Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 1368. (Read 3050074 times)

so if anyone has saved settings from cgminer, and just hit enter for the default config file... and experienced a gui glitch afterwards... this is the fix: after all the settings in cg are as you want them...when you save by hitting "S"for settings, then "W" for (write config file)in CGMiner don't hit "Enter", instead, type "/config/cgminer.conf", Then hit enter. Until I figured this out, I had to ssh into the miner, and start a second instance of cgminer to get mining, because KNC had added "HTTP://" to the stratum address, and entered my workername info incorrectly. The result, was a dead instance of cgminer, and a broken GUI, which was stopping me from changing the settings in a catch-22 situation. I inadvertantly used the cgminer default config file name in an attempt to fix the problem, not knowing that knc is using a custom location to store the config file. Seeking it in linux and typing it in the cgminer save field cured the problems. I now am able to assign the ip adress and save it as well now, where it wouldn't before, which means now, i dont have to sniff the ip either to ssh into the machine, or access the gui, because its all booting perfectly now, and connecting automatically to the pool, and hashing away by the time I can ssh in and do a screen -r.... no ip sniffing necessary. What a relief!
p.s... 0.95 is working fast as any I've had loaded now too.

I have pretty much made up my mind.  If i do not get shipping information on my order this week.  They will have two options,  ether offer some sort of compensation for delivering late, Or refund me if they do not, I will be contacting PayPal.  And if they do not let me refund.  then i will go straight to my credit cards.  Witch as Amex and discover.    And wont take no for a answer on a refund.    Witch I'm going to almost guarantee ill have to go this route unless they pull off a miracle .   Since my order was not placed until July 3rd.  So they got some ways to go to get to my order.   And i have already let KNC know this is my plans of last week.  Of course i have not received an e-mail back.  "First time they have never responded"   But shortly after my e-mail my order did go in to progress.  Along with everyone else.  Witch is another reason why i think this is a stall technique.   

Not necessarily:

Should I change pools or simply go back to firmware 0.94
Here's an average on 24 hours with firmware 0.94 and 0.95 :

--------------------	0.94	0.95
Average CGminer	270Gh/s	274Gh/s
Average Bitminter	275Gh/s	263Gh/s
Consumption	485 Watts	305 Watts
Temputure	54 & 62°C	42 & 47°C
HW	2.81%	0.79%

0.94
0.95

  I am wishing my self.... My self -> Order #6xxx Paid (Payed)



I dont think so.

Come on KNC, turn my August Mercury into "In Progress" - 2 days left to meet your deadline

I think they are actually putting all their orders "in progress."

I think I will ask for a refund too if they don't ship by next Thursday. I could use the money to invest in another company, like Hashfast.

I think I will ask for a refund too if they don't ship by next Thursday. I could use the money to invest in another company, like Hashfast.

I have pretty much made up my mind.  If i do not get shipping information on my order this week.  They will have two options,  ether offer some sort of compensation for delivering late, Or refund me if they do not, I will be contacting PayPal.  And if they do not let me refund.  then i will go straight to my credit cards.  Witch as Amex and discover.    And wont take no for a answer on a refund.    Witch I'm going to almost guarantee ill have to go this route unless they pull off a miracle .   Since my order was not placed until July 3rd.  So they got some ways to go to get to my order.   And i have already let KNC know this is my plans of last week.  Of course i have not received an e-mail back.  "First time they have never responded"   But shortly after my e-mail my order did go in to progress.  Along with everyone else.  Witch is another reason why i think this is a stall technique.  

My order was paid June 25 and just went to "in progress" yesterday.

300X order, paid July 11, in progress.
 
One more week to ship??

It won't do anything.

A little about how a power supply works.   It has to rectify AC power into DC power and it also has to step down the voltage to a level used by computers.  Namely that is 12V, 5V & 3.3V.  

At one time power supplies did rectification and step down to all three voltages

So if you will excuse my horrible ASCII art


120/240VAC --------[AC to 12VDC conversion] ----->  12VDC out
                           |
                           |--[AC to 5VDC conversion] ------>  5VDC out
                           |
                           |--[AC to 3.3VDC conversion] ---> 3.3VDC out

This worked fine when load on all three rails was relatively balanced but efficiency is generally low and when the rails are out of balance efficiency suffers even more.


Two things occurs in roughly that last decade.  The first is that 3.3VDC and 5VDC isn't really used for any significant load.  At one time they were used to directly power CPU, memory, motherboard logic, etc.  However the operating voltage of modern components (including ASICS) is <1 VDC.  The power requirement for a motherboard also increased significantly.   A high end CPU, memory, and motherboard can pull 200W+.  On multi-CPU servers with large banks of memory this can be 500W or more.  500W @ 5VDC = 100A.  You would need a cable the size that connects to your car battery to handle that safely.    So motherboards contain their own DC to DC regulators.   The powersupply pumps in 12VDC the motherboard converts it to whatever it needs.  

The second was the "80Plus" program and it became a big marketing campaign.   People began buying more efficient PSU and it became increasingly hard to design a PSU that
could deliver massive current on the 12V rail, operate with minimal or no load on 3.3V, and still remain very efficient.

Today almost all high end (500W+) PSU use a concept call direct DC conversion.   Since the majority of the load is on the 12V rail ALL the power is converted to 12VDC.  Then the small 3.3V and 5V loads are converted off the 12V rail.

120/240VAC ----->  [AC to 12VDC conversion] ------->  12VDC out
                                   |
                                   |-----[12VDC to 5VDC conversion] -------> 5VDC out
                                   |
                                   | ----[12VDC to 3.3VDC conversion] ------> 3.3VDC out

putting an extra load on 3.3VDC rail does nothing.  Absolutely nothing.

next difficulty 230 (4days to go) estimate 260 (70 mill jump)
Saturn @ 260 Gh/s = .5024 coins per day

Best scenario I can see is 21 coins back (maybe a couple more in the months after) which leaves me with a probable loss of $1500
Saturn was $4800 incl VAT +shipping.

Anyone who is still waiting is worse off of course unless bitcoin price goes crazy

Edit: 2 Ph network hashrate now - 100% growth in 22 days