Topic: [Work in progess] Burnins Avalon Chip to mining board service - page 57. (Read 624200 times)

I really don't get the logic of certain people. So they ordered dozens of boards, payed a couple thousands of dollars for them but dont have the money for a second hand lousy Asus EeePC for example and yet they choose to mine on RPi ? I mean c'mmon....
All of that for what, 20 W more than RPI? Or 80 $ more is too much?

Ungrateful? Are you kidding me? He is not doing me a favor, this is business.

After 2 months I am loosing my patience. I want a simple nand straight answer on hthat issue.  Once I get it, I will  think what is my next step, but I need that info.

Why not do what other people have done with their chip orders, and actually sell your board and chip order combined as an auction?  That way you will get back far more than Burning could give you (you may make a bit of a loss, or even a profit, but I doubt that).  Also burning won't be left with unused stock.  Also you won't sound so ungrateful, which is what you do now.
I understand the panic because of the delay in chips, and how much money you invested, but so have others and they are not acting like you.  The phrase "grow a pair" comes to mind, you just had to think of alternative solutions, as I have done for you above.
Alex

bump.

Can these other monitors show the normal rpi-desktop too? I chose this one to be able to check out when something goes wrong with a miner so that i can edit things in raspberian for example.

I took a pair of old speaker cables like this: http://www.google.de/imgres?um=1&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&hl=de&tbm=isch&tbnid=aDIr3yEfEplxaM:&imgrefurl=http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Cinch-Stecker.jpg&docid=yCBcv7BHYf9EJM&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Cinch-Stecker.jpg/1280px-Cinch-Stecker.jpg&w=1280&h=863&ei=DcsdUsHJC4no4QSd94CAAw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=149&vpy=422&dur=567&hovh=184&hovw=274&tx=195&ty=101&page=2&tbnh=150&tbnw=229&start=18&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:34,s:0,i:190&biw=957&bih=764, cut the cables and put them together so that one connector is at each end. Then i could connect it to the rpi and the monitor. The power comes from the atx-cables directly. I only sticked the power cables into the psu-connectors.

@burnin... regarding the broken boards. Another workaround probably would be to put the boards in heatsink on heatsink. The heatsinks cant hurt the other and between two top of the boards you could put a bit more bubble foil or styrofoam.
I believe i had so few boards that they all were packaged heatsink showing to bottom. So nothing happened.

http://www.raspians.com/cgminerlcdstats-with-usb-2-8-tft-lcd-aida64-lcd-smartie/

This is also a good display

In case anyone is interested:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/inch-Digital-Rear-Monitor-Square/dp/B0056WJP1M
http://compare.ebay.com/like/380662284579?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes
http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/380662284579?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes

I would order one from your country (look for ones that say free shipping - they're most likely local to you) - if you're not in Asia, ordering one from Asia would take ages and likely incur import duties.

And if you want to hook it up to anything other than a raspberry pi, maybe one of these?
http://www.focalprice.com/CA037X/VGA_to_SVIDEO_and_RCA_Composite_Adapter_Cable.html

Is there any kind of compensation that you can get from dhl/ups/whoever delivered them?
Did the package had some "fragile" markings on the outside, etc?
Was the package insured?
Even if not I think you can still try to get something out of them due to the fact that it's clearly their negligence that led to the damage...
In the light of recent UPS employees being recorded on tape throwing packages in their delivery van and being fired afterwards, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to get some attention...
Otherwise if you have to send them back to burnin and then back to the US you might even not be able to break even...

Here's pics of all the damaged boards. It's pretty obvious the box was thrown around and even though it was intact you could tell the box wasn't nice and rigid. I'm pretty sure even though the boards were taped together and packaged in bubble wrap the adjacent boards heatsink would hit the capacitor/other components and did all the damage. I think one way around this is to either have all the boards in tiny individual boxes which would cost more to ship and up the cost. Another idea is to have the end consumer install the heatsinks themselves and tape all the boards together and put them in one box and all the heatsinks in another box. Then combine these 2 boxes in 1 bigger box to ship it. I'm sure on small orders the boards will arrive in much better condition because of the package being lighter.

Burnin I'm pretty sure I can fix most of these boards. I'm sure Mouser electronics would carry the parts and I get parts from them quickly as I've ordered parts in the past from them. I just need a bit of help finding the parts if you don't mind.

http://www.mouser.com/

Most boards have broken part 1(choke coil?). Its a through hole so I can solder that no problem

One board has cracked part 2 (haven't powered it on yet, I may later today on a separate smaller psu).

Four boards have damaged capacitor part 3

One board has damaged part 4





Here are the damaged boards








You can see the capacitor pulled up part of the copper trace, but it may still function.










Night shot of 16 boards hashing away...who needs a Christmas tree.

Hah nice video. Now we know where all the Avalon chips are. Sitting on some runaway.

Well, I'm half way through unwrapping them and there's definitely some damage from shipping. Few pieces ripped off the boards, and tons of bent pins which I should be able to bend back. I will take pictures once I'm finished unwrapping them. I'm good with a solder gun, only problem is so far one board looks like part of the copper trace was pulled up from the board. I'll post pic in a bit.

I think somewhere during shipment my box had some airtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzRPga6uDg

SEXY! congrats + good luck.

The first one looks a bit different. Mine has no such phonecable and it has 3 buttons on the back with + - and menu where you can change the screen settings. Its more cornered at the back too. But if it has the same connectors it might work. The second link looks more like the one i have.

Just got my boards from UPS. There was a $130 and some change brokerage fee I had to pay, but I don't really care as I have my boards and I can make that up pretty quickly. Time to get these parts on my table with my anti static mat and wrist band and start assembly as well as checking the firmware on these. I already missed my environmental science class this afternoon but physics will also be blown off tonight. I think I'll be running these together off of my alienware m11x laptop for the short term, but I'll need to look into the raspberry pi eventually once it's all up and running.

Looks like this: http://www.amazon.com/3-5-Inch-TFT-Monitor-Automobile/dp/B0045IIZKU

Doesn't ship to here either :p

But I found it on german too: http://www.amazon.de/TaoTronics%C2%AE-TT-CM01-Zoll-Monitor-R%C3%BCckfahrkamera/dp/B004VQD966/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1377631504&sr=1-1&keywords=3.5+inch+tft+lcd+monitor

The monitor itself has no number on it and the package has Model: but nothing is written there...

I can give you the details and the company logo written on the package. Maybe you find it this way with google.

Seems they don't ship outside Germany... Silly

Would you be able to check the back of that screen for a brand/serial number/model? Since it gets shipped from Amsterdam, I'm sure another shop (Conrad) will have it too

Received my two units last night, both running fantastic. I must say they truly are a work of art, great Job Burnin.

I have them running at 435mhz, 1335 mv, 28m. Im not sure I understand the timing part ill have to read back to find where that was discussed but it definitely fixes the rejected duplicate work issue I started with.

Running them any higher seems to run up the heat quite fast, so I think I need to find a better way to cool them before I go any higher.

cgminer version 3.4.0 - Started: [2013-08-27 08:43:54]
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 (5s):16.65G (avg):17.36Gh/s | A:47640  R:192  HW:28  WU:242.5/m
 ST: 5  SS: 0  NB: 26  LW: 51648  GF: 0  RF: 0
 Block: 0008364f2e676659...  Diff:65.8M  Started: [11:43:02]  Best share: 130K
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 [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 BTB 0: 52C 435 1366mV | 6.831G/8.641Gh/s | A:23204 R: 80 HW: 9 WU:120.7/m
 BTB 1: 51C 435 1365mV | 9.696G/8.714Gh/s | A:24436 R:112 HW:19 WU:121.7/m

I used to connect to my Raspberry Pi via SSH and monitor it via Terminal, but this gives you a permanent display – very nice!