Avalon ASIC users thread - page 182.

Mikej0h

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For me:

Code:

   [Elapsed] => 1648
   [MHS av] => 70381.65
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 282
   [Accepted] => 446
   [Rejected] => 1
   [Hardware Errors] => 17
   [Utility] => 16.24
   [Discarded] => 199
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0
   [Local Work] => 30096
   [Remote Failures] => 0
   [Network Blocks] => 6
   [Total MH] => 116002771.6707
   [Work Utility] => 983.66
   [Difficulty Accepted] => 26654.00000000
   [Difficulty Rejected] => 64.00000000
   [Difficulty Stale] => 0.00000000
   [Best Share] => 10425

T1: 26, T2: -1, T3: 45

Also running @ 300mhz in Balance Mode @ ozco.in.

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Quote from: Sakdrissi on April 16, 2013, 03:36:50 PM

Temp1: 26
Temp3: 47

Ambient temperature is about 23°C.

I don't know if 47 degrees temp3 is too high. Lower is always better in my opinion.

Mine was 44 and I lowered it 3 degrees by making the PSU external. (HQ ENERMAX GOLD PSU BTW!! LOVE IT)

Also I use an external ventilator to cool down the aluminium bottom plate since this is connected to the cooling sinks inside.

Temp3 is now steady at 41.

Sakdrissi

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Thanks for your help guys.
Opened it and checked the cables. Everything seems to be connected. Although I wanted it to run for some hours, cgminer restarted half an hour before. But anyway, same picture:

[Elapsed] => 2105
   [MHS av] => 64931.87
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 84
   [Accepted] => 499
   [Rejected] => 1
   [Hardware Errors] => 26
   [Utility] => 14.22

Temp1: 26
Temp3: 47

Ambient temperature is about 23°C.

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Quote from: Sakdrissi on April 16, 2013, 11:26:21 AM

Can anyone tell me, if these are normal values for the avalon. HW error seems still pretty high. Updated to 20130410 (next-testing) firmware recently. Cgminer runs at 282M(Advance):

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 41011
[MHS av] => 67092.46
[Found Blocks] => 0
[Getworks] => 1495
[Accepted] => 9909
[Rejected] => 52
[Hardware Errors] => 827
[Utility] => 14.50
[Discarded] => 2785
[Stale] => 0
[Get Failures] => 0

Can there be anything else done? Am I loosing lots of coins due to that high error-rate?

To compare my stats:

Code:

   [0] => SUMMARY
   [Elapsed] => 4149
   [MHS av] => 70985.47
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 142
   [Accepted] => 1949
   [Rejected] => 1
   [Hardware Errors] => 55
   [Utility] => 28.19
   [Discarded] => 267
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0
   [Local Work] => 75766
   [Remote Failures] => 0
   [Network Blocks] => 6
   [Total MH] => 294514497.3527
   [Work Utility] => 991.73

I'm running at Freq 300 and Temp1 = 24, Temp3 = 41.

What's your temp1 & 3 ?

loshia

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Quote from: Mikej0h on April 16, 2013, 01:18:41 PM

For what ever reason I've also the idea that on ozco.in i'm mining 'slower' than on BTCGuild / Slush.
However, I'm not sure if there is a way to 'prove' that.

Calc your hash rate based on diff1 shsares to be 100% sure what your speed is. Folow my posts and kano replies in Lancelot thread around page 21 Wink

Mikej0h

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For what ever reason I've also the idea that on ozco.in i'm mining 'slower' than on BTCGuild / Slush.
However, I'm not sure if there is a way to 'prove' that.

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Quote from: Mikej0h on April 16, 2013, 12:37:30 PM

Quote from: loshia on April 16, 2013, 12:14:13 PM

Quote from: Sakdrissi on April 16, 2013, 11:26:21 AM

Can anyone tell me, if these are normal values for the avalon. HW error seems still pretty high. Updated to 20130410 (next-testing) firmware recently. Cgminer runs at 282M(Advance):

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 41011
   [MHS av] => 67092.46
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 1495
   [Accepted] => 9909
   [Rejected] => 52
   [Hardware Errors] => 827
   [Utility] => 14.50
   [Discarded] => 2785
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0

Can there be anything else done? Am I loosing lots of coins due to that high error-rate?

Dude,
Your utilty seems low as i see it.It is possible to have loose cable and one of your modules not to hash at all. Disasemble unit and check all cabels
My utility is about 22 if i rember which makes sense you are mining with two modules only

I've 15.7 and are mining with 71-78ghs with extreme mode, I suppose that's normal?

It may be mistake. I can check it tomorow and i will let you know

Mikej0h

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Quote from: loshia on April 16, 2013, 12:14:13 PM

Quote from: Sakdrissi on April 16, 2013, 11:26:21 AM

Can anyone tell me, if these are normal values for the avalon. HW error seems still pretty high. Updated to 20130410 (next-testing) firmware recently. Cgminer runs at 282M(Advance):

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 41011
   [MHS av] => 67092.46
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 1495
   [Accepted] => 9909
   [Rejected] => 52
   [Hardware Errors] => 827
   [Utility] => 14.50
   [Discarded] => 2785
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0

Can there be anything else done? Am I loosing lots of coins due to that high error-rate?

Dude,
Your utilty seems low as i see it.It is possible to have loose cable and one of your modules not to hash at all. Disasemble unit and check all cabels
My utility is about 22 if i rember which makes sense you are mining with two modules only

I've 15.7 and are mining with 71-78ghs with extreme mode, I suppose that's normal?

loshia

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Quote from: Sakdrissi on April 16, 2013, 11:26:21 AM

Can anyone tell me, if these are normal values for the avalon. HW error seems still pretty high. Updated to 20130410 (next-testing) firmware recently. Cgminer runs at 282M(Advance):

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 41011
   [MHS av] => 67092.46
   [Found Blocks] => 0
   [Getworks] => 1495
   [Accepted] => 9909
   [Rejected] => 52
   [Hardware Errors] => 827
   [Utility] => 14.50
   [Discarded] => 2785
   [Stale] => 0
   [Get Failures] => 0

Can there be anything else done? Am I loosing lots of coins due to that high error-rate?

Dude,
Your utilty seems low as i see it.It is possible to have loose cable and one of your modules not to hash at all. Disasemble unit and check all cabels
My utility is about 22 if i rember which makes sense you are mining with two modules only

Mikej0h

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I've exactly the same, so I guess it's nothing to worry about.
Also heard xiangfu is working on a new firmware to reduce the hw errors.

I would like to know what are acceptable levels in regards to temperatures...

Sakdrissi

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Can anyone tell me, if these are normal values for the avalon. HW error seems still pretty high. Updated to 20130410 (next-testing) firmware recently. Cgminer runs at 282M(Advance):

=> SUMMARY

[Elapsed] => 41011
[MHS av] => 67092.46
[Found Blocks] => 0
[Getworks] => 1495
[Accepted] => 9909
[Rejected] => 52
[Hardware Errors] => 827
[Utility] => 14.50
[Discarded] => 2785
[Stale] => 0
[Get Failures] => 0

Can there be anything else done? Am I loosing lots of coins due to that high error-rate?

Mikej0h

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Quote from: stfnnn on April 15, 2013, 01:51:24 PM

Quote from: Mikej0h on April 15, 2013, 01:04:53 PM

Quote from: stfnnn on April 15, 2013, 12:33:49 PM

Could somebody tell me how much bandwidth an Avalon consumes in KB/s? My connection is 800 KB/s down and 100 KB/s up, but is also needed for browsing, downloading etc.

See screenshot, hopefully this helps you
http://postimg.org/image/416uj0y3t/

Thank you!

I just live on the wrong side of the road. A few hunderd meters up north and I would have 200MB/s up/down....

That's with 'extreme' mode, so chips on 300mhz.
Could imagine that gives a bit more traffic, and as you see on the screenshot it's very limited data usage.

I actually have 120mbps/10mbps, so no issues here with that. But have to admit I expected a bit more traffic, so pleased, can use more bandwidth for leeching

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Quote from: Mikej0h on April 15, 2013, 01:04:53 PM

Quote from: stfnnn on April 15, 2013, 12:33:49 PM

Could somebody tell me how much bandwidth an Avalon consumes in KB/s? My connection is 800 KB/s down and 100 KB/s up, but is also needed for browsing, downloading etc.

See screenshot, hopefully this helps you
http://postimg.org/image/416uj0y3t/

Thank you!

I just live on the wrong side of the road. A few hunderd meters up north and I would have 200Mb/s up/down....

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Quote from: Bogart on April 15, 2013, 01:20:37 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on April 11, 2013, 04:27:05 AM

Quote from: allinvain on April 11, 2013, 01:42:31 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on April 10, 2013, 10:15:58 PM

Quote from: allinvain on April 10, 2013, 09:56:25 PM

Also in regards to the avalon unit coming back online from a power outage, sometimes that does not happen. Rarely what could happen is the unit will be left in a zombie like state because the control board did not initialize properly. For me this happened once when there was a brownout.

would the control board respond to a ping in that situation from this device? http://dataprobe.com/iboot-g2.php

Bear in mind that router board (which runs the cgminer software and management front end) is NOT the control board. What I mean by the control board is the Spart6 FPGA board that takes the instructions from the cgminer software running on the router board and coverts that to work batches for the ASICS. The control board is the one with all the "IDE like" cables running out of it and to the individual hashing modules. The control board does not respond to ping requests because it is not accessible via any network protocols as it's attached to the router board via USB. The router board responds to ping request and I'd imagine it would also respond to ping request even if the mining software is not running or in some sort of locked up or crashed state. If the router's OS was completely down or broken then yes it would not respond to ping requests. The power control devices - dataprobe - are of limited use in this scenario. They are still useful for when you want to quickly power cycle the machine for whatever reason.

It would be neat if they made a 2 socket version of the iBoot-G2. The reason for 2 is that ideally you'd want 2 Avalon units per 15 Amp circuit. The one with multiple power sockets has only 1 power in cable.

Edit: Ooops..seems there is a iBoot-G2+ which allows you to control up to 3 power outlets. Neat!

Yep, it is a neat device but you're stuck having to constantly ssh in to try and catch the rare zombie like condition.

What other solutions are there assuming they're kept off site?

I have mine connected to a Web Power Switch:

http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html

The WPS itself has an "AutoPing" feature that can ping an IP every minute or so, and reset the specified outlet if it fails to respond after a few requests.

The whole WPS can only handle 15A in total. If I wanted to put a bigger load on it, I'd build some relay boxes to allow it.

yes but as allinvain has pointed out, a ping only needs the router to be active. the problems the Avalon occasionally display are with the controller board that freezes up. you'd still get a ping response in that situation. i think.

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Quote from: opentoe on April 14, 2013, 05:08:50 PM

Since this "is" Avalon users thread let us poor people know how much money you guys have made that you have CASHED in, NOT how many bitcoins you have accumulated.

Not the answer you wanted, but in the 34 days I've had my Avalon, I've used it to accumulate 253.6 BTC.

I've spent some on various things (gold, silver, FPGAs), but I pretty much never exchange my coins for straight fiat.

Mind you, I've used some tricks, such as mining altcoins which I sold for BTC and such, to achieve that good of a number.

I'm so glad I didn't sell it for $10k or $20k when the offers came.

I must say, the crabs are delicious.

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Quote from: Furious on April 15, 2013, 01:11:24 PM

We have in the Ukraine in the villages of 153kbit / s

No problem, the stratum protocol is really efficient, 1 Avalon is under 32 kbit/s.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on April 11, 2013, 04:27:05 AM

Quote from: allinvain on April 11, 2013, 01:42:31 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on April 10, 2013, 10:15:58 PM

Quote from: allinvain on April 10, 2013, 09:56:25 PM

Also in regards to the avalon unit coming back online from a power outage, sometimes that does not happen. Rarely what could happen is the unit will be left in a zombie like state because the control board did not initialize properly. For me this happened once when there was a brownout.

would the control board respond to a ping in that situation from this device? http://dataprobe.com/iboot-g2.php

Bear in mind that router board (which runs the cgminer software and management front end) is NOT the control board. What I mean by the control board is the Spart6 FPGA board that takes the instructions from the cgminer software running on the router board and coverts that to work batches for the ASICS. The control board is the one with all the "IDE like" cables running out of it and to the individual hashing modules. The control board does not respond to ping requests because it is not accessible via any network protocols as it's attached to the router board via USB. The router board responds to ping request and I'd imagine it would also respond to ping request even if the mining software is not running or in some sort of locked up or crashed state. If the router's OS was completely down or broken then yes it would not respond to ping requests. The power control devices - dataprobe - are of limited use in this scenario. They are still useful for when you want to quickly power cycle the machine for whatever reason.

It would be neat if they made a 2 socket version of the iBoot-G2. The reason for 2 is that ideally you'd want 2 Avalon units per 15 Amp circuit. The one with multiple power sockets has only 1 power in cable.

Edit: Ooops..seems there is a iBoot-G2+ which allows you to control up to 3 power outlets. Neat!

Yep, it is a neat device but you're stuck having to constantly ssh in to try and catch the rare zombie like condition.

What other solutions are there assuming they're kept off site?

I have mine connected to a Web Power Switch:

http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html

The WPS itself has an "AutoPing" feature that can ping an IP every minute or so, and reset the specified outlet if it fails to respond after a few requests.

The whole WPS can only handle 15A in total. If I wanted to put a bigger load on it, I'd build some relay boxes to allow it.

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We have in the Ukraine in the villages of 153kbit / s

Mikej0h

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Quote from: stfnnn on April 15, 2013, 12:33:49 PM

Could somebody tell me how much bandwidth an Avalon consumes in KB/s? My connection is 800 KB/s down and 100 KB/s up, but is also needed for browsing, downloading etc.

See screenshot, hopefully this helps you
http://postimg.org/image/416uj0y3t/

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Quote from: candoo on April 15, 2013, 12:50:04 PM

Quote from: stfnnn on April 15, 2013, 12:33:49 PM

Could somebody tell me how much bandwidth an Avalon consumes in KB/s? My connection is 800 KB/s down and 100 KB/s up, but is also needed for browsing, downloading etc.

Jesus, where do you live?

In a third world country, like italy. I have the same connection (well, i have 3 of that connections, bounded togheter to have something somewhat usable).

The stratum protocol should use something like 1Kbps or 1KBps, not sure.

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