Hi Everyone-
I started a thread where we can consolidate information from the various ASICMiner Tube -related threads. the thread is here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/asicminer-tube-owners-thread-768500
I added what info I could in the time I had to spare. All contributions are welcome. I will monitor that thread and add info to the OP as it is posted.
Topic: ASICMINER TUBE first look :) IKEA style miner first time ever (Read 8178 times)
September 02, 2014, 09:14:12 AM
My Controller is bad (maybe only this one).
When it is connected to mining devices and they were hashing you will be unable to change settings.
To perform save you have to power down controller, take off hashing cable, turn on and then save settings.
After that turn off controller and connect hashing cable overthise not all boards will be visible.
I do not reccomend hashing at ghash.io. They had 1 hour downtime yesterday and today 2 hours (uk1.ghash.io)
Unfortunatelly you cant set backup pool at controller so you will loose money as i did. (7.5TH x 3 hours).
Miners while not hashing are eating electricity (around 235W per tube) so you loose even more due to web interface.
I have changed pool to slush (mining.bitcoin.cz) but it was not easy.
When it is connected to mining devices and they were hashing you will be unable to change settings.
To perform save you have to power down controller, take off hashing cable, turn on and then save settings.
After that turn off controller and connect hashing cable overthise not all boards will be visible.
I do not reccomend hashing at ghash.io. They had 1 hour downtime yesterday and today 2 hours (uk1.ghash.io)
Unfortunatelly you cant set backup pool at controller so you will loose money as i did. (7.5TH x 3 hours).
Miners while not hashing are eating electricity (around 235W per tube) so you loose even more due to web interface.
I have changed pool to slush (mining.bitcoin.cz) but it was not easy.
September 01, 2014, 06:50:57 PM
The tube probably works...just the ethernet controller does not. I hope that it has 4 good boards, but I have no way to test it with out the controller.
September 01, 2014, 03:24:43 PM
I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!
okay I will pm.
and pm has been sent
Alright done deal this is sold now...hope she has all good blades for you.
well we will deal with blade quality once I get them (fingers crossed).
I most likely will test them one by one. I am hoping to build a 1.6th unit. .79 is hard to turn down.
Why are you paying 0.79 BTC for a malfunctioning Tube when you can get a new one for the same price? Canary will likely lower his prices any time now. Just keep an eye on the group buy thread.
September 01, 2014, 03:22:12 PM
i got
2.5 unit
4.15 unit
0.84 unit
they are hashing stable.
noticed strange thing, sometimes randomly one chip or more goes off.
it clears after restart
maybe periodic software controller reset is solution for this?
2.5 unit
4.15 unit
0.84 unit
they are hashing stable.
noticed strange thing, sometimes randomly one chip or more goes off.
it clears after restart
maybe periodic software controller reset is solution for this?
Just hope it dosnt degrade like my cube did, same company, all chips would x, restart then ok for 3 to 10 days.
after 90 days it kept doing it more often then finally quit. Never overlocked, (wouldn't over clock anyway, straight to x).
September 01, 2014, 02:19:42 PM
i got
2.5 unit
4.15 unit
0.84 unit
they are hashing stable.
noticed strange thing, sometimes randomly one chip or more goes off.
it clears after restart
maybe periodic software controller reset is solution for this?
2.5 unit
4.15 unit
0.84 unit
they are hashing stable.
noticed strange thing, sometimes randomly one chip or more goes off.
it clears after restart
maybe periodic software controller reset is solution for this?
September 01, 2014, 01:40:12 PM
I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!
okay I will pm.
and pm has been sent
Alright done deal this is sold now...hope she has all good blades for you.
well we will deal with blade quality once I get them (fingers crossed).
I most likely will test them one by one. I am hoping to build a 1.6th unit. .79 is hard to turn down.
September 01, 2014, 01:27:07 PM
I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!
okay I will pm.
and pm has been sent
Alright done deal this is sold now...hope she has all good blades for you.
September 01, 2014, 01:14:13 PM
I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!
okay I will pm.
and pm has been sent
September 01, 2014, 01:11:02 PM
I will ship it out for you tomorrow if you want it!
September 01, 2014, 01:10:14 PM
Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping.
The Tubes have also just been discounted for round 2 sales. The price is now 7.9 BTC for a set of 10 Tubes (minimum direct order quantity), so that's 0.79 BTC per Tube. That works out to 380.72 USD at 482 USD/BTC (bitstamp rate at time of writing).
No way I would buy another one of these...my first one doesn't even work yet. If anyone wants to buy my tube fully assembled for .79 let me know... mine shipped with a dead ethernet controller.
.79 btc is very tempting pm sent
September 01, 2014, 01:03:21 PM
Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping.
The Tubes have also just been discounted for round 2 sales. The price is now 7.9 BTC for a set of 10 Tubes (minimum direct order quantity), so that's 0.79 BTC per Tube. That works out to 380.72 USD at 482 USD/BTC (bitstamp rate at time of writing).
No way I would buy another one of these...my first one doesn't even work yet. If anyone wants to buy my tube fully assembled for .79 let me know... mine shipped with a dead ethernet controller.
September 01, 2014, 12:47:57 PM
Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping.
The Tubes have also just been discounted for round 2 sales. The price is now 7.9 BTC for a set of 10 Tubes (minimum direct order quantity), so that's 0.79 BTC per Tube. That works out to 380.72 USD at 482 USD/BTC (bitstamp rate at time of writing).
If anyone wants a video tutorial of almost all the steps to build an ASICMiner Tube I recorded my process. Hope it helps 
It talks about all the little quirks and stuff and things to watch out for so you don't have to learn the hard way.
http://youtu.be/zEL5EKWwBx0
It talks about all the little quirks and stuff and things to watch out for so you don't have to learn the hard way.http://youtu.be/zEL5EKWwBx0
Hope you don't have a feline 
Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !
I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.
Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.
Im sure it would love to play with all them wires !
I didn't check availability on S3's, saw they were being sold in forums for $349 (probably late delivery as you said) or .6? used.
Hope those things hold up better than my cube did.
Block Erupter cube? I still have three cubes throwing 100Ghs into the network making $1 a day....lol
More accurate would be to point every box as separate worker.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.
Just thought.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.
Just thought.
I mine at polmine
, love PPS 1% and merged mining and many fancy stuff like belowbut didnt have time to setup proxy for those tubes so i mine at ghash with them
More accurate would be to point every box as separate worker.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.
Just thought.
Please be aware that ghash is very unstable and you can have more profit using other pool. just push miners to let say btcguild or eligius and see yourself.
Ghash is so unstable, spikes , hash is lover than reported in GUI.
Just thought.
thank you for info.
new pictures
and new location
new pictures
and new location
Looks like they are all daisy chained to the controller into one port?
Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.
Just a thought.
as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.
Can you break the chain into 2 or three chains? That would protect from a bad board knocking
you totally out.
Just a thought.
as an old network dude, I hate bus topology (especially daisy chain). Star is your friend.
it is not like this.
i had one tube offline at chain (unplugged due to power loss) and rest is working
one cutoff dont slice chain, just signals pass the dead tube
dont forget to reset/power on/off controller after adding/powering on tubes
One of the other people in the GB posted that his would not start until bad board's were removed
thus my assumption.
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