[Review] Avalon 4.1 Miner- Summer Mining - Notlist3d - page 6.

crazyearner

legendary

Activity: 1820

Merit: 1001

Quote from: notlist3d on April 05, 2015, 09:54:56 PM

Looks like around midweek I will be able to test again in more ambient temps of "summer" mining. We had a cooler week this week so it was still cooler the most of summer will be. But will be mid 70's to 80's to come soon.

Summer is indeed near and avalons gonna kick some heat out of them as to the old avlaon units do kick out some heat and need goo cooling.. You might want to do some mods to the units them self to see if you can channel airflow better and get some air cons running in room to drop temperatures down as best as can get. Or use for heating at night if cool open doors across the house and channel it with pipe work and have free avalon heating xD

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

Looks like around midweek I will be able to test again in more ambient temps of "summer" mining. We had a cooler week this week so it was still cooler the most of summer will be. But will be mid 70's to 80's to come soon.

Meech

hero member

Activity: 924

Merit: 1000

Quote from: adaseb on April 03, 2015, 08:57:33 PM

I really wish

1) They would of included the controller inside the case like an S5.

2) Was priced cheaper

I don't understand why they don't just mass produce this miner, sell it cheaper then Bitmain's S5 and make millions. Instead selling small quantites but larger profit margins.

Apparently until they get the price right or deliver a better product ahead of the competition we wil be hit with a higher price. Avalon isn't geared up and able to afford huge runs of chips and components until they have a winner that makes profit to do so in the future. For now they have to stick to small quantities and higher prices. Better marketing would definitely help them and other suppliers not just one.

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

Well I'm not getting the summer weather quite as much as I thought it would be this week. It has been a good test of going through quite a bit of range of temperature. Tonight has been the coldest with an ambient temp of mid 50's outside. It is the lowest RPM the fan has gone. I can vouch that the miner has did a good job with a changing ambient temp.

*Turns out time was set wrong, has been fixed. Noticed it when looking at image. In future will show proper time.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

The rasp pi is rock solid with 3 miners. I have a spare rasp pi and 3 spare pre programed sdcards.

I love that it is an external controller.

Brick a controller on an s-1 s-2 s-3 s-4 s-5 c1 and you lose your gear for a while. Well if you have 2 s-5's you can run 4 boards on 1 controller.

All spondoolies gear the controller dies the gear is dead.

I would like 4 pools not 3 pools
I would like the balanced pool option to work.

But the truth is just make them cheaper. A set of 3 for 1200 usd shipped not 1600 would be good.

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

Quote from: adaseb on April 03, 2015, 08:57:33 PM

I really wish

1) They would of included the controller inside the case like an S5.

2) Was priced cheaper

I don't understand why they don't just mass produce this miner, sell it cheaper then Bitmain's S5 and make millions. Instead selling small quantites but larger profit margins.

Well I cant argue on price. I would love to have more of these if it drops. There are some things that are not comparable with S5 such a the quality metal case. They have been able to utilize the case to make it very quiet. The S5 does not come with a metal case enclosure, but that saves you money. So it has plus and minus either way you go.

I can say is the external Raspberry Pi is actually not bad at all not being integrated. It would actually be nice if you had multiple miners having them all on the one controller. Most important thing is it being stable for me, and so far the raspberry pi with their custom image does this.

I would consider their external controller a success after testing. I have had others such as a SilverFish 28 were the sharing of a controller was a pain and caused stability issues. So far very stable and no control issues. It is also nice knowing if I ever need another controller I can get a regular Raspberry Pi and not some custom controller. That is a huge plus to me.

adaseb

legendary

Activity: 3808

Merit: 1723

I really wish

1) They would of included the controller inside the case like an S5.

2) Was priced cheaper

I don't understand why they don't just mass produce this miner, sell it cheaper then Bitmain's S5 and make millions. Instead selling small quantites but larger profit margins.

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

On day 3 at this point. Weather has cooled down some so miner is doing great. I can't even hear the fan right now at all. You will see cold weather let RPM go down ever more.

It did do a restart as my house temporary lost power during storm. It was no fault of the miner, but that is why time up is not on 3 days.

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

I was hoping to keep a day log of it running. It ran perfect no problems until a storm took out the power for my house. So starting back at 0 hours.

Meech

hero member

Activity: 924

Merit: 1000

Yah the price would need to be near Bitmains S5 now to regain anything at all. Too bad their price point is a $100 more than what's feasible for us to buy it at. It looks like a great product due to it's solid compact build and especially the silence. Wish this would have come out at the end of the last year.

bgibso01

legendary

Activity: 1218

Merit: 1001

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 02, 2015, 05:01:45 PM

I grabbed an ebay deal on one I am still waiting for that one to show up.
I got it for about 325 usd (I had a 13% coupon) it is due on April 13th. I suspect this one may be an ebay claim rather then an ebay deal.
If it turns up and works well I will post here and my thread on how well 4 run on a rasp pi model b (big sdcard model)

That's definitely the right price for running them at good w/gh speeds. I'd grab 4 at that price myself.

valkir

legendary

Activity: 1484

Merit: 1004

Thanks Notlist3d

Im working hard for you guys! Speaking a lot from America with China to get better deal! Wink

Let me know still got some fews coupons!

Cheer

Valkir

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

I am happy I am able to share this. A thanks to valkir

Member valkir is working with Avalon's marketing. He is able to get you a few percent off. It varies on what current percent is so I can not give a estimate.

But if your thinking of ordering you might hit up valkir: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/valkir-214808

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: notlist3d on April 02, 2015, 03:13:27 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 02, 2015, 12:01:51 PM

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:50:01 AM

Quote from: PatMan on April 02, 2015, 11:48:42 AM

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:17:03 AM

I'd have a few of them if they weren't so overpriced.

This.

They look & perform great, but like you say - the price just ain't right Sad

Nice guide - great work!

Yep. They'd sell by the boatload if they were priced better.

yeah a 3 pack to the usa gets a shipping break,

but total is 6.63 btc or 2.21 each

a single to the usa is 2.45 btc with the shipping.

right now they are the only new gear in stock and shipping.

bitmaintech sold out batch 5.

Thanks philipma for breakdown. It is true with 3 pack you get best deal.

As far as comparing it I would compare it more to a SP20 then S5. It's underclock is great. Also it is built out of solid metal. And the most impressive thing to me is with this case and fan it is the most quiet asic I have ever had since day's of USB's or Blades that made no sound. My projector has a louder fan then this thing in hot weather.

Yeah you can run it anywhere without sound issues at 900gh it is really quiet.

at 750 gh it gets better watts per gh and is close to silent.

I grabbed an ebay deal on one I am still waiting for that one to show up.
I got it for about 325 usd (I had a 13% coupon) it is due on April 13th. I suspect this one may be an ebay claim rather then an ebay deal.
If it turns up and works well I will post here and my thread on how well 4 run on a rasp pi model b (big sdcard model)

notlist3d

legendary

Activity: 1456

Merit: 1000

Quote from: philipma1957 on April 02, 2015, 12:01:51 PM

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:50:01 AM

Quote from: PatMan on April 02, 2015, 11:48:42 AM

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:17:03 AM

I'd have a few of them if they weren't so overpriced.

This.

They look & perform great, but like you say - the price just ain't right Sad

Nice guide - great work!

Yep. They'd sell by the boatload if they were priced better.

yeah a 3 pack to the usa gets a shipping break,

but total is 6.63 btc or 2.21 each

a single to the usa is 2.45 btc with the shipping.

right now they are the only new gear in stock and shipping.

bitmaintech sold out batch 5.

Thanks philipma for breakdown. It is true with 3 pack you get best deal.

As far as comparing it I would compare it more to a SP20 then S5. It's underclock is great. Also it is built out of solid metal. And the most impressive thing to me is with this case and fan it is the most quiet asic I have ever had since day's of USB's or Blades that made no sound. My projector has a louder fan then this thing in hot weather.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:50:01 AM

Quote from: PatMan on April 02, 2015, 11:48:42 AM

Quote from: Prelude on April 02, 2015, 11:17:03 AM

I'd have a few of them if they weren't so overpriced.

This.

They look & perform great, but like you say - the price just ain't right Sad

Nice guide - great work!

Yep. They'd sell by the boatload if they were priced better.

yeah a 3 pack to the usa gets a shipping break,

but total is 6.63 btc or 2.21 each

a single to the usa is 2.45 btc with the shipping.

right now they are the only new gear in stock and shipping.

bitmaintech sold out batch 5.

Prelude

legendary

Activity: 1596

Merit: 1000