Hi NlaakStudios, have you guys had any video demo prototype?
No sorry we don't have video at this time. If the reception here would have been better then I would have pulled it down for a bit to make a video and show the live mining stats.
you're building a rolls royce in a market for miners who want Hondas. $30k will buy 150x GPU's albeit the cheaper kind like RX470 or 1060 GTX. your rig also needs (2) dedicated 120V/30A breakers , who the heck has that in their house.
Since you have to run a dedicated circuit you might as well run 240volts for better efficiency. 24 gpu of 180 ti takes up 250w each. 24x250= 6000 watt . Plus you want 20 percent of extra headroom for full duty cycle I think . 6000w*1.2= 7200watt
240v/30 amp should do the trick on a single circuit. 240v*30 amp = 7200watt
It's actually pretty easy to install a 240v/30 amp breaker. Just go to home depot and buy a $10 dollar breaker and buy some thick properly rated wires, buy a receptacle outlet and some cheap 240volt power distrbution units and your done. Hard part is getting it inside the walls of the house and making it look clean. Some houses are easier than others, Should be super easy if your just doing it in the garage.
I know nothing about electricity but it's easy to figure out by going to home depot and planning out your shopping items and a little research.
I went with the 120V after discussing with electrician a bit. One, the purchaser will most likely be a guy and the suggested place (if married) is the man cave (garage, at least a corner). Two, scaling. buy running whole new line to a new breaker box and adding a dozen 30A sockets - give them room to grow. It adds value to house as well, if they get out of mining or sell the house - all power tools, Neon Lights, etc can be plugged in there. I thought about it quite a bit. Just a single 8 GPU nVidia system trips a house break (just depend on algo and that running stock)
I set my cards ~(65,75C,65,750) and they are stable as hell, get max HASH/Watts /sec and use way less than 250W/ea.
Also, I was building for quality and I used the 70% rule for power, preferred 50%, but the cost of the system was already really high. I don't want the power supplies working hard for sound and lifespan. I did't not want a single component to work hard for the same reason.
yeah its expensive but the bottom line fact is that it will make 171k+ USD over 72 months ... each. That's after bending over and paying for it.
Look I was not trolling. I'm new here - mainly in Baikal X10 thread. It's actually easier for the company to NOT build and market this - but I am an engineer and wanted to do it. I would love to have the Nlaak Studios "Goliath" have a great reputation and profit, at least for company reputation.
Anyway, I got the feedback I was looking for. However I think there is a market for investors that are not IT. I will build the v2 prototype with the Orange Pi Monitor/Controller and complete it. At that point I will find a famous YouTuber (Mining gear streamer/reviewer) and ship it to them for Un-Boxing and Review. We'll see how it goes. I'm kind of favoring "Bits Be Trip'n" but have not approached him yet. Maybe in Feb 2018 when the Devs are done with the Monitor/Controller software. A not on the monitoring software (that someone said it did not have + remote access). First, it will not only detect when a system stops mining or locks up and restart it (via relay, then activating MB PW 15 secs after power applied), it will detect if you lost one or more of the GPU's and do the same, restart. We are also looking into creating software to monitor the mining of each algo and automatically (learn/adjust) GPU's settings for Maximum performance/wattage (still in research stage)
it also monitor Network (from system) and up-link and will notify. I would like to be able to use RESTful to get info from router and send commands (authenticated of course) - I brought this to the attention of several of the biggest Router Manufactures.
There is a lot this system does for the price. The Built-In Custom Monitor/Controller (free of charge, not like other sites that you pay monthly) is the big deal on this that allows you to plugin and forget (almost, but will get better in time)
When a consumer gets this, i want it to feel like you unpacking a Apple product. Hook it up and forget about it.
It's not a FACT at all, that's not how it works. Just because the profits have been high for the past year doesn't mean they'll keep being high like this. Weren't you around in 2013-2014? The gpu mining profits went down so bad that people in Europe were paying more for electricity than they were getting in return from mining. Lots of people stopped mining completely and sold off all their hardware, myself included. There is no way to predict how long the gpu mining will last and how profitable it'll be, and planning for the next 6 years?! That's even more lol than i9. 
