They Arrived!
Well to be completely honest the arrived early may but I wanted to keep back my review until i had some time with them so i could do a decent review.
The beast has arrived! wo0ho0 :)
Any home miner will know this feeling :) Toys!! new Toys haha
Ok so first we unwrap the Bitmain 1600w APW3+ PSU.
As i wanted to have these up and running as quick as possible i went with the Bitmain PSU.
It comes ready to go with all the 6 pins you need to hook these miners up. You need 8 for the blades and 1 for the Pi which controls it (pretty sure its a pi but please correct me if not). There is 1 6 pin left over which you could find a use. :)
Ok now for the good part!
Ok so a quick bit of blerb about the miner...
Enough reading haha, show me the beast!
It's always reassuring to see something well packed. just makes you feel better after the tentative wait to know that everything 'should' be ok.
Almost there.. haha come to papa.
Tada! There she is, nice and shiny and most importantly... NO DAMAGE!
ok quick check all the connectors etc are all ok and no lose wires anywhere.
Always double check before plugging anything in! There is no turning back if you mess up here.
Everything looks perfect so lets do a wiring test run, looking great :)
Now to get her plugged in and earning! :)
Ok so these things are a little chaotic with hash rates... I am using awesome miner here, great program check it out here
They average out at the right speed but you will see a lot of fluctuations. I have two rigs running and i see a range from 750mh to 1500mh...
As for power Bitmain state they use 800w each. I am running 2 of these and also 2 1600w PSUS.. lets check the power draw.
Wow ok, thats decent :) its always good to see there are no 'test environment' lies when it comes to power draw. Its make or break on miners. Well done Bitmain!
Ok so that's the good part... now for the bad THE NOISE! :(
Man these things sound like a jet taking off!! I tested them at 80db wow... that's a Vacuum cleaning a house!!
Would not recommend these for home mining... just too loud! Ok lets see what we can do...
It's no surprise they are loud! look at these bad boys!
So i ordered some Corsair CO-9050008-WW Air Series SP120 Performance Edition 120mm High Pressure Fans to help ease some of the noise...
Look at the difference! wow.... i hope they help. Ok so the corsairs are 3 pin so we need to 'mod' the connector.
Please be careful!! Check the wires and triple check before doing this. Things can go bad fast if you get this wrong!
I tried the fans on the front as the above pics shows. They were not powerful enough so i swapped the to the output side on the rear of the miner. It works there and bought the miners down to about 65db... still loud.. trust me..
So there we have it my review of the Bitmain L3+ 504mh Scrypt miners. LOUD! but fun machines.
I will post a follow up in a few weeks :)
Thanks steemers and happy mining!!
speaking about Litecoin, take a look who just joined a Steemit! :)
https://steemit.com/litecoin/@mys/remember-this-210-ltc-worth-puzzle-posted-by-charlie-lee-we-have-solved-it-detail-explanation-inside-how-we-did-that
What are you mining on scrypt these days?
I have been splitting my time so far between litecoin (obviously) and nicehash. I will do a good follow up report soon though with my progress :)
Thanks for the vote @jacobt
very nice toys you got there! but don't tell me you dont miss the old days with the gpu rigs! :)
Haha i do and i dont :)
I learned a lot in a short space of time in those days and i miss that part for sure. What i don't miss rushing home to reboot one or reinstall a corrupted usb, or returning a £300 card because it was DOA and losing out on the profits while i waited... haha
Well you got a point on that ! But the feeling of solo mining in your sandboxed wallet ! and getting your blocks ! damn that was addicting ! heh
Haha for sure it was a fun time, especially when you were scrambling to get something compiled for a launch :)
Alarm clock 1 hour prior, launch delayed for 2hrs or even worst for a day !
nice.....resteem and upvote for your post....
thank you :)
u r welcome...
Pretty awesome and congrats! Please keep us updated on the progress/process!
Will do @nansikhouse :)
I'll be interested to see what you get in coins as I always wanted to do this. I have an old dual 5.6Mh scryptminer. How much bandwidth are you using? I have to go solar and wind to do this which is okay but it is the bandwidth that is my problem
Bandwidth is pretty low, i must admit i haven't really measured it...
With pooled mining, at 1000Mhash/s, you'll need a new work unit every 3 seconds or so. Each work unit requires about 256 bytes out and about 768 bytes back. So that's 700 bits per second out and about 2,000 bits per second back. Essentially, zero.
Thanks, I know it is very low compared to most computing and just wondered what happened with a much more powerful rig
It should be very low, as for exact figures i could try and contact Bitmain direct... I will see if i can and maybe add in an update :)
Thanks. About the most I can get in a HughesNet dish system with 15 gigs here. I appreciate any effort because I like to mine - it is cool when you hit a block.
One problem I had was somehow I got hacked several times and my mining rewards tanked to someone else
Wow, this is awesome
Thanks man :)
Really good insights - thanks for sharing your experiences! Keep us up2date!
will do :) Thanks @roomservice
Wow, that fan is probably more powerfull than nowaday downsize-era car engines :D
And miner looks really decent
It must be as it sound like a jet taking off! haha
This machine looks so badass... Good luck with it :D
Thanks mate :)
I got a miner the other day and did not realize how loud it is :(((. Still experimenting with where to place it to minimize the sound damage it creates.
I know the problem! I tried a few options and i could still hear it everywhere in the house... You can buy engine insulation for cars, the silver stuff thats heat resistant. Get some of that and build a box around the miner. That will pad some of the noise out. Make sure to have good air flow though.
Awesome thanks! I will try that this week
Awesome post :) Keep on mining !
Thanks @timmyit :)
Great post! thanks for all that detail, and the pictures to go along. Was it quite technical to setup in terms of software configuration rather than the obvious technical knowledge required to simply build the miner?
Thank you @jamdonut :)
Haha great name! My wifes favourite thing (above me i think..) is donuts haha.
The setup was a breeze! I will show the onboard GUI in more detail in my next update.
Awesome, looking forward to it!
Wow.. thats really really nice :D
Good luck and have fun :)
Thanks @psywalker :)
Wow! The way you strip-teased this miner........!! Seeing it for the first time, but I guess I can never use them. 65-80 DB noise and so much expertise, time needed to monitor them and earn profits. It's good that guys like you are doing the hard part for us!!
My pleasure @siddartha!
YES 65-80db is LOUD! These are not home miners by a long shot...
Happy to help out anyone if i can mate :)
Update soon :)
Cool! But what about airflow? The fan might be so loud because it's pushing a lot of air through the miner. On the other hand, the fan from Corsair is quieter but maybe less powerful. So isn't the miner overheated now?
The Corsair is less powerful than the standard exit fan but as its 3pin it works at 100% all the time rather than being controlled by the miner. The temps were actually 1c lower with the corsair because of this. When summer hits then i might have to switch them back but for now the db drop is worth it.
The front fan is actually a double blade if you check the close up. It's crazy powerful but mental loud haha. I dread to think how loud when its running 100%
I will try overclocking it soon so i will do a thorough sound and performance update :)
cool.
thanks @blapone420
I'm new to these kind of things lol what does this do ?
It's a specialised piece of hardware which mines scrypt coins.
Oh ... thanks
You lucky soul you lol...I been wanting one of these bad boys for my collection a lot lately and your review has driven up my need for them even more lol. I am definitely following you to see how the future holds for you with these miners.
I better kick it into high gear with my Steemit writing and my side gig at PIVX fast lol...be really cool to get one of these one day. CONGRATS, may the mining bring you wealth beyond your dreams!!!
Thank you @sflaherty!!
Great vibes your sending across :)
I myself wanted a few of the original L3s but missed out...
Ironically pivx gave me the funds to get these! I saw the chance and jumped for it.
Will be posting some updates on my progress in the coming days and might even try a cheeky clock and see what they can really do :)
That is awesome, I actually work as their marketer and social media guy at PIVX, well I been on a mini vacation to deal with some financial stuff but about to get back to work again it looks like soon for PIVX. I built my latest gaming rig actually with all PIVX earnings lol...glad to see someone else got something out of what we been working so hard to do for everyone.
Definitely going to keep tabs on your posts, hook you up with some upvotes when I catch the new stuff. I want an L3 but have to wait a little longer, but enjoy man...definitely a little jealous lol
Nice to hear mate! Was running masternodes since the DNET early days! :)
Wish I knew of them back then, I just happened on them back in early FEB but luckily still early enough. Not ahead enough yet for a MN but hopefully will get there before she jumps up too high out of my reach, which is possible
Great Review. Why do you have a Pi controlling them? It isn't required. Avalon's require the Pi.
I was referring to the miners controller which sits on top at the front of the unit. I figured it was a pi or some thing very similar. Thanks for the vote @cloh76 :)
Those are some sexy beasts!
Sexy... LOUD beasts :D
Congratulations, really detailed post i like it!
Happy mining.
Thank you @bbkoopsta :)
Thanks for your review!
Some questions:
No worries, glad you liked it.
I used an energenie power meter from amazon.
check here
Im UK so the cost would be in pence but i just put in 0.127 to test if it was pounds or pence :) instructions were not clear...
The important part i wanted to know was the power draw.
Thank you for getting back to me! Will get one of those energie meters but then for Dutch socket :). Looking forward to your post about profitability etc!
Watch this space :)
Looking good there @b0y2k. I can sense the excitement from here :)
gimmeh the coins :D
Heck yeah man! Some coins to pay the jet fuel to power that setup :)
Wowza! Congrats and thanks for the review :D
Are these overclockable?
Yes they are but im not sure i can take more fan noise!! haha.
More detailed results and tests coming soon :D
Looking forward to updates :D
looking from space :)
haha nice one @ssekulji bruvva :)
Congratulations @b0y2k!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:
wo0ho0 :)
Wondeful
I'd like to know where you got the meter to see your power consumption, and if you are running both power supply's on a single 20 A 110Vac circuit? I was thinking that would pop the breaker. Thanks for the article, very interesting
Good info, thanks for the post