Topic: DragonMint B29 Blake256 Miner (March) (Read 2388 times)

The thing that is most retarded is that Innosilicon is flooding the market with miners just like Bitmain and unlike Bitmain they only give us a 90 day warranty. They have now made it a 6 month ROI at least with more asics on the way and if you have a board take a shit you are screwed because they won't replace anything even though you paid $7,300.

I'm investigating setting up solo mining with my ASIC. I've downloaded decrediton and sync'd the block chain. I also see that the dcrd process is running. I can't seem to find any help on anything else related to setting up solo mining. Can someone give me the jist or point me to a tutorial?

I too hit like 8 blocks really quick when I got my original 6 DCR miners. It's all luck based, you could hit 3 blocks in a row, but the chances are astronomical. Pools are convenient to not have to worry about setting solo mining up. Over time it equalizes.

Glad to hear temps got better on the side! They definitely helped all of mine. I've looked at f2pool, and it appears to be 3% PPS. Might point some of mine that way to compare over time.

Thanks for the helpful info. Laying it on the side definitely lowered the temps. It seems like the temp readings may be for 24hr (??) intervals cus the highest recorded has definitely come down.

I've been mining DCR for a little over a week with my one miner.  So far I have found 3 blocks generating 39 coins towards the pool which is significantly less than my reward amount. Wonder if I would have found these blocks if I was solo mining or is it because of the consolidated hashing power of coinmine? I'm sure with your hashing power, you're finding blocks left and right. Would it be more profitable solo mining? Granted there are no guarantees if and when you'll find a block but seems probable if indeed your/my miner found the blocks without intervention from the pool.

Up until very recently, solo miners accounted for 2nd highest (31%) of the total distributed hashing power on https://dcrstats.com/pow. At the time of the snapshot (May 4th), Coinmine totaled 45.6%, Luxor at 13.7%. Those 3 groups accounted for 90% of the hashing power.  

Then f2pool came out of nowhere now making up for 29.7%. Coinmine accounts for 39.3%, Luxor with 12.3%, solo miners now only 2.1%. This totals up to 83.4%. f2pool is Chinese pool and has a very nice UI and the pages seem to translate to English okay.

I have a Inno D9 so my firmware may be a little different. I don't have an option for performance or balance mode. However, after 47 hours of running, I have a total of 685 HW errors.

Have you kept it on balanced mode or performance mode? Even on balance mode, I am getting alot of HW errors though. In 11H of run time, I have 219 112 33 HW errors. Not sure if everyone is having the similar issue.

They generally run cooler laying on the right side (exhaust facing away)

The temperatures represent lowest recorded, average, and highest recorded.

Yeah my miner is about 1.8. Btw, saw your name on coinmine. Not bad, your in like top 5 or so.

I've wondered about the temps also. For each of my ASIC miners that I get, I usually write a python script to monitor certain statistics of the miner so that if something goes out of range, I'm notified of it immediately. In doing this, I found that the three temperatures were labeled Average, Min, Max. My fan percentage fluctuates between 60% and 95% but it seems that the firmware attempts to keep the max temperature no more than 77 for me. Currently, at 75 max, it's pulling about 830W. I'm getting an average hash rate of 1.95 Th/S over the last two days on coinmine even though the firmware constantly reports 2.36 Th/S. I would have liked more control over the fan duty and the voltage configurations. FWIW, I did do the calibration when I first got it and left it Auto-tuned for a while, but now I have turned auto-tune off. I'm not sure I noticed a difference either way.

As for laying the miner on its side, I have not tried it. I have it sitting up-right.

Anyone know what the ideal ambient temp for the B29 is? I couldn’t find any info anywhere. On Inno, specs state 0-85 Celsius for internal. Looking at the UI, each board has 3 temps. One of my boards (middle) is reading 67 77 81. Should I start getting concerned?

Can someone also elaborate on how laying the miner on its side helps the temps? Does it matter which side to lay it on?

This is standard fluctuation. Average is what counts - these all have appeared to hash a little below spec (1.9-2.0 avg) poolside.

Phew...btw, are you having fluctuations of the hashrate on the pool end as well...mine fluctuates from 3 TH/s to 0.9 TH/s?

That's a firmware bug, it does nothing to your actual hashrate. I've got the same thing on my poorest performing b29, the update to the public d9 firmware runs visual autotune in a loop too.

Yeah, actually it is a D9, but as model number and all, it is written B29 and the backend is DragonMint. I upgraded to the latest firmware, still it is constantly stuck on autotuning.

On stock b29?

Mine is automatically doing auto-tune, is there a way to deactivate it?

Waste of time and hash.

I'm asking for help. I ordered and paid for this ASIC in March and so far I have not been sent it.
HalongMiner promises to send ASIC, but always postpones it.

Has anyone auto-tuned their B29? If so, is there any noticeable difference?

Yeah, definitely do that right away, that how it was mining Sia ... I mine sia to Luxor mining pool , user is walletaddress (or walletaddress.001 if you have more than 1 (so you can do .001, .002, etc...) or you can just set your wallet address