Topic: ANTMINER S7 is available at bitmaintech.com with 4.86TH/s, 0.25J/GH - page 272. (Read 528055 times)

 Once I get my S7's I'll be making some longer has board cables to do just that... 1 controller, 3 S7's = 1 S7 super

Yea, those are nice.... my DataLogger switch cost be $0.89 /lb .... at a Goodwill outlet  .... something like $3-$4 it cost... 

S7+ can be made from 3 s7's with 6 long hash cables. The chassis just slide together tongue and groove.
Just use one of the controllers.

My guess is that they are trying to get all b1/2/3 out the door, then when they are caught up they will have another batch. Based on the QA\QC issues they had I will be surprised that they will be releasing a new s7+ in the short term. If I was them I would be mining with them and not selling them, at least to see if the price swings to $300.


Ufo

I also have to agree with teamviewer!  I have used it for years with secure connections.  I have a BTC farm in DC and OH and can remote to both of them with my phone or computer.  I can control each device settings as if I were there.  It is also free.  I would highly recommend.

you can get an ap7911 network 30 amp pdu with a nema L6-30 plug on eBay for $100 shipped.
I have eight. Run 3 s7's per pdu
S5's used to lock up against nicehash all the time. Remote power cycle is excellent.

YES! TEAMVIEWER !!!

When I was running my S2's at an office over an hours drive away, I used TEAMVIEWER.

I also have a DataLoggers IP based remote power switch system. Its a 120V device, but with some industrial relays, I use the 120V output from the remote power switch to power the relay and the relay switches the 240V that goes to the miners. That way if one unit locks up or if I need to reboot or turn off a unit, I can do it from home. But again, that is not accessable from the web alone, I needed to use TEAMVIEWER to get "into" my office, then from there I could do anything ... even watch the remote cameras I had installed.

wellllll I'll just mortgage my house and pre-order ..... ... ... not!

The only way I'd be able to afford 333 units would be if some long lost uncle died and left me a hunk of change... That is not likely because everyone in my family, except for my dad, has kroaked already. No rich uncle here.

I paid off my house 8 years ago... I hated the mortgage payments... eerm ... I hate making payments for anything. If I don't have the funds available, I don't ~need~ it. Financial responsibility.... now only if that mentality was common in Washington DC.....

The other lingering question.... what kind of infrastructure would I need to support the running of 1PH/s  ... electrical capacity, cooling capacity, physical space etc.

I don't know what you mean exactly.
The laptop scenario would be the safest.
Have been doing it for 2 years.  It is seamless.

Wolfen,
Thanks for the idea. I never thought of that and I'll definitely keep that in my back pocket of options However, I'd like to be able to do it properly just so I know how.

Put a cheap laptop remotely and use teamviewer.
Cable modem has a dhcp server to it is giving your miners ip addresses.
You can connect the laptop and remote control it with teamviewer and fire up browsers to monitor and configure the miners.
TeamViewer is free if you don't have many connections open at the same time. So you would have just one connection to the laptop and it would do all the operations

Hey all,
Pardon the brief topic change but this S7 thread seemed like a good place to get some assistance. I'm new to the network side of things, and had a question for you guys about accessing an S7 remotely.

There are 3 S7's directly hooked up to the cable modem itself at the warehouse. I purchased a static IP address and can access the main cable modem config page remotely which lists the miners with IP's such as :192.168.0.5 - .0.9. When I type in those IP addresses from home, I can't access any miners (which makes sense as I understand it.) Can anyone offer some guidance as to what configuring i need to do on the miner to enable remote access. Thanks in advance for any help.

Mountainminer333

They are taking preorders and have a price for bulk buyers
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bw-to-launch-nm-chip-and-miner-for-general-population-1445278227

Your welcome.

I just believe if and/or when 14/16nm chips are available in rigs, they will be quite pricey.  They should be able to get 0.06 to 0.12 watts per GH/s more than likely.  Which means they would last quite a long time in regards to being able to reach ROI.  14/16nm chips aren't as cheap compared to 28nm chips either.  It may also be a more expensive assembly process of the blades.  Investments may need to be made for new equipment within the assembly process which drives up costs.  I'm saying all of this to emphasize the price of 14/16nm rigs will probably be quite expensive compared to the S7.  They could make rigs with less hash rate that are more affordable though.  Only time will tell.  

The S7's 0.25 watts per GH/s is still quite good to last a while before the difficulty gets out of hand.  I say this because it is my belief the price of bitcoin while rise to a higher percentage than the difficulty between now and the end of June, 2016.  I still believe we may have a similar episode with bitcoin like we had with litecoin this past July [The ole pump and dump].  However, when LTC dumped, it's price after dumping was considerably close to double what the price was in the month of May before the pump began.  Also, I've been seeing a lot of great news lately that tells me we will have a lot of BIG money coming into the fray soon.  [Through Gemini Exchange and Winkelvoss twins ETF that may come on line soon.]

I honestly believe from now until the block halving will be a great year for bitcoin mining.

Either way Bitmain I thin has the lead.  They perfected the 28NM instead of jumping into lower NM.  I suspect they are also r/ding the lower NM at same time.

They don't have to do one or the other they have a lot of capital.  I think it's likely they will be able to release a lower NM once needed.  But right now no computation so they will remain 28 NM.

S7+ would not surprise me if they have a while till a different manufacture releases.  I think S7+ is much more likely then S8.

 

This afternoon (Spanish hour), i've seen Bitmain reopened the batch 3 sales, so i'd put 1 S7 batch 3 in the shopping cart, and now, it still is aviable!! 

 

Thank you your insight sir.
Received several s7 b1, configured in my kitchen and took over to datacenter.
All running 4.8 excellent. Only problem I had was one corsair psu did not start so I was hashing with just one board on one. Replaced psu and fixed. Bitmain psu's working great.(just have a few)
Was easier to install in the rack when I attached the cables to the s7 first and then to the corsair.

Does anyone know what firmware changes/fixes yet?  I don't see any readme with it.

I see they uploaded S7 firmware today, nice!

There is also a 550Mhz one, anyone got S7's running 550 default clock?

The batch 4 will not start for a while. My guess is Next Friday.

As for me I ordered batch 2 on the 29th paid for it on the 6th due to the underhashing issues on my batch 1 which took me 2 days to trouble shoot and post a fix.

So no shipping info on my purchase.  Just waiting  for info I hope to hear from them.