BM1384 Pod Miner plus trade-in/recycling - an interest and feasibility poll - page 9.

notlist3d

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Quote from: toptek on December 02, 2015, 06:52:39 PM

Quote from: maci81 on December 01, 2015, 08:59:06 PM

Maybe he can give you some bad boards

:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AntMiner-S5-1155Gh-s-0-51W-Gh-28nm-ASIC-Bitcoin-Miner-/141841810461?hash=item21066e441d:g:76YAAOSwT6pVp9kR

I talked to some one who may have been ripped off by this seller on ebay,the guy who told me that is buying my last s5, once i get a 18 pin cable and test the replacement board and other board to gather. he told me he paid about that and is fighting with PayPal to get it back . just a tip.

I see the auction as kinda funny "EASY REPAIR!!! DAMAGED, DEFECTIVE ONLY ONE OF THE HASH BOARDS ARE WORKING REPAIRABLE".... if it's so easy why did seller not fix and sell as working S5? Am I the only one seeing that.

Sounds like scammy or at least bad sellsman to say it's very easy to fix! I just cant do it... you can though! Also talking about bitmain warranty when I doubt any S5 is within warranty... no one should buy from there.

toptek

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Quote from: maci81 on December 01, 2015, 08:59:06 PM

Maybe he can give you some bad boards

:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AntMiner-S5-1155Gh-s-0-51W-Gh-28nm-ASIC-Bitcoin-Miner-/141841810461?hash=item21066e441d:g:76YAAOSwT6pVp9kR

I talked to some one who may have been ripped off by this seller on ebay,the guy who told me that is buying my last s5, once i get a 18 pin cable and test the replacement board and other board to gather. he told me he paid about that and is fighting with PayPal to get it back . just a tip.

Biodom

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Quote from: munky666 on December 02, 2015, 11:06:02 AM

so my cgminer-gekko on raspberry pi b+ with active hub and the EU sticks is also not working.
in the usb management under "list all devices" there's just this:
Bus 1 Device 6 ID: 10c4:ea60 bitshopperde Compac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner inactive

when presseing e(nable) and entering any device number it just says "invalid selection"...

any solution?

check in here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-compac-bm1384-stickminer-official-support-thread-1173963

TL;DR-maybe try bfgminer 5.4.1

munky666

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so my cgminer-gekko on raspberry pi b+ with active hub and the EU sticks is also not working.
in the usb management under "list all devices" there's just this:
Bus 1 Device 6 ID: 10c4:ea60 bitshopperde Compac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner inactive

when presseing e(nable) and entering any device number it just says "invalid selection"...

any solution?

edit: sorry, wrong thread / tab

maci81

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Maybe he can give you some bad boards

:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AntMiner-S5-1155Gh-s-0-51W-Gh-28nm-ASIC-Bitcoin-Miner-/141841810461?hash=item21066e441d:g:76YAAOSwT6pVp9kR

sidehack

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Curmudgeonly hardware guy

I'd like to use new chips. However, until new chips are available old chips is the only option. Also, trade-in parts keeps the cost down. A BM1384 design like this wouldn't be feasible now if I had to use all new components and charge the end user for them. With trade-ins, some people get stuff for "free" and everyone else gets it for a lot cheaper than would otherwise be possible. Would I rather be working with new BM1385 or A3218? Heck yes.

Chronikka

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Quote from: philipma1957 on December 01, 2015, 03:42:53 PM

Quote from: Chronikka on December 01, 2015, 03:19:07 PM

Quote from: alh on December 01, 2015, 02:31:29 PM

My recollection is that sidehack has no interest in trying to build something using the SFards chip, for a variety of reasons. I am sure he'll weigh in to correct me.

Fair enough. Has any chip other than BM1384 been discussed? The reason I ask, unless you already have an Antminer S5, those chips are hard to find. Bitmain does not sell them directly as far as I know (or even produce them anymore now that they have the BM1385)

he is looking to used dead s-5 boards.

right now no one wants to sell 'new' chips.

I do agree that this would be better with s-7 chips but antminer won't sell them to anyone as far as I know.

Well I'm not really concerned about it being "better" I'm mostly concerned with finding a source for the chips. The BM1384 chip is not available for direct purchase but many other chips are. The idea of using dead s5 boards is excellent but there can't really be that many dead s5's laying around can there?

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Quote from: Chronikka on December 01, 2015, 03:19:07 PM

Quote from: alh on December 01, 2015, 02:31:29 PM

My recollection is that sidehack has no interest in trying to build something using the SFards chip, for a variety of reasons. I am sure he'll weigh in to correct me.

Fair enough. Has any chip other than BM1384 been discussed? The reason I ask, unless you already have an Antminer S5, those chips are hard to find. Bitmain does not sell them directly as far as I know (or even produce them anymore now that they have the BM1385)

I think hed settle for the new sp chips or even the new AvalonMiner 6.0 chips https://ehash.com/product/avalon6-v6-0/ chips, so to answer your question: yes he has.

I don't see why they won't, it won't hurt, them, and help others .

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Quote from: Chronikka on December 01, 2015, 03:19:07 PM

Quote from: alh on December 01, 2015, 02:31:29 PM

My recollection is that sidehack has no interest in trying to build something using the SFards chip, for a variety of reasons. I am sure he'll weigh in to correct me.

Fair enough. Has any chip other than BM1384 been discussed? The reason I ask, unless you already have an Antminer S5, those chips are hard to find. Bitmain does not sell them directly as far as I know (or even produce them anymore now that they have the BM1385)

he is looking to used dead s-5 boards.

right now no one wants to sell 'new' chips.

I do agree that this would be better with s-7 chips but antminer won't sell them to anyone as far as I know.

Chronikka

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Quote from: alh on December 01, 2015, 02:31:29 PM

My recollection is that sidehack has no interest in trying to build something using the SFards chip, for a variety of reasons. I am sure he'll weigh in to correct me.

Fair enough. Has any chip other than BM1384 been discussed? The reason I ask, unless you already have an Antminer S5, those chips are hard to find. Bitmain does not sell them directly as far as I know (or even produce them anymore now that they have the BM1385)

alh

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My recollection is that sidehack has no interest in trying to build something using the SFards chip, for a variety of reasons. I am sure he'll weigh in to correct me.

Chronikka

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Has anybody explored the idea of using the dual mining SF3301 ASIC chip? Supposedly they are available for shipment but you have to contact SFards directly. I would totally be willing to pay for a dualminer pod but it might take a bunch of us getting together in a group buy for some chips.

Here is the spec sheet posted by Sfards

For dual mining, SFards is advertising 100 gh/s mining Bitcoin and 1.75 Mh/s mining litecoin @ 35 watts per chip when mining simultaneously.

Swoosher76

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I love the idea of reclaiming old hardware! I'm in. Keep us updated sidehack...

zOU

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★ these are stars ★

I don't have anything to trade but I'll get the wallet out for this as I'm very happy with the sticks you produce.

So I voted for 50$

Note that heatsink mount points will have to be specified, as I have a bunch of cpu coolers around from different generation.

Or I could go with watercooling if the pod follows known cpu mount points

santom1977

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Well I have 3 blades with problems for S5, I am happy to help.

Let me know what do I need to do.

Thanks Marco

sidehack

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Actually, that guy came out of nowhere and I have no idea who it is or what he's doing. I can't say I'm completely dismissing him, but I am certainly not spending any time tracking down what he's up to.

On the labor front, this week I'll be helping Novak with some interface boards and then busting out a bunch of Compacs. I don't expect pod proto PCBs until next week, but they'll arrive at the same time as a PCB for a Novak project which means we'll havce two firmwares to write before both are successfully tested. I can get a good idea of hardware functionality on my pod without needing his time, but it won't be fully approved until the controller is up and running.

He and I spent most of last week on this year's Halloween project, and I just got back from some Hamlet and BBQ so not much progress on anything miner-related until I start on Compac manufacture come Tuesday.

sloopy

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=905210.msg

He has been a little tied up with prof.hell this week as well.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637595.new#new

I assure you that is not me posing as a nubcake, but I haven't put it past half of you Cheesy

notlist3d

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Quote from: Meech on November 01, 2015, 12:43:48 PM

Should we get some news this week on your test pods or will it be next week?
Overly anxious for some info.

I would guess he has a very busy week. With compac's starting batch 2 sometime soon just a lot of time I'm guessing there. I would guess he does some on project on pods.

But guessing busy for a bit. And really he always has cool projects for us to look at so I don't know if I've seen a time he is not busy

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Meech

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Should we get some news this week on your test pods or will it be next week?
Overly anxious for some info.

Meech

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I think a shirt order might be a fun idea with that as the theme. It worked before.

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