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Topic: The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 56. (Read 138054 times)

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I think it is 363.15K, that is what Cgminer throttles stock BFL at

I could understand 90° Celsius as the upper limit but folks here are running in the 50's so I'm wondering what factor the Chili is using to throttle the chips.
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Thanks a lot to everyone for making this happen: MrTeal, ChipGeek, and in my case also CrazyGuy for organizing the chip buy, plus anybody else who's been helping -- this has been a great project to be a part of. After all the frustration we all went through with the Avalon chip projects, it was so encouraging to for this one to a) be allowed to succeed because the chips actually shipped mostly on time, and b) have such a great team make such a great board. I swear, I smile a little every time I look at my chilis, and I'm not just happy they're mining, I'm actually *proud* of them. I want to tell everyone I know how much fun this has been, but of course they mostly have no idea wtf I am talking about.

Thanks guys! Smiley

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Team Heritage Motorsports
Winusb drivers for Cgminer
legendary
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what drivers install for chilli board? Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley
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I think it is 363.15K, that is what Cgminer throttles stock BFL at
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What are the temperature thresholds for chip throttling?
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I also got my Chili nice but i think i need to slow it down because of high error rate is that possible whit next firmware?
I have to say really nice made board quality build  Grin

BTB 0: 56C 450 1327mV | 14.37G/17.54Gh/s | A:198755 R:512 HW:3131 WU:245.0/m
BAS 0:  max 78C 3.27V | 60.88G/60.91Gh/s | A: 79914 R:266 HW: 553 WU:846.6/m
BAL 0:  max 52C 3.29V | 34.91G/35.10Gh/s | A: 13826 R:  0 HW:1610 WU:435.5/m

BAL=Chili

Regards Testit

5-10% HW errors is currently normal - All of my chilis experience this. I also get 1-2% Rejected as well but this can be remedied with a FW update I believe (I'm using the temporary BFGMiner Build)

so I guess 11,6% is almost normal, but its running really stable and cool 52-53c Wink
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I also got my Chili nice but i think i need to slow it down because of high error rate is that possible whit next firmware?
I have to say really nice made board quality build  Grin

BTB 0: 56C 450 1327mV | 14.37G/17.54Gh/s | A:198755 R:512 HW:3131 WU:245.0/m
BAS 0:  max 78C 3.27V | 60.88G/60.91Gh/s | A: 79914 R:266 HW: 553 WU:846.6/m
BAL 0:  max 52C 3.29V | 34.91G/35.10Gh/s | A: 13826 R:  0 HW:1610 WU:435.5/m

BAL=Chili

Regards Testit

5-10% HW errors is currently normal - All of my chilis experience this. I also get 1-2% Rejected as well but this can be remedied with a FW update I believe (I'm using the temporary BFGMiner Build)
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I also got my Chili nice but i think i need to slow it down because of high error rate is that possible whit next firmware?
I have to say really nice made board quality build  Grin

BTB 0: 56C 450 1327mV | 14.37G/17.54Gh/s | A:198755 R:512 HW:3131 WU:245.0/m
BAS 0:  max 78C 3.27V | 60.88G/60.91Gh/s | A: 79914 R:266 HW: 553 WU:846.6/m
BAL 0:  max 52C 3.29V | 34.91G/35.10Gh/s | A: 13826 R:  0 HW:1610 WU:435.5/m

BAL=Chili

Regards Testit
legendary
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Just a quick update on batch 2, I'm finalizing numbers now and the order for boards will be going in tomorrow. If you have BFL chips and you want to get a board made, you need to let me know ASAP. We're not planning another one and we're going to order no more than we need, so it's very likely if you wait until next week your chips will never get mounted on a Chili.
PM me here or preferably over email at [email protected], as the PM system here is not very good when you're getting a couple dozen a day.
Note that we don't need the chips in hand until early-mid next week, we just need to get our orders together so we can order the long lead time parts.

Thanks.
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I need to get rid of 10 or so Chilis, I'm asking 3.5 BTC per chili which includes UPS Ground Shipping.

If you'd like a different type of shipping it will be extra.

PM if interested (I don't want to hijack this thread)
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Got 1 board running at 37+ GH/s with 3.3% HW and another one 32 GH/s with 5.7% HW. The good one prob pushable to do more GH/s with better cooling.

If your Chili took a long time to boot, try bring it to a cold room and turn it on.
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Alright, looking forward to those firmware updates then. Smiley

Make one that increases the hashrate by 10x. Grin
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I am getting 30.71 GH at the pool hash rate

6.8% HW+rejects total

I do have one that rides the little short bus to school - 24GH, every family has one right?

This is still a better average than stock BFL if you count out the error rate
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Also, my HW error rates on the Chilis are 5-10%, is that normal? My BFL miner has 0.77% HW error rate by comparison. I'm hoping it will be partially made more stable in a future firmware update.
Yes, in an effort to extract as much hash rate as possible, we have enabled some cores/engines that are (as it turns out) somewhat marginal.  It is planned to have a future firmware release that will improve this.  I have only run 3 Chilis for any length of time and 2 of them have much lower error rates than the other one.  It is somewhat luck of the draw.
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Also, my HW error rates on the Chilis are 5-10%, is that normal? My BFL miner has 0.77% HW error rate by comparison. I'm hoping it will be partially made more stable in a future firmware update.
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Are they plugged into a hub or into three separate USB ports on your computer?


Edit: If you don't want to fiddle around with CGMiner just follow these steps, it literally should take you 3-5 minutes to get mining without issue

This is a workaround version of BFGMiner until a new firmware update for the chilis

Here's a modified version of BFGMiner, I also included the driver inside of it as well that should fix your problem. (I don't know much about CGMiner though)

http://www.speedyshare.com/uKncp/BFGMiner-Chili.zip

Open up bfgminer.conf and change the Pool and Username to whatever you want (It currently uses mine so make sure you change it)
Run CDM v2.08.30 WHQL Certified.exe to install the correct driver for windows

Once you do both of those, just open up bfgminer.exe and it should read from the config automatically and start hashing for you.
If it doesn't see the Chili, all you have to do is keep BFGMiner open, unplug the USB, Plug it back in, press M then + then type all or auto and enter. It should find it.

Please note if it still isn't working then you need to exit BFGMiner, unplug you chili power, plug it back in and wait for all the lights to stop blinking. If you try to find the miner while it's "Booting up" it will have issues.
"Booting Up" is the two most right LEDs (Closer to the Power) blinking back and forth. Again once all the LEDs are not blinking anymore it should be ready to start hashing, start your BFGMiner and follow the above steps.

Let me know if this helps Smiley


They are plugged into a hub, but it still isn't recognized when plugged in directly. I tried the version of bfgminer you linked to -- thanks! -- but I get the same result -- two devices work, one does not appear.

I have PM'd ChipGeek; fingers crossed!
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It appears to me that it's possible that third unit has a problem.  If the problem is what I think it is, I can send you directions on how to fix it.

Please PM me with the serial number of that unit.  


I have two units that are not operating correctly.

One had the two LEDs closest to the Power Connection blinking back and forth like it is booting up (but after waiting 5 hours they were still blinking)

the other one has the four LEDs closest to the Power Connection solid lit up (no blinking) and doesn't change from that state.

Any help on these would be appreciated (I'll PM you serial numbers once I get to where they are located)
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Does the Chili work under Linux, specifically Ubuntu?
Yes.  The Chili works anywhere a BFL SC ASIC works.  Note that we're done all of our testing so far with cgminer.  It also works with a special version of bfgminer.  We will soon release a fix in our firmware that will work with standard bfgminer.
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I have 3 chilis, all set up the same way and attached to the same machine, and two work great but the third one isn't recognized. When I run Zadig to apply the driver it comes up as "USB Serial Converter" instead of BitFORCE SHA256 SC like the other 2, and subsequently does not appear in cgminer. What am I doing wrong?


It appears to me that it's possible that third unit has a problem.  If the problem is what I think it is, I can send you directions on how to fix it.

Please PM me with the serial number of that unit. 
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