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Topic: Avalon ASIC users thread - page 147. (Read 438600 times)

sr. member
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June 29, 2013, 11:04:25 PM
350 and pretty cool without airco Cool



(1 fan on max rpm)

How do you set your ASIC to be like that? I'm getting 46 degrees. its crazy!
sr. member
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June 29, 2013, 08:40:52 PM
Is there a way to view multiple avalons information on one screen?
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 08:34:43 PM
trying to set solo mining up just now, but having some issue, avalon just won't connect. but when i plug an erupter in and open bfgminer with the right config it works?

I also find solomining directly against bitcoind using getwork to be broken in recent releases.  It worked with 0519.
Eh? Did it ever work? bitcoind can't provide 70-80GH of getworks and cgminer can't do GBT solo mining to bitcoind.

It definitely had some GetFailures, and some work leaked to backup pools, but it did find blocks.  Not anymore though.

I guess I should look into that eloipool setup jgarz wrote about.

I got eloipool working now using his guide.  Smiley

The -blocknotify bit was tricky as I happened to be running the daemon on a Windows VM, and eliopool on Linux, but my old friend xinetd helped to bridge the gap.
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 07:55:03 PM
what's the stratum pool address for ozcoin from the US?  stratum.ozco.in:3333 isn't working for me.
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 06:54:23 PM
When my batch 1 unit gets into that state where all temps and fanspeeds are zero (and indeed the fans are stopped), I have to turn off the power supply switch for 20 seconds or so.  When I power it back on, it's happy again.

Just soft-rebooting the wr703n is not enough.

I have my restart timer set at 60 seconds from power off.

legendary
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June 29, 2013, 05:09:07 PM
When my batch 1 unit gets into that state where all temps and fanspeeds are zero (and indeed the fans are stopped), I have to turn off the power supply switch for 20 seconds or so.  When I power it back on, it's happy again.

Just soft-rebooting the wr703n is not enough.
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
June 29, 2013, 04:25:15 PM
@elasticband: If you can still flash firmware, maybe it's a good try to flash 0225 firmware, I had been running that firmware for months without restart of the machine, it has minimum overhead and the web interface is very responsive

And you should check the power and data cable on each module, sometimes they get loose
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 12:25:30 PM
1. About cables - connecting more cables is always better idea to spread the load. As minimum you need three and they are enough
2. About brick - Never do two things at once - a jeneral rule one step forward so you can get back I am very sure that it was loose USb. When avaon is powered up the wr703 boots after 5 secs or so. Menwhile green led is flashing. when 703 finds USB (or cgminer starts) led goes off. So it was usb cable or cgminer not starting or having bad cgminer options left when you downgrade/upgrade and so on
as you see avalon is not there not found

ssh to unit and post dmesg output pls
legendary
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@theshmadz
June 29, 2013, 11:28:44 AM
just finished upgrading one the same as i have the other 2, when i power it back on all looks fine, but it never connects to cgminer and the green light indicator just stays on.......

any ideas?



USB!
Cable is unpluged or loose

And connect all cables as advised - mandatory


they are all connected...... something bad has happened though!

I tried flashing firmware and now it is just stuck on the flashing firmware screen!

if you unchecked the "keep settings" box, your device network settings will be back to default. try to connect on 192.168.0.100 and see if it responds
legendary
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@theshmadz
June 29, 2013, 11:25:07 AM
Better to connect all the cables and use separate for each pci-e connector. This way the load to each one will be less - you're going to draw 600+ W from PSU, do i need to tell you more?

I also replaced PSU to AX860 in my batch 1 unit.


And connect all cables as advised - mandatory


Hi invader, and loshia, thanks for your insight. I just wanted to verify that bolded part above.. Do you mean that I should connect to all 3 PCIe connectors on the power distribution board?

My batch 2 miner came with 850W PSU and was only connected to 2 of the connectors on the PDB. I have since upgraded the PSU and I have an extra PCIe connector that I could connect to that board.

Should I do this? Have you tried it? Does it make any difference either way?

Thanks.
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 11:23:31 AM
just finished upgrading one the same as i have the other 2, when i power it back on all looks fine, but it never connects to cgminer and the green light indicator just stays on.......

any ideas?



USB!
Cable is unpluged or loose

And connect all cables as advised - mandatory
sr. member
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June 29, 2013, 10:17:21 AM
Better to connect all the cables and use separate for each pci-e connector. This way the load to each one will be less - you're going to draw 600+ W from PSU, do i need to tell you more?

I also replaced PSU to AX860 in my batch 1 unit.
sr. member
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June 29, 2013, 08:19:12 AM
I also unplugged "blue shitty fan" due to not doing it's purpose when big fans (even standart) going to high rpm, and inserted a piece of paper to not let the air go back. Also i used power directly from PSU, as new fans can draw 4A@12v each at full speed, so only PWM and SENSE pins are connected to controller. Im a bit out of luck to have new powerful fans with inverted PWM control, but it's a software issue in general so im planning to edit the sources and build cgminer with additional option for that case for testing. In general, changes would be minimal - edit cgminer.c, add an new option and edit driver-avalon.c functions temp_rise(),temp_drop() avalon_init_task() function by adding something like xor(0xA0,fan) - i'll explain : i noticed that at 0xA0 which is 100% fan is really stops, so it must be xor(0xA0,0xA0) = 0x00 to run inverted PWM fan at 100%. Then, if we want fan at 20% we should now use xor(0xA0,0x20) = 0x80. The final goal is to be able to run inverted PWM fans as long as usual ones, automatic detection based on rpm speed feedback would be also nice, but later. Only problem that i can't build new image myself with modified cgminer permanently as ckolivas put only image without sources, so i must backport and merge his changes with public avalon image sources. But for testing i just put my modified cgminer binary in /tmp and see whatsup.
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Sodium hypochlorite, acetone, ethanol
June 29, 2013, 07:48:29 AM
had a batch one witch has been struggling to get above 66ghs during the day and it goes higher at night..... the two things i had noticed it had a different style PSU, could tell by the back switch and the PSU area got hotter than my others.

Opened it up today to find a 650w bronze PSU..... should run better now with a 860w i hope.


Has anyone thought about moving the module closest to the PSU to the space for the fourth module?



So i moved the modules, and it seems to be better at first look.
WARNING: use your own mind when considering doing the same.

before
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[2013-03-18 12:37:02] Avalon: Fan1: 0/m, Fan2: 2280/m, Fan3: 2280/m    Temp1: 22C, Temp2: -1C, Temp3: 45C, TempMAX: 46C
after
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[2013-03-18 16:19:23] Avalon: Fan1: 0/m, Fan2: 2040/m, Fan3: 2040/m    Temp1: 19C, Temp2: -1C, Temp3: 44C, TempMAX: 44C

I also did this, well.. not just moved the one module closest to the PSU, I moved them all to the next module (same as invader)
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 07:28:30 AM
had a batch one witch has been struggling to get above 66ghs during the day and it goes higher at night..... the two things i had noticed it had a different style PSU, could tell by the back switch and the PSU area got hotter than my others.

Opened it up today to find a 650w bronze PSU..... should run better now with a 860w i hope.


Has anyone thought about moving the module closest to the PSU to the space for the fourth module?

fhh
legendary
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June 29, 2013, 12:37:43 AM
Mine was stable for 2.5 days @350 MHz then cgminer restarted, but also without problems.

I think the original fans @ around 800 rpm makes no sense temps are rising imediatly when running so low.
50% min fanspeed would be fine Wink
or I'lo try to play around with the temp target to get them not so slow
legendary
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Beyond Imagination
June 28, 2013, 04:44:02 PM
Cgminer restarted after 3.5 days at 325Mhz, quite good stability  Smiley
sr. member
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June 28, 2013, 02:19:11 PM
Hi all!
Changed today standart avalon fans to TFC1212DE, and noticed some strange behavior.
To be short, when temperature is going over threshold ( --avalon-temp ) fans is starting spinning less (instead of more) until fully stops! Looks like inverse PWM here. Using latest 20130627 firmware.
Maybe there would be also useful to add an options to cgminer to enable inverse pwm control and fixed target rpm speed.

EDIT:

If i use --avalon-temp 0, then fans stops right after cgminer start, applied a "workaround"
with options --avalon-temp 60 --avalon-cutoff 55, fans keep stable at 3840 rpm now.
Looking now at sources, to make inverse pwm a little changes is needed in temp_rise(), temp_drop()
functions, and a new option like --avalon-inverse-pwm
legendary
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June 28, 2013, 01:28:27 PM
got me a new toy today Smiley

What was the transaction number for your payment?


i bought it from bitmit
legendary
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June 28, 2013, 08:15:08 AM
got me a new toy today Smiley

What was the transaction number for your payment?
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