Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[CanaryInTheMine]

I wonder how my miner is enjoying Ohio, now that it has spent 2 days there.

Maybe it is seeing the sights and visiting a few museums

did you call DHL?

Yes it cleared customs and it will be here Monday or Tuesday, whenever they get around to it.

What he said applies to me too...Canary is acting like I DIDNT make the phone call.

not acting... I'm very familiar with DHL, and from the comments it's hard to tell if the folks with miners sitting in OH called DHL or not, so just trying to help... I want you all to get them ASAP!!!
and promptly point them at the Eligius pool  

[frankenmint]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

[CanaryInTheMine]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

[soy]

back to all 3 sats running 0.96, but they all hang around 275 now still  
same procedure on all 3 saturns...
1. flash 0.90 on the miner, reboot
2. flash enablecores.bin to the miner, POWER CYCLE the miner.
3. putty in and watch cgminer until it crashes, when it does, go to the gui page again, and flash 0.96 back onto the miner, apply, then POWER CYCLE the miner(turn off for 15 seconds via the power supply switch)
thats it.
i had 3 sats going at 255, 265, and 275....  now all at 270 - 275ish

By crashes do you mean the hashrate falls badly?

I noticed the BBB temperature effected hashrate.  My front fans aren't really directed at the module any more.  I have a piece of cardboard down from the front top edge to the front of the module board and air goes out the sides.  If I remove the cardboard, at least yesterday when I found this and haven't retested it since, if I remove the cardboard the hashrate in the first number crashes very quickly.  I put the cardboard back and it comes up pretty quickly.  I removed the BBB and put stick-on heatsinks on the middle chip as that's where my IR detector says is heating.  I had two 12 v fans I was going to put on a Blade but changed my mind.  I have one of these each on 2 sides of the one module aiming at the vrm's.  I also have a 3" dia 120vac fan, very deep, pointed in from the side passing air over the BBB.  Keeping the BBB cool seems critical.

With all the extra room I have in the Mercury I'm thinking of getting ribbon cables and double pins so as to move the BBB somewhere else in the box where it can be cooled better.

Since you have the big fan cooling the board, try putting cardboard to force the 2 intake fans air down onto the BBB and see if the miner crashes under 0.90 then.

root@Mercury-3DF:~# uptime
 22:51:08 up  5:17,  load average: 1.83, 1.95, 1.94


Darn, I was just going to put the cgminer stats line here but when I hit "q" and quit the screen, unlike with minepeon, cgminer quit.  So, I've just restarted it from the command line but it had been cooking along at 134GH/s avg for 5hours 17 minutes.

Just adjusted my cardboard.  Better leave ½ fan clear on each side of the center and the cardboard in that center forcing air down onto the center of the BBB. 

The stats came back up pretty quickly.
KnC 0: | 162.6G/131.5Gh/s | A:39300 R:1695 HW:3638 WU:2150.2/m

Having changed the cardboard slightly, the first figure seems higher which bodes for an overall higher avg if it keeps up.

[FiatKiller]

What does BBB stand for?

[kano]

What does BBB stand for?

BeagleBone Black - sorta like an RPi, for the uninitiated
http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone+Black/

I have one but I've never switched it on

[soy]

update...
eventually,each saturn freaked out on 0.90, so had to go back to 0.96...

How did they change?  Disabling and re-enabling cores?

the ol' 0 submitted on every line scrollling at 1000 lines a second.....lol
slowest saturn that was 255 ish is still holding on at 271

Never heard or saw the 0 submitted.  271 sounds good, 135½ each!

[kano]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

[frankenmint]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc only you yourself are acting like a dinosaur.

[Biffa]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc only you yourself are acting like a dinosaur.

You need a comma in there somewhere because that sentence has two meanings.

1. CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc, only you yourself are acting like a dinosaur. (talking about mining btc in general)
2. CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc only, you yourself are acting like a dinosaur. (talking about mining btc as opposed to mining something else)

I think from frankenmints POV any personal mining is worthless, we should just be buying and selling BTC or using cloud mining

[sbfree]

so how to get the enablecores.bin to run on the slo sat?
i have it (the file) on my desktop...
using putty I imagine,...

Shut down, let sit a minute, unplug the ASIC modules at the modules (the PCIE power), restart and only BBB will be running, go to the Sat. web page, upgrade to 0.90, shutdown, let sit a minute, plug the ASIC modules back in, start, go to web page, run Upgrade with enablecores.bin.  At least that's how I did it.

Phoenix1969, I didn't mention that I generally don't just shut off the power to the miner.  Since I generally have putty open to cgminer, when I go to shut down I hit "q" in putty, quitting the screen of cgminer, then giving the command "halt" and since I'm logged in a root, the system shuts down in a more orderly manner than simply hitting a switch.  I do this because I've noticed with Raspberry Pi if I just kill power the program can get corrupted.  When you quit the screen and command halt, the first thing that's going to happen is putty will send a notice it has lost the connection.  That's when I kill the power.  Might not matter but why take a chance.

exactly what i was looking for, thanks soy........KNC, IF YOU ARE LISTENING....UPDATE YOUR MANUAL WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!!

[sbfree]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

kano, I know you mean well, but for some, it is worth paying to make your own BTC, even at a loss. What is it worth to not have a bank account or credit card with your name and all your info. on it? To get BTC, you either put your name in the bucket (banks, credit cards etc) or you mine your own....yes at some cost. I can think of many reasons why someone would still pay more for a BLADE than sign up for COINBASE or similar to buy BTC. Anyway, my 2 satoshis.

[sbfree]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

kano, I know you mean well, but for some, it is worth paying to make your own BTC, even at a loss. What is it worth to not have a bank account or credit card with your name and all your info. on it? To get BTC, you either put your name in the bucket (banks, credit cards etc) or you mine your own....yes at some cost. I can think of many reasons why someone would still pay more for a BLADE than sign up for COINBASE or similar to buy BTC. Anyway, my 2 satoshis.

LocalBitcoins.com,  brotha.

yes, with fees and someone's face you have to see....and they usually want to sell large amounts not 1 or 2 btc....

[frankenmint]

I looked at your website - the cost of your single blade is a half a bitcoin less than the cost of an Avalon mini...only difference is roughly 5.7-6X the hashing power.

in stock and shipping now:

https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=303640.0

Wow - you're still profiting of the stupidity of people not realising they will NEVER make 1.95 BTC with that crap.
Amazing.

CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc only you yourself are acting like a dinosaur.

You need a comma in there somewhere because that sentence has two meanings.

1. CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc, only you yourself are acting like a dinosaur. (talking about mining btc in general)
2. CGminer dev or not...if you're stuck on mining btc only, you yourself are acting like a dinosaur. (talking about mining btc as opposed to mining something else)

I think from frankenmints POV any personal mining is worthless, we should just be buying and selling BTC or using cloud mining in addition to Mining Bitcoin as long as possible then mining alt coins once you are seeing less than .01 BTC per diff change.

[Phoenix1969]

KANO...

I am willing to let you play with one of my saturns if that would help, I can provide you with the I.P & password.

[thorvald]

Both running .96
One has a dead & a weak die

good miner:





bad miner:

Can you uploud your filles for the stat?

[idee2013]

back to all 3 sats running 0.96, but they all hang around 275 now still  
same procedure on all 3 saturns...
1. flash 0.90 on the miner, reboot
2. flash enablecores.bin to the miner, POWER CYCLE the miner.
3. putty in and watch cgminer until it crashes, when it does, go to the gui page again, and flash 0.96 back onto the miner, apply, then POWER CYCLE the miner(turn off for 15 seconds via the power supply switch)
thats it.
i had 3 sats going at 255, 265, and 275....  now all at 270 - 275ish

+1
THAAANNNK YOU VERY MUCH Phoenix. That was it. My slow 220gh/s saturn runs now at avg 275GH/s and my Jupiter at avg 555 GH/s. Both with the same firmware at the end and both with the same flashing steps.
But i have 1 difference
Jupiter with about 540 Watts and each VRM 35.6A - 40.1A. Boards with 8 VRMs
Saturn with about 430 Watts and each VRM 53.9A - 58.1A. Boards with 4 VRMs
The amps are really freaky....

[Phoenix1969]

cool, glad that helped someone...   

[DPoS]

back to all 3 sats running 0.96, but they all hang around 275 now still  
same procedure on all 3 saturns...
1. flash 0.90 on the miner, reboot
2. flash enablecores.bin to the miner, POWER CYCLE the miner.
3. putty in and watch cgminer until it crashes, when it does, go to the gui page again, and flash 0.96 back onto the miner, apply, then POWER CYCLE the miner(turn off for 15 seconds via the power supply switch)
thats it.
i had 3 sats going at 255, 265, and 275....  now all at 270 - 275ish

+1
THAAANNNK YOU VERY MUCH Phoenix. That was it. My slow 220gh/s saturn runs now at avg 275GH/s and my Jupiter at avg 555 GH/s. Both with the same firmware at the end and both with the same flashing steps.
But i have 1 difference
Jupiter with about 540 Watts and each VRM 35.6A - 40.1A. Boards with 8 VRMs
Saturn with about 430 Watts and each VRM 53.9A - 58.1A. Boards with 4 VRMs
The amps are really freaky....

you're 'overclockin' with pre-95 FW   (voltages run high, amps out over spec, but make ASIC jump hoops more for higher WU but higher HW error%...as you see, the 8 VRMs can handle it..)

[kano]

KANO...

I am willing to let you play with one of my saturns if that would help, I can provide you with the I.P & password.

Not gonna happen
I've already got hardware from other companies that I help (and am working on at the moment) so priority of that is way higher.
... and this time of year there is a whole bunch of music work I do also.
Not really interested in hardware, that the company who sells it tells me: thanks for your software - sucked in - bye bye.
... and of course as I have stated before, I don't do remote access support to solve the problems of hardware that I don't have and will not be getting.

You do get that all these firmware/hardware issues are of KFC's own choice right?
Back in July we were told that the testing was off the critical path and delayed until August when they would like our input then.
But then when we asked again at the end of July they ignored us until the "sucked in - bye bye"

Funny, my emails to KFC were very civil, I guess that was my mistake ...