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Re: Should I try to sell my Lancelot FPGA?
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mike298342
on 25/04/2014, 19:44:10 UTC
$350 USD plus shipping for 1.6 GH/s.  Wow, that is aggressive!   Shocked

Good luck with that sale.  Guessing, whoever buys it, will be for the nostalgia factor, or a bookshelf conversation piece.
Obviously it's not useful for mining bitcoin anymore.  I suppose there is a use for hobbyists who reprogram FPGAs for other tasks though.
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Re: Should I try to sell my Lancelot FPGA?
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mike298342
on 25/04/2014, 19:36:27 UTC
I'm not interested in investing in more mining hardware, so I won't do the trade-in.  They were originally offered for sale on this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=187549.0

And the PDF manual can still be found at this page:
https://www.cardreaderfactory.com/download/documentation/lancelot%20user%20manual.pdf

It's about 400 Mh/s for each unit, and I have four of them.

@poochone  If you are interested, I'll sell all four and a power supply for $350 USD, plus shipping.  Or you can make me an offer.  I'll have to check on the cost of shipping and I suppose you'll want to use escrow.  I can also post pictures for you and power them on to show they are in working condition.
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Should I try to sell my Lancelot FPGA?
by
mike298342
on 24/04/2014, 21:59:17 UTC
I have four BlackArrow Lancelot FPGAs?  They aren't useful for mining anymore, so I have them in a box.  Do they have any resale value, for development board purposes?  Where would be the best place to sell it if so?  Thanks. 
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Re: CGminer v3.2.1 on Broadcom based DD-WRT / OpenWRT
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mike298342
on 13/06/2013, 08:52:47 UTC
Thanks P_Shep!

I just got it working on an Asus RT-N16 running TomatoUSB firmware with a blackarrow Lancelot FPGA.  I'll try getting Anubis to monitor it next.  Would you recommend running Anubis on the router or on another PC on the same LAN?

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Re: Now available: Lancelot (Heavy Duty 400 Mega hashes, 2 x FPGA Mining Board)
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mike298342
on 03/06/2013, 00:12:48 UTC
I tried to run my lancelots with win 8 now and always get an COM3: unrecognized option error. it's the same miner and batch-file used with win 7 before. driver is installed, COM port is the wright one. any ideas?
You can also try changing the port number in Windows.  Under device manager, find the port, select Properties -> Port Settings -> Advanced -> Com Port Number
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Re: Now available: Lancelot (Heavy Duty 400 Mega hashes, 2 x FPGA Mining Board)
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mike298342
on 21/05/2013, 14:11:10 UTC
Dont know if this is on topic, I have 5xlancelots, But 2 of them are not recognized by the computer?
I was having a bit of a similar problem.  On the command line, when I started cgminer, I was using -S com9 -S com10 and so on.  The one on com9 would work but the other com ports above that wouldn't.  Then I read the README file said to do it like this under Windows:  -S \\.\COMnn
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Re: Now available: Lancelot (Heavy Duty 400 Mega hashes, 2 x FPGA Mining Board)
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mike298342
on 21/05/2013, 12:20:49 UTC
The default Windows cgminer builds appear to require OpenCL.dll installed on the system.
There is a cgminer-nogpu.exe in the windows binary zip file Smiley
Don't know how I missed that one.  Could have saved me a lot of time :-)  Thanks.  I was stuck in the newbie area, so I couldn't post here earlier.
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Re: Now available: Lancelot (Heavy Duty 400 Mega hashes, 2 x FPGA Mining Board)
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mike298342
on 21/05/2013, 03:57:29 UTC
I received my 4 units a few days ago.  Thank you.

I had trouble getting it to work with cgminer right away. So I was using BitMinter for a few days at first.

The default Windows cgminer builds appear to require OpenCL.dll installed on the system.  I built from source without that dependency, but still couldn't get it to work.  It appears that for com ports above 9, you have to list them in the arguments as  -S \\.\comXX. instead of -S comXX. This was in the README.  I should have read it more closely at the beginning.  It's working fine now on my Windows desktop.

Cgminer is much less resource intensive than BitMinter, which ran under Java.  I also have an Asus RT-N16 router with TomatoUSB firmware on it with Optware installed.  I've read about people running cgminer under OpenWrt.  Anyone know how to get cgminer running under Tomato?
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Re: Newbie Lock
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mike298342
on 21/05/2013, 00:03:01 UTC
I've been lurking on the forums for a while.  Forgot the time requirement to get out of newbie land.  I wasn't logged in so all my time reading the forum didn't count.
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Re: README replies
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mike298342
on 19/05/2013, 12:51:15 UTC
My total time logged in seems stuck at 1 hr 33 min.  Do I have to post messages for the timer to increment?  I can't get out of the newbie jail until I have so many hours on the forum.

EDIT: It seems to be incrementing now.  I made sure my browser allowed cookies for this site just in case.
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Re: did i make a mistake with BFL's
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mike298342
on 18/05/2013, 12:46:00 UTC
I think they'll ship eventually, but I don't know how fast they'll crank up their production lines.  I'm thinking of ordering from them, but I probably won't get nearly the great return by the time I'd receive my unit.  In the meantime, I'm considering getting some FPGA units elsewhere at $300 USD for 380-400 megahash.

Can you please elaborate on FPGA?
Sorry for the late reply.  I ordered from www.cardreaderfactory.com.  Just received them a yesterday.  There's a thread about it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=187549.0
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Re: To All the newbies Don't be fooled
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mike298342
on 01/05/2013, 14:30:24 UTC
All the scams out there don't help Bitcoin's image.  Hopefully escrow services can develop to well-known services where Bitcoin transfers can be done safely and easily for the average user.
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Re: did i make a mistake with BFL's
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mike298342
on 01/05/2013, 14:23:21 UTC
I think they'll ship eventually, but I don't know how fast they'll crank up their production lines.  I'm thinking of ordering from them, but I probably won't get nearly the great return by the time I'd receive my unit.  In the meantime, I'm considering getting some FPGA units elsewhere at $300 USD for 380-400 megahash.
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Re: Let's Count to 21 Million with Images
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mike298342
on 01/05/2013, 14:15:08 UTC
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Re: Let's Count to 21 Million with Images
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mike298342
on 01/05/2013, 14:11:06 UTC
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Price vs. Difficulty
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mike298342
on 01/05/2013, 14:02:29 UTC
This thread has some nice charts with price vs difficulty.

https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=7427.0

However, the data is old.  Does anyone know of some updated charts?  Thanks in advance.