ASICMINER TUBE first look :) IKEA style miner first time ever - page 2.

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Quote from: bbxx on August 29, 2014, 06:59:22 PM

Quote from: hayseed on August 29, 2014, 06:46:21 PM

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.

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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Quote from: hayseed on August 29, 2014, 06:46:21 PM

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.

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

bbxx

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Quote from: hayseed on August 29, 2014, 06:41:36 PM

Hope you don't have a feline Grin

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.

october delivery, no thanks

at october my miners would be replaced with newer ones
like i usually do

but i allways put aside one miner as collectible, some of miners are at shelf now

hayseed

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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.

hayseed

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Hope you don't have a feline Grin

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.

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Quote from: bbxx on August 29, 2014, 06:22:08 PM

Quote from: hayseed on August 29, 2014, 09:25:05 AM

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

But... you have to wait till end of sept for ants

and they are more expensive

here is photo of part of my farm

yeah this gets about a .3btc head start in coin over 1 pair of s-3's and it is a little cheaper 1.04 btc and say .06 to ship a total of 1.10 btc vs 1.16 btc that means this has a .36 btc edge over the s-3. If you plan to mine this for 3 or 4 weeks and then sell it on ebay it is absolutely better then an s-3. if you just want to mine for 6 months the s-3 may be better.

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Quote from: hayseed on August 29, 2014, 09:25:05 AM

Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

But... you have to wait till end of sept for ants

and they are more expensive

here is photo of part of my farm

hayseed

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Looks like the S3 is a better deal as its price is dropping. Buy 2. Lower power consumption, higher hash (2 units). Dosnt need any
controller that further needs a proxy to fix it's flawed communications.

Plus I don't like that the boards are serial daisy chained. bad board takes out others behind it.

Not to mention crappy controller or issue of 'pool" fixing solution go'es south and you take out up to 4 units.

each S3 is stand alone direct to a pool.

AM should stick to chips and let others do the miner engineering. They proved that with the lemon cube.

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Quote from: Blazed on August 29, 2014, 07:23:24 AM

So to not use ghash.io you have to buy another piece of hardware?

if you don't already have something else to run it on.

You would think they would just fix their crappy firmware!!

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So to not use ghash.io you have to buy another piece of hardware?

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Quote from: iglasses on August 28, 2014, 08:35:25 PM

I haven't jumped on this yet because I can't see myself buying a miner that will only work on ghash...I think it's rather ironic that for all the 'stop using ghash' threads on here this is the only pool this beast will work with.
Didn't they test it with any other pools before unleashing it?
weird...JMO

ig

Friedcat posted a guide for using bfgminer. Mine is working on Eligius right now.

Ref:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8549984

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I haven't jumped on this yet because I can't see myself buying a miner that will only work on ghash...I think it's rather ironic that for all the 'stop using ghash' threads on here this is the only pool this beast will work with.
Didn't they test it with any other pools before unleashing it?
weird...JMO

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Got my units hashing.
Shipment with controllers arrived today.
I will post more tommorow.

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No on P2Pool. Not sure if anyone's had success with any other pool but Ghash?

You can read up Dogie's review detailing the fan noise. Apparently loud-ish, but higher pitched or something along those lines.

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How loud are these compared to, say, an Antminer S1?

Do you know if they work with p2pool?

Thanks.

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Quote from: Blazed on August 24, 2014, 10:34:39 PM

I assume you bought in Canary's group buy? Wonder if I order one right now if he can have it here by Wednesday also?

Yeah I did. If you get him the shipping labels ASAP he might ship them out tomorrow and you could overnight them.

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I assume you bought in Canary's group buy? Wonder if I order one right now if he can have it here by Wednesday also?

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Quote from: Blazed on August 24, 2014, 10:01:51 PM

So has anyone had these setup and hashing yet? I was thinking of buying one just because they looked kind of cool and that you build them. I have not seen anyone say that they work...just that they take 15 minutes to build Huh

I should know Wednesday how well they work. Not too crazy about the controller.

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So has anyone had these setup and hashing yet? I was thinking of buying one just because they looked kind of cool and that you build them. I have not seen anyone say that they work...just that they take 15 minutes to build Huh

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Quote from: boblab on August 24, 2014, 02:37:21 PM

Very nice where can we order and can we tell as a price

Quote from: friedcat on August 12, 2014, 06:18:57 AM

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