Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[soy]

Is the forum broken? Direct links to post don't seem to work for me. They just go to a specific page, but not to the specific post. Anyone else having this problem?

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Thank you!

Yeah, Thanks Tigger.... had same here.
Most progress in 3 days.  

Having a hard time... my baby is dead(desktop) /everything is fried. That was an expensive bolt of lightning.
Next time they talk about solar flares, I'm paying more attention. 1/2 the neighborhood got same.

I recall you managed to get one of your miners 802.11 bridged but you sold them.  Did you keep the bridge up and was anything isolated via bridge damaged?  Thanks.

[soy]

Is the forum broken? Direct links to post don't seem to work for me. They just go to a specific page, but not to the specific post. Anyone else having this problem?

The latest update to AdBlock causes this symptom, also breaks the 'new' links, if you use it just disable on this site

Thank you!

Yeah, Thanks Tigger.... had same here.
Most progress in 3 days.  

Having a hard time... my baby is dead(desktop) /everything is fried. That was an expensive bolt of lightning.
Next time they talk about solar flares, I'm paying more attention. 1/2 the neighborhood got same.

May I ask what ports on the motherboard were fried?  I was given a laptop fired by lightening and the RJ45 port was BADLY smoked with molten copper and the power brick port was also fried but to a lesser extent.  A desktop would fry differently but still if the energy got in via the RJ45 that would seem most damaged.

The laptop's hard drive was fine.  A good sized SATA, it's now hanging off my wdtv live, living on.

[soy]

Darn, most of you guys have avatars.  My profile sez: Changing avatars is currently not possible.  Any workaround?  I just liberated my ATC ½ Marathon photo (price was a bit high) and tho not very clear, it was free.

[soy]

Is the forum broken? Direct links to post don't seem to work for me. They just go to a specific page, but not to the specific post. Anyone else having this problem?

The latest update to AdBlock causes this symptom, also breaks the 'new' links, if you use it just disable on this site

Thank you!

Yeah, Thanks Tigger.... had same here.
Most progress in 3 days.  

Having a hard time... my baby is dead(desktop) /everything is fried. That was an expensive bolt of lightning.
Next time they talk about solar flares, I'm paying more attention. 1/2 the neighborhood got same.

May I ask what ports on the motherboard were fried?  I was given a laptop fired by lightening and the RJ45 port was BADLY smoked with molten copper and the power brick port was also fried but to a lesser extent.  A desktop would fry differently but still if the energy got in via the RJ45 that would seem most damaged.

The laptop's hard drive was fine.  A good sized SATA, it's now hanging off my wdtv live, living on.

So there's a good chance a new motherboard, CPU, memory and power supply will bring the system back to life with the old hard drive.  In fact you might run down to the store, buy a new desktop, rip out the new system's hard drive, put in yours and boot to your old desktop.  Have your Windows DVD handy for recovery I would think.

[Phoenix1969]

I live smack-dab @ 19.5 deg if you know what that means... (The Magnetic vortex) right near Kileua Crater
I should have known this would eventually happen. I got comfy here over the past few years thinking it was nonsense.
I wish there was something like solar that would capture electromagnetic/ionic energy and I could
Run some Neptunes with it... lol.
But Aussie Pete & I have a plan for the future using KNC Miners with an Industrial size E-cat (1MW) if we can get that far.
Minimum 1.5 mil we will need for that adventure. No electric bill running miners would be pure profit at some point...  any generation.
I know it sounds like a pipe dream, and maybe it is....  but after doing so well out the gate with KNC we figure if those scenarios were even close to duplicated over the next few months, it could become a possibility.


Soy....  everything was backed up several times... no worries there.. but thanks.
It's a high-end system I custom built... it will be MB(No Post)on MSI-GD658d, GPU(No power)Raedon7970 ... dunno if the cpu is still good or not (core17)  The TX750 that ran it is junk..  rattles like glass inside.  Dunno if the 2166 ocz ram is good or not, or the ssd... gotta test it.
I think I'm gonna trash the whole she-bang, and cut my losses... stick with laptops & external 3.0 drives.

[soy]

I live smack-dab @ 19.5 deg if you know what that means... (The Magnetic vortex) right near Kileua Crater
I should have known this would eventually happen. I got comfy here over the past few years thinking it was nonsense.
I wish there was something like solar that would capture electromagnetic/ionic energy and I could
Run some Neptunes with it... lol.
But Aussie Pete & I have a plan for the future using KNC Miners with an Industrial size E-cat (1MW) if we can get that far.
Minimum 1.5 mil we will need for that adventure. No electric bill running miners would be pure profit at some point...  any generation.
I know it sounds like a pipe dream, and maybe it is....  but after doing so well out the gate with KNC we figure if those scenarios were even close to duplicated over the next few months, it could become a possibility.


Soy....  everything was backed up several times... no worries there.. but thanks.
It's a high-end system I custom built... it will be MB(No Post)on MSI-GD658d, GPU(No power)Raedon7970 ... dunno if the cpu is still good or not (core17)  The TX750 that ran it is junk..  rattles like glass inside.  Dunno if the 2166 ocz ram is good or not, or the ssd... gotta test it.
I think I'm gonna trash the whole she-bang, and cut my losses... stick with laptops & external 3.0 drives.

What would be nice is if they put optoisolators between cable in and Cat5 out in all cable modems.  The design for to prevent energy coming in on the cable to reach the RJ45.  Maybe make it a UL requirement.  The insurance companies will save money.

[bitsport]

Is the forum broken? Direct links to post don't seem to work for me. They just go to a specific page, but not to the specific post. Anyone else having this problem?

The latest update to AdBlock causes this symptom, also breaks the 'new' links, if you use it just disable on this site

Thank you!

Yeah, Thanks Tigger.... had same here.
Most progress in 3 days.  

Having a hard time... my baby is dead(desktop) /everything is fried. That was an expensive bolt of lightning.
Next time they talk about solar flares, I'm paying more attention. 1/2 the neighborhood got same.

I recall you managed to get one of your miners 802.11 bridged but you sold them.  Did you keep the bridge up and was anything isolated via bridge damaged?  Thanks.

I've been using these N300's with both of my October Jups to wi-fi enable them. No complaints.

[soy]

Is the forum broken? Direct links to post don't seem to work for me. They just go to a specific page, but not to the specific post. Anyone else having this problem?

The latest update to AdBlock causes this symptom, also breaks the 'new' links, if you use it just disable on this site

Thank you!

Yeah, Thanks Tigger.... had same here.
Most progress in 3 days.  

Having a hard time... my baby is dead(desktop) /everything is fried. That was an expensive bolt of lightning.
Next time they talk about solar flares, I'm paying more attention. 1/2 the neighborhood got same.

I recall you managed to get one of your miners 802.11 bridged but you sold them.  Did you keep the bridge up and was anything isolated via bridge damaged?  Thanks.

I've been using these N300's with both of my October Jups to wi-fi enable them. No complaints.

Ah yes but did you have a lightening strike?  I'm pretty sure it was Phoneix who put together a bridge setup with an early Jupiter and laptop.  Low probability he would have kept it in place after selling the Jupiter but thought I'd ask.

[elasticband]

If i want to access the miner via my laptop and my mobile, lets say 192.168.1.xx + 192.168.1.xx, then what do i put in the management address? It won't let me put in 2 addresses

[Phoenix1969]

Ah, well, right in the sense the network isnt in place atm...  Im using the laptop now, which was my server connection to the wifi access.  I like the idea of using the n300 though!  You just ethernet The KNC machine to it, and it connects to the wifi? is that correct? That sounds great. Tell me all you can...plz!   any configuring?  I was hoping for another solution... like built in wifi on Neptunes...hehe but that's probably a stretch.


I think I found the reason the lightning was attracted to such a strange place.. I found the radio fence wire box was blown off the wall in the laundry area, and was all burnt. The perimeter fence keeps the dogs on the farm via radio wire, which circles the entire 3 acres, and I had to bury it across the driveway, right at the gate... right where the service line crosses the radio wire is where the lightning hit.

[soy]

Ah, well, right in the sense the network isnt in place atm...  Im using the laptop now, which was my server connection to the wifi access.  I like the idea of using the n300 though!  You just ethernet The KNC machine to it, and it connects to the wifi? is that correct? That sounds great. Tell me all you can...plz!   any configuring?  I was hoping for another solution... like built in wifi on Neptunes...hehe but that's probably a stretch.


I think I found the reason the lightning was attracted to such a strange place.. I found the radio fence wire box was blown off the wall in the laundry area, and was all burnt. The perimeter fence keeps the dogs on the farm via radio wire, which circles the entire 3 acres, and I had to bury it across the driveway, right at the gate... right where the service line crosses the radio wire is where the lightning hit.

They buried WWII bulldozers and cranes under where you live and the underground metal attracts the lightening.

[soy]

If i want to access the miner via my laptop and my mobile, lets say 192.168.1.xx + 192.168.1.xx, then what do i put in the management address? It won't let me put in 2 addresses

The miner has an address, the laptop has an address the mobile has an address if wifi connected.  Address cgminer using putty on either.

[itod]

I think I found the reason the lightning was attracted to such a strange place.. I found the radio fence wire box was blown off the wall in the laundry area, and was all burnt. The perimeter fence keeps the dogs on the farm via radio wire, which circles the entire 3 acres, and I had to bury it across the driveway, right at the gate... right where the service line crosses the radio wire is where the lightning hit.

This connection between wireless devices and lightnings is far from being documented properly, from obvious reasons - a lot of companies could loose a lot of money in damages. Several years ago a kid was struck with lightning on the seaside, on the promenade. I was standing where he was just 10 minutes before the lightning stroke. He was dead on the spot, and when the  police came in to investigate it turned out he had a two working cell-phones in his backpack at the moment he got the blow. It's a very common practice around here for people to have two phones, one for each network, as network traffic within one network is almost free comparing to minutes between the different networks. I can not be positive he would be alive if there were no cellphones in that backpack, but that's reasonable to assume IMHO. Who knows when we will find the truth if these things are connected or not. Anyway, since than I'm turning my cell phone off when I'm in the open on a storm.

[opentoe]

Pretty soon our upgraded Saturn's aren't going to matter with the project I have going on, but they feel like our first baby and we still have to take care of them.

Both of our upgraded Saturn's use to hash rock steady at 560Gh/sec. We have even upgraded our power supplies so each module is on it's own line. Then slowly no matter which firmware we used the hash rate would just very slowly drop and never increase again. Both of our Saturn's are doing this and they are hooked up hashing 100 miles apart from one another. Could it be that the hardware is starting to fail? We never had to mess around with their tuning kit. Apparently their hardware isn't as good as I thought it was if only after 3-4 months starts to behave negatively. I tested the power supplies, made sure all our connections are good. The only thing left is the hardware itself. Very strange our hashing speed would just decrease from 560 all the way to 520 with no intervention at all.

Just checking, but have you tried using a different pool?

I'm getting the hash rate not from the pool, but from the miner page itself.

[opentoe]

I never keep the web stats page up at all. I barely ever use it and when I did finally use it just to checking something noticed how slow things were going.


Is there any documentation for using the "tune" firmware? Before you start to blow up your rig? How many volts? Frequency, anything like that? Did KNC release anything on that or just threw it at us and said good luck?

Advanced tuning is only usable if your miner is not healthy (dead dies, disabled cores etc.), or you overclocking your machine. I am running 630 GH/s right now with my Oct Jupiter.

630 with 4 modules?

[opentoe]

What do you think the safest die voltage level is while keeping the SPI voltage on automatic? I have an October 4VRM rig with 4 modules. I know my way around a linux system and can program pretty easily but when it comes to electrical stuff I'm kind of in left field. I just don't want to blow up my Dad's rig.

[CYPER]

What do you think the safest die voltage level is while keeping the SPI voltage on automatic? I have an October 4VRM rig with 4 modules. I know my way around a linux system and can program pretty easily but when it comes to electrical stuff I'm kind of in left field. I just don't want to blow up my Dad's rig.

50A = Very Safe
57A - Safe

[davebodger]

If i want to access the miner via my laptop and my mobile, lets say 192.168.1.xx + 192.168.1.xx, then what do i put in the management address? It won't let me put in 2 addresses

I presume you mean what do you put in the "Management" box in the Network page of the web interface on the new 0.99.2 firmware?

KNC do not seem to have documented this very clearly as far as I can see, unless you are a guru.
All they say is :-

"Miner management can be configured to allow access for trusted addresses only. The trusted addresses should be specified by using space separated addresses from which the miner is allowed to be accessed via HTTP and SSH.
- List of trusted management addresses can be changed on the "Network" page of the miner interface.
- On the "Mining" page there is now a setting which allows to the user to specify which addresses can access the miner's API interface."

and

"Management is list of addresses/networks with access to web console and SSH (if enabled). Use LAN for local LAN addresses only (same network) or RFC1918 for private networks.
 WARNING: If you are doing the setup remotely then make sure to add your address here."

I entered "LAN" here myself but would presume you could enter a space-delimited list of IP addresses, ranges seperated by a "-" and networks in the form of 192.168.*.* etc.

In my mind the issue is that if you are accessing remotely how do you make sure the IP address of your laptop or mobile is not changed by the networks you connect through?

[opentoe]

What do you think the safest die voltage level is while keeping the SPI voltage on automatic? I have an October 4VRM rig with 4 modules. I know my way around a linux system and can program pretty easily but when it comes to electrical stuff I'm kind of in left field. I just don't want to blow up my Dad's rig.

50A = Very Safe
57A - Safe

Thanks!
You mean keep increasing the volts on the DIE until and I'll see the AMPS increase?

[soy]

If i want to access the miner via my laptop and my mobile, lets say 192.168.1.xx + 192.168.1.xx, then what do i put in the management address? It won't let me put in 2 addresses

I presume you mean what do you put in the "Management" box in the Network page of the web interface on the new 0.99.2 firmware?

KNC do not seem to have documented this very clearly as far as I can see, unless you are a guru.
All they say is :-

"Miner management can be configured to allow access for trusted addresses only. The trusted addresses should be specified by using space separated addresses from which the miner is allowed to be accessed via HTTP and SSH.
- List of trusted management addresses can be changed on the "Network" page of the miner interface.
- On the "Mining" page there is now a setting which allows to the user to specify which addresses can access the miner's API interface."

and

"Management is list of addresses/networks with access to web console and SSH (if enabled). Use LAN for local LAN addresses only (same network) or RFC1918 for private networks.
 WARNING: If you are doing the setup remotely then make sure to add your address here."

I entered "LAN" here myself but would presume you could enter a space-delimited list of IP addresses, ranges seperated by a "-" and networks in the form of 192.168.*.* etc.

In my mind the issue is that if you are accessing remotely how do you make sure the IP address of your laptop or mobile is not changed by the networks you connect through?

There are various services that offer you a static IP for your home network or rather they forward to the dynamic IP your ISP assigns and changes regularly.  You have your router forward incoming http connections to one of the machines on your network, same with ssh or telnet.  I've never tried ssh tunneling tho that's more secure.  But if the miner is vetting incoming IP addresses then I see what you mean.  It is useful tho.  Like logging onto the #kncminer IRC channel I see my IP is exposed.  I use to check lottery numbers from my networking class.  The lotto website was blocked.  I'd use TightVNC to log into my home machine desktop and calling up a browser on the remote machine I could access the lotto website.  Not too useful but could get to a blocked website that way.  One could use the same method to access a miner as the home network machine having the VNC server into which one would log would have a local IP address acceptable to the miner's vetting.