ANTMINER S4 Discussion and Support Thread - page 30.

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Quote from: Kexkey on April 13, 2015, 01:39:37 PM

Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:18:55 AM

Quote from: Kexkey on April 13, 2015, 08:37:48 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on April 12, 2015, 09:10:42 PM

Quote from: Cyper_BLC on April 11, 2015, 06:01:47 PM

wouw this is amazing Shocked

i have got 10 Th (5 S4's) and i cant put more miners in my company, because our buildings electricity board cant handle more Sad

good work

Thank you Cyper_BLC.

Mine can't handle anymore either until I get my power upgraded. I found my limit when I added six (6) S5's to what you see in the picture. The main breaker tripped after I turned on the 5th S5 with the AC going, 2 eyes on the stove top going, the oven going and the dryer going. So, I'm not running the stove top and oven at the same time as the dryer or at the same time as the dish washer at the moment. I turned off some S3's to have all S5's going.

I'm looking forward to upgrading the power. I'm doubling the amps. That means my income tax return will be gone once I get back - lol. It's kind of expensive to upgrade power. I'm not sure if I'm bumping up to 400 amps or 500 amps. I suppose it depends on what my present "feeder" (service) cable can handle. If it can handle 600 amps, I'll go ahead and upgrade to 600 amps. It may be good for only 400 or 500 though. It should be done by the end of May or first part of June. There's a chance I might wait on spending that money upgrading power here to spend it on power at my next location. I haven't decided yet. Still doing the math.

Big plans, that's cool. That's actually what I am planning right now, starting with a dedicated 200A next week and another 200A in a few months. Then I'll see. Electrician is coming next week but first I have to install some infrastructure (utility pole for the new electric line, underground wires, etc.) It is an exciting project, and with summer coming, wife, kids and friends starting to complain about the heat, I have no choice but moving my miners out of the 4 houses I'm using right now for all of them. Wink

200Amps of miners will be crazy hot , i have only 60Amps and the heat is insane , my 2nd floor gets to 89 degress when its only 50-70outside

The two 200A panels won't be here in my home, the noise and heat would be intolerable. I found a place that I rent on a farm, some kind of huge garage with no isolation and great ventilation, where I will install my little mining farm. A farm within a farm, isn't it poetic? Grin

Sounds great!!!

What are your electricity costs per kWH?

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 12:26:27 PM

I'm surprised you haven't had a visit from the local PD or FBI, electric like that trips them off to grow lights!!

I don't think that happens as much these days because local PD and FBI especially are in cahoots with the NSA and have access to purchases made and websites visited. They would know if grow lights, etc, were purchased on the web or else where through credit card bills and electronic bank records. The 4th amendment is gone. We no longer have privacy.

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Quote from: dmwardjr on April 13, 2015, 07:30:02 PM

Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:19:53 AM

Quote from: notlist3d on April 13, 2015, 11:18:09 AM

Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

During my winter I was running 11k watts. My electricity company loved me so much that they had to split bill into two. They were not setup to take such high bills for individuals so they split my bill in 2 that their system would take and I paid two bills all winter.

Yeah my bills are nuts too bascially 800usd a month. There has to be a way to get a better rate.

Move to Washington State or Colorado. There are counties in both states with rates less than 5.5 cents per kWH. Only move if you plan on getting large though.

If I younger and single I would have moved to Washington State to mine, but at 58 and married for 30+ years that is just not going to happen.

I would love to have 100 sp20's running in a Washington State backyard with a Barn paying 4 or 5 cents a kwatt.

Those sets of 15 sp20's were as low as 5k so for about 40k I could of had a 120th farm running Since Jan 1st. power would be under 2200 a month

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Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:19:53 AM

Quote from: notlist3d on April 13, 2015, 11:18:09 AM

Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

During my winter I was running 11k watts. My electricity company loved me so much that they had to split bill into two. They were not setup to take such high bills for individuals so they split my bill in 2 that their system would take and I paid two bills all winter.

Yeah my bills are nuts too bascially 800usd a month. There has to be a way to get a better rate.

Move to Washington State or Colorado. There are counties in both states with rates less than 5.5 cents per kWH. Only move if you plan on getting large though.

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Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:18:55 AM

Quote from: Kexkey on April 13, 2015, 08:37:48 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on April 12, 2015, 09:10:42 PM

Quote from: Cyper_BLC on April 11, 2015, 06:01:47 PM

wouw this is amazing Shocked

i have got 10 Th (5 S4's) and i cant put more miners in my company, because our buildings electricity board cant handle more Sad

good work

Thank you Cyper_BLC.

Mine can't handle anymore either until I get my power upgraded. I found my limit when I added six (6) S5's to what you see in the picture. The main breaker tripped after I turned on the 5th S5 with the AC going, 2 eyes on the stove top going, the oven going and the dryer going. So, I'm not running the stove top and oven at the same time as the dryer or at the same time as the dish washer at the moment. I turned off some S3's to have all S5's going.

I'm looking forward to upgrading the power. I'm doubling the amps. That means my income tax return will be gone once I get back - lol. It's kind of expensive to upgrade power. I'm not sure if I'm bumping up to 400 amps or 500 amps. I suppose it depends on what my present "feeder" (service) cable can handle. If it can handle 600 amps, I'll go ahead and upgrade to 600 amps. It may be good for only 400 or 500 though. It should be done by the end of May or first part of June. There's a chance I might wait on spending that money upgrading power here to spend it on power at my next location. I haven't decided yet. Still doing the math.

Big plans, that's cool. That's actually what I am planning right now, starting with a dedicated 200A next week and another 200A in a few months. Then I'll see. Electrician is coming next week but first I have to install some infrastructure (utility pole for the new electric line, underground wires, etc.) It is an exciting project, and with summer coming, wife, kids and friends starting to complain about the heat, I have no choice but moving my miners out of the 4 houses I'm using right now for all of them. Wink

200Amps of miners will be crazy hot , i have only 60Amps and the heat is insane , my 2nd floor gets to 89 degress when its only 50-70outside

Damn, that is pretty hot for 60 amps of rigs. Have you been brain storming about a means of getting the heat out. It will get hot during the summer. That AC is going to run non stop.

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

Sha Zammm!!!

I'm sure the power company does give you some love. lol

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Quote from: lovenlifelarge on April 13, 2015, 02:13:15 PM

Quote from: Cyper_BLC on March 13, 2015, 10:17:56 PM

Quote from: Prelude on March 12, 2015, 09:57:20 PM

Bitmain, when can we expect a new firmware update to re-enable voltage control? The last update killed voltage control. I'd use the previous Oct 16th if I needed it right away, but the latest firmware is much more stable. With summer coming I'll be wanting to underclock and undervolt, along with many others I'm sure.

Please make sure that all 4 hash boards respond to voltage settings, previous firmware only controlled 3 of them while the forth was stuck at 0750.

Bitmain wants to be fail and not profitable our S4's. DONT USE LATEST FIRMWARE !

i am planing to share this solution step by step guide in here when this donation adress reach 4 BTC.

Can u explain what u mean about a fix & what it does??

dont be lazy read few pages back.

it allows to down the voltage to make the miners more power efficient. The newest jan firmware from bitmain does not allow this, they locked the voltage 0725 so you cant do shit

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Quote from: lovenlifelarge on April 13, 2015, 03:15:34 PM

Quote from: Prelude on February 19, 2015, 10:34:05 AM

Give --bitmain-homemode a try, makes them significantly quieter and they run about 5c hotter. Very good tradeoff IMO.

How do u enable this??

PARAMS="--bitmain-dev /dev/bitmain-asic --bitmain-options 115200:32:8:$timeout:$chip_value:$freq_value:0725 --bitmain-checkn2diff --bitmain-hwerror --version-file /usr/bin/compile_time --queue $queue_value --bitmain-homemode"

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Quote from: Prelude on February 19, 2015, 10:34:05 AM

Give --bitmain-homemode a try, makes them significantly quieter and they run about 5c hotter. Very good tradeoff IMO.

How do u enable this??

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Quote from: Cyper_BLC on March 13, 2015, 10:17:56 PM

Quote from: Prelude on March 12, 2015, 09:57:20 PM

Bitmain, when can we expect a new firmware update to re-enable voltage control? The last update killed voltage control. I'd use the previous Oct 16th if I needed it right away, but the latest firmware is much more stable. With summer coming I'll be wanting to underclock and undervolt, along with many others I'm sure.

Please make sure that all 4 hash boards respond to voltage settings, previous firmware only controlled 3 of them while the forth was stuck at 0750.

Bitmain wants to be fail and not profitable our S4's. DONT USE LATEST FIRMWARE !

i am planing to share this solution step by step guide in here when this donation adress reach 4 BTC.

Can u explain what u mean about a fix & what it does??

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I have noticed from talk in this thread that u have fixed the voltage on the S4, Whats the going donation to get access to this firmware??
Also with the voltage fix does that bring the fans more in line with your low fan firmware or offer this as an option???

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Since you are a farmer on a farm you should be able to take part in the IRS tax cuts for farmers!!! Cheesy

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Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:18:55 AM

Quote from: Kexkey on April 13, 2015, 08:37:48 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on April 12, 2015, 09:10:42 PM

Quote from: Cyper_BLC on April 11, 2015, 06:01:47 PM

wouw this is amazing Shocked

i have got 10 Th (5 S4's) and i cant put more miners in my company, because our buildings electricity board cant handle more Sad

good work

Thank you Cyper_BLC.

Mine can't handle anymore either until I get my power upgraded. I found my limit when I added six (6) S5's to what you see in the picture. The main breaker tripped after I turned on the 5th S5 with the AC going, 2 eyes on the stove top going, the oven going and the dryer going. So, I'm not running the stove top and oven at the same time as the dryer or at the same time as the dish washer at the moment. I turned off some S3's to have all S5's going.

I'm looking forward to upgrading the power. I'm doubling the amps. That means my income tax return will be gone once I get back - lol. It's kind of expensive to upgrade power. I'm not sure if I'm bumping up to 400 amps or 500 amps. I suppose it depends on what my present "feeder" (service) cable can handle. If it can handle 600 amps, I'll go ahead and upgrade to 600 amps. It may be good for only 400 or 500 though. It should be done by the end of May or first part of June. There's a chance I might wait on spending that money upgrading power here to spend it on power at my next location. I haven't decided yet. Still doing the math.

Big plans, that's cool. That's actually what I am planning right now, starting with a dedicated 200A next week and another 200A in a few months. Then I'll see. Electrician is coming next week but first I have to install some infrastructure (utility pole for the new electric line, underground wires, etc.) It is an exciting project, and with summer coming, wife, kids and friends starting to complain about the heat, I have no choice but moving my miners out of the 4 houses I'm using right now for all of them. Wink

200Amps of miners will be crazy hot , i have only 60Amps and the heat is insane , my 2nd floor gets to 89 degress when its only 50-70outside

The two 200A panels won't be here in my home, the noise and heat would be intolerable. I found a place that I rent on a farm, some kind of huge garage with no isolation and great ventilation, where I will install my little mining farm. A farm within a farm, isn't it poetic? Grin

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 12:26:27 PM

I'm surprised you haven't had a visit from the local PD or FBI, electric like that trips them off to grow lights!!

It's a small town. They know know the farmers family's from long long ago. So I don't have any issues. And on a farm it can take a heck of a lot of electricity. Some of the big machines you can plug in to warm up and start easy in winter, so chances are they figured it was this being done.

But yea these S4's have made it through winter still working great. Getting ready for summer now. I have to say they were a high quality product.

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I'm surprised you haven't had a visit from the local PD or FBI, electric like that trips them off to grow lights!!

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Quote from: Marvell1 on April 13, 2015, 11:19:53 AM

Quote from: notlist3d on April 13, 2015, 11:18:09 AM

Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

During my winter I was running 11k watts. My electricity company loved me so much that they had to split bill into two. They were not setup to take such high bills for individuals so they split my bill in 2 that their system would take and I paid two bills all winter.

Yeah my bills are nuts too bascially 800usd a month. There has to be a way to get a better rate.

I'm in a large farm house so it adds some electricity plus mining. I had some ugly ones in winter. They were only set up for 1k on individual customers. I am not a industrial/commercial account. So 2 bills... was not fun but they were nice and did it easily. That is one nice thing about being on a actual farm is a high electricity bill is not all that unusual.

On a side note I tried the nicehash firmware. So far it seems to work as far as mining with nicehash. I plan on going back to regular firmware after nicehash goes down on profit.

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Quote from: notlist3d on April 13, 2015, 11:18:09 AM

Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

During my winter I was running 11k watts. My electricity company loved me so much that they had to split bill into two. They were not setup to take such high bills for individuals so they split my bill in 2 that their system would take and I paid two bills all winter.

Yeah my bills are nuts too bascially 800usd a month. There has to be a way to get a better rate.

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Quote from: Kexkey on April 13, 2015, 08:37:48 AM

Quote from: dmwardjr on April 12, 2015, 09:10:42 PM

Quote from: Cyper_BLC on April 11, 2015, 06:01:47 PM

wouw this is amazing Shocked

i have got 10 Th (5 S4's) and i cant put more miners in my company, because our buildings electricity board cant handle more Sad

good work

Thank you Cyper_BLC.

Mine can't handle anymore either until I get my power upgraded. I found my limit when I added six (6) S5's to what you see in the picture. The main breaker tripped after I turned on the 5th S5 with the AC going, 2 eyes on the stove top going, the oven going and the dryer going. So, I'm not running the stove top and oven at the same time as the dryer or at the same time as the dish washer at the moment. I turned off some S3's to have all S5's going.

I'm looking forward to upgrading the power. I'm doubling the amps. That means my income tax return will be gone once I get back - lol. It's kind of expensive to upgrade power. I'm not sure if I'm bumping up to 400 amps or 500 amps. I suppose it depends on what my present "feeder" (service) cable can handle. If it can handle 600 amps, I'll go ahead and upgrade to 600 amps. It may be good for only 400 or 500 though. It should be done by the end of May or first part of June. There's a chance I might wait on spending that money upgrading power here to spend it on power at my next location. I haven't decided yet. Still doing the math.

Big plans, that's cool. That's actually what I am planning right now, starting with a dedicated 200A next week and another 200A in a few months. Then I'll see. Electrician is coming next week but first I have to install some infrastructure (utility pole for the new electric line, underground wires, etc.) It is an exciting project, and with summer coming, wife, kids and friends starting to complain about the heat, I have no choice but moving my miners out of the 4 houses I'm using right now for all of them. Wink

200Amps of miners will be crazy hot , i have only 60Amps and the heat is insane , my 2nd floor gets to 89 degress when its only 50-70outside

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Quote from: madmartyk on April 13, 2015, 11:07:59 AM

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

During my winter I was running 11k watts. My electricity company loved me so much that they had to split bill into two. They were not setup to take such high bills for individuals so they split my bill in 2 that their system would take and I paid two bills all winter.

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Yes I am a pirate, 300 years too late!

Man you guys are my heros!! With 1 S4 running, the only one showing me love is ComEd when the electric bill shows up!!

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