Anyone willing to sell a spare ABE? Want to mess around with it but missed out on the group buy. 
canaryinthemine is doing another group buy - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217981.new#new
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canaryinthemine is doing another group buy - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217981.new#new
Anyone willing to sell a spare ABE? Want to mess around with it but missed out on the group buy.
my USB hub doesnt have a wall adapter. in gonna need a hub with more posts anyways. does anybody know one that has around 30-50 ports?
Ah, there's your problem. These definitely will need to be in powered hubs.
You won't likely find a hub with enough power and ports to power ALL of those without spending a fortune. You'd probably do better buying several of the Anker 10 port hubs (4A @ 12V) for about $50 each.
Here's the hub I'm talking about at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Anker®-Uspeed-10-Port-Adapter-Chipset/dp/B005NGQWL2/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1369853936&sr=8-9&keywords=Anker+hub
i dont know how to do this part.....
start cgminer with the following arguments:
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx
for more than one device: cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COMx -S //./COMy
start cgminer with the following arguments:
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx
for more than one device: cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COMx -S //./COMy
download cgminer to C:\users\hustler\desktop\cgminer
in the command prompt, execute:
c:\>cd C:\users\hustler\desktop\cgminer
c:\>cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx
replace COMx with the port number you see in the Device Manager.
My hub itself with nothing plugged in reports between 0.01 and 0.02 amps and 0.3 watts.
When I plug one Erupter in it with cgminer running, it reports 0.05 amps and 3.4 to 3.6 watts.
Taking them out of the hub for this test, I noticed they are quite hot but not enough to warm the surface (1/2 inch of air space) they are sitting on.
When I plug one Erupter in it with cgminer running, it reports 0.05 amps and 3.4 to 3.6 watts.
Taking them out of the hub for this test, I noticed they are quite hot but not enough to warm the surface (1/2 inch of air space) they are sitting on.
Thanks. I guess killowatt is not that accurate. We need to split the USB extension wire and measure the actual current flowing in the red wire :-)
He he. My office is a mess. Even if I could find the pliers and one of my meters, I think I'll go have a Coke instead. :-)
The Kill a Watt reports 0.19 amps and 13.2 watts. This is pretty awesome compared to my GPU miners.
That's pretty awesome compared to my FPGA miners.With that set of four you're generating about half what I am on FPGA's at one tenth the power consumption.
Or, to normalize, they consume about 20% as much power per hash as an FPGA miner.
It's truly neat. Eventually, I want to put these on a Raspberry Pi with Minepeon. Then, I won't have the Windows machine running all the time. I do have a Pi and I downloaded the latest version of Minepeon yesterday afternoon but couldn't get it going. I mean, the Pi was running fine, I could log into my router and get the IP for Minepeon and pull it up in the web browser and setup the pool settings. I could even SSH into it with Putty but that's as far as my expertise went. From what I've read, I think Minepeon isn't ready for these yet? Or have I missed something?
The Kill a Watt reports 0.19 amps and 13.2 watts. This is pretty awesome compared to my GPU miners.
That's pretty awesome compared to my FPGA miners.With that set of four you're generating about half what I am on FPGA's at one tenth the power consumption.
Or, to normalize, they consume about 20% as much power per hash as an FPGA miner.
Nice. I wonder how much one erupter is consuming by itself (less hub draw)?
My hub itself with nothing plugged in reports between 0.01 and 0.02 amps and 0.3 watts.
When I plug one Erupter in it with cgminer running, it reports 0.05 amps and 3.4 to 3.6 watts.
Taking them out of the hub for this test, I noticed they are quite hot but not enough to warm the surface (1/2 inch of air space) they are sitting on.
if office depot maintains their "we can't do international" then i'll go find a fedex office.
Doesn't affect me, but be aware that FedEx has a nasty customs broker fee just like UPS. Might be an unwelcome surprise for your buyers.arklan don't forget to declare the value with low price (if you has to), cause europe if pay fees is around 20% ....
No package received, and no nondelivery notice. Tracking still shows "Expected delivery May 28th".
USPS hates me.
If they don't show up today I'll stop in at the post office tomorrow morning and hassle them. This happened before recently with a power supply I ordered. It finally showed up like 3 days late.
USPS hates me.
If they don't show up today I'll stop in at the post office tomorrow morning and hassle them. This happened before recently with a power supply I ordered. It finally showed up like 3 days late.
if office depot maintains their "we can't do international" then i'll go find a fedex office.
Doesn't affect me, but be aware that FedEx has a nasty customs broker fee just like UPS. Might be an unwelcome surprise for your buyers. The Kill a Watt reports 0.19 amps and 13.2 watts. This is pretty awesome compared to my GPU miners.
That's pretty awesome compared to my FPGA miners.With that set of four you're generating about half what I am on FPGA's at one tenth the power consumption.
Or, to normalize, they consume about 20% as much power per hash as an FPGA miner.
PS. When I get my erupters, I'll measure how much current they consume.
After I read your comment, I plugged my hub into a Kill a Watt.
So that's 1 Superspeed 3.0 hub with a 4 amp power supply from Pluggable and 4 Erupters.
The Kill a Watt reports 0.19 amps and 13.2 watts. This is pretty awesome compared to my GPU miners.
i dont want to use Ubuntu. is there a way to use these with windows?
Setup Windows 7, remove all UART/USB drivers, reboot, install silabs drivers.
my USB hub doesnt have a wall adapter. in gonna need a hub with more posts anyways. does anybody know one that has around 30-50 ports?
Then using those com numbers, I created a shortcut on my desktop with the following target line:
C:\cgminer\cgminer-nogpu.exe -o http://pool:port -u username.worker -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM3 -S //./COM4 -S //./COM5 -S //./COM6
C:\cgminer\cgminer-nogpu.exe -o http://pool:port -u username.worker -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM3 -S //./COM4 -S //./COM5 -S //./COM6
thanks for the tip. would be pain in ass to do this every time.
how?
The power brick on your USB hub should have something like this: OUTPUT: 5V 4AMPS.
My hub is 4 amps and that's more than enough for my 4 erupters.
I doubt an average PC alone can supply enough amperage to power 10 of these devices.
i dont know how to do this part.....
start cgminer with the following arguments:
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx
for more than one device: cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COMx -S //./COMy
start cgminer with the following arguments:
cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S COMx
for more than one device: cgminer-nogpu.exe --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COMx -S //./COMy
I'm using cgminer 3.1.1 and it worked on Windows 7 with instructions like the ones af_newbie provided.
Once I had downloaded and installed the driver (http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx), I plugged in the Erupters. After a moment, I could see my 4 miners in the device manager. I've never used Windows 8, but under Windows 7 my 4 Erupters come up as this:
Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM3)
Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM4)
Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM5)
Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COM6)
Then using those com numbers, I created a shortcut on my desktop with the following target line:
C:\cgminer\cgminer-nogpu.exe -o http://pool:port -u username.worker -p password --icarus-options 115200:1:1 --icarus-timing 3.0=100 -S //./COM3 -S //./COM4 -S //./COM5 -S //./COM6
Works great. Hope this helps.
how?
so i tried running bfg miner twice. one for singles one for USB miners. when i had one USB plugged in it mined fine. i plugged in 10 and it would not mine. it was throwing up invalid nonce - HW error.
desktop\bfgminer-3.0.2-win64\bfgminer.exe -G -S all
this worked but only the USB miners are mining its not mining with my singles.
this worked but only the USB miners are mining its not mining with my singles.
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