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Quote from: Tupsu on August 27, 2015, 09:36:43 AM

Quote from: tris1986 on August 27, 2015, 08:46:57 AM

Hi guys got my s5+ unit got to say overall very disappointing, powered up my unit and it caught on fire, half of the heat sinks have fallen off during transport from china would have thought that bitmain would do a better job now im waiting for a response from them.

My last S5+ was with broken fan, But I do not blame Bitmain for that.

https://i.imgur.com/2SuSet5.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VJO0lVE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4SZQqzU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vvDtqzu.jpg

broken fans is one thing but having the unit catch on fire and heat sinks not suck on with enough thermal past is another thing keep in mind these units are valued at $2300 usd

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Quote from: tris1986 on August 27, 2015, 08:46:57 AM

Hi guys got my s5+ unit got to say overall very disappointing, powered up my unit and it caught on fire, half of the heat sinks have fallen off during transport from china would have thought that bitmain would do a better job now im waiting for a response from them.

My last S5+ was with broken fan, But I do not blame Bitmain for that.

tris1986

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Hi guys got my s5+ unit got to say overall very disappointing, powered up my unit and it caught on fire, half of the heat sinks have fallen off during transport from china would have thought that bitmain would do a better job now im waiting for a response from them.
https://i.imgur.com/stC2yYR.png

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Quote from: RadekG on August 27, 2015, 04:03:26 AM

Quote from: notlist3d on August 27, 2015, 03:44:49 AM

Quote from: alh on August 27, 2015, 03:32:47 AM

Given my home situation, my single SP20 is a "tolerable nuisance" at well under 500W. A 3KW screaming S5+ would not fly. Just like I don't expect an SP35, or S4, or numerous other miners would fit my home situation.

Maybe I am in a shrinking minority.

Honestly S5+'s were a better built unit. Instead of plastic sides with one fan, the metal unit with push/pull fans. I see your point for some on amount of electricity.

But I think you will see more and more in this category. For better or worse mining is changing. I think rack mountable high electricity units are where were going to. But S7 likely will be a 110/120 machine as Bitmain has not seemed to leave this on initial launch of chips.

Disagree that S5+ were a better built unit. Simply counting Watt density per machine (watts per fan) you can see that airflow must be at least double compared to S5, and everyone still remember S5 often failing even at good conditions with stable internet. I can accept that the unit is comparable, since they increased CFM by doubling fans and eliminated "hot spots" using heatsink for each chip. The biggest disadvantage is huge CFM with huge noise and also more sensitive to dust. S5+ has been built for huge datacenters to save space and cables. It is just well done to fit one standard 220/16A power line.

These seem to be tested better. Honestly the fail ratio I don't think we have seen someone post one single bad board heck even with a single bad chip even. I am surprised at that honestly. I have had a network outage and zero damage to unit, so that is good.

Inspecting it once I got it I personally did not see any signs of use or wear. I was expecting them to see they had used them but it appeared new. It honestly is a good design and just works.

But I agree with electricity requirements it is not for all people. There are some that a 16A is to much for, and that is understandable. And that is why we keep seeing a 110/120 unit with initial chip release as there is a market.

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Quote from: notlist3d on August 27, 2015, 03:44:49 AM

Quote from: alh on August 27, 2015, 03:32:47 AM

Given my home situation, my single SP20 is a "tolerable nuisance" at well under 500W. A 3KW screaming S5+ would not fly. Just like I don't expect an SP35, or S4, or numerous other miners would fit my home situation.

Maybe I am in a shrinking minority.

Honestly S5+'s were a better built unit. Instead of plastic sides with one fan, the metal unit with push/pull fans. I see your point for some on amount of electricity.

But I think you will see more and more in this category. For better or worse mining is changing. I think rack mountable high electricity units are where were going to. But S7 likely will be a 110/120 machine as Bitmain has not seemed to leave this on initial launch of chips.

Disagree that S5+ were a better built unit. Simply counting Watt density per machine (watts per fan) you can see that airflow must be at least double compared to S5, and everyone still remember S5 often failing even at good conditions with stable internet. I can accept that the unit is comparable, since they increased CFM by doubling fans and eliminated "hot spots" using heatsink for each chip. The biggest disadvantage is huge CFM with huge noise and also more sensitive to dust. S5+ has been built for huge datacenters to save space and cables. It is just well done to fit one standard 220/16A power line.

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Quote from: alh on August 27, 2015, 03:32:47 AM

Given my home situation, my single SP20 is a "tolerable nuisance" at well under 500W. A 3KW screaming S5+ would not fly. Just like I don't expect an SP35, or S4, or numerous other miners would fit my home situation.

Maybe I am in a shrinking minority.

Honestly S5+'s were a better built unit. Instead of plastic sides with one fan, the metal unit with push/pull fans. I see your point for some on amount of electricity.

But I think you will see more and more in this category. For better or worse mining is changing. I think rack mountable high electricity units are where were going to. But S7 likely will be a 110/120 machine as Bitmain has not seemed to leave this on initial launch of chips.

alh

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Given my home situation, my single SP20 is a "tolerable nuisance" at well under 500W. A 3KW screaming S5+ would not fly. Just like I don't expect an SP35, or S4, or numerous other miners would fit my home situation.

Maybe I am in a shrinking minority.

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Quote from: alh on August 27, 2015, 03:16:53 AM

As a home miner, I hope that the S5+ does NOT portend the design of the S7.....

I am a home miner aswell. I hope it does as there are many benefits. Having so much hash in a little area is a very nice feature.

I don't expect them to follow this design for the S7 as I think they will make it run off 110. But I honestly hope S8 or what ever it's big brother is follows this design. I was scared of 240 at first but after I love it and hope to see more models that use it (yes I know 2 120's could run it but it would not as common).

It honestly is a great miner and has lot's of advantages.

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As a home miner, I hope that the S5+ does NOT portend the design of the S7.....

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Quote from: alh on August 26, 2015, 07:06:43 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 26, 2015, 04:36:04 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on August 26, 2015, 03:08:02 PM

Quote from: TTravis on August 26, 2015, 09:08:11 AM

How long has it been now since BitMain has had S5-anything to sell? I am starting to worry.

I'm not worried but I do wonder if they are done with the S5 gear. The S5+ really is a nice miner lots of power in not much space.

But now they announced a new chip it's hard to say what they are doing. Everyone knew this could be a one batch to use up a lot of old stock of chips. It's looking more and more like this is true.

yeah it seems more and more likely that this was just a one time batch to clear out existing chips

What seems odd about that is that Bitmain had to engineer and test a new hashing board, as well as a new controller with lots more ports for hashing boards and fans. Wouldn't it have just been easier to build more S5 miners until they ran out of chips? Seems like a lot of work to just run out the existing supply of chips, as well as support the S5+ product for some period of time after it's produced. It seems that S5+ didn't have to a "triple wide power sucker", it could have just as easily been a hashing board improvement for the existing S5 controller and frame.

Could the S5+ have been some kind of prototype that became a product? If the BM1385 chip had the same layout as the BM1384 (i.e. the S5 chip), then I would speculate that the S5+ was a prototype for the S7, but my limited understanding is that the boards for the BM1384 and BM1385 will have to be different.

We know they got rid of a LOT of chips through this product that is for sure. Also they were selling used S5's trying to clear out their data centers.

It could have been a prototype for all we know. It is a good design for all we know they had them in their data centers and decided to open sales to public. We just don't know it's all speculation.

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Quote from: -droid- on August 26, 2015, 04:36:04 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on August 26, 2015, 03:08:02 PM

Quote from: TTravis on August 26, 2015, 09:08:11 AM

How long has it been now since BitMain has had S5-anything to sell? I am starting to worry.

I'm not worried but I do wonder if they are done with the S5 gear. The S5+ really is a nice miner lots of power in not much space.

But now they announced a new chip it's hard to say what they are doing. Everyone knew this could be a one batch to use up a lot of old stock of chips. It's looking more and more like this is true.

yeah it seems more and more likely that this was just a one time batch to clear out existing chips

What seems odd about that is that Bitmain had to engineer and test a new hashing board, as well as a new controller with lots more ports for hashing boards and fans. Wouldn't it have just been easier to build more S5 miners until they ran out of chips? Seems like a lot of work to just run out the existing supply of chips, as well as support the S5+ product for some period of time after it's produced. It seems that S5+ didn't have to a "triple wide power sucker", it could have just as easily been a hashing board improvement for the existing S5 controller and frame.

Could the S5+ have been some kind of prototype that became a product? If the BM1385 chip had the same layout as the BM1384 (i.e. the S5 chip), then I would speculate that the S5+ was a prototype for the S7, but my limited understanding is that the boards for the BM1384 and BM1385 will have to be different.

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Quote from: notlist3d on August 26, 2015, 03:08:02 PM

Quote from: TTravis on August 26, 2015, 09:08:11 AM

How long has it been now since BitMain has had S5-anything to sell? I am starting to worry.

I'm not worried but I do wonder if they are done with the S5 gear. The S5+ really is a nice miner lots of power in not much space.

But now they announced a new chip it's hard to say what they are doing. Everyone knew this could be a one batch to use up a lot of old stock of chips. It's looking more and more like this is true.

yeah it seems more and more likely that this was just a one time batch to clear out existing chips

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Quote from: TTravis on August 26, 2015, 09:08:11 AM

How long has it been now since BitMain has had S5-anything to sell? I am starting to worry.

I'm not worried but I do wonder if they are done with the S5 gear. The S5+ really is a nice miner lots of power in not much space.

But now they announced a new chip it's hard to say what they are doing. Everyone knew this could be a one batch to use up a lot of old stock of chips. It's looking more and more like this is true.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2015, 11:47:55 AM

meat posted 10 locked threads in many spots

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/meat-80294

make it 11 and a clever supporting one here

now all of the below I put .com so you do not click bad

Shit I think I log with this website. I changed my password on bitmain but that suck.

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How long has it been now since BitMain has had S5-anything to sell? I am starting to worry.

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Quote from: notlist3d on August 24, 2015, 04:01:47 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2015, 03:55:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 24, 2015, 02:01:58 PM

woah huge post.. so this guy was trying to scam others with a fake bitmain site? lol thats pretty crazy

yeah and if you signed in he has access to you bitmaintech password ,not good if you have cloud with them.

Sadly people will to to extreme lengths to scam people. I did not click any of it as I don't want to possibly get infected or other bad things.

But if you clicked it change your password. The good thing is I think you have to accept changes on payout in email. I could be wrong but I think email confirms it. So if I remember right that would help stop him.

Whats even more sad than that if they just put half the time they waste into helping people they might actually be able to make something of there life.. But sadly they choose to be the dirt on the bottom of our shoes..

Best Regards
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Since I am an English speaker, I use English words. Perhaps some folks would like to try offensive/stupid words in another language. Give the poor scavenger something to read. Bonus points for those folks that can blend multiple languages together.

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Quote from: alh on August 24, 2015, 04:12:41 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2015, 03:55:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 24, 2015, 02:01:58 PM

woah huge post.. so this guy was trying to scam others with a fake bitmain site? lol thats pretty crazy

yeah and if you signed in he has access to you bitmaintech password ,not good if you have cloud with them.

When in doubt, try and login in with completely bogus Id/Password. I did so using offensive words at every usual place, it was completely happy with what I put in. I always wonder if the scavenger of the Id/Password info recognizes what I've told them to do.

LOL thats hilarious.. it accepted total bogus user/pass combos, he/she is probably looking at his logs and saying wtf

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Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2015, 03:55:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 24, 2015, 02:01:58 PM

woah huge post.. so this guy was trying to scam others with a fake bitmain site? lol thats pretty crazy

yeah and if you signed in he has access to you bitmaintech password ,not good if you have cloud with them.

When in doubt, try and login in with completely bogus Id/Password. I did so using offensive words at every usual place, it was completely happy with what I put in. I always wonder if the scavenger of the Id/Password info recognizes what I've told them to do.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on August 24, 2015, 03:55:29 PM

Quote from: -droid- on August 24, 2015, 02:01:58 PM

woah huge post.. so this guy was trying to scam others with a fake bitmain site? lol thats pretty crazy

yeah and if you signed in he has access to you bitmaintech password ,not good if you have cloud with them.

Sadly people will to to extreme lengths to scam people. I did not click any of it as I don't want to possibly get infected or other bad things.

But if you clicked it change your password. The good thing is I think you have to accept changes on payout in email. I could be wrong but I think email confirms it. So if I remember right that would help stop him.

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