That's a cool admin/management tool you have there.  What system that?

this is embarrassing.  turns out the IP got reset to the static 192.168.1.254.  can confirm the new firmware is hashing now.  i don't notice any difference though.  if i find any difference, I'll report back here.

I just tried it with one of my A4+ and it bricked the box.  I performed the upgrade through the GUI as one normally would, but upon the automatic restart, it wouldn't come back up.  Couldn't even ping the box.  I walked over to the unit and saw that all lights were off on the hashoard with the fault red light on the controller.  I power cycled (i figured it was safe to since it was about 30 mins since the upgrade ended) all the lights came back on as one would expect.  After about 2 mins of sitting there, all the hasboard lights turned off.  My guess is that the controller upgrade failed and now is corrupted.

Will need to run out and grab a tfcard from the store to see if upgrading via the slot works.  for now, i'll switch all the hasboard cables over to another miner so I don't lose hashrate.  Definitely hold back on the new firmware...let some guinea pigs try it for several weeks first.  Don't get burned like I did.

Before this, had upgraded to 0129 with no issues and running several weeks.

Interested in reversing the airflow also. Anybody try this yet?

Any update on this?  Interested in doing the same thing...

So...I gotta ask.  Did you let the wife know what the 'new' ROI is going to be with the price and difficulty changes?  Things have looked alot different now compared to when this thread was started.

Either way, more power to the adventurous.  Good luck!

out of curiosity, why are you selling?

The point of 8GB over 4GB is that you will be able to resell these at a higher price. i.e. they will keep their resale value more than 4GB.

If resale value doesn't matter to you, then yes buy whatever you want.  Hashrates don't depend on the size of memory.  They depend on the overclockability of it.

FYI, I did the 0129 upgrade on 10 A4+ today and it seemed to all go smoothly.  I did notice that one of my boxes was running 471 hash rate so I took a look and found that the ASC2 card was missing from the miner status/minerinfo section.  I made sure all the cables, power and data ribbon were all secured and the LED shows the board is getting power.  I upgraded the firmware (0129) twice again to no avail.  So I'm wondering what I should try next.  I cannot say with certainy if this was caused by the firmware...I have a feeling not because the 24 hashrate shows as 465 on the monitoring page (i didn't bother to look before i guess).

Any ideas on what to do next?

Makes sense.  thanks for the reply

ps, they look nicer also.  seems more compact.

Hi there,

What's the advantage over the S9?  The Avalon 821 is slower, around the same power consumption/TH, and is quiet a bit more expensive than the S9 even when you factor in a 2-3 week earlier ship date.

Can someone fill me in?  Thanks!

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“If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a Ponzi scheme.”

Charlie Lee said that and I'm pretty sure it applies here.  I don't doubt your miners are hard at work right now, too bad they are pointing to the pool and account of his choice.  So not only is your miner safe and sound, he's making money off power you've prepaid for them.  Do you really think anybody is going to leave profitable ASIC miners just sitting on the floor of the warehouse?  There's alot of small companies running this kind of scam in the US.  I have no doubt these guys had a business plan initially and it all just sort of took on a life of it's own after financial troubles/price of bitcoin going insane.

The guy is a lawyer after all.  I'm guessing he made no commitments and SLA as to when they would be plugged in and for how long.  $75/hour labor...my God.  Hell has a special kind of place for people like this.  I hope you all get what's owed to you, and at minimum your mining equipment back.

just leave it alone for 10 mins.  sometimes it takes awhile to start hashing. and yes, mine showed up without the firmware version number displayed as well.  Real strange...but it does work if you leave it alone.

Let me know how it goes from here.

It's really a pity that there are so many scammers, though, I guess there is so much money to be made that it makes sense the conmen wanna get in on the action.  I've actually been trying to figure out how to offload mine as well.  I have some Innosilicon A4+ that I'm able to (barely) get all running in my house. So funny to see you ran make shift wiring to your kid's play room... I'm basically doing the same thing.  I have 7 running in my garage and 3 plugged in my bedroom which only run when my wife and I are out of the house or at work.  At night obviously we have to sleep.  I'm pretty close to the limit on my breaker box so I've kinda been staying close to home these last several weeks.  I'm scratching my head on what to do with the 60 S9s that are supposed to arrive at my doorstep.  I've heard they draw twice the power and produced twice the heat.  My original plan was to get a warehouse or something in Oregon or Washington where power is cheaper than San Francisco where I am and run everything remotely.  But frankly, lately I've kind of just fell off the mining bandwagon... It's allot of work.  And the wife-effect is for real brothers... Hell hath no fury like a woman's hate for the constant droning sound of these machines.

So like you, I'm trying to figure out how to offload all these things. I hope it all turns out ok for you.  I have a couple weeks or something to figure what I'm going to do with my S9s when they arrive. Until then, the A4+ are heating my home for free + a bit of profit. Hopefully if I post, I'll get someone that's serious enough to fly/drive out and pick these up suckers up in person.

PS, on a side note, someone should do the math on how much these things are heating up the Earth's atmosphere.  Just think 1 million of these things running on Earth..... It's crazy.

Update:  Here's some (humorous pics) for your enjoyment.  Admittedly, your setup was more nicely stacked than mine.  You can see I'm running the bitmain PSUs with the A4+s...they can output 1000W on 115V and the A4+ only draws 750W so it works out quite well.

https://imgur.com/zbRoZfP (2 units)
https://imgur.com/Tf7mXiS (1 unit)
https://imgur.com/Xjq6lU2 (2 units stacked)
https://imgur.com/wAmkIAY (the 3 units in the bedroom)
https://imgur.com/TPVSbqB (2 units)

Have you calculated if you'll make a profit (ROI) with the current difficulty?

BUMP

Anything further about this?  Did you ever get your unit?

snipped.  better?

Hi guys,

I'm wondering what's the reasoning behind selling the S9s to buy some A8s?  Are there any technical reasons (faster, lower power consumption, better return, higher MTBF, etc) or is it purely because people are willing to pay an arm and a leg for S9s and perhaps not so much for A8s (and if not so much, why not?)

Also, if I'm interested in adding 100 units of hashing power (it'll be more about the space than power for me) come Q1 or Q2, what would be my best bet in terms of availability and pricing?  The Avalons or Antminers...or something else?  Thanks in advance for the replies guys..