I think you're calculating hardware error percent by dividing by diff1 instead of your accepted shares at diff. That version of cgminer shows accepted shares as diff1 instead of the difficulty your submitting them at.

Looking at your screen clips, the one on the left for example, you have a submitted diff1 of 1,595,368 and your worker diff is 512. 1,595,368/512=3,115.953125 (not a whole number because not all your accepted shares were at 512). Anyway... 218 (HW Errors)/3,116 = ~7% a much more reasonable number.

The 5% and 9% numbers quoted here were calculated using accepted shares at diff, not at diff1.

Exactly right. If you're running above about 350 and getting that many errors (9%), I would guess that you're running out of juice. Need more volts.

I want some hush money. I can be real hush.... REAL hush.   

I think the problem might be that I don't have anything juicy to say. 

I assume the cards in the Black Widow are the same as the Falcon. Black Widow has 2, Falcon has 4? My switches in my Black Widow are set to all off on the board connected to the USB port. The other board has switch 4 on the rest off.

EDIT: See giveen's post above.

Whatever do you mean... missing? 

An excellent idea.

Where are we at with the voltage mods?

The best that I can tell, and please correct me if I'm wrong...

The current mod is to replace R10 on the Zeus schematic (R7 in nst6563's first couple posts) with a 7.5k resistor.

See posts https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7311585#msg7311585 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7407129#msg7407129

There is something in the firmware or hardware the prevents clock rates over a certain frequency. Voltage modded devices are running at a --zeus-clock of 381 (the suspected maximum)

The speed limiter cannot be overcome in the mining software.


Cooling Mods

Cooling improvements are recommended/required for volt modded devices.

See the following posts for examples of fan mods...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7304782#msg7304782
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7354916#msg7354916
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7371079#msg7371079
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=644921.msg7543334#msg7543334

I could have sworn there were recommendations for thermal paste and heat sinks for the ASICs, but I can't find them. Might have gone away with the purge.

I think everyone can agree that adding heatsinks to the outside of the case/heatsink will add surface area, but ultimately does very little for keeping the chips cool.


Fan Oil Change

See the OP for how to fill or check the oil on your fans.


Wud I miss?

Anyone know about having multiple zenControllers on one zenMiner account? Is it possible? How do?

I've seen the same thing. From what I understand, that is how they are coming from the manufacture. Retailers cannot sell used stuff as new, but I don't really care as long as the thing works. I don't need my Gridseeds to be shinny and new. If they do their job, I'm equal opportunity.

Thanks Eric.

That thing looks BAD ASS!

DHL was sitting in front of my place when I got home.   I  snapped a few pics of my Fury.

http://i57.tinypic.com/r1bztx.jpg

http://i59.tinypic.com/j5cl1l.jpg

http://i60.tinypic.com/2hsb0iq.jpg

http://i60.tinypic.com/2qao2vn.jpg

It literally took 5 minutes to get the thing mining on the Zen controller. Interestingly my Fury running on Zenminer showes up on my GAW hosted dashboard. There's some kind of connection here.

Zenminer hash rate = 1.3MH/s
Pool hash rate = 1.354MH/s
Reject rate =.59%
Power draw = power brick + Fury = 48 watts (measured with a Kill-a-Watt)

Loves

Fast shipping
Fast setup
Fast hash rate
Free Pi

Hates

Zenminer website incompatible with Lastpass (BOOOO!)
Zenminer website shows virtually no mining information (hash rate, miner type (i.e. Fury, Black Widow, etc.), IP addy, and MAC addy)

Wants

GAW to keep up the good work
GAW to keep providing open source mining software
Zenminer to change a lot of stuff

edit: added reject %

If it's anything like my GPU rigs (motherboard sitting on motherboard box, PCIe extensions sprouting from everywhere, etc.), I'm pretty sure I don't want to see the GAW data center.

I would think they'll get it cleaned up and post some shots from in there. A nice clean looking setup would be great for marketing.

GAWdian
GAWnshot
GAWlactic

Looks like Paypal is back as a payment method. Are we not doing the Paypal refund thing? Did I miss something?

FYI - I've solved the network problems with my cube. I put the cube and a computer running the proxy on their own network behind a Linksys router.

The cube had been restarting every so often when it lost its connection to the proxy PC. The temporary fix was to point the cube at two separate computers so that it could fail back and forth. This kept the cube up but it took a performance hit. I'm not able to change anything on the network or remove devices to see what the problem is so behind the router the cube is working as it should.

I suspect putting the cubes and proxy on their own network behind a consumer grade router/firewall might help with the phone/tablet problem people have been having as well.

mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.btcguild.com -p 3333

I just wanted to chime in here about the long polling/restarting issue some people have been having. My cube worked fine on one network. When I moved it to a different location/network, I started having the same problem. This is a network problem. I haven't been able to determine what exactly the problem is or how to correct it in my situation, but I do have a kludgie work around that got my cube up and mining again by using two different proxy machines as primary and backup.

The cube mines for a little while, gets stuck on the one proxy, fails over to the other proxy, mines for a little while, and back and forth. It takes a bit of a performance hit this way, but it's currently the only way I can get the thing to mine on the network it's currently on. Hope this helps...

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