Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com

[soy]

can lighting hit this thread someday?


Strike X Here


might bring it back from the dead...

Hehehe... surely  



I'm indeed a bit frustrated... I'm still tossing equipment into the truck for the dump-run, and I really don't think 3-phase would have made any difference if it were possible. It blew 90% of what i have...through mains, subpanel breakers, breaker-ed power strips, and psu's
so far, 6 grand in damage, still counting

Just looking out my back door at the power line to a 100 amp breaker box.  Two heavy insulated cables, L1 and L2, wrapped around insulated steel twisted support cabling, the support cabling wrapped around a very heavy insulator and going no further.  The two heavy insulated wires loop out and down to plasitc PVC to the breaker box.  In the ground at the base of the pole is a ground rod.

I think you ran steel conduit from a box to another box outside and grounded it well, sitting above ground it would have attracted the lightening.  Down here they cut the copper grounds that ran up the sides of roadside poles to the support cabling while leaving those copper grounds on poles down on property.  Your conduit offered a better ground than you incoming power support cable perhaps.

[Phoenix1969]

hmm, all the conduit is schedule 40 pvc, and looks to have exploded outwards ... ill take a snap... gimme a min...

[soy]

hmm, all the conduit is schedule 40 pvc

Okay, I was picturing the stuff we use to use up in NY within stairwells in commercial buildings.

[jelin1984]

ghash.io is down???

 

[Phoenix1969]

one tenth of a second...
and i'm still using one 110 phase of it! lol

[greenbtc]

ghash.io is down???

 

Yep, it is.

[greenbtc]

one tenth of a second...
and i'm still using one 110 phase of it! lol

They make some serious home SPDs, have you thought about looking into them additionally to the lightning rods?

[Phoenix1969]

one tenth of a second...
and i'm still using one 110 phase of it! lol

They make some serious home SPDs, have you thought about looking into them additionally to the lightning rods?

Teach me o masterful one... im all ears as a Ferrangi would say...  SPD's?
suppression devices?
I honestly thought the breakers, and power strips offered some protection... hahahah

[dropt]

one tenth of a second...
and i'm still using one 110 phase of it! lol

They make some serious home SPDs, have you thought about looking into them additionally to the lightning rods?

Teach me o masterful one... im all ears as a Ferrangi would say...  SPD's?
suppression devices?

Yes, surge protection device.

[joeventura]

Next weeks thread - How to install plumbing!

[Saproach]

My October Jupiter hashes at 425Gh/s (has the Die0) issue.   I've wasted so much time (and downtime) messing around with it I've given up.

Any Toronto-based Jupiter miners interested in some pocket scratch in exchange for coming in to get mine up to speed?

[Phoenix1969]

My October Jupiter hashes at 425Gh/s (has the Die0) issue.   I've wasted so much time (and downtime) messing around with it I've given up.

Any Toronto-based Jupiter miners interested in some pocket scratch in exchange for coming in to get mine up to speed?

October ?  Why did you wait so long without an RMA?  wow. kinda late now for profitability   ug  better late than never I guess.

*There are a few in here who might be able to get you going via teamviewer...
I stopped doing that, or I'd offer....

[matthewh3]

Has the latest batch of Neptunes sold out yet?

[kendog77]

Has the latest batch of Neptunes sold out yet?

Go to the Knc website, enter 1000 miners in your cart, and it will tell you how many are left (228 right now).

Neptune sales have definitely slowed down, and unless Knc releases some really good Neptune development news or the price of BTC goes up significantly, I doubt they will sell many more for a while.

10k is a lot to pay to be at the end of the Neptune line.

[matthewh3]

Has the latest batch of Neptunes sold out yet?

Go to the Knc website, enter 1000 miners in your cart, and it will tell you how many are left (228 right now).

Neptune sales have definitely slowed down, and unless Knc releases some really good Neptune development news or the price of BTC goes up significantly, I doubt they will sell many more for a while.

10k is a lot to pay to be at the end of the Neptune line.

Thanks for that    I'm pretty sure KNC are still waiting for CT and/or HF to start shipping en masse before dropping any Neptune news.  Although a road map map plus weekly or bi-monthly announcements would have been good.  OT I'm pretty sure HF and maybe CT too are self mining currently.  All ASIC company's mine for themselves.  They just use customer money to bootstrap their outfits.  The current difficulty growth could be in part not only be HF and CT self mining but also a massive batch of Jupiter's being 'burned-in'.

[faetos]

Has the latest batch of Neptunes sold out yet?

Go to the Knc website, enter 1000 miners in your cart, and it will tell you how many are left (228 right now).

Neptune sales have definitely slowed down, and unless Knc releases some really good Neptune development news or the price of BTC goes up significantly, I doubt they will sell many more for a while.

10k is a lot to pay to be at the end of the Neptune line.

What will be truly insane is the price that people on e-Bay will pay for them when they roll out.

[timmmers]

Has the latest batch of Neptunes sold out yet?

Go to the Knc website, enter 1000 miners in your cart, and it will tell you how many are left (228 right now).

Neptune sales have definitely slowed down, and unless Knc releases some really good Neptune development news or the price of BTC goes up significantly, I doubt they will sell many more for a while.

10k is a lot to pay to be at the end of the Neptune line.

What will be truly insane is the price that people on e-Bay will pay for them when they roll out.

Why would they pay a premium? Because when Jups were released the bitcoin price shot up to a grand? Not gonna happen this time, people can buy them from KNC still...why wouldn't they if they want one?
Different game this time round. Probably why they haven't sold out.

Anyone worked the running cost of a Nep out yet, given rough figures ? About 300 quid a month here if it's 2.5kw, or a BTC for 3 months mining roughly. I hope they get them out quick to those who are waiting.

[opentoe]

My October Jupiter hashes at 425Gh/s (has the Die0) issue.   I've wasted so much time (and downtime) messing around with it I've given up.

Any Toronto-based Jupiter miners interested in some pocket scratch in exchange for coming in to get mine up to speed?

After I did what it said in the post that was on KNC's website, my father's DIE came back alive and he's now hasing %100. Here is the link:

http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/24988-0-99-tuning-suite-instructions-october-miners

[r1senfa17h]

I'm wiring my house with 6 x 30-amp 240v circuits to handle my mining equipment. I'm more worried about cooling to be honest 

Yes, I think the low end, efficient, window AC by Haier got bumped by $30-$50 after the summer.  Went looking the other day.

30 amps at 240v is 7kW. Six of them would be 43kW.  That's 40 btu per second - or 146,722 btu per hour.

A 'low end' window AC isn't going to do much.

You just need a lot of ventilation - replace hot air with air from outside, as long as it's less then 70C outside you'll be fine.

well, I hope the Neptunes are 220 for your sake.... lol  bold...doing that without knowing...

Yeah, I've got 14 x 220GH/s miners that eat 1kw each arriving soon. They come with 220v power supplies that would probably work on 120v outlets, but I don't want to risk it. I'm expecting them to heat my house (I'm in Michigan) until spring, but I'll probably have to get some ventilation as soon as it starts getting above freezing.

Unless you have a 6,000sq ft house I would expect that you're going to need some HVAC/open windows immediately upon receiving those. The most I can handle is about 8,000 watts in my house in the winter without it getting crazy hot (my house is 3200sq ft). I have a seperate building where my datacenter is to house excess machines that has plenty of cooling, but during the winter I don't keep more than 8kw of machinery in the house. Come end of Feb/March, I move everything into the climate controlled center.

Wow, I may have to do the same if it gets too hot. I only have 2 Neptunes on order and don't expect these Avalons to last long before they become unprofitable (July?), so hopefully the Neptunes don't have to share the space for long.

I work in IT and am used to dealing with cooling for server rooms, but have no idea how this project will turn out in my house. The miners will all be in the basement which is about 1200sq/ft and the rest of the house is 2050sg/ft. I suppose the worst case scenario is that I have to sell my non KnC miners.

[greenbtc]

I'm wiring my house with 6 x 30-amp 240v circuits to handle my mining equipment. I'm more worried about cooling to be honest 

Yes, I think the low end, efficient, window AC by Haier got bumped by $30-$50 after the summer.  Went looking the other day.

30 amps at 240v is 7kW. Six of them would be 43kW.  That's 40 btu per second - or 146,722 btu per hour.

A 'low end' window AC isn't going to do much.

You just need a lot of ventilation - replace hot air with air from outside, as long as it's less then 70C outside you'll be fine.

well, I hope the Neptunes are 220 for your sake.... lol  bold...doing that without knowing...

Yeah, I've got 14 x 220GH/s miners that eat 1kw each arriving soon. They come with 220v power supplies that would probably work on 120v outlets, but I don't want to risk it. I'm expecting them to heat my house (I'm in Michigan) until spring, but I'll probably have to get some ventilation as soon as it starts getting above freezing.

Unless you have a 6,000sq ft house I would expect that you're going to need some HVAC/open windows immediately upon receiving those. The most I can handle is about 8,000 watts in my house in the winter without it getting crazy hot (my house is 3200sq ft). I have a seperate building where my datacenter is to house excess machines that has plenty of cooling, but during the winter I don't keep more than 8kw of machinery in the house. Come end of Feb/March, I move everything into the climate controlled center.

Wow, I may have to do the same if it gets too hot. I only have 2 Neptunes on order and don't expect these Avalons to last long before they become unprofitable (July?), so hopefully the Neptunes don't have to share the space for long.

I work in IT and am used to dealing with cooling for server rooms, but have no idea how this project will turn out in my house. The miners will all be in the basement which is about 1200sq/ft and the rest of the house is 2050sg/ft. I suppose the worst case scenario is that I have to sell my non KnC miners.

Those are about my dimensions, so expect similar results. Not over 8kw during the winter (and when it gets 40F outside like these warm spells expect temps of 80F+ in the house) inside, get a couple split ac's or a central air unit for the basement and you should be good for the summer.