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OgNasty

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Quote from: kroneko on December 19, 2013, 08:57:37 PM

Jeez sorry to hear that! I was unfortunate/lucky to have been around a 60 gh psu when it went, just gave off a smell of ozone and the miner's fan went off - five minutes later I had another power supply plugged in and was back up and running. Either way, glad to hear you and everything at your place is safe!

Thanks. Even with all the fans and ventilation, the house still smells slightly of ozone. On the plus side, Butterfly Labs contacted me today and said they will be shipping 3 new power supplies and I don't even need to return the dead ones.

kroneko

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Jeez sorry to hear that! I was unfortunate/lucky to have been around a 60 gh psu when it went, just gave off a smell of ozone and the miner's fan went off - five minutes later I had another power supply plugged in and was back up and running. Either way, glad to hear you and everything at your place is safe!

Squirrel Dearing

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Quote from: OgNasty on December 19, 2013, 03:35:36 PM

Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 03:29:38 PM

OGNasty, be sure to check your smoke alarms regularly! Only you can prevent mine fires!

That actually isn't a bad idea. I wonder if there's an easy way to rig a smoke alarm to a circuit breaker...

Hmm.. Sounds like a job for Arduino!

silverfuture

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Nice disaster aversion OgNasty! Lol @ plasticAiredale. Hold strong spartans, I mean nastyfans. THIS IS BITCOIN!

OgNasty

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Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 03:29:38 PM

OGNasty, be sure to check your smoke alarms regularly! Only you can prevent mine fires!

That actually isn't a bad idea. I wonder if there's an easy way to rig a smoke alarm to a circuit breaker...

Yogafan00000

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Quote from: plasticAiredale on December 19, 2013, 03:22:14 PM

I went ahead and updated the logo for you Cheesy

ha! I lol'd.

OGNasty, be sure to check your smoke alarms regularly! Only you can prevent mine fires!

OgNasty

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Quote from: plasticAiredale on December 19, 2013, 03:22:14 PM

I went ahead and updated the logo for you Cheesy

Hot logo addition. You're on fire. Grin

plasticAiredale

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Quote from: OgNasty on December 19, 2013, 01:53:22 PM

I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

I went ahead and updated the logo for you Cheesy

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Quote from: OgNasty on December 19, 2013, 01:53:22 PM

I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

Nice!

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Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 10:43:22 AM

Quote from: plasticAiredale on December 19, 2013, 10:35:15 AM

Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 09:23:36 AM

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down Cry

Yup, the BFL gear is so flaky, I have a combination of scripts & software to automatically restart everything every 2 hours. Even with that, I have to give it all a kick every week or so. In contrast, my BitFury gear is rock solid, I almost forget I have it running.

I'm going to get a Corsair ax760 PSU (as recommended) to replace the BFL PSU's.

It's $200, expensive, I know, but at least I'll be able to sleep.

The precaution that saved my house from burning down was simply to not have it sitting on something flammable. All my miners and PSUs are resting on some sort of metal. That being said, there were signs this was coming. The PSU had shut off on it's own a couple times in the days leading up to the fire and was becoming noticeably hotter than the others. I was actually very surprised and a bit impressed to see that the miner was mining away at full speed while the PSU was in flames.

nonnakip

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Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 10:16:35 AM

We should probably refund our portion of this guy's mistake. It seems the decent thing to do. (If we haven't already.)

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3985766

Someone was nice enough to do the calculations of the refund amounts here.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4011536

The 0.08252801 BTC distributed with last distribution. I guess I pull it from the next distribution. I handle this as accidental donation and refund it with next distribution.

Yogafan00000

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Quote from: plasticAiredale on December 19, 2013, 10:35:15 AM

Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 09:23:36 AM

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down Cry

Yup, the BFL gear is so flaky, I have a combination of scripts & software to automatically restart everything every 2 hours. Even with that, I have to give it all a kick every week or so. In contrast, my BitFury gear is rock solid, I almost forget I have it running.

I'm going to get a Corsair ax760 PSU (as recommended) to replace the BFL PSU's.

It's $200, expensive, I know, but at least I'll be able to sleep.

plasticAiredale

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Quote from: Yogafan00000 on December 19, 2013, 09:23:36 AM

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

Well you may want to take some precautions I would guess. I have a program I wrote monitoring cgminer and the pool to make sure cgminer is running and producing hashes. It will restart cgminer if needed, and also email after a certain amount of time if I'm not mining. So I have a little bit of warning should it burst into flames, but if I'm a couple hours away from home at the time, I can't really do anything about it.

In the past when it would happen I would just assume I lost power at home, now I'm going to worry it's burning down Cry

Yogafan00000

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We should probably refund our portion of this guy's mistake. It seems the decent thing to do. (If we haven't already.)

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3985766

Someone was nice enough to do the calculations of the refund amounts here.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4011536

Yogafan00000

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Quote from: plasticAiredale on December 19, 2013, 07:49:27 AM

Quote from: OgNasty on December 19, 2013, 01:33:52 AM

We had a bit of excitement today. One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames. No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly. This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

Glad everything is okay. Fires in the house are scary.

Jebus! I've got a couple of these things sitting in my basement! Should I be worried?

plasticAiredale

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Quote from: OgNasty on December 19, 2013, 01:33:52 AM

We had a bit of excitement today. One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames. No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly. This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

Glad everything is okay. Fires in the house are scary.

OgNasty

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We had a bit of excitement today. One of our BFL power supplies burst into flames. No harm done as I had a spare power supply on hand and was home to extinguish the flames relatively quickly. This is actually the 3rd dead Butterfly Labs power supply I have now, so I've contacted them to RMA the dead units before they release their next-gen equipment and stop supporting their old hardware.

nonnakip

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Quote from: smooth on December 17, 2013, 04:42:19 PM

Quote from: nonnakip on December 17, 2013, 12:25:40 PM

The web interface has new feature in account settings: donation payout threshold

Tried setting this to 0.01, when the page reloads it shows 0.00000001

Thank you for reporting. Problem fixed.

smooth

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Quote from: nonnakip on December 17, 2013, 12:25:40 PM

The web interface has new feature in account settings: donation payout threshold

Tried setting this to 0.01, when the page reloads it shows 0.00000001

smooth

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Quote from: OgNasty on December 17, 2013, 04:19:16 PM

Quote from: smooth on December 17, 2013, 04:17:17 PM

Any idea when the physical seats are going to ship? Was hoping to use them as xmas gifts...

The US orders have already shipped. Should be arriving in mailboxes in the next 48-72 hours.

If there are any problems or concerns of any kind, please contact me.

More awesome!

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