Topic: The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 34. (Read 138054 times)

MinePeon on the Pi works well with the Chili.  As its a cheap device buy yourself 2 units, (one for running and one for backup) (or use them both and split the load)

Edit:- http://rdmsnippets.com/2013/07/24/mining-bitcoins-with-usb-block-erupters-a-raspberry-pi-and-minepeon/

This is exactly what I was thinking!

http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/minion.html

Too bad they shun group buys... Teal and Geek or a benefactor would have to plunk down solo up front and allow us to buy a whole miner from them in order to use Minions.

But 460 - 500 GH/s on one card is sick... and if anyone can do it better... a Minion based Chili would be the ticket!

Yeah, we were planning on selling them through this thread, but are going to hold off until we're closer to shipping. I'm thinking we might just do another auction similar to what we did this last time. It seemed to work pretty well and really cut down on the administration time.

@MrTeal,

I could have sworn I saw a post in this thread talking about pricing for batch 3 populated boards. Request an update on the latest of batch 3. I'm very proud of my 3 chilis so far even if one of my Twin Turbo fans is slightly unbalanced causing a rattle which drives me batty.

Request an update on batch 3 please. I'm interested in buying populated boards.

This is exactly what I was thinking!

http://www.blackarrowsoftware.com/store/minion.html

Too bad they shun group buys... Teal and Geek or a benefactor would have to plunk down solo up front and allow us to buy a whole miner from them in order to use Minions.

But 460 - 500 GH/s on one card is sick... and if anyone can do it better... a Minion based Chili would be the ticket!

Chili Minions! With 4 minion chips!

Okay. I found this. I believe it should show up as 1.2.14e Version 14d and earlier reported as 1.0.0

Sorry ahead of time for the low quality images.  Also, I figure everyone is already past this step at this point in the game... but I'd post it anyway.

Originally, I was going to use the ARCTIC Accelero Mono Plus VGA Coolers and grab some PCI brackets, but that setup was considerably more expensive and proved to show lower hashing results as posted by others.

Then, I was going to do the double Antec Shelf idea like MrTeal. I ordered 8 coolers for 4 boards, but I tried it with a single one and I am fine with the results... so now I am going to buy 4x more boards to use up my 4 extra Shelfs.

So to mount the single shelf to the Chili, I mounted it directly to the board with the provided 1156 back plates.  I mounted the top mount to the heatsink as it was directed in the instructions (to the underside of the heatsink).  I then used misc computer screws which threaded into the back plates... I have a ton of screws laying around from buying internal computer devices (CDROM, floppy, etc drives) and they provided a very tight connection.  The board doesn't look like it's bowing at all.  I used nothing besides a rice sized amount of the Antec included thermal grease on each chip (maybe too much but it seemed to work).  I didn't really think about standoffs, since I have them mostly sitting in their sides like the first picture showing the back plates.  If you wanted to sit them upright, they sit on the back plates.  It's probably not 100% safe (something could short the power solder points underneath), but oh well. It works for me.

I tried one Chili with a thermal pad, but that one got 27 Ghs.  I redid it the way I did the others and it raised up the Ghs to around 34 or so.

All in all, I'm getting between 34 and 36 ghs.

Well its just 6x chilis arranged.... so ... same thing applys bout if the 212 heatsinks are good or not on chilis and if mine peon can control them =)

I updated the firmware. I confirmed 4 outer and 4 inner leds are blinking in turn. After power cycling, when I check the firmware version, it is still 1.0.0. What's the problem?

Ah, a little searching found it. I've never heard of a Sunzi x6 before.
You'll have to ask CrazyGuy about it.