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DaveF

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Quote from: lightfoot on June 19, 2020, 08:18:02 PM

Sure, they will work. And since the admin page is on the controller/beaglebone you can set the speeds. But really, what is the point: By modern standards they are quite slow. Maybe solo mine with them and see if you can hit a block.

Because as Phil said above, the power draw is insane by today's standards.
You can sell them for $5 to $10 each cube to people who want to play and get something faster that pulls 1/20th the power.

And that's 12 points of failure, a bunch of power supplies, etc.
At some point it's just not worth it.

-Dave

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I fix broken miners. And make holes in teeth :-)

Sure, they will work. And since the admin page is on the controller/beaglebone you can set the speeds. But really, what is the point: By modern standards they are quite slow. Maybe solo mine with them and see if you can hit a block.

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Okay lets see 660gh x 12 = 7920 gh or 7.920th. at about 20000 watts

and a tweaked s9 using brains software will do 8th at about 670 watts

so op WTF are you thinking?

you want to spend 20,000 watts an hour vs 670 watts an hour.

For what possible reason?

Free power is fine but if you have free power buy some s9's and run them instead.

If you have 20,000 watts an hour to burn.

Buy 2 s9's and run them at 14th each at 1300 watts = 28000th for 2600 watts.

I have s9's for you if you are USA based. Grin

DaveF

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In addition to biffa's reading the manual comment. These things are so slow that many pools might not show them working because of minimum difficulty they might never find a share at 660GH. I don't know what difficulty slush starts at and how low they go to.

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Have you tried the manual?

https://web.archive.org/web/20150501011929/http://www.kncminer.com/downloads/support/neptune/Manual_Neptune_1.0.pdf

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Hi,

I have 12 KNC Miner Neptunes. I'm wondering a couple of things.

1) Can they still mine even though KNC went bust and you can't access the page to tweak them etc.

2) In my slushpool it shows the workers as being OFF. How can I get them working again?

Thanks
Tony

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