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Quote from: pekatete on August 19, 2014, 05:18:18 AM

Quote from: sla73 on August 19, 2014, 04:46:07 AM

.... would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc...

I think this is the trick bitmain missed! Rather than offering an upgrade that amounts to junking the old boards, I'd have been happy with chaining WITH undervolting too!

I have the same view. Checkout this thread and hope this will be relevant here.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/diy-reward-100-antminer-s1s3-blade-on-raspberry-pi-671128

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Quote from: sla73 on August 19, 2014, 04:46:07 AM

.... would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc...

I think this is the trick bitmain missed! Rather than offering an upgrade that amounts to junking the old boards, I'd have been happy with chaining WITH undervolting too!

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I am going to upgrade my 3 x S1's, would love to know if/how the old boards once under-volted could be chained etc...

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I don't know what to think of this S1 upgrade kit. It essentially is buying a new S3, albeit at a reduced price on a "full" S3 shipping on the same date.
When the upgrade idea was first mooted, I thought it'd take the shape of a chip-side heatsink (including the votage regulators) as opposed to an upgrade that amounts "junking" the old boards, or even a controller board that allowed for chain-linking more than the standard two boards and running them under-volted / under-clocked.

Though it may make BTC sense by the time these hit the market, I can not help but feel there has been a missed opportunity here. I may want (and possibly get) the upgrade, but I will also want to keep using the old boards.

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I have a couple S1's and I'd be interested to hear from anyone who does this upgrade. Interesting for sure.

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Well, well, well its out there now for £160 a pair. Delivery from 20 Sept 2014. 450Gh/s.

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Quote from: GuyllFyre on June 07, 2014, 09:16:06 AM

Quote from: hurricandave on June 06, 2014, 06:50:36 PM

Windows Thinks U2 & U2+ Antminers are modem devices when used with SiliconLabs CP21xx drivers.

My U1/U2/U2+ devices are all plugged into my main computer, which is a Linux box, through Anker hubs. Dunno what it "sees" them as because I haven't checked but all I need to do is go into /dev, look for the ttyUSB devices, and make sure they get full R/W permissions.
Then fire up BitMinter, let it find them all, ID them one by one, and tweak them for speed until each one does it's max hashing with no hardware errors.
The only problem I have is that they are never identified in the same order, so if I reboot or remove devices and add them, they change port assignments and I have to go through the whole process. Would have been nice if the U1/U2/U2+ devices had unique serial numbers to ID them. I'm going to have to put labels on them and keep a chart of the hash rate hex assignments that they are each capable of.

Good thing I rarely have to reboot.

If you are still using the SiLabs Drivers, go to their website. They have the complete USB to UART Dev tool for free and I believe one of the options in it is the ability to assign unique serial numbers to each device, though you may need to remove them and add one, run the tool, add one, then run the tool.

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Quote from: hurricandave on June 06, 2014, 06:50:36 PM

Windows Thinks U2 & U2+ Antminers are modem devices when used with SiliconLabs CP21xx drivers.

My U1/U2/U2+ devices are all plugged into my main computer, which is a Linux box, through Anker hubs. Dunno what it "sees" them as because I haven't checked but all I need to do is go into /dev, look for the ttyUSB devices, and make sure they get full R/W permissions.
Then fire up BitMinter, let it find them all, ID them one by one, and tweak them for speed until each one does it's max hashing with no hardware errors.
The only problem I have is that they are never identified in the same order, so if I reboot or remove devices and add them, they change port assignments and I have to go through the whole process. Would have been nice if the U1/U2/U2+ devices had unique serial numbers to ID them. I'm going to have to put labels on them and keep a chart of the hash rate hex assignments that they are each capable of.

Good thing I rarely have to reboot.

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Quote from: BCwinning on June 07, 2014, 08:39:33 AM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 07, 2014, 05:47:38 AM

Quote from: AbiTxGroup on June 06, 2014, 03:20:29 PM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 11:21:19 AM

What kind of a controller is it? Can any one give out something about the controller?

It is a TP-Link TL-WR743N/ND v2 controller. It is running OpenWRT Barrier Breaker r38031.

So, its a wireless router controller running cgminer.

I'm looking to explore this. Can you guide me to a good forum or link discussing about this controller, if any?

the openwrt forum would be a good start.

So true.

Here are a few to get you started:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr743nd

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr741nd#tl-wr741nd.v4.x

https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/38031

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Quote from: allcoinminer on June 07, 2014, 05:47:38 AM

Quote from: AbiTxGroup on June 06, 2014, 03:20:29 PM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 11:21:19 AM

What kind of a controller is it? Can any one give out something about the controller?

It is a TP-Link TL-WR743N/ND v2 controller. It is running OpenWRT Barrier Breaker r38031.

So, its a wireless router controller running cgminer.

I'm looking to explore this. Can you guide me to a good forum or link discussing about this controller, if any?

the openwrt forum would be a good start.

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Quote from: AbiTxGroup on June 06, 2014, 03:20:29 PM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 11:21:19 AM

What kind of a controller is it? Can any one give out something about the controller?

It is a TP-Link TL-WR743N/ND v2 controller. It is running OpenWRT Barrier Breaker r38031.

So, its a wireless router controller running cgminer.

I'm looking to explore this. Can you guide me to a good forum or link discussing about this controller, if any?

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Windows Thinks U2 & U2+ Antminers are modem devices when used with SiliconLabs CP21xx drivers.

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Being able to use it as a controller for U1/U2/U2+ Antminers would be awesome!
Would have to be able to add some sort of USB interface but it would be nice because I have 18 USB Antminers.

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Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 11:21:19 AM

What kind of a controller is it? Can any one give out something about the controller?

It is a TP-Link TL-WR743N/ND v2 controller. It is running OpenWRT Barrier Breaker r38031.

So, its a wireless router controller running cgminer.

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Quote from: BCwinning on June 06, 2014, 11:05:22 AM

Quote from: bobsag3 on June 06, 2014, 10:40:22 AM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 09:57:30 AM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 06, 2014, 09:46:41 AM

I would like to see more improvements done to the firmware.
Options added to the miner page like the ability to;
Specify if it's failover or round robin instead of needing to edit the config files manually for example.
A graph of performance added to the monitoring would be neat too.
Pay someone on the cgminer team to tweak better performance would be nice Wink

Since the S1 is discontinued I can't see them doing any hardware upgrades really.
The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

That's a good point.

Nope. The controller on the S1 can only handle 2 blades, and based on my conversations with them recently and in the past, they dont plan on changing that.

like I said since it's discontinued it won't be happening anyway. So to even discuss whether it can or can't is just worthless.

We can hope that Bitmain comes out with an S3 @200GH using the s2 boards. It would use less power and could be cheaper to manufacture using only a single production line to create mining boards.

DoubleD

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What kind of a controller is it? Can any one give out something about the controller?

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Quote from: bobsag3 on June 06, 2014, 10:40:22 AM

Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 09:57:30 AM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 06, 2014, 09:46:41 AM

I would like to see more improvements done to the firmware.
Options added to the miner page like the ability to;
Specify if it's failover or round robin instead of needing to edit the config files manually for example.
A graph of performance added to the monitoring would be neat too.
Pay someone on the cgminer team to tweak better performance would be nice Wink

Since the S1 is discontinued I can't see them doing any hardware upgrades really.
The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

That's a good point.

Nope. The controller on the S1 can only handle 2 blades, and based on my conversations with them recently and in the past, they dont plan on changing that.

like I said since it's discontinued it won't be happening anyway. So to even discuss whether it can or can't is just worthless.

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Quote from: allcoinminer on June 06, 2014, 09:57:30 AM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 06, 2014, 09:46:41 AM

I would like to see more improvements done to the firmware.
Options added to the miner page like the ability to;
Specify if it's failover or round robin instead of needing to edit the config files manually for example.
A graph of performance added to the monitoring would be neat too.
Pay someone on the cgminer team to tweak better performance would be nice Wink

Since the S1 is discontinued I can't see them doing any hardware upgrades really.
The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

That's a good point.

Nope. The controller on the S1 can only handle 2 blades, and based on my conversations with them recently and in the past, they dont plan on changing that.

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Quote from: BCwinning on June 06, 2014, 09:46:41 AM

I would like to see more improvements done to the firmware.
Options added to the miner page like the ability to;
Specify if it's failover or round robin instead of needing to edit the config files manually for example.
A graph of performance added to the monitoring would be neat too.
Pay someone on the cgminer team to tweak better performance would be nice Wink

Since the S1 is discontinued I can't see them doing any hardware upgrades really.
The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

The possibility of daisy chaining more blades would have been neat without needing another controller.

That's a good point.

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