Topic: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive BTCGarden AM V1 Setup [HD] (Read 22409 times)

NotFuzzyWarm that`s why you have "Legendary" status , And the BTCGarden unit {zip folder schematics, etc} is pretty much a dead issue. Oh well guess I`ll go GPU. Thanks for the feedback fellas, appreciate it.

NONE. Miners are specifically designed to work with specific ASICs.
Mining ASICS are very much custom devices made per the design specs from Bitmain, Canaan, Bitfury et al. They are NOT generic devices...

So it seems,but what other chip works with the BTCGarden unit. I have just been intouch with Bitfury, minimum order $500k around 72k ASICs (bit much considering would need a few hundred in any case to test out etc. before such an investment) looking at alternatives. Have just asked NXP, Renesas & Toshiba about ASICs, but then the design needs altering or start from scratch. (eagle parts foot prints etc. more work)

Forget getting chips. The BE200 is long long long out of production. To the chip Foundries miner chips are boutique items and are produced in very limited numbers so zero chance of finding unused chips. Only hope is to find dead miners and harvest the chips from them.

As for dead Ants -- where are you running them? I have had over 100 of them from s1 up to the latest s9's and have had very very few problems even with my s9's. Zero dead ones. Ever. Bitmains R4, ja POS -- have 3 of them, 2 are perfect, 1 lost a hash board within 25hrs of starting.
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I was running them from home with portable AC units on each one. in separate rooms.
At the end with the BTC value increase I get the invested money back but with the difficulty increase I am hesitating to buy another S9 and not get the money back before it crash.
I guess I have bad luck or maybe because I bought 1 at a time Bitmain just send units that were sitting there with no much care.
I can't see any link to order from the Bitmain website everything is out of stock.

That would be my thinking too. Thanks for sharing. Main bits was/is my reference to the ASIC`s working parts.

I have since seen some pictures, presumably of the BTCGarden board looks like they have Bitfury ASICs, but might be wrong.

I've sent more S9s in for repairs out of hosting than anything else. Just crossed 3 years of hosted miners in my current facility.

I also had a buttload of scrapped-out BTCGarden machines but I stripped useful parts and sent the rest to recycling at least a year ago, maybe more. Didn't keep the ASICs, didn't think there was much use for them since they run literally ten times the power of current gear. Did the same with a buch of AM Tube and Prisma boards - jeez those Prismas I parted out would have been good for something like 2000 chips.

Forget getting chips. The BE200 is long long long out of production. To the chip Foundries miner chips are boutique items and are produced in very limited numbers so zero chance of finding unused chips. Only hope is to find dead miners and harvest the chips from them.

As for dead Ants -- where are you running them? I have had over 100 of them from s1 up to the latest s9's and have had very very few problems even with my s9's. Zero dead ones. Ever. Bitmains R4, ja POS -- have 3 of them, 2 are perfect, 1 lost a hash board within 25hrs of starting.

Need to check the settings on my account, did not get any email when electrobits reply back.
It is not true all my Antminers broke, only the S7 and S9 broke, the 3 S7 last 6 months after that stopped hashing one board at a time until all the ship shows X in all boards, the 3 S9 last 2 month to 3 month, after that the miners only hash for 20 minutes and gradually decrease the hashing until stop.
I had S2, S3 and S5 all working since 2013 but when I get the S7 and S9 I trow all the old ones to the garbage because of the noise and the power consumption.

At the end the only one working is this BTCGarden, by the way I found the problem on board 2 after testing board by board, I moved it to the last position and disconnect it, it is hashing steady since. When checking the board I found the aluminum oxide from the chassis dropped over the board, the chassis has a plastic protection outside but not inside, before I put it together I paint the inside of the chassis with rust oleum so it does not happen to the other boards.

For what I see, whoever design the BTCGarden care more about quality and endurance than profit and did the boards design with more space between components and more heat sink cooling area making the miner to run cool, with less fan speed and noise making the fans to last longer.

What you mean by main bits?



 

I`d like to but they`re out of business. Can`t help with experience. What was the main problem with your Antminers, what broke them if you don`t mind the ask. Where to get ASIC chips to suit BTCGarden, got the build files & easy enough for a pcb house, but the main bits?

Cheers

let me try a shoot in the dark on this topic.
Anyone still using a BTCgarden AMV1 X2 ?
I am having an issue, cgminer shows 343 accepted, but the antpool shows hashing at 1.54TH/s and 0
accepted.
I had a lot of Antminers in the past but all broke beyond repair, the only one that last is this BTCGarden.
I guess if no response back will have to open new topic.

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Got it Thanks.

Here

Does anyone have the 0828 firmware (latest) hosted anywhere?  I can not get a clean download from http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c0eUjWs its always corrupt or never completes.

no, btcgarden didn't use a cgminer.conf file to configure cgminer...that is why all the configs are on the script when it starts cgminer

so, you have api-listen running, it should be going

you might try downloading miner.php from https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer/blob/master/miner.php and putting it in the /var/www directory on the miner.  If that runs and works, you know that the cgminer api is pushing data

I've had these for 3-4 months now the configuration has been saved many times already, is it possible the file is in another directory that I may have overlooked last night.
thanks

Maybe it's not exist yet. Try to save setting from cgminer user interface. See where cgminer save the conf file.

I am not finding a cgminer.conf I think I searched every directory.

You can add the api setting to cgminer.conf
Usually on /root/.cgminer/cgminer.conf

Here is my run.sh file
nohup  /home/pi/Garden/cgminer -o http://10.30.2.188:8332 -u User.worker -p x  --btcg-clks 310:3000 --btcg-num-chips 64  --btcg-chip-sel-delay  80  --btcg-hard-rst-all-chips-period 5 --btcg-spi-cs-delay 0  --api-listen --api-allow W:0/0 --api-network > /dev/null 2>&1 &