Quote from: Artemis3 on January 18, 2019, 02:27:25 AM

Maybe your dhcp server is having trouble? That's one more reason i would recommend to set networking manually in all miners. Perhaps the only moment you'd need dhcp is when its brand new and you need to log in to configure it the first time into a proper manually set address, like you just did

I'm not sure. We have a Cisco router that is up to date and latest firmware. We have 36 Z Mini's and at one time 104 S9's of every generation running on it, plus maybe 20 odd computers and devices around the office. We always assign static IPs to the miners, but allow a pool of 50 DHCP addresses for miner bootup and for the other devices that don't need assignments and for wireless devices. Never had a single problem before. We tried swapping cables and even direct connection to the router past the switches. I did open up a ticket with Bitmain support and she said it could have something to do with the way the controllers were flashed. The three units we had trouble with do have the black label around the network port and control panel, and the others do not. I'm not sure if there are any differences in controller hardware, but at Bitmains suggestion we did swap a controller from a working machine to a non-working one and the machine worked fine with the other controller.

Quote from: philipma1957 on January 15, 2019, 01:49:29 PM

To late now but the s15's in your case should have been m10's

The last batch if 10 S15's that we acquired was during that little blip when Bitmain was selling them for $1050. Between that and the coupons we had, it paid for the tariff and shipping. The M10 looks like a good machine but @ 65w/TH the efficiency is too low. We're planning to deploy a total of 36 S15 by the end if Jan and run them full power the rest of the winter. That will give us 1PH. Then change them over to LPM starting in May when we start to have cooling challenges. Our mining room should be able to keep up with the heat very well with 36 machines running 850w ea + the Mini's, and we will be mining at a more efficient ratio during the May-Oct when our PoCo increases our electric rates slightly. In order for us to keep our contract rate with the PoCo we have to draw at least 60KVa 24/7, and in July I want to renew that contract for one more year. We subsidize the electric cost for the mining operation so this will make that more manageable and I'm hoping this last equipment upgrade will keep us mining until the halving. Can't really see beyond that, but I don't think there will be anymore new form factors or revolutionary new increases in efficiency in the next 18 months, so this is what we came up with to keep us mining for one more generation of gear. We can support up to 80 S15's on the current rack (we have total capacity of 150KVa), and our power cost goes down the more we use, so if the gear gets cheaper later in the year we can add more capacity if conditions look favorable. We've been mining since the S5's, so this will be the fourth cycle of gear we've gone through.

Also, I would like to give a hat tip to BitMain. They received the first warranty repair miner (one of our S15's that failed on 240v) in CA on Wednesday and dispatched a replacement unit from Shenzen this morning, it's due to arrive UPS on Monday. So about 10 days turn around from VA. Never thought I'd ever say that.

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