Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[Searing]

So, now is the evening of the 18th, and my second order which was scheduled to get to me in the first week of October is still not here. Meanwhile KNC Jupiters are going for 7,8k€ on Ebay, must be one of those luckies who got his before the 12th....

yeah I cancelled my 2nd unit a Saturn for the reason of 520x number and delays they did so promptly even yanked it off the line in it was in processing (ie called the plant a ways away)....because they missed the 16th..but yeah at the 100 percent growth in difficulty etc....say they ship it this tues (or wens) i'd be looking at the first week of nov arrival and on the staturn ..i'd be like 500 bucks over paid cost in 3 months more or less at 100 percent this month increase and next month..so I punted....just to close to the nov 15th stuff at lower price to come out that is getting dumped next month for my comfort level

now I wish (doubtful) knc after getting its 2nd batch out will do the "network protection" statement thing of not dumping equip from dec thru febuary..they mine as well....so they can do that design the next ascis machine and bring it up again in march with new product ..but alas others would have to do the  same for this to work..not gonna happen but if conterra was a bti late and others we who ordered from knc would be sitting pretty good imho

[Searing]

How is it that complaining about packaging makes it ok to switch from next day to a company that doesn't even fly domestic routes in the U.S. without customer approval?

Too many peeps in here were bashing UPS

So? Who gives a s*** "what people were bashing"? Like that is ANY way to justify their actions. Give me a break.

they made the decision because so many people said UPS was not the way to go, thats customer response, and every justification they need. I dont like it either, and know UPS is better, but they made that change specifically because people told them UPS sucks. Don't blame them. Blame the people who complained about UPS, when they hadn't even had their package shipped.

Transam808- yeah... would have been in your home hashing today if it was UPS

Hawaii is about the farthest you can get from sweden, and its here within 48 hours via UPS. Nobody courrier can beat that.

is dhl the big dog in Europe? perhaps the Europe folks thought ups sucked ....I know only 1 place in the state here for dhl ups is strong..could be that kinda divide.....both are lousy when they are across the world in the others sandbox?

[Searing]

Shipping update 3

10/18/2013 6:12:00 PM

All

The factory produced 280 boxes yesterday. This was the result of a few failures which have now been addressed
We will be back to full production on monday  and expect to get back to shipping  over 400 a day from monday owards
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We will keep you updated as we finsih our queue in the next few days
 
Sam

edit: oh shit just noticed my first order switched to "shipped" - no tracking though. And by "shipped", that probably means they assembled it.

if it says "shipped" call dhl right now I did after a 1 day wait and they said it was going to show up the next day...I NEVER EVER DID GET TO THIS DAY (have had my miner since Friday) GET AN EMAIL FROM KNC THE UNIT SHIPPED NOR A TRACKING NUMBER FROM DHL until I called the 1-800 number...others have called the number www.dhl.com and had zip codes not there so they we're gonna send it back to knc ..and etc (see prev bitcointalk posts) so imho JUMP ON THE PHONE THE MINER YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN..sorry but in the Midwest imho dhl is a *clusterf**k of shipping they just contract it out to guys in random vans only 1 place in state can you pick up a dhl package...communicate your state to the dhl guy so he can give you real idea of how it is gonna work ..ie he is the one that told me the above....nice customer service guy who also probably wish they had more clout in usa. imho

[Searing]

Any guesses on when Sam comes out of hiding with his "I'm not dead" speech?

my guess is they just give refunds to those who don't want to wait due to the delays...admittedly that is easier to do like me when you can toss them back a 2nd unit

i'm sure i'd be nuts too right now for only 1 unit....

so I understand ....I dumped my 2nd for a refund they can maybe get the $$ back next march in next gen unit

they thought 1000 units a day and they are doing what 400 yeah they got issues that is true enough

[Searing]

Alright, how do I find the the IP address?  I ran Wireshark but none of the IPs I try work. 

I have a netgear wireless router/lan combo...I plugged the miner into the back with the wire....and brought up the netgear router page as in instructions ....and viola all shows up as Jupiter 5 dc or some such with mac and ip address

if it really a pain go to walmart get a 40 buck netgear 915 unit..take it home plug it in...get ip take the router back to walmart says it don't meet your needs...

hey...you might keep the beastie..but it may take 1 hr to do but it is foolproof

Searing

[Searing]

those are great numbers Searing... Good job saving the unit...
My God... that water is so unacceptable... wow
it's easy as 123... just get putty, and type the ip in the hostname field... goes right to the miner...
type...   root for user
admin for pass
screen -r  gets you the cgminer screen

thanks i'm still not being brave and on .95...dare to be chicken I think I may just make it a rule to skp every other update..have you guys test it out 1st on a side note I hear a lot about  256 vs 512 difficulty is it or work units ?...not sure what is it and how do I tell what my Jupiter is set at and what you recommend ..assuming the cryptic info I've seen on forums ont his is enough for you to know what i'm talking about



another question...if you know it...I've been watching these forum it seems eligus pool goes down a lot I've got slush and nothing has gone wrong for them in 3 days as far as I can tell ...whats the background on that?

i'm in a basement how low can I run these units it is now at 62F in my bsmt ...50 percent humidity...can I tweak the bsmt lower (I mean the miner is heating like a space heater )

anyone experiment with this?

thanks
Searing

[Crypto_Cumbrian]

Got a RMA Number for 3 Faulty (under performing boards) on my Jupiter.

I asked about comp for my loss and for my Time , they will not offer any compensation.

Also the worrying thing is they Said and I Quote " The replacement boards can not be guaranteed to run at the Advertised speed as they are untested".

Well better go get some Thermal paste and await their return.

So they can''t test replacements before sending them? You could return bad boards and get more bad ones in return? That's poor.

Piss Poor.

Well the Boards are on the way to the post office.

My now 1 Board Jupiter is Hashing away at a Happy 140Gh/s on CGMiner and reporting 137Gh/s at BTC-Guild.

*Tip  T20 required for Case, T8 required for Board to case and a PH1 required for Heat-Sink cross bar.

[Searing]

Not sure if anyone has seen this or I'm late.

EnableCores (Use this patch to force all cores to enable at next reboot)

https://www.kncminer.com/pages/support

According to Bertmod, it enabled 1 last core on my Sat so all my cores are 100% working.

ok I missed how you tell if cores are working or not? where is that I just see temps on my kncminer screen

[frankenmint]

You should try to consolidate things...Useless and space taking I say.

[Searing]

The curious thing about Searings is that his passed customs without issues, while mine is stuck on clearance event like many others in here Today.

I called DHL and they said anything over $2500 needs clearance and it will take a few days, possibly incurring an import tax.

So that explains why all those mercuries went right through if you check the tracking thread, they are valued at $1995.

After looking up the tariffs with DHL on the phone, it's possible they will charge 2.5% + $25 for import + DHL fees.

Obviously I would rather have taken my chance with UPS, one guy got taxed on the knc forums and he paid $32 total.

heh..maybe my massively destroyed box helped in this...you could peel apart the inside and just look thru a vent inside ..no need for customs....(I can hear the custom guys..man this guy is gonna be so screwed when he gets this) oh and the fact it was filled with rainwater probably helped...sheesh..I've not done anything to it no reboot no nothing it has been running non-stop since Friday...knock wood....i'll ignore it if it likes to run that way......whatever works.

http://lostgonzo.imgur.com/

better sometimes to be lucky rather then smart

[Searing]

The curious thing about Searings is that his passed customs without issues, while mine is stuck on clearance event like many others in here Today.

I called DHL and they said anything over $2500 needs clearance and it will take a few days, possibly incurring an import tax.

So that explains why all those mercuries went right through if you check the tracking thread, they are valued at $1995.

After looking up the tariffs with DHL on the phone, it's possible they will charge 2.5% + $25 for import + DHL fees.

Obviously I would rather have taken my chance with UPS, one guy got taxed on the knc forums and he paid $32 total.

really an import tax.. I had nothing on any of that arrived the same way a DVD movie comes just a bigger box with damage

[Searing]

DHL does not even deliver in the U.S.

Now you are saying "Joe you are nuts!"

But I am not. DHL pawns their US deliveries off on USPS or UPS

http://seekingalpha.com/article/105325-dhl-shuts-down-u-s-delivery-operations-who-will-pick-up-the-slack

So they may have 90% of the rest of the world, they are a NON PLAYER in the U.S.

Guess who is a Player?!?! FED EX and U...P...S

DHL delivered mine today and they pickup at my job also.

hey thanks if I get another unit i'll have it delivered to my work...I work nites with only 1 place in the state to pick up dhl stuff (200 miles away) that would work well

[Xialla]

Searing, could you please be so kind and try to consolidate your responses to one post?

[kano]

Not sure if anyone has seen this or I'm late.

EnableCores (Use this patch to force all cores to enable at next reboot)

https://www.kncminer.com/pages/support

According to Bertmod, it enabled 1 last core on my Sat so all my cores are 100% working.

ok I missed how you tell if cores are working or not? where is that I just see temps on my kncminer screen

The 'kfcminer' screen spits out a message:
[2013-10-aa dd:ii:kk] KfC: core 0-36 was disabled due to 10 HW errors in a row

[btc_uzr]

it's 11:27 am in Stockholm now and I just tried to call KnCMiner several times without success

Calling from my mobile => hang up after 3rd ring
Calling from landline => nobody picks up after 1-2min

similar experiences ?

edit:
tried it some more times until I was successfull
All my questions had been answered very detailed and I'm very happy with KnC support once more

[Searing]

Looking at the rise in the bitcoin exchange rate I cant help but wonder if people are seeing that mining won't break even, or is unaffordable and are buying instead to a greater extent?

Maybe the miners arent selling.  Supply vs demand.

Possibly. Saving up for another round of nail biting on the next gen of rigs? lmao

ditto to get ROI back or double down say in feb for next round of "Searing vs the ASIC BEAST from non-fiat land"

[Searing]

with firmware 0.9.5 I get a difference of ~45 Gh/s between closed and open case (~480 Gh/s vs. ~525 Gh/s).

going to try firmware 0.9.6 with closed case.

525 Gh/s closed or open case?

525 Gh/s open case with firmware 0.9.5

EDIT: in the meantime firmware 0.9.5 did reach 516.16 Gh/s with closed case. it seems to me it takes a while until it adjust to the max. level with closed case. my impression is with open case adjustment of max. level is faster.

550 open case in bsmt at 62 degrees F with a small stand alone fan blowing from left front corner to back right corner of unit at an angle to the fans/heat sinks...in order to get air circulating by the unit w/o messing up air flow of core fans....that got me to 550gh on .95 (again has been running w/o interruption since Friday when I put it up..why mess with success)

[sickpig]

Not sure if anyone has seen this or I'm late.

EnableCores (Use this patch to force all cores to enable at next reboot)

https://www.kncminer.com/pages/support

According to Bertmod, it enabled 1 last core on my Sat so all my cores are 100% working.

ok I missed how you tell if cores are working or not? where is that I just see temps on my kncminer screen

The 'kfcminer' screen spits out a message:
[2013-10-aa dd:ii:kk] KfC: core 0-36 was disabled due to 10 HW errors in a row

searing use this https://asktom.cf/index.php?topic=170332.msg3376180#msg3376180

it's almost impossible to keep track of the cgminer output as long as you don't redirect the console output on a file.

edit1: I do agree with Xialla about frequency of your posts.. try to consolidate

[timmmers]

Status in progress, actual status...DHL have it according to email. Somewhere lol.
Don't believe the KNC status, it's not accurate.

[demonmaestro]

WTF

All
The factory produced 280 boxes yesterday. This was the result of a few failures which have now been addressed
We will be back to full production on monday and expect to get back to shipping over 400 a day from monday onwards
 
We will keep you updated as we finsih our queue in the next few days
 
Sam

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-54


Hold on a second i thought they said they were open on the weekends.....

You are a liar, you have no damn sources, you haven't a bloody clue where in Sweden the facility is.

Fact - Factory is open weekends - the damn Asics were delivered on a Sunday by Johan on a commercial flight, and DHL with a hand courier. 24 hours later the first prototype at full speed was filmed working.

Fact - the factory does not close at 10pm or we wouldn't have spent several days in there 24 hours around the clock.

Fact - you talk out of your arse, and when called upon started your own self-moderated thread bashing KnC for all their hard work and delete comments you don't agree with.

Fun with you has to stop now. Ciao.

So why do we have to wait till monday?

 Same reason when on the 9th bitcoinroma claimed there were only 1000 units that needed to be shipped, but the have shipped over 1k units already just shown in the shipping updates,  and they said starting Monday they will be up to 400 plus again shipping, someone lies out there teeth is why

Hold on, I hope you're not accusing me of lying there. All I did was ask, and relayed the response I was given. Don't go shooting the messenger bud, and yes the factory is open weekends as you well know because a) the chips arrived on a Sunday. I was there. b) Markus was there all last weekend with production in full swing.

Not acusing you of lying HOWEVER someone is not telling the full story. This coming tuesday will be 7 days out from PROMISED delivery. I am considering on taking my banks advice and pulling for a refund.

Its already NOON there and we want an update. How freaking hard is it to make a (1) Mercury miner? its only one bloody board.