Well the 1st Titan I tried to do the new TarkyTitan 1.0.0 firmware is still chugging along....at around hour 14 heh
it is finally at stage 2 of 3.....
amazing software/firmware well worth the $$$.....seems to be having significant voltage reductions ...from what I can tell from the
grayed out area.....so it chugs..
So I balled up due to seeing the above system work. I man'd up and put the next license on my 6 cube unit.
Also working well. Left my dies at their current off or down clicked speed they were at...supposedly I guess I could experiment later.
It also was no problem...me thinks 6 cubes may take a weeee bit longer then a day or so
(again my knc equip is evil)....
BUT just an FYI not the software install problem..me being dumb........I did make the mistake and had a 'panic attack' and when backspacing pages
after the install (w/o reboot) got the license install request page again ...being a dummy ...i put my code in again and it
said INVALID..in that 2 pages back all was fine...I went DUH ....probably should not backspace around w/o restart...and did a reboot...all then came up as it should..so don't
do that stupid move FYI.
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The only other question I have is in previous posts on here ..(or the swedish asic miner fix it thread by lightfoot) that if you had a die come up with 1/2 the die showing ok
but the other 1/2 showing 0 and not working ...you could put the voltage at -0.0366 and set it to say 100 to 150 mh to see if that 1/2 die would come back stable and
get some kinda hash....in that only 1/2 is working...the -0.0366 voltage would not matter in only 1/2 is drawing power...again couple folk have said this
thus as I check my dead dies......should I experiment and toggle the above as such. I know I have one for sure that is this way...so assuming this new tarkytitan 1.0.0 firmware
sets each die individually ..maybe i could bring at least back to 100 maybe even 150 on the adv page and get something out of it?
any other clues with this new firmware to try with dies that just show the usual 0 no activity ....say for example setting them at (pick a proper voltage to start ...not sure about that)
set them at say the 50 setting in adv page and just run the tarky titan elec eff test and see if you can get them to live from that point onward ..and tweak upwards on such till they
fail? ...assuming the tarky titan firmware can deal with something like this w/o just tossing it in the 'dead die file'
fun times...so far so good
so theoretically, with a bit of rummaging - one might turn a neptune doorstop into a 'fully'-functioning titan??
If you can get a Titan processing board, sure. The controller baseboard for the Neptune, Titan, and Jupiters are identical, the Titan uses a Raspberry pi plus a bridgeboard but I'm whacking away at getting a modern beaglebone running. The trick is figuring out how to remap the gpio ports, but I'm working on it. Unix lets you pull all sorts of funny crap.
Myself, I am not mining so much as fixing other people's stuff. The titans are worth fixing at this point, good systems.
Posting a Titan firmware for the Beaglebone soon, works for all KNC miners Jupiter, Neptune, and Titan.... Keep an eye out in the next few days...
OK I've stalled my rip apart and toss of my BBB on my 0ct 2013 KNC Jupiter 550gh 1st batch controller board apart...to add the cloned titan bridge and a pi on such to make a titan controller. (cloned bridge (from qberty ie thanks)
IF this software is coming out...to let a KNC any flavor Mercury/Saturn/Jupiter/Neptune use a beagle bone black unit run Titan cubes....well even if it kinda does so not as well (at this beginning
before gen tarkin/lightfoot/etc) get into the 'weeds' on it and tweak it...just because I'm sitting here looking at is as we speak.....
So I am just waiting now.....for this BBB firmware to come out so I can test it out ...and see if it works for the community here...would be a big deal.....I now regret passing on the 89 buck with shipping Jupiter's a few months ago.
So when released I'll try that out first see how it goes and report here....if it does well ....hell I just run it as I wanted to tweak cubes one at a time that way..which is the purpose
of the titan cube build with the cloned bridge anyway
lots of good stuff
and I know of one other REALLY REALLY neat mod coming down the pike for Titan users...a big deal....so look for it ....vrooom vroom)
exciting mods for a supposedly (according to knc) a dead product and abandoned customer base
Again to all we all here really really appreciate your efforts above and beyond the call of duty
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Well the TarkyTitan firmware electrical eff got done. I ran mine full out 325 for most stuff that was not off or throttled down (2 dies on 2 cubes OFF and 2 dies on 1 cube at 200 and 225)
So anyway for the uniformed...WAY less elec use it seems like. Most stuff looks about 2 clicks on the settings down. I was an idiot and did not write down asic value for watts and
watts at the wall for this unit.....I did do so for the 6 cube unit ..which seems to be a 'dancing' all over the damn place...doing its 'ghost in the machine' boogie as such...very very active....
?
BUT I did get voltages before on the 6 cube unit. So will compare when done
On the 4 cube unit that just finished it took about 24 plus some hrs to complete..I lost track...obcessively watching the firmeware battle my 'evil knc equipment'
.....most of that on step 1 for those who are gonna install such....step 2 was like 5 or 6 hrs step 3 was like 2hrs or so .....
Anyway now just need Pardino as such to release his Beagle Bone Black firmware..for running titan cubes with any regular knc controller setup....and I can test it on the 1 working die cube (rest OFF) I have got for this purpose of Titan and my so far 'unmodified' Jupiter controller with BBB. I have not hacked yet with the clone board and Pi for this purpose.
make your own now in 2 flavors...clone bridge with pi and/or unmodified ANY controller by knc that has a BBB to use....wow...
fun times ..and again something else is coming down the pike for 'toys' on here...but I don't want to take his thunder...but it is damn cool at this level of mods too imho
busy busy
anyway will post the REAL before asic watts and watts to the wall from my 6 cube unit before and after....I'd bet right now I get the same speed with 'stability' more or
less with probably ..and I'm not kidding at least 1/4 less elec use...maybe even 1/3 less....but will have real info at least on the on the wall stuff (i used the 85% standard setting
for now)
very impressive...good to see the 'Voodoo for Dummies Book" and the 5 gallon pail of 'chicken entrails' went to good use...because again KNC equip is evil....must be magic ...just on other way it could have been done imho