Topic: Who likes pod miners? - page 35. (Read 56097 times)

I've got a 3D printer and a half-assed understanding of most things. If you send me the CAD files of the PCB I can try to whip something up. PM me if you're interested.

First off, I just said I'd make one with 16nm chips. Second, spamming me isn't going to get anything done any faster. I have the chips, just we're not yet able to make them work. It doesn't help that the guy doing the hardware and the guy doing the software are two time zones apart. As soon as we figure out the last bits to talking to the chips we'll be in business. But since I've been working on designing and redesigning this pod, and manufacturing over a thousand 2Pacs, and doing everything else around here, I'm a shade behind on ironing out the remaining kinks for Bitfury communication. But believe me, once that hurdle is leapt we'll be in business. THEN we can work on getting Bitfury's attention, which shouldn't be much of a problem since they've sworn up and down I'll be able to buy chips.

There isn't a lot of room for mounting holes. You can't really see it from the picture but the board's fairly busy. Maybe we can do something clever with stick-on rubber feet?

For anyone wondering, this is a half-scale pod kept intentionally simple. The fancy stuff like fan throttling and software voltage and six-pin jacks and screwholes for legs or cases or whatever are all gonna be there on the big one. So don't ask if such-and-such feature is gonna be on this, because it isn't.

Nice! Will the PCB have mounting holes pre-drilled/cut, or is the intent to have one of the heat sinks sitting on the table?

here is a link for nice power cable.


lights up blue


http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product.aspx?productid=82-12675

keep spamming sidie on it, make him get the chips faster off the company that is just ignoring him!

Do you see one in the picture?

Looking good. Is there any plans for 6pin power connection? Only because ive got lots of 6pin leads left over from various antminers that inwas hoping to use for the futures pods

Please Do this with 16nm Chips! 

Unfortunately you're right, too wide to fit two. If you cut a slice in the side of the case such that you could slide it in with the heatsinked side inside and the connector side sticking out, you could put two in there back-to-back (mirrored, more or less, with one hanging out the left and one hanging out the right side) and still use the fans. But you couldn't just put two whole pods in there.

Of course it has blinky lights! Who do you think I am, a guy who doesn't put blinky lights on miners? Pfft.
But yes, the power LED is blue and there's a white flash when it returns a share. I didn't use the same RGB LED as on the Compacs because it's apparently not balanced, everyone sees the flash as a different color (some white, some blue, some purple) so this just uses a blue LED and white LEDs.

you see, I read over this about 5 times, I was looking for numbers, not words and it was 1am too when I type that out, 3am now lol

just pulled out an old board, and cannot find my ruler.. so yeah, I say 1.75 of them can fit

Nice work Sidehack, They look awesome! But... does it have blinking lights

see OP=4 inches square, not sure re height.
At first i thought that i see a reflection of the top sink on the table, but, apparently, there are identical sinks on top and bottom with bottom one being a bit blurry on the pic.

Ohhh Yeah, this is what I like to see! how big are these? can I shove 2 inside an old rock-box?

Straight from me, I'm thinking $65. Resellers will get volume discounts as my way of saying thanks for handling all the customers I don't want to spend time on.

There'll also be the option to trade S5 parts, like I had set up in hopes of the Biggie pod. There'll be no Biggie pod, but there will be this guy. The Amita full-size pod line, for which the Biggie would have been a form-factor flagship and the Bitfury version will have 11 chips, is still planned but won't see the light of day until Bitfury chips cooperate.

what will these units cost?

I changed my original design a bit because the ability to run 100GH passively cooled was specifically requested; this enlarged the topside heatsink and added the bottom sink. The original plan was to have the heatsink topside only and smaller with a mounted 50mm fan. As it is, a fan will be optional. My test unit has a single about 60mm CPU cooler fan and only the topside heatsink and it's comfortable at top speed (300MHz). The board does have a fan header (12V only, no throttling) but it's not populated on the one photographed, guess I forgot.

The core voltage is intended to allow up to 300MHz stable, which should about max out a 60W brick. I could build it to push more power if you had a higher-current brick, but above about 300MHz the BM1384's efficiency curve gets pretty steep so your heat per additional hash gets crazy - note the difference from 100 to 140GH is already almost doubling the power use.

I probably won't sell directly on eBay. I really don't like dealing with people, I like designing and building and not being bothered. I'll sell on here where people tend to be more intelligent and articulate than the average internet hooligan and let CrazyGuy, HolyScott, MacEntyre and their colleagues take on the grumbling masses.

Also, I intend to keep this formfactor around. If we can ever get Bitfury stuff working, there'll be a 6-chip Bitfury Terminus R606. It'll be orange.

Hells yeah! Looks the goods man!!!

Wow! Nice update! Can't wait to get mine. 

This unit is looking absolutely amazing. I'm even more surprised this miner can be run passively cooled- what's the temps like on the miner if you do so? If I ever got my hands on one I'd definitely put a fan on it, that's for sure

Congratulations, it looks really good!

Selling these directly on ebay would seem to be possible these days, given that Eruptors (!) are going for upwards of £20 each.