The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 37.

MrTeal

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Quote from: elaramus on November 25, 2013, 06:29:28 PM

Mr Teal,

Received the 3 chilis today. These are quite awesome little devices!!

I'm not having luck with the chiliflash utility. Is there a win specific driver to use to get the Bitforce device to show up as a numbered COM port? Chili flash only recognizes the port already installed in the computer (COM1) which yields no results. I tried loading WinUSB driver via Zadig, but still had no success.

Any ideas? Is there a version for Linux I can try?

Many thanks in advance for your assistance, dedication to this product and for your professional execution of the online auction. My only regret at the moment is not bidding on all 6.

You shouldn't need to flash them, the ones you have will have the newest firmware at this point.
Unfortunately the flash utility just opens a comm port, so if you've replaced the driver with direct USB through Zadig, it will no longer detect it.

agibby5

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If anyone has populated Chili boards, I'm interested in buying them. I'd prefer without coolers as I have my own.

elaramus

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Mr Teal,

Received the 3 chilis today. These are quite awesome little devices!!

I'm not having luck with the chiliflash utility. Is there a win specific driver to use to get the Bitforce device to show up as a numbered COM port? Chili flash only recognizes the port already installed in the computer (COM1) which yields no results. I tried loading WinUSB driver via Zadig, but still had no success.

Any ideas? Is there a version for Linux I can try?

Many thanks in advance for your assistance, dedication to this product and for your professional execution of the online auction. My only regret at the moment is not bidding on all 6.

Fireblade

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Is the miner listed on there website including chips? I could remember that there was 1 listed for 127€ and one for 237€

Choadmeyer

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Quote from: Bargraphics on November 24, 2013, 08:11:19 PM

Quote from: Choadmeyer on November 24, 2013, 08:07:42 PM

My chili is running at 28.5 GH/s at 63C using BFGminer 3.6 with an Evo 212 cooler. I have a high speed duct fan blowing on both bottom and top of my setup.

Fishing for any ideas to help me step my speed up (seems like I'm missing out on at least 5 GH/s).

Thanks in advance people.

I used the Evo 212 Cooler on over 60 Chilis, anytime I found them sitting at 28GH or so it was due to incorrect contact between the heatsink and chips and it wouldn't matter how much air you blew at it it wouldn't help.

You might be able to just fiddle with the heatsink and move it a tad without completely redoing it but sometimes this can cause worse issues.

Usually I would just undo the heatsink, clean up the padding and put a fresh one on and make sure the heatsink had perfect contact this time and it would always put it around 30-32GH.

Hope this helps!

Thanks Bar!

Bargraphics

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Quote from: Choadmeyer on November 24, 2013, 08:07:42 PM

My chili is running at 28.5 GH/s at 63C using BFGminer 3.6 with an Evo 212 cooler. I have a high speed duct fan blowing on both bottom and top of my setup.

Fishing for any ideas to help me step my speed up (seems like I'm missing out on at least 5 GH/s).

Thanks in advance people.

I used the Evo 212 Cooler on over 60 Chilis, anytime I found them sitting at 28GH or so it was due to incorrect contact between the heatsink and chips and it wouldn't matter how much air you blew at it it wouldn't help.

You might be able to just fiddle with the heatsink and move it a tad without completely redoing it but sometimes this can cause worse issues.

Usually I would just undo the heatsink, clean up the padding and put a fresh one on and make sure the heatsink had perfect contact this time and it would always put it around 30-32GH.

Hope this helps!

Choadmeyer

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My chili is running at 28.5 GH/s at 63C using BFGminer 3.6 with an Evo 212 cooler. I have a high speed duct fan blowing on both bottom and top of my setup.

Fishing for any ideas to help me step my speed up (seems like I'm missing out on at least 5 GH/s).

Thanks in advance people.

MrTeal

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Quote from: nexus99 on November 24, 2013, 06:53:07 PM

Quote from: i3luefire on November 24, 2013, 05:26:00 PM

Quote from: nexus99 on November 24, 2013, 05:07:47 PM

Hi all,

How much wattage is each chili pulling for you guys?

im getting about 220w per miner at the wall for the ones over 35gh.

Sounds like a 1000 watt PSU can safely handle 4.

I'm running 4 on an 850W HEC supply (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=7621664&CatId=2534) I got for $30 after MIR, and each is running 35GH/s plus. They'd actually be running faster, but they're in my office and after a weekend of 800W of heat load in a small closed room it's going to be 35C in there when I get to work on Monday.

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Quote from: i3luefire on November 24, 2013, 05:26:00 PM

Quote from: nexus99 on November 24, 2013, 05:07:47 PM

Hi all,

How much wattage is each chili pulling for you guys?

im getting about 220w per miner at the wall for the ones over 35gh.

Sounds like a 1000 watt PSU can safely handle 4.

jheaton

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Quote from: i3luefire on November 24, 2013, 04:54:37 PM

Quote from: jheaton on November 24, 2013, 03:49:20 PM

Hi everyone! First post outside of newbie section. Need a little help with a chili. Ive read through this whole thread a couple times and still can not solve my problems. I left out configurations since I have 2 60ghz singles and 1 working chili so all is good there.

Basically I have 2 chili's, the first runs great (after the 7&8 led's finally stop, sometimes blink for hours.) The second is my concern. When I plug it in LED's 5,6,7,8 come on and stay on for about 4 seconds, then LED's 1 and 3 come on (for 2 or 3 seconds), after that #7 just sits and blinks very slow about 2 sec. lit up 2 sec. off… Eventually #8 lights up and they both shut off. I guess this is a normal led routine other than very very slow. I have flashed "both" to the 14d I think, no changes. Hashes about 9 ghz? (and check this out, when first plugged in, no LED's will come on and start their thing until I physically touch the LED lights with my finger. wtf..lol)

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks in Advance!!

I think 14e is the newest FW. it is on here somewhere but i am not sure which page. what size of a PSU are you running and what all is on it besides the 2 chili's?

I have 2 1000w PS's, the fans hardly even have to spin up. I can swap the good one with the bad one with the same configuration and its the chili. Has no one heard of the LED sequence running super slow?

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Quote from: nexus99 on November 24, 2013, 05:07:47 PM

Hi all,

How much wattage is each chili pulling for you guys?

im getting about 220w per miner at the wall for the ones over 35gh.

nexus99

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Hi all,

How much wattage is each chili pulling for you guys?

i3luefire

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BTW everyone. i hooked up a Chili today with the 12v and gnd swapped. Embarrassed

we were trying out a setup where all the PSUs were hooked up with combined 12v rails. we plugged in the stupid cpu 12v supply without swapping the polarity. it fried 2 PSUs. but the Chili seems to have survived somehow. now we can only run 11 of our 13 miners until we get our new PSUs from newegg. be careful out there with the cpu power plug.

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Quote from: jheaton on November 24, 2013, 03:49:20 PM

Hi everyone! First post outside of newbie section. Need a little help with a chili. Ive read through this whole thread a couple times and still can not solve my problems. I left out configurations since I have 2 60ghz singles and 1 working chili so all is good there.

Basically I have 2 chili's, the first runs great (after the 7&8 led's finally stop, sometimes blink for hours.) The second is my concern. When I plug it in LED's 5,6,7,8 come on and stay on for about 4 seconds, then LED's 1 and 3 come on (for 2 or 3 seconds), after that #7 just sits and blinks very slow about 2 sec. lit up 2 sec. off… Eventually #8 lights up and they both shut off. I guess this is a normal led routine other than very very slow. I have flashed "both" to the 14d I think, no changes. Hashes about 9 ghz? (and check this out, when first plugged in, no LED's will come on and start their thing until I physically touch the LED lights with my finger. wtf..lol)

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks in Advance!!

I think 14e is the newest FW. it is on here somewhere but i am not sure which page. what size of a PSU are you running and what all is on it besides the 2 chili's?

jheaton

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Hi everyone! First post outside of newbie section. Need a little help with a chili. Ive read through this whole thread a couple times and still can not solve my problems. I left out configurations since I have 2 60ghz singles and 1 working chili so all is good there.

Basically I have 2 chili's, the first runs great (after the 7&8 led's finally stop, sometimes blink for hours.) The second is my concern. When I plug it in LED's 5,6,7,8 come on and stay on for about 4 seconds, then LED's 1 and 3 come on (for 2 or 3 seconds), after that #7 just sits and blinks very slow about 2 sec. lit up 2 sec. off… Eventually #8 lights up and they both shut off. I guess this is a normal led routine other than very very slow. I have flashed "both" to the 14d I think, no changes. Hashes about 9 ghz? (and check this out, when first plugged in, no LED's will come on and start their thing until I physically touch the LED lights with my finger. wtf..lol)

Any suggestions would be great!

Thanks in Advance!!

Olly_K

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getting a few questions via PM so though I would post here again.

The CPU cooler I'm using is a "Enermax T60-VD Vegas Top-Down CPU Cooler"

Pics of the underside of the board and also a closer pic of the mounting method. Just 30mm M3 bolts with M3 flange nuts:

Olly_K

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I've been dealing with MrTeal directly to get some of these to the UK for use. After a costly £310 customs charge, I finally have them the way I wanted them. I bought 4 in total, but wanted to see if these coolers would work so only bought 2 for now. The coolers work pretty well actually, the come with back-plates, and I just reversed the screw mounting.

Would definitely order more if given the opportunity. Great board, great design, great people to deal with. Thanks again

Next up, taller standoffs so I can fit some heatsinks to the underside of the board - they sure do get pretty hot !!

nexus99

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Quote from: ipxtreme on November 23, 2013, 11:43:34 PM

Quote from: Keefe on November 23, 2013, 05:42:38 PM

Quote from: ipxtreme on November 23, 2013, 05:36:58 PM

I am new to The Chili and I have tried BFGMINER and CGMINER in Windows and it still cant find the device. What drivers do I need to get it recognized?

What should the command line look like to run it on a pool?

Thx in advance

I think BFG works fine in windows with the FTDI driver. Did you wait for the LEDs to go out before starting BFG/CG?

thanks. I got it working replacing the FTDI driver with a WinUSB driver from the cgminer recommendation deep on the forum.
I will post the link when I find it again.

Once you install the FTDI driver you can use zadig to swap it so you can swap between the 2 mining apps.

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Quote from: Keefe on November 23, 2013, 05:42:38 PM

Quote from: ipxtreme on November 23, 2013, 05:36:58 PM

I am new to The Chili and I have tried BFGMINER and CGMINER in Windows and it still cant find the device. What drivers do I need to get it recognized?

What should the command line look like to run it on a pool?

Thx in advance

I think BFG works fine in windows with the FTDI driver. Did you wait for the LEDs to go out before starting BFG/CG?

thanks. I got it working replacing the FTDI driver with a WinUSB driver from the cgminer recommendation deep on the forum.
I will post the link when I find it again.

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I would be happy to take unwanted chillis, But paying in fiat Tongue

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