Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 1427. (Read 3050073 times)

If not they, then someone else. Besides, by the time they manufacture those units, yours and mine should be on the way to breaking even.  

Welcome to the world of BTC mining. All bets are off.

Edit: I've seen that China banner a few months back, by the way. I don't quite understand what's all the fuss now.

Oh, and another thing, in addition to capacitors, which is not nitpicking: backup pool configuration.

are most of the problems on Jupiters it seems?, if so, and caps are the problem, sounds like a controller board and/or power issue to me, but I'm not an engineer...lol

So you don't care if they sell 7000 Jupiters in China in the next month or two? Maybe in China they have another bitcoin, unrelated to the one you mine?

KNC promised to take care of the customers who gave them a free loan of millions to start their business. This ^ does not do that.

Yes, you see them on a picture describing the slogan. It does not say anywhere that all 6 will be in use.

I am more worried about those capacitors. Everything else seems like nitpicking.

I think what he was saying is that pool users configure their own mining scheme and using the pool, the pool gets a percentage and that percentage to the pool is what is being used for the delay refunds.  I suppose they would like to configure the miners for the users the best way possible as that would mean a larger amount as that fixed percentage - success of those in the pool is good for them.  But, given the type of people we miners are, we'd probably complain if we couldn't make our own choices even if not optimal.

5.
I had one make smoke early this morning.
I don't know what firmware was installed, nor did I bother looking.
Nothing was running very warm, and it was hashing like a mofo.
Errors were virtually nil.

Same capacitor as this one, but opposite side of the board.
The boards seem to be omnidirectional (from my recollection) so it could be a common mode failure.
http://m.imgur.com/a/hyA3a#/a/hyA3a
My burned cap looks similar, in that it looks as if the pick&place machine didn't center it on the pads.
(the distance between it and the cap it is next to is shorter than the distance between two good caps)

I feel like Charlie Brown, never really seeing a good deal come through.

Which reminds me - we need an update on the KnCMiner Network Protection Statement from https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-24

We take it this is no longer gonna happen, what with KNC China website ready to sell sell sell??

On www.kncminer.com homepage:



That's another Q for obama. Added to list, renumbered for ease of reply to each one individually - in detail:

How about some answers to these questions:
1. How come the sub-standard cgminer from KNC?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3294238
This post suggests the KNC version is not doing a proper work restart. Any reason KNC are spending 9 days releasing firmware updates that doesn't even fix these issues? I'm fairly sure the guys who wrote cgminer could sort this quick fast.

2 Update: It seems the binary for knc cgminer has not been updated at all in any of the firmware updates (source: irc). How come? There is plenty to fix.

3. How come boards are bbq'ing?
I know you wrote a post a few days ago trying to blame people for unplugging cables while the miner was still powered up, but that was scapegoating. There is plenty speculation on the hardware issues causing, but a total no-answer on this from you/KNC. Customers are worried about burning to death in their sleep.

4. Are KNC still shipping in those unsuitable single walled boxes?

5. How come on the controller board there are 6 terminals, but shipped miners are only being shipped with 4 in place?

6. What is KnCMiner Network Protection Statement now? We are aware they are planning to launch sales in China, which would obliterate any such protection and put the customers who initially invested in KNC at a major disadvantage.

Six questions, awaiting details! thx

We are hungry, as it were! See questions above. Very detailed answers would make us content. thx

O'Rama, do you know their position about having Olivas working on cgminer implementation? Will it happen, it won't, they don't know yet?

Any idea if they plan to release the code soon?

AHEM! This photo is what they describe as their controller board and you see 1 2 3 4 5 6
 https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-39

the only thing they should do, is to give con the sauce

They were probably safeguards/margins in case some terminals did not work. In any case, no one promised 6 ports. I expect to be able to upgrade Saturn to Jupiter, but not further.

I can confirm is a stale party indeed, flushwork seems not very good. Got a huge rate of stales.

Well, I guess that when they will iron out the firmware we will see some impressive performance on knc gear

both my Jupiters came with 6 ports not 4

not sure if they were the last ones or not

I think many of us were relying on it, that's why we are miffed these 2 extra terminals were removed and make the jupiter a fixed 4 board system.

And so "upgrade" now seems to mean "buy a completely new one".

Upgrades sound like a great idea...

I think the case is pointless anyway.   They should of flat shipped it and just let us put on the heatsinks.   The way they slap on the fans (and how they fall off) I wonder how great they paste and mounted the heatsinks.   I have very different temps on mine.

That could mean a lot of things of course, but it would be one less thing to wonder about if we assembled most of this ourselves (and would of gotten mine a week earlier no doubt)

Not any more. They only ship with 4.

It's not a problem making/buying a bigger case.

I would like to know why only 4. KNC not going to support upgrades for their loyal customers?

Over to obama for the detailed answers.

4? Ouch! Out of how many?
Either way, guess we now know why they are only tested for 30 seconds. Probably with a fire extinguisher at hand.

Seriously though, thats not good, at all.

...and, it was a pleasure meeting you as well in Atlanta. Now, show the world our mugs!

Sounds like the Jupiters can possibly be upgraded to 800GH+ with two more cards.  No room in the case though.