Buysolar and I will getting the A1041 to review and demo. - page 2.

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Is that a new model? I thought it was A1041 for the latest Avalon

Philipma1957, I'm not a miner and I usually don't frequent this section but I know you have a solar mining operation that's already paid for itself (if I recall correctly from reading a post from a while back). I think that's awesome, and I'd like to see the video you plan to make and any others you've made. Can you give me a link to your youtube channel?
I think solar power is the key to the energy consumption problem of crypto, and I'd like to start getting into solar in general if I can ever save up enough money to buy property. I'm still on the fence about that. Thanks, bro.

I have a thread on first array.
Fully paid off.
I have a thread on second which is still a work in progress.
I will put links in later.
I have a real interest in the Canaan a1041.
Solar is a 20-30 year product.
Once your array is paid off your power cost is next to nothing.
We got lucky and caught the 2017 run up well. Paid off the first array.
So the a1041 has a good value if it is durable.
As it will always earn profits. Due to the array being paid off.
We are looking for dense like 30th or 40 th or 50 th.
But reliable is just as important.
We have a few Avalon’s in the new array.
They have run perfectly since December . That is a real value to us.

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Do we know whether the pricing on the blokforge and Canaan websites are accurate for when these are available to the public?

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Very cool.

I've been in talks with Canaan as well,
but I haven't heard any news recently.

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Here are links on solar build 1, build 2

Buysolar and I have been mining together since 2014

He built a solar array back in 2016

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/solar-array-starting-to-look-good-1369207

build 2 work in progress- ie demand creation using mining gear to allow for a large size array

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-buildout-with-buysolar-has-entered-stage-2-5099194

youtube : note all done in a raw style no edits not slick which is an intentional decision on my part

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-K1Sokgy3-4CdV_uZF8ubw/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd

This show more then one avalon in more then one test. Also show a lot of other gear. Which does need to be shown.

Many miners are of the following belief system "I love blank and fuck everyone and everything else".

I am an inclusive miner. I Mine many coins with various gear.

Our new location has a lot of different models of:
btc asics
ltc asics
gpu

I can honestly say avalon gear has always had a better reliability factor for me than other gear.

Since my new solar build is a 120 mile round trip with tolls I need reliable gear.
Going up to fix 1 s9 is not worth doing. I have about 600th of gear mining and losing 14th of hash is not worth the trip.

So we are playing the game of lets wait for more s9's to break to make the trip worth it.
I like to wait to 10% of the hash rate is down before I ride up to fix it.
So I am doing 1 trip a month to fix dead gear. losing around 30th of hash each month or 280 usd a month of which ½ is mine ½ is the hosting warehouse.

280 x 12 = 3370 a year. I am hoping the A1041 stops this issue.

Since my power cost is always ½ the coins the A1041 can be a little less efficient if it is a lot more reliable.

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Phil will this unit be rasp pi free?

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@ yankees.
They emailed me for my address today and mentioned to me that they would want to send the no rasp pi units.
So I am hoping to see a unit that connects directly to the internet.

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@ yankees.
They emailed me for my address today and mentioned to me that they would want to send the no rasp pi units.
So I am hoping to see a unit that connects directly to the internet.

This would simplify deployment and maintenance, curious they took so long to make this decision, its literally just bolt a raspi on each unit...
Can't wait for the review.

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This would simplify deployment and maintenance, curious they took so long to make this decision, its literally just bolt a raspi on each unit...
Can't wait for the review.

Yeah I need more reliable gear that is power dense/hash dense.
if these units do 32th and don't drop out much it would help us a lot.
we may do a third build which will be a 160 mile round trip and bigger then the Clifton build.
Clifton is upgrading to 120-130kwatts from 65 -70 kwatts.
~~The bigger build in Warren county would be 150kwatts with a possible bump to 300 kwatts. 300 kwatts would mean 150 x 1800 = 270kwatts 150 units.~~
This not happening
I can't afford 5% down in a month as that is 7.5 x 33 = 247th.

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Nice can't wait to see the internal controller units. Those are the ones I've been waiting to see launch, it's a bonus not having to worry about a Pi or any of the converters is a plus. It's listed in the specs but can you confirm if it's a built-in PSU model or not?

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Psu should also be built in.
I am really excited about the eth daisy chain of these units.
I have no idea if they can do 254 but if they can do 40 well it is good enough .
With our Warren super build cancelled> We lost bid for the 140 acre property.
Warehouse owner and partner with buysolar and I Have switched and are going to plan 'b'
We will expand power at the current set of warehouses from:
65k-watt to 175 k-watt build out.
Then expand again from 175k-watt to 475k-watt.
Solar will cover the first 90kwatts. the rest will be at 5 cents.
The expansion from 65kwatt to 175kwatt is done on the power side.
We have 23kwatts of gear to put in now.
So by next monday will will have 88kwatts running and 87kwatts to fill.
These new avalons figure heavy for us.
they are pretty dense at 36.9th and we won't need anymore switches if the eth daisy chaining works.
Are they the most efficient gear no they are not.
But no switches needed saves $$$
Short cheap eth cables saves mess and $$$
If they are as reliable as the A921 or the A721's the 130 mile round trip to fix gear will be reduced greatly.
We were up in Clifton last thursday cleaning all gear with an air hose.
After 8 hours we did ⅔ of the gear and have ⅓ to clean. The l3+ units still need to be cleaned 25 of them.
We did 25-30 s-9's
we did 8 m-10's
we did 1 s-17
we did 1 s-15
we did 1 t-15
we did 1 l-3+
we did 1 t2t24th
all of the above stone cold dusty nasty dirty and all of the above slow to clean
we also cleaned our avalon gear
1 a921
2 a721
all three noticeably cleaner inside due to fin designs.
all three faster to clean
we have had about 7 months of mining in Clifton and the 3 avalons never dropped out or stopped mining every other company's gear dropped out at least once.
for us that could mean a six week time between maintenance trips to Clifton not 3 week trips.
so 8 or 9 rides to Clifton
vs 17 or 18 rides to Clifton
Two Guys me and buysolar to do the maintenance .
this is a big savings for us.
maybe
130 x 10 = 1300 miles
6 x 10 = 60 in tolls
16 x 10 = 160 work hours
2 or 3 switches
lots of eth wire at 2/3 foot vs 10 foot.
1 router could do 10,000 units with only two 24 port switches
218 units per port 218 x 23 = 5014 units per 24 port switch. Grin

Realistically for us if we go all avalon on the next 87kwatts we get 35 units
do 7 per port use 5 ports. it works fine.

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Avalons are a beast when it comes to reliability, I've never had a real issue with one. It's been a shame they haven't been able to come out ahead of everyone else on an efficiency launch. I think it's been a huge step getting rid of the external controller then following up with the Eth daisy chaining keeps them unique and easy to network. All the benefits without the potential points of failure. I wonder if these will still be able to operate as 1 worker for all linked chains or if they will now be individual workers. It didn't even dawn on me the switch savings, I'm lucky enough that I'm still small and can get away with a couple home routers networked together to meet my needs and boost the home wifi network.

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I am so jealous about guys with solar setups.
I can't do it for a few reasons:
1. HOA
2. Even if #1 is negated (although I don't know yet how), I would need to install a new roof first, but the old roof has no problems, so i would have to pay 100% for replacement.
3. See point #1

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