Hi all,

I'm working on a hobby project to basically set up a solar powered raspberry pi with a couple of usb miners on it. It'll have a couple of 10w solar panels and a charge controller with a battery pack sufficiently sized to continue operations for an hour or two should a cloud pass overhead ... which it does a lot here in Denmark :-)

Anyway, as far as I can see there are four different Raspberry models. I'm looking at the first generation B+ model because it uses a bit less power than the 2. generation. Downside is that it is single core vs. the quad core 2. gen.

With these self contained usb miners, does it really make a lot of difference how much cpu power you have on the Raspberry? Am I better off saving a few milliamps of power by buying the 1. generation B+ model, or will I be paying for that later on because it mines a bit slower? Will a single core be enough to fully take advantage of one or two or perhaps even ten avalon nano's?

And yes I know that this thing will never pay for itself. It's just a hobby project to give me someting to play with in the weekends ... nothing else :-)

-Michael