[ANN] FutureBit Project Apollo: Bringing ASIC Mining Back to the Home Miner! - page 16.

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Quote from: jstefanop on January 29, 2019, 11:44:28 AM

Quote from: VoskCoin on January 29, 2019, 09:59:08 AM

The miner states 100% fabricated/assembled/shipped in the USA

When you say fabricated is that as in invented or also that all components are made from within the USA and nothing is china sourced?

Either way, this is an awesome project, so keep up the great work.

Almost, whole project is engineered here and all PCB assembly/ case assembly is done in California. Not everything is from here though, for example the fan is from China.

Web UI development is "Made in Italy" Grin

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Quote from: VoskCoin on January 29, 2019, 09:59:08 AM

The miner states 100% fabricated/assembled/shipped in the USA

When you say fabricated is that as in invented or also that all components are made from within the USA and nothing is china sourced?

Either way, this is an awesome project, so keep up the great work.

Almost, whole project is engineered here and all PCB assembly/ case assembly is done in California. Not everything is from here though, for example the fan is from China.

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The miner states 100% fabricated/assembled/shipped in the USA

When you say fabricated is that as in invented or also that all components are made from within the USA and nothing is china sourced?

Either way, this is an awesome project, so keep up the great work.

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Yes anything less than 2% on the Apollo is "normal". The ASICS themselves are a little error prone regardless (they will spit out at least .5 % error even on high voltages).

The onboard passive thermal shutdowns will kick in before and real damage happens even if the MCU fails and the fan is not running.

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Ok thanks

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Quote from: Filax on January 22, 2019, 02:38:59 PM

Hi Jstefanop

Thanks for the reply

So if i understand, you think that i haven't damaged anything?

Here is my actual HW Errors and specs :

Because now i'm paranoid

I found that the hardware errors are numerous...

Regards

Anyways, super small machine!!! Im fan boy of all your creations

hw - 0.5 %

so for every 100 dollars earned you are losing

50 cents

$99.50 good
.50 bad

this is normal

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Hi Jstefanop

Thanks for the reply

So if i understand, you think that i haven't damaged anything?

Here is my actual HW Errors and specs :

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/04/2/1548185765-capture-d-ecran-2019-01-22-a-20-35-55.png

Because now i'm paranoid

I found that the hardware errors are numerous...

Regards

Anyways, super small machine!!! Im fan boy of all your creations

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Quote from: Filax on January 22, 2019, 07:23:22 AM

Hi

I wanted to tell you an adventure that happened to my Apollo tonight... The Apollo is not involved, but rather the micro SD card!

To setup the Apollo I used a SD card no name of 4 GB. And this morning I had the unpleasant surprise to see the Apollo with fan
extinguished and visibly crashed! And a strong smell of burnt plastic and / or electric, and the aluminium fan was burning!

At first I thought the apollo was dead, I turned everything off and let the electronics cool down... I tested the power supply, then
I tried and turn on the apollo but nothing happened.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!! (Primal scream)

But, i thinked about the Micro SD card, i removed the card from the Apollo et tried to format it with my mac and strangly the mac wont format it...
I tried on my PC and same shit... so i burned another micros SD sandisk card and the Apollo re-worked perfectly!!!

(JStefanop)

Morality, do not hesitate to use some good quality SD cards, else if the system crash the fans can't control and cool down the chips :/ A procedure of shutdown
should be usefull in this case

Else is there a way to know if a chip was damaged ?

Regards

PS: But I was scared during this story

Here is my config

One Apollo, and a raspberry running 5 moonlander 2 overclocked

yea this has been reported in the support thread, and the next image release will take steps to prevent this from happening but never really thought that the SD card might be the issue...thats good to know.

Regardless there are built in thermal protections to prevent any damage, problem is that because the heatsink is so efficient and the board does not get hot enough for the shutdown to kick in, so it probably gets up to 90C in this case which will cause some "burning" smell but this won't cause any damage to the ASICs or board.

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Hi

I wanted to tell you an adventure that happened to my Apollo tonight... The Apollo is not involved, but rather the micro SD card!

To setup the Apollo I used a SD card no name of 4 GB. And this morning I had the unpleasant surprise to see the Apollo with fan
extinguished and visibly crashed! And a strong smell of burnt plastic and / or electric, and the aluminium fan was burning!

At first I thought the apollo was dead, I turned everything off and let the electronics cool down... I tested the power supply, then
I tried and turn on the apollo but nothing happened.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!! (Primal scream)

But, i thinked about the Micro SD card, i removed the card from the Apollo et tried to format it with my mac and strangly the mac wont format it...
I tried on my PC and same shit... so i burned another micros SD sandisk card and the Apollo re-worked perfectly!!!

(JStefanop)

Morality, do not hesitate to use some good quality SD cards, else if the system crash the fans can't control and cool down the chips :/ A procedure of shutdown
should be usefull in this case

Else is there a way to know if a chip was damaged ?

Regards

PS: But I was scared during this story

Here is my config

One Apollo, and a raspberry running 5 moonlander 2 overclocked

https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/04/1/1548083973-20190111-112554.jpg

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Quote from: letsdancemusic on January 18, 2019, 09:04:28 AM

#skipcbcheck#xnsub dont work it says dead, im trying to pool and rent the unit within it's own miner app

Please use the support thread linked in the main post for support related questions. If the pool shows dead it means your login credentials are incorrect.

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#skipcbcheck#xnsub dont work it says dead, im trying to pool and rent the unit within it's own miner app

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Quote from: sunk818 on January 15, 2019, 08:17:19 PM

Is anyone using Apollo to run BOINC ARM (e.g. Rosetta or World Community Grid)? Do you need all cores to run the internal OS & software?

No, mining/controller stuff uses like 1-5% of the processing power on this 4 core ARM cpu. Probably not a good idea to tax it 100% though since it already runs hot due to the proximity to the main hashboard.

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Quote from: sunk818 on January 15, 2019, 08:14:09 PM

Can we solo scrypt using bfgminer yet? For some reason, bfgminer for your scrypt asic miners can't do it. Always have to use a pool and pay fees.

Thats on the to-do list.

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Quote from: sunk818 on January 15, 2019, 08:14:09 PM

Can we solo scrypt using bfgminer yet? For some reason, bfgminer for your scrypt asic miners can't do it. Always have to use a pool and pay fees.

I tried solo mining yesterday with an apollo on flapx, works fine.

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Is anyone using Apollo to run BOINC ARM (e.g. Rosetta or World Community Grid)? Do you need all cores to run the internal OS & software?

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Can we solo scrypt using bfgminer yet? For some reason, bfgminer for your scrypt asic miners can't do it. Always have to use a pool and pay fees.

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Quote from: sunk818 on January 04, 2019, 02:13:14 PM

Quote from: letsdancemusic on January 04, 2019, 06:17:43 AM

think the pools I tried on have stats update issues . I hope Apollo is total compab with all pools I tried a very low diff port pool it works fine and for usb sticks I think I know where I went wrong as I tried doin on several computers with ghekkos on them either one or other work depend which driver I updated last but also it can be usb ports and power hubs im using one thing great about Apollo I can mine without a usb driver which made it easy

all I need is a list of pools it works great on so far give-me-coins work nice with all futurebit miners I was thinking of renting it out say like on nicehash or mrr but I find too many renters on normal bit-main machines tend to throw them rigs on so high diff pools im having great arguments with renters who ripping us rig owners off but esp admins who run them trying to convince them my rig is not working when it is lol

gekko (sidehack) use different drivers than stuff made by jstefano. So, you can not use gekko and moonlander/apollo on the same computer. the usb drivers conflict with each other.

not sure what your point about pools are. you need to take it up with the pool operator if you think there's issue there. what works for me sometimes is to add #skipcbcheck#xnsub to the end (e.g. stratum+tcp://pool:7777/#skipcbcheck#xnsub). If you asked more humbly, I think you'd get more help with your mining issues. so far, you've not made a real attempt to describe your issues (we can't read your mind) nor are pool issues (which sound like user error) really apollo miner issues.

No, not a lot of sense to be got out of those posts. I've found the Apollo to be one of the easiest setups ever, only complicated by choosing a PSU. The web UI is particularly idiot-proof, or so I thought.

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Quote from: AltScope on January 15, 2019, 01:37:28 AM

Quote from: minerja on January 14, 2019, 12:16:10 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 14, 2019, 11:55:20 AM

Quote from: minerja on January 14, 2019, 11:51:08 AM

Hi,
Is there anyone selling 1 of these units new or 2nd hand in the UK? I would want to pay in BTC or other crypto currency.
Reasonable prices only please.

Thanks
J

There are some people scalping these, and people buying them for way over what my price is. Not sure why people are buying them at those prices, when we still have units left in our Batch 1 stock, and you can pay crypto on our site....

Yeah, its crazy...i think the biggest issue in the UK is the import duties, and customs seizing them, so i guess the guys in the UK think they can inflate the prices....
Still, i can wait, so will only pay less than from your site for 2nd hand.... (just looking at an L3 for only 160 GBP, or 230 GBP with bitmain psu)
Shame you dont have a UK distributor. I dont get why none of the UK groups didnt buy some...
Oh well, maybe i will drop lucky
J

I'm in the U.K. I ordered 2 of the preorder units, import tax was roughly £50 for the pair so its not too bad. delivery times are pretty damn quick too I'm tempted to get a couple more.

Hey

Thanks for that. Thats good to know, not too bad at all...

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Quote from: minerja on January 14, 2019, 12:16:10 PM

Quote from: jstefanop on January 14, 2019, 11:55:20 AM

Quote from: minerja on January 14, 2019, 11:51:08 AM

Hi,
Is there anyone selling 1 of these units new or 2nd hand in the UK? I would want to pay in BTC or other crypto currency.
Reasonable prices only please.

Thanks
J

There are some people scalping these, and people buying them for way over what my price is. Not sure why people are buying them at those prices, when we still have units left in our Batch 1 stock, and you can pay crypto on our site....

Yeah, its crazy...i think the biggest issue in the UK is the import duties, and customs seizing them, so i guess the guys in the UK think they can inflate the prices....
Still, i can wait, so will only pay less than from your site for 2nd hand.... (just looking at an L3 for only 160 GBP, or 230 GBP with bitmain psu)
Shame you dont have a UK distributor. I dont get why none of the UK groups didnt buy some...
Oh well, maybe i will drop lucky
J

I'm in the U.K. I ordered 2 of the preorder units, import tax was roughly £50 for the pair so its not too bad. delivery times are pretty damn quick too I'm tempted to get a couple more.

minerja

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Quote from: jstefanop on January 14, 2019, 11:55:20 AM

Quote from: minerja on January 14, 2019, 11:51:08 AM

Hi,
Is there anyone selling 1 of these units new or 2nd hand in the UK? I would want to pay in BTC or other crypto currency.
Reasonable prices only please.

Thanks
J

There are some people scalping these, and people buying them for way over what my price is. Not sure why people are buying them at those prices, when we still have units left in our Batch 1 stock, and you can pay crypto on our site....

Yeah, its crazy...i think the biggest issue in the UK is the import duties, and customs seizing them, so i guess the guys in the UK think they can inflate the prices....
Still, i can wait, so will only pay less than from your site for 2nd hand.... (just looking at an L3 for only 160 GBP, or 230 GBP with bitmain psu)
Shame you dont have a UK distributor. I dont get why none of the UK groups didnt buy some...
Oh well, maybe i will drop lucky
J

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