Have four Antminer S3's. Got mine up and running in a half hour following CrazyGuy and Dogies Guide for the Tube. Part of both. Hashing at 1.43 THs for 4 days now.

Dan

Are you using a Pi or a BE controller?

[SEGMining]

So, we made some progress on one of our miners that was "misbehaving" by running it with CrazyGuy's RPi image.  The original five I was having trouble with, magically started working again for no reason.  I'm not disappointed in them working, but for 2 days they gave me hell.  I did absolutely nothing new and they started working again.  We'll see if they survive the night running well.

One unit that was previously not being detected correctly was remedied by using a new cable.

Luckily the damaged units seem to just be weak solder and one of my friends is going to fix that for us.

I do suggest CrazyGuy's pi image and following the instructions in his group buy thread.  It's spot on for most issues.

We now have 100% of Prismas that are deployed up and running, we still have some more to deploy though and some to fix.

Where is CrazyGuy's group buy thread please? I can't find it

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=795477.0