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Here's my collection.
One from first batch of each, look at how the components are soldered by hand and the rugged heatsinks.
Gonna be worth something sometime.
Probably going to move them into my parents garage for some cold and also to get rid of the fan noise in my house.
See, that's exactly my point.
You need to find a way to mine INSIDE of the house so that the energy can come to good use!
This is why the Monarch is actually not that bad!
1. It isn't the "interface" is on the machine itself not hosted by them
2. It has USB and supports Wifi (experimental at the moment), or you could use a cheap lan to wifi converter
2. It has USB and supports Wifi (experimental at the moment), or you could use a cheap lan to wifi converter
So, how do you reach that HTTP interface via USB?
Still it's not liquid cooled and silence is no 1 in home heating.
One more benefit with mining gear heating is that the fans actually rotate the air in the space, and since you put the miners on the floor, that's really good in an old house so you don't have to freeze your socks off!
Basically you keep telling yourself you're "supporting the network!" or "they make great space heaters and make a few BTC cents also!" or "BTC price will spike to the moon in a couple months, just you wait!"
We all know these aren't true, but disregard my stance on the overall mining scene.
I still love seeing these rigs! Lots of great hobby miners in the community, besides the plateauing of profitability.
We all know these aren't true, but disregard my stance on the overall mining scene.
I still love seeing these rigs! Lots of great hobby miners in the community, besides the plateauing of profitability.
The miner might not have the efficiency of a heat exchanger, but it does real work (BTC) and produces heat a side effect. It's completely retarded to invest 10.000's of $ to drill and dig for a machine that ONLY produces heat, no matter how efficient it is.
With the BFL Monarch underclocked at maximum I get 260GH per ~150W and thats important because it is silent! completely silent, I can put it next to the bed! And USB is a great advantage too, because you can use stable WiFi for all your mining gear across the house without ethernet cables.
BFL is coming back with a vengeance!
This is the future! A woodstove, underclocked Monarches with RPi+WiFi and the Oculus Rift CV = goodbye crap debt fiat real reality.
I'm ejecting from this society!
Lets NOT get too far off topic.. this thread is for pics. (which I posted just upthread).
spondolies sp20: 1220gh @ 650watts 400$
butterflyL monarch 260gh @ 150watts 1300$
I am not that good at math but it doesn't appear to me that BFL is gona sell alot of them!!!
spondolies sp20: 1220gh @ 650watts 400$
butterflyL monarch 260gh @ 150watts 1300$
I am not that good at math but it doesn't appear to me that BFL is gona sell alot of them!!!
Well I paid 800$ for my Monarches. Actually I paid 3.6 BTC for 4x but that was back in the 1000$ glory days...
I guess the Spoondoolies would be an alternative if:
1) They had customizable speed without going through their interface, which is hosted by them, they take the site down and your spoonies are turned into crap (potentially?) if they are hardcoded in firmware to connect to "the cloud".
2) If they had USB. I need to connect to my 4g router with antenna in the attic, and the house is 200 years old so: no drilling (because it would be rude) = wifi.
I could add photos but they are just monarches with fans replaced with variable speed Nonctua connected to Corsair AX760/860 PSUs.
What I think you (and all other non heating miners) don't appreciate is: monarches have liquid cooling. If you compare the GH/db with Spoondolies they are worth the extra dough, easy!
We are all delusional. Now, since bitcoin is in the dumps and most people are losing money actually keeping them running we start to call them our heaters in the winter time in the US. It's like we make up excuses to keep them running when we all know an efficient heating system in a house is much better hear then a few electrical spot heaters around making tons of noise.
Well, now is the good time to hash, with diff going flat and rev. still 25 per block. As for noise just buy BFL Monarch and UNDERCLOCK:
IT WORKS!
- Download putty.
- Then run it and switch the radio button from SSH to serial.
- Enter the COM port that your miner is on and 9600 as Speed.
codes V0X and F1X for lowest voltage and frequency
- Press Open, then PASTE the code (do not type) and click another window then go back to putty you should see OK, close the window.
THX a million welsh!
WHOHOOO FUCKING SILENCE!!!! 260GH at lowest, all passive cooling possible!
Agree on the last part that ASIC is better then radiator, but my family don't like the ASIC smell, dont even know if it is hazard.
Uhoh, what miner do you have that smells?
I used 2x "silence modded" BFL Singles to heat my house last winter, they only supplied half of the heat required during the - months, but now I have 2x BFL Monarches on the way so I think I will be able to go all ASIC for heat this winter, at worst I'll boot up the Singles too...
3 things that REALLY are good arguments for the Monarches:
- USB, I have the router in the cold attic and I wan't to use my already stable PC to Router WiFi, all other miners have ethernet port = cable mess, holes in the walls/roof OR multiple unstable RPi/Beagle WiFi radiating crap... hubs are better than switches.
- Silence! The water cooling of these beasts is apparently super silent = good for being able to heat the bedroom!
- Dynamic clock, you can run them like so:
| GH___ | W____ | W/GH |
| 550 | 339 | 0.62 |
| 600 | 368 | 0.61 |
| 650 | 432 | 0.66 |
| 700 | 471 | 0.70 |
| 730 | 530 | 0.73 |
| 780 | 609 | 0.78 |
Which means I will buy a PC thermometer and clock them automatically to get the right temp.
KNC Jupiter 550gh 0ct 18th 2013 till now ....very very close to getting 50 btc out of the beastie!
Interesting so the BTC profability per $/Watt has moved as follows from FPGA to ASIC:
Hardware: 0,075 to 0,005 BTC/$
Electricity: 3,75 to 0.06 BTC/Watt
That's a factor x15 less for hardware price and >x60 less for electricity cost. O_o
Lets push that difficulty a little bit more!
Remember: if you heat your home in the winter (not overheat!!!) with mining; ROI does not matter!
Hell you can even run old ASICs at a loss, they will always be less expensive than your radiator!
Were you compensated with 3 for the price of 1?
Monarch compensation comes out to $2/GH. Anybody who doesn't request a refund is buying overpriced space heaters.
Exactly, that's what we are doing, did you think the purpose of bitcoin mining was anything other than heating houses in the winter?
They are USB Block Eruptors 333.6Mh/s Rev3.0, I eventually want to get 5 Ant miners, there was a Ant miner sell on ebay but when the intventory begin to run out the seller upped the price from $60 USD to $80USD and I couldn't get it when I was finally to have some of the cash. The only one I got lucky with was a Lot of 3 USB Block Erupters for around $50 USD.
The Power Supply that I am using can handle 5 USB Devices alone. it is from a old Linksys Wireless B 5V 2.5A
The Power Supply that I am using can handle 5 USB Devices alone. it is from a old Linksys Wireless B 5V 2.5A
So does that heat tunnel work?
Yup it keeps them cool Very well. They don't get Hot At all. Also with this I can always make the tower bigger for more USB hubs and more USB ASICs. The Reason why I am started with Block Eruptor Asic Miners is they are Cheap to get for now to get because I can't afford to much with cash, For most of the mining that I have done before I was stuck with CPU Mining and 1 GPU on my Gaming Rig.
So can you feel the airflow if you put your hand on the exit?
Yup it keeps them cool Very well. They don't get Hot At all. Also with this I can always make the tower bigger for more USB hubs and more USB ASICs. The Reason why I am started with Block Eruptor Asic Miners is they are Cheap to get for now to get because I can't afford to much with cash, For most of the mining that I have done before I was stuck with CPU Mining and 1 GPU on my Gaming Rig.
So can you feel the airflow if you put your hand on the exit?
Ok, but hold on, now I saw the fan; I thought it was passive. What happens if you turn off the fan?
*infernal tower*
Here is my USB collection.
Hey, we think alike, what are the two weird ones (3rd and 4th from left)?
I got the original heatsink for that BE!
Edit: to the moderators, this new image thing is broken because it doesn't cache properly!
Exactly! I find all the ASIC equipment fascinating and enjoy trying to get my hands on as many different devices as possible.
I think some of those devices might become VERY valuable as collectibles.
I bough one of the first BE USB at 2.6 BTC!!! and one of the first RF USB for 1.4 BTC!!!, because just like stamps with defects, collectors will look at the soldering of components to see the rarity and age of the item, funny how that resonates well with the 21 million rarity!
My zTex x1.15 will be the crown jewels of the collection. Early and very rare:
Interesting to compare those purchase prices with the 600GH Monarch I bought for 3.6 BTC, I'm pretty convinced that including resale collectors value; the poorly soldered, completely non ROI, crap BE will beat the Monarch hands down; those components are placed by hand and I even got friedcat to send me an original "manually tooled" heatsink from hongkong:
Comparatively the singles will fade away in history (except maybe for the case looking cool but being completely unusable) but they heat the house and feed the monkeys:
Finally my 100GH/500W BFL are heating half the house silently. They almost already mined the cost of the Monarch I ordered on black Friday. This is my "ROI" concept, if the hardware can mine the cost of the next generation hardware it doesn't matter if it ROIs or not. Ofcourse you can't know that in advance but that wouldn't be any fun now would it!?
Now I just need a passively cooled 500W miner for the other side of the house, winter is coming!
I recommend it, mine run 70 with 30!!! ambient so that would be 60 for you... that's 15 degrees difference!
Also look at the placement of my side fans... that's important. I reduce the speed of my 4 top fans, they don't need to spin that fast = really really silent!
Finally place them lower and not in serial, now one is blowing it's hot air straight into the other.
Also look at the placement of my side fans... that's important. I reduce the speed of my 4 top fans, they don't need to spin that fast = really really silent!
Finally place them lower and not in serial, now one is blowing it's hot air straight into the other.