Very exciting project...thanks
Just a side note: Personally, i don't have S1, S3 or S5-had all three types, but sold them off as they became obsolete.
Buying used S3 or S5 again just to fit the new board?
Miner might have higher demand than boards, but I might be mistaken.
Just a side note: Personally, i don't have S1, S3 or S5-had all three types, but sold them off as they became obsolete.
Buying used S3 or S5 again just to fit the new board?
Miner might have higher demand than boards, but I might be mistaken.
I'm in the same boat for my electricity price I got rid of all older generation miners. I felt it was best to sell and buy BTC vs mining when I did calculations I came out with more BTC this way.
So I would have to buy them for this. And chances are as soon as you say X miner it fit's parts miners take a jump in price on that model. It might not be possible but I would love to see a complete miner without using other miners gut's cases. And that might be to hard of a feat when keeping prices low I do realize that.
But best of luck with project.
To your point, I wonder how feasible it would be to come up with a heatsink/chassis/fan solution that could handle 2 boards and come in around $20ish. Certainly could be interesting. I mean, we have a form factor already defined, so lead time might be a non issue. I will investigate this on my own, but as this is (I hope) a community oriented project, perhaps someone else on the forum has better contacts than I. Anyone with an S1/S3/S5 wins because they can upgrade on the cheap. Anyone without wins because they could buy this chassis kit on the cheap. Sidehack/the dev group wins because the market for their product expands. Home miners win because we have a cost effective alternative to the commercial products, and potentially those products have to lower their respective price points. Not to mention, whoever could facilitate a low cost chassis kit might stand to make a bit of coin for themselves in the process.
The heatsink/fan from the Gridseed "80" blades would be pretty cheap for folks to aquire, and were SERIOUSLY overkill for that project (if Gridseed had clue one on how to do board-level design).
I'd love to see a project that came up with a board to fit those - especially when I sold my last S5 earlier today (have 2 to ship out Monday, then I'm out of Bitcoin mining for a bit - already sold off the rest of my S5s and the SP20).
Looks like the next couple months are going to get even more "interesting" than I thought they would when I made the decision in very early January to sell off my existing Bitcoin mining farm, though looking like I underestimated the timeframe by a month or two....
