Quote from: trichome on October 02, 2013, 03:37:41 PM

Quote from: tk1337 on October 02, 2013, 05:06:20 AM

Quote from: trichome on October 02, 2013, 03:46:23 AM

http://rdmsnippets.com/2013/07/24/mining-bitcoins-with-usb-block-erupters-a-raspberry-pi-and-minepeon/

how is this guy getting good results, and i cant even tell how all 6 are connected i don't see the ethernet cables.. well enough of them. Wtf ver of minepeon is he using id love to know... and how he got the hubs to use so many and work so well...

From the webUI I would say 0.2.3...

Also, he's wasting some (very little) energy by using 4 pi's when you could easily use two. However I did find it interesting he's got 88 erupters at 351watts, as I know my setup of 32 erupters + fans, fans, fans, fans, fans (10x fans) one a single rPi sits at 105-115watts. So just doing some simple math, if I triple my farm to 96 erupters (including adding another pi, plus fans to match growth at the current rate of fans). I should be at 315watts to 345watts... hrmm... am I missing something here, where's his power draw coming form?

96 erupters = 32GH/s+, at the current price of .11BTC per erupter, 10.56 BTC (+cost of fans, usb hubs, rPi, etc...)

Now, 4 ASIC Blades I've clocked using 346watts (on a 1200watt PSU, including a wireless router & raspberryPi & 6 fans) ... they average 40GH/s however after running for awhile pick up to around 50GH/s (so far seen a max of 53.4GH/s out of the 4). At the current price of 3.5BTC (4x = 14BTC).

4 blades = 40-53GH/s, at current price of 3.5BTC per blade, 14BTC total + cost of PSU, fans, rPi (if you want, not necessary, though I think it is...)

If you add in the cost of USB Hubs, it makes up the extra 3.44BTC needed to buy said blades, where you have more hashing power and the power to hashrate is better than with erupters. Hmm... I was going to go to 96 erupters, but after doing this, it just seems more logical to sell my erupters and buy more blades and/or Blue Fury Miners.

I can't even get these hubs to hash without some serious HW errors unless i only have like 2 usb miners in each of the hubs connected to the main hub.... Any help on how to get 15 miners working well on 3 dlink hubs please let me know. Or do i need a 4th to spread out the power, all i know is the roswell 10 port can easly take 7 or 8 just cant use it like the dlink in that i get com errors? i dont know i dont have 2 to try..

I thought the same about the power draw.. His pi's are running off his hubs, which i have and they are giving me problems. When I connect 2 dlinks to one, and that one's connect to pi. i cant even run 10 on the 2 connected hubs that way, 1 always doesnt start and have hardware errors. And my Pi is powered with its own supply. LOST!