Quote from: Cassey on May 30, 2014, 05:23:21 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on May 30, 2014, 05:06:13 AM

Man those numbers are high.

I am doing 10mh at 167 watts on 2 gridseed blades and 1 gridseed 5 chip . and one of the gridseed blades is defective . I should be doing 11.0mh

but I have a 1200 watt plat seasonic which is more efficient then your psu. still you are 3.4x the power for 1.5 x the hash

Something is wrong with the firmware these miner should be at much lower numbers.

I am doing 16.7 watts an mh with the gridseeds

Which raises the $64M question: Do our GAW miners use the same chip as the Zeus? Odd they were both released within days of each other, at similar price points, zenminer supports both, but the GAWs power usage seems to be twice what the Zeus advertises (I haven't seen if they are actually delivering on that advertisement).

Some have been guessing the same chip, but different board designs? If so, there might be hope for a firmware patch to greatly cut the power down.

I can confirm they are using Zeus' chips. When I first looked at the chips I thought there was no writing on them but after looking more closely I can see that they say "Zeus" and a part number.

The power use of these is completely unacceptable. My 7 voltmodded gridseeds use ~60W for 2.7Mh. That means I could run 70 of them at 600W for 27Mh. My Falcon is drawing 1135W, not including 5W for the Pi.

I looked at the cgminer config on the ZenController. It has freq set to 838 which is very different than the "--ltc-clk 328" we're seeing recommended. Is the cgminer version on the ZC different than the download? Edit: Looks like freq is different. It's still using --ltc-clk 328 param along with that freq setting.

Edit again: Also looks like the config only has 1 pool in it despite setting 2 pools on the website. Why wouldn't it have them saved in the config?

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