Any news from Niko Punin from Bitfury if they are still able to sell some BF16BTC8162 chips for your project?
I've heard that their sales are pretty much full booked at the moment.
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No, bare PCBs.
Test boards arrived this morning.
Populated with BitFury chips ?
Test boards arrived this morning.
Terminus shipping = finally get to put some serious time in on 14/16nm based project?
Got mine! Have them up and running on the same Pi 3B board as 5 2Pacs. I backed everything down to stock for now to see if the USB bus gets congested, but so far so good. The 2pacs are all humming along at ~11Gh/s (plugged into a 7-Port Superpbag USB hub), and the pair of pods I got are churning out their ~66Gh/s (plugged directly into the Pi 3B). One of them is churning out more HW errors than all the others. Up to 8 of them in about an hour or so, which isn't outrageous. That aside, so far so good!
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It's some kind of scam alt coin, and not relevant to this thread, Mr. Bounty collector. If it isn't Bitcoin it doesn't belong here.
meh, I just reported it to mods, I'm just ignoring it.
Yah, I did the same.
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It's some kind of scam alt coin, and not relevant to this thread, Mr. Bounty collector. If it isn't Bitcoin it doesn't belong here.
meh, I just reported it to mods, I'm just ignoring it.
Guys, found an interesting mining project-***** coin.
I hope to be useful
I hope to be useful
It's some kind of scam alt coin, and not relevant to this thread, Mr. Bounty collector. If it isn't Bitcoin it doesn't belong here.
Not sure if this is normal, but they eventually go OFF on cgminer.
After searching around I found GekkoScience Terminus R808 Miner Official Support Thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3009183.120
I see no posts there about OFF condition. Try posting there for a response. Good Luck
Just got my Terminus, works just fine so far. Just wanted to say thanks for an excellent product and a great collectible, sidehack! Can't wait for your Bitfury developments.
I got mine as well. I was impressed with the build quality, the massive heatsink, and included fan. I like how the Mhz slowly clocks up from 50,75,100,125,150,175,200.
Currently running them at 200Mhz.
Not sure if this is normal, but they eventually go OFF on cgminer. They were powered, but maybe getting too hot? I'm not monitoring them all the time. Does Terminus start up again after a cooling off period?
Just got my Terminus, works just fine so far. Just wanted to say thanks for an excellent product and a great collectible to sidehack! Can't wait for your Bitfury developments.
...uh, what?
Look at their post history. You'll understand.
...uh, what?
Me too i like but in order you to become miners you need to prepare expensive CPU that fit to the requirement in bitcoins miners. The power supply needed most have UPS and protected from any power faillure. and many more.
Problem is: Due to legal constraints a housing for the PCB is a must to fulfill WEEE and EU electronics requirements.
just wondering...
how come that you can buy hundreds of pcb types, arduino's, raspberry pi's etc in an electronics shop/webshop that doesn't have any housing?
that stuff was imported too without any problems.
Problem is: Due to legal constraints a housing for the PCB is a must to fulfill WEEE and EU electronics requirements.
just wondering...
how come that you can buy hundreds of pcb types, arduino's, raspberry pi's etc in an electronics shop/webshop that doesn't have any housing?
that stuff was imported too without any problems.
I have been running the two pods that I have at 225 MHz for about 2 weeks now with zero issues, they are in a controlled environment and temp is set to 60 f.
My avg hash rate is 195 Gh/s at the 225 MHz on nicehash.
These two are solid work horses, they are slightly warm to the touch.
My avg hash rate is 195 Gh/s at the 225 MHz on nicehash.
These two are solid work horses, they are slightly warm to the touch.
Nice! That sounds great!
I have been running the two pods that I have at 225 MHz for about 2 weeks now with zero issues, they are in a controlled environment and temp is set to 60 f.
My avg hash rate is 195 Gh/s at the 225 MHz on nicehash.
These two are solid work horses, they are slightly warm to the touch.
My avg hash rate is 195 Gh/s at the 225 MHz on nicehash.
These two are solid work horses, they are slightly warm to the touch.
From a hashrate perspective, yeah. However, the power systems within the miners are different. The 2Pac has 2 chips in series so the main regulator has to double the voltage but not the current. This means the regulator, which is rated for around 17A, can push the chips well above 400MHz if you can keep them cool. The Terminus is 8 chips in series pairs, so it runs four times the voltage and double the current. The main regulator is limited to 20A, which means 10A per chip, hence why it can't hit the higher speeds like a 2Pac can.
I could have made it faster by adding in more series pairs, which increases the voltage but not the current. The practical top-end here is about 7 pairs (limited by the regulator's maximum output voltage). Adding more chips would require a larger board, larger heatsink, more fans and make the whole thing more expensive. The practical limit for this size miner is 8, maybe 10 chips.
Before shipping out, every Terminus pod is run for 1 hour at max voltage and 200MHz.
On the next one I'll be using a custom main regulator that should be good for more power, and of course it'll have more efficient chips so a much higher hashrate will be attainable. Also it'll integrate software voltage adjustment so people who don't have meters and screwdrivers (which is to say, lame people) can still do the tweaking.
Product-specific questions should probably be addressed to the support thread, now that a product-specific support thread is available.
I could have made it faster by adding in more series pairs, which increases the voltage but not the current. The practical top-end here is about 7 pairs (limited by the regulator's maximum output voltage). Adding more chips would require a larger board, larger heatsink, more fans and make the whole thing more expensive. The practical limit for this size miner is 8, maybe 10 chips.
Before shipping out, every Terminus pod is run for 1 hour at max voltage and 200MHz.
On the next one I'll be using a custom main regulator that should be good for more power, and of course it'll have more efficient chips so a much higher hashrate will be attainable. Also it'll integrate software voltage adjustment so people who don't have meters and screwdrivers (which is to say, lame people) can still do the tweaking.
Product-specific questions should probably be addressed to the support thread, now that a product-specific support thread is available.
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