Topic: A4 Dominator - Pre-Order Group Buy - 280mh, roughly 1000w, $1800 + shipping - page 51. (Read 122571 times)

Sent a pm to Superman.      Er I mean Gen Tarkin. Maybe he will step. Or if nothing less needs a good
Laugh. If I was innsilion I'd just give him a unit to mod this A4 firmware.

http://gentarkincustomtitan.pcriot.com

Just check out what he has done with Titan KNC scrypt miners.



If anyone from Innsilicon reads this thread. It would get a sale from me with that kind of support

Na, First thing I did before even powering on was to make an IMG copy of the stick.
Ill take a peak and see if I can get to the files that way, but would prefer to get root login so I can add some other jobs to the system for monitoring and reporting anyhow.

Im wondering if they have documented the "low power" mode yet. They spoke of it in the video, to achieve the 1.5MH/W (or something similar). I would like to code in to the system a restart with power-level change for my 3pm-6pm window where my power rates are higher (Time of Use plan). I would go into "low-power" mode during the 3pm-6pm window. Don't know how to do that yet.
Hopefully something as simple as a "STOP, change voltage, START" sequence... Should be able to automate it.

I will have to try 815mv the highest I have tried is 810 but did not seem to make any diff with 800mv...

I did notice the miner will pull more power from the wall set at 810mv I jumped from 1070 watts@800mv to 1090 watts 810mv at the wall.

Yes this software is very buggy.. It would be great if someone with the skills could work with it..
Would it help if you just had the image of the software? If so let me know I have a back up of it

Yes, I got it working. I used 815mv per Chloe.
I would like to ssh into the box and modify the php or whatever code they have to fix a few issues:
1) All the pools are called "POOL 1#"
2) Clean up some of the English so id doesn't rub me the wrong way.
3) Pre-code the 815mv setting so I don't have to enter it every time it boots.
4) Add a "switch pool" button and possibly a pool #4.

However, don't know the ssh login.
I had it on the A2, and was able to update the web page to include more pools, and change the switch logic to allow me to go between any pools I had defined easily. Would like to do similar mods to the A4 code.

Are you entering a voltage? 800mv is what I use but miner will not start without a voltage setting and it does not save so it has to be entered on every re-start

Does anyone know how to ssh into the pi? I dont know the root password...
Im trying to track down why it cannot connect:

Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed

Thanks for the help with the power. I got it started and connected on the network now.
I wish they had simply used DHCP instead of some screwey non routeable address.
Anyhow, now that its online, all I get is
Error getting device list: ERR: socket connect(0) failed
Anyone know what that means? Im assuming they are trying to connect to some network socket but I dont know where.
I dont have a network sniffer either, so dont know what its trying to connect to.
Also, the GUI that I have has 3 rows for miners, but they all are called "POOL 1# ADD", but there is no button to actually add an address.
Every time I reboot, it looses what  type in and reverts to the default.
Does anyone know how to get it to save an address on reboot?

Anyone know if there are some instructions somewhere?
I cant seem to make any headway...
Does anyone have a working miner?
I would appreciate some help.

Ok, running into problems...
Cant find power jack on the PI.
I have the cubes plugged in, and the fans are running, but I have no way to get to the PI or power it on.
The default IP address is not rouetable on my network. I need to take the PI into my office to try and rig-up a separate network so I can get connected, but to do that I need to power on the PI and I cant find the power connector... Frustrated...

My 5-miners arrived today. Once I get them unboxed ill post more details.

I ordered seperate and my miners got to Canada today. I just didn't know what the status was on the 70 some that were going to the escrow. Thanks!

There were a bunch of different people who bought in the pre-order on their own due to the size of the order but I don't know who has received miners yet. 

I know the group buy that we coordinated our miners are arriving at our escrow today.

Has the preorder group buy received their miners?

So is anyone actually going to start a groupbuy?

I'm interested in getting one of these.

Here You got tutorial:

http://eastshoretrade.blogspot.com/2014/09/tutorial-setting-up110mh-scrypt-asic.html

And one of the best litecoin mining pool i use is litecoinpool.org

Alright guys, so I caved and purchased one from Aliexpress for $2,508.00/shipped. It should be here within 7 business days. Trouble is, I have never dealt with any units that utilize the raspberry pi so if you guys would be so kind to guide me I would appreciate the shit out of you. Also have 2 x Antminer S9's coming in as well. Very exciting.

Who's interested in a hosted group buy? Instead of $1800 per unit, we chop it up into $250 chunks, or about 0.35 BTC per "share" or something like that. I was going to do that for another miner (S9) but the prices and perceived (or actual) ROI was ... too "3 year traditional".

To be hosted in a really cold place with low electricity prices. I'll be point for this and give you your share of mining income after expenses every month, exchanged to BTC.

I'm not interested in handling too many individuals (people) so a maximum of 50~70 ? If the average contribution is a bitcoin each (some less, some more), we can have maybe 20 units for the whole group.

Of course, everyone knows how mining is, maybe we make ROI in 6 months, maybe sooner, maybe later.

If there is significant interest, I'll start a new thread.

Thanks for help!

All this whining about ROI with mining while the sensible folks who know a new business aims to make it's money back after 3 years...  an investment anywhere yielding 5% is 20 years for ROI...

but plug and play autoworkers with a ROI under a year, the horror!

 As opposed to the original Titan pricing at $9995 (IIRC), and USED ones going for $2000 ballpark with NO warrenttee?

 DO keep in mind that a good power supply will last for a VERY long time, and can almost definitely be recycled to another usage when the miner becomes unprofitable or dies.




 For reference - I paid $800 (appx) for my 110Mh/s A2 units back in November - and they've ALREADY paid for themselves (despite semi-high electric rate usage before I moved in June/July).
 My A2 units are STILL PROFITABLE as well - I just don't have enough power available where I am at now to run them all.

 I don't see the A4 taking forever to achieve ROI, though I do figure the increase in network hashrate might kick their ROI timeframe into the "ballpark a year" range.



 In theory, you could run each "blade" of an A4 from a seperate power supply - just don't try to use 2 different power supplies on the same blade - and it should work fine.
 Optimally, though, a big enough PS to run the whole unit form one supply would be best.

 Given the STATED "at the wall" consumption mentioned earlier in the thread by the guy that already recieved his unit, my favorite Seasonic X1250 or the widely-used EVGA 1300 G2 power supplies should run an A4 unit VERY comfortably - my 110 Mh/s A2 units consume 1240-1260 watts "at the wall" for the ones that have X1250 transplants and have been running rock-solid for months now.


 Keep in mind that the rating on a power supply is it's rating for OUTPUT, not how much it is limited to on input from your AC source. Given a typical 90% or so conversion efficiency on a gold-rated PS, you have at least an extra 10% margin to work with when looking at "at the wall" figures vs the rating of the PS itself.





 The days of "2-3 months to achieve ROI" may have been gone in cryptomining for years, but it can STILL be a very good and high-return investment if you do it wisely - and have low electric cost.

 1 Year for ROI is NOT unreasonable now, since the ASIC "state of the art" has now caught up with overall semiconductor "state of the art" and we can anticipate product cycles moving to MULTI YEARS apart instead of well UNDER a year per generation (for Bitcoin which has more competition, Scrypt cycles have been a lot slower due to the much smaller market for Scrypt miners).

I agree with you there -- if it wasn't so noisy then I could put several of these around on some "free electricity" outlets.