Re: Announcing the FutureBit Apollo BTC - A Full Node/Mining Platform for the Home!
For those who have a "standard" unit. No controller board and must be connected to a pc or pi.
The following config is not recommended and will shorten the life of your Apollo but its fun as hell to see it work for a short period of time.
This thing is capable of up to 4 TH/s if you get the right chips.
You must have a PSU capable of providing the necessary power; the 200w brick won't do it.
I'm seeing bursts of 4 TH/s with an average of 3.85 with the following config: .\apollo-miner.exe -host ca.stratum.slushpool.com -port 3333 -user ****** -pswd x -comport COM13 -brd_ocp 100 -osc 50 -ao_mode 1
pause
These settings are being reported as 0.075 W/Gh/s which means its taking 285 watts to produce those numbers. Not exactly efficient for this little guy but as mentioned its fun to see it can do it.
The config provided in the download link on this thread is working great. Just change the board power settings and you're off to the races.
As the welcome card in the box says: Happy Mining
The following config is not recommended and will shorten the life of your Apollo but its fun as hell to see it work for a short period of time.
This thing is capable of up to 4 TH/s if you get the right chips.
You must have a PSU capable of providing the necessary power; the 200w brick won't do it.
I'm seeing bursts of 4 TH/s with an average of 3.85 with the following config: .\apollo-miner.exe -host ca.stratum.slushpool.com -port 3333 -user ****** -pswd x -comport COM13 -brd_ocp 100 -osc 50 -ao_mode 1
pause
These settings are being reported as 0.075 W/Gh/s which means its taking 285 watts to produce those numbers. Not exactly efficient for this little guy but as mentioned its fun to see it can do it.
The config provided in the download link on this thread is working great. Just change the board power settings and you're off to the races.
As the welcome card in the box says: Happy Mining
We always over-design our boards...ASICs and cooling system can easily handle the 4 TH/s max only limiting factor is the buck design, since we had to go with a dual FET package due to space. You could probably put a heatsink on the fet and run it at this settings 24/7 if you really wanted too but definitely dont recommend it if you dont know what your doing.
Thanks John!
Always appreciate your input....... although as mentioned the efficiency drops at those settings but, hey, if ya got cheap power who the hell cares?
I will definitely find a heatsink or three to help with cooling. I'm in Canada so ambient temp is always cold ha ha ha...... no, not really; just think Oregon or Wa....same. At least here on the best coast....er I mean west coast.