The payouts have been good the last few days, but the issue of backpay for the days of multipool debacle still remains. I've lost at least 0.2 BTC during that period.

So, will those of us who don't have our own copy of stats get a back pay?

Can I trust the stats on the dashboard? Because, it doesn't seem so. Currently it says I have 40.4M valid shares this round (and no pending payout). At 0.000000000911 per share that should be about 36 mBTC (w/o any bonus). But I've only been paid about 25 mBTC since the last block was found.

If you decide to re-draw some of S3 winners use a public verifiable random number generator. You can use hash of a future block as a random number.

First, publish a numbered list of miners eligible for the draw, sorted alphabetically, and the block number 10-20 blocks away from the current moment the hash of which will be used as a random number. Wait for the announced block to be mined, convert block hash to a decimal number, take modulus of the number divided by the number of nominees and you get the winner's position in the list.

It looks like the share count is correct, but the actual pending payout (as displayed on the dashboard) is anywhere 10 to 30% less

Some of the cheaper PSUs may need a load on 5V rail to power up. I have an S1 powered by Corsair VS650, and I had to hook up an old HDD to it for it to work properly.

I have a VS650 powering an S1.

For a month it powered an overclocked S1 (~400W) through 1 cable with 2 PCI-E connectors. The PCI-E wires were running rather hot, barely tolerable to touch. After a month I added additional wires with a couple of 2-molex-to-PCI-E connectors, it dropped the wire temp, and the PSU has been working fine for about five months since.

So, VS650 should be fine for a single stock clock S3 (~350W). And adding a couple of 2-molex-to-PCI-E connectors would allow for overclocking and/or give you additional safety margin.

Yep, my batch 1 order shipped a few hours ago.

It was later revised to from 14th to 17th.

Initially B1 was supposed to ship between 10th and 20th of July. Adjusted date was 14th to 17th.

rangerbob21, have you measured power consumption at 580 GH/s?

At the moment this miner doesn't look particularly good. You could get 4 S1s for 0.44BTC each (4*0.44*450 = $792), undervolt them to 1.2 W/GHps, and get the same performance as this board (560-580 GHps), but save $50 + cost of cooling system (~$100).

How about power consumption at different hashrates? Any real-world measurements?

Nope, they changed that during the last fork.

Do you need a RaspPi to run the blades? Or will a Linux/Windows PC work also?

Oh, and you should fix the link to support page.

Any news on the CREI acquisition and future plans? Have you had a meeting with the guy in person?

Link to CryptoREI's thread.

Haven't yet read the thread and business plan in full, but I don't see much info on the owner, nor on his experience in the field. And the whole proposal looks hastily and sloppily put together.

A power strip rated at 15A+ will run 1500W no problem, and it costs less than $10. Besides, you will only need 3x400W=1200W to power the miners.

You can go for a gold rated PSU to save 5-10% of power consumption, say Rosewill CAPSTONE-450 450W Continuous @ 50°C for $60.

If you are set on using a single PSU, go for this one Rosewill LIGHTNING-1300 1300W Continuous @ 50°C for $240, it's also modular, so even less cables.

Why not go with 3 PSUs? For $60 you can get something like Corsair CX500, which will easily power a single ant, even an overclocked one.

Wake up, Neo! Tell us how the opening day went, in numbers. Clients signed up, fiat deposited, new merchants recruited.

Ugh, locked out of my account, too. No email notification, no notice at login page, just "Your account is locked". Dick move, havelock.

Waiting for support to answer.

I've tried this cooling configuration on my Antminer yesterday.

At first I was getting 49/50C with stock fan off, and 44/45C with stock fan @ 2300 RPM.

Then I tried to move additional fans about an inch away from heat sinks, and it improved the numbers considerably: 44/45C w/o stock fan, and 41/41C @ 2000 stock fan RPM.

I'm thinking of replacing the stock fan with a quieter and slower one, as in this inverted configuration it basically only cools down those big rectangular resistors (marked R47). And maybe add some kind of cover to direct the airflow from the replacing fan along the board.

EDIT: All figures are for 400MHz.