Topic: Avalon ASIC users thread - page 142. (Read 438600 times)

i'm sure people will eventually need it when a fan or two goes out

So I did a little experiment and partly covered the intake of fan3.
Result ? Better cooling and higher Mhz!

Nope. Whatever you want as starting speed.

Avalon previously recommended against this.  The PSU needs to be cooled as well.

So, finally i build a functional firmware with my changes to cgminer in previous posts and a little backport from latest firmware. Currently using it, fan speed regulation works as expected. I guess, no one needs it now, but feel free to ask if you intending to replace fans to TFC1212DE or simular with inverted PWM behavior.

Would it be advisable to bring the PSU outside the box instead? It would seem to lower the temps.

I didn't even think about looking for the readme file.  I was like a kid on christmas opening up the avalon and turning it on.  Once it started to hash I tiptoed away and refused to make any changes just in case i messed something up.  Whoever mined on my avalon before they shipped it to me had set up 3 pools with Failover so I assumed that failover was the way to go. 

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I usually hate to give this type of answer, but give the cgminer README a quick glance, it's very detailed and well written.  For this you'd want to check out the MULTIPOOL section.

failover moves from your first to your second if first fails, on down the line.

balance means hashrate is split evenly btwn listed pools.

load balance i don't have time to lookup.

might have missed a few nuances.

I usually hate to give this type of answer, but give the cgminer README a quick glance, it's very detailed and well written.  For this you'd want to check out the MULTIPOOL section.

I have a backup pool added, but there are three options (I'm working from memory so I could be slightly off):

• Balance
• Failover
• Load Balance

I have slush set as the first pool and eligius as the 2nd pool and I selected FAILOVER (that was the default setting).   What do these options mean?  

does --avalon auto require that default be left at 282?

reason being, hashrate the other day wasn't going up as fast as i expected so i gave it a boost by changing default to 325 which obviously immediately jacked up the MH/s.  everything seems ok since but should i not have done that and is it affecting the auto function?

It will usually continue to fluctuate indefinitely but you'll find it hovering +/-2 MHz, and that value's about the optimal. It will of course go lower if it starts getting too hot. Most seem to fall into two camps, close to 350 or close to 365. I run mine slightly lower than 350 since it seems to end up rebooting the router eventually at the highest setting (not cgminer but the whole hardware which is a little disconcerting). This is why I was experimenting with a less aggressive firmware yesterday, but in this world maximum hashrate seems to be the only thing that matters for most people...