Why should they involve you when you fix all their problems for free .

I'm sure they will start to include you once they include the guys building/buying their PSU's into the design process, cause running a PSU at 100% is fine, right? 

If it has a fuse, otherwise you could pull 32A from a uk ring main until an RCD kicks in at best, at worse, burn your nice carpets. That's why decent power supplies have over current and thermal protection.

Can you do me a favour?

Measure the resistance between the outer pin on the 12v side, and any of the mains pins on the PSU (while it's unplugged from the mains, obviously).

If you get a ANY resistance at all, i suggest people throw the PSU out, mainly because the label says that it's double insulated (box within a box) which means you should have no mains reference at all.

What does this mean? Well aside from the fact that you might end up with mains voltage blasting through to the 12v side of things, it's just bad design for a smps.

Also, if you get told that you won't be getting a replacement, and you are going to bin it, please crack it open and take a load of pictures for us, cause i'm betting it's as bad as the USB chargers you can get which blow the arse out of your phones. The lack of over current protection points to this as well.

Hoping this will get to Bitmain and get them to stop including power supplies with their kit, as it's unwanted weight, and unless they are going to pay top dollar for them, they will just be sending out fire hazards. If we the ability to mess about with cgminer and get the kit mining, we have the ability to buy a psu and plug it in, you know, like with the S1/S3/C1/U1/U2.

My thoughts exactly, yxt

The point and what you said are valid, i've seen too many power supplies come from China which can only be called an electrical death trap and/or an EMC compliance nightmare.

Seriously, anyone can get power supplies that can kick out 6A, we don't need power supplies that will either throw out too much RFI or burn someones house to the ground, after all, anyone reselling these in Europe (and I assume other countries, but I wouldn't know) will be liable for it.

Ah right, you're talking about the socket side, fair enough, like you said though, it would be hard to see them using a C16 .

They're the same thing, apart from one has a higher temp rating.

Get companies like Dell to stop instantly dumping their btc back onto the market (though Bitpay) and you have a deal.

$26 for a plug pack, from China?

Maybe if it was from a top quality company, but lets face it, the rule of buying anything with a power supply from China is to bin it to avoid the explosion/fire.

Just annoys me that they did away with the USB Dongle design, asking buyers to take a punt on something costing £15-20 is easier than £80 (bare minimum) when you consider there are a ton of S1's kicking around on eBay going for less, no need for a pc, and with simple editing of a file, will give more gh/s for around the same amount of power usage (possibly).

Bring back the U1/2 form factor, and you'll have a deal.

Bump

Hi All,

Got a ton of Antminer switches to sell for people in the UK.


http://pieh0.co.uk/antswi/IMG_20140911_133333.jpg

http://pieh0.co.uk/antswi/IMG_20140905_115905.jpg

I've put it up on my site for sale, to make things a bit easier to manage ordering wise, at http://pieh0.co.uk/?product=bitmain-antminer-switch.

All orders will be shipped by RM 1st class, so should be with you next day.

All payments are in Bitcoin, linked to the current exchange price (no added %).

Maybe because your router isn't a dns server/forwarder, most routers just send the isp's dns server ip's over DHCP.

Just got another message from Bitstamp...


Hmmm, let's see about the exchange rate shall we .

**Edit**

Confirmed, it still uses unicredit's exchange rate.

Another reply from Bitstamp, they have confirmed that they are using the prices at http://www.raiffeisen.si/ceniki_in_tecaji/menjalni_tecaji/1 to figure out the conversion.

So for us brits, it's a nice bank to use.

Raiffeisen shows 10000 GBP = 17,086.7286 USD
Unicredit shows 10000 GBP = 16,969.43 USD

Just got to confirm that it's accurate information .

For those that are wondering, if you want to know how much your money is in $ for transfers to BS, they are using http://www.raiffeisen.si/ceniki_in_tecaji/ to calculate it.

Trying to find out which tab on that page they are using, but at least it's better than their new banks retail rate.

Changed to Raiffeisen Bank for me as well, would be nice to know what their exchange rate is seeing as Unicredit gave us corporate rates.

You know what this decentralised currency that was built to move away from centralised currency needs? A CENTRALISED GOVERNING BODY!
Maybe while we're at it, let's bring in chargebacks, interest rates for all new coins mined.

What could possibly go wrong  .

Would you have preferred "BREAKING NEWS FROM A BITMAIN INSIDER!" .

Not sure where you're getting the 4 from, as only 1 pin will be delivering the power, so on a dual molex to 6pin pcie adapter, it will be 195w/16.25A per board, and 65w/5.416A per PCIe pin, but on the molex side 1 12v pin will be pulling 130w/10.83A.

Get them cheap and use 2 adapters per board to split it out if possible.

Or do what Xer0 said below .

At least you won't have "wasted"/unused wattage per psu, as you can share the current between psu's.