Project Update

[Dataman]

Thanks kashi and JN. I will look at it sometime today. Busy schedule today.
The two r-boxes are by themselves on one machine and not crunching CPU or GPU. ??? Same with the U3's. The r-box run times are all over the place from 18 min to 55 min. The U3's are consistent at ~28 min.
My turn to make breakfast today. Oatmeal anyone? Gotta run ...

EDIT: Found it. Do not know what most of it means but am thinking "(avg.) 0.000 h/s" is not good! Also lots of lines "Failed to get *filename* device in use" and "no device detected" are not good either. Having said that, both are completing wu's eventually. Will take a deeper look when we get back today. I need to complete the build and restack before starting to debug them. At least they are doing something. Cheers!

EDIT2: I still cannot determine a hash rate. All of the numbers in both files are 0.000 h/s. What am I supposed to be looking for? One is stable and doing wu's in 18-19 min. The other one is all over the place from 19 to 59 min. I don't know which is which. Next week I will take one down and just run them one at a time to find the unstable one. Until then something is better than nothing. My other two are still stuck in Salt Lake City. The R4 still has not shipped.

[JugNut]

Which of your PC's has the R-Boxes attached them? Can tell me what the computer ID# is from this list of your computers?  http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/hosts_user.php?sort=expavg_credit&rev=0&show_all=0&userid=7236 

I'm guessing it's the PC with ID: 14115 (with the i7 920)  If I click on tasks then pick the first task I see it shows this..  http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/result.php?resultid=158371377 
This is what the stderr.txt file in the slot directory should look like as well.(or very similar)
As you see your task started at 83.77Gh/s at the top and finished at 78.04Gh/s at the bottom. In the "Summary of runtime statistics:" Section it shows the Average hashrate: 78015.4 Mhash/s (78.015GH)

This is one of mine http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/result.php?resultid=158337006  It starts at 94.44Gh/s and ends at 101.5Gh/s.  The Average is 101378.6 Mhash/s.(101.378GH) When I first got it, it was 108-110GH(it still needs a dust out) 

[chooka03]

Good to see 1.6GH/s WU's now available for campaign #5.
I really was having to abort too many WU's with the 20GH/s WU's :(

[Dataman]

Which of your PC's has the R-Boxes attached them? Can tell me what the computer ID# is from this list of your computers?  http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/hosts_user.php?sort=expavg_credit&rev=0&show_all=0&userid=7236  

I'm guessing it's the PC with ID: 14115 (with the i7 920)  If I click on tasks then pick the first task I see it shows this..  http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/result.php?resultid=158371377  
This is what the stderr.txt file in the slot directory should look like as well.(or very similar)
As you see your task started at 83.77Gh/s at the top and finished at 78.04Gh/s at the bottom. In the "Summary of runtime statistics:" Section it shows the Average hashrate: 78015.4 Mhash/s (78.015GH)

This is one of mine http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/result.php?resultid=158337006  It starts at 94.44Gh/s and ends at 101.5Gh/s.  The Average is 101378.6 Mhash/s.(101.378GH) When I first got it, it was 108-110GH(it still needs a dust out)  

DM08 has the 2 r-boxes (for now). Will move them to DM02 when I get the other 2.
Thanks, I will check it out later. One box is working OK but the other one had been sleeping for 2 hours when I got up. Hot plugged it and it immediately finished. The other two finally made it over the mountains and I should get them Monday. By then I should know which one of the existing ones is good and which is bad. Depends what Karen has planned for us today. Thanks for looking into it mate.
EDIT:OK, I understand now. Thanks for the help. The one thing that still confuses me is am looking at wu's that ran in 17 min that have an average rate of 80 Gh/s and others that ran in 1 hour and 20 min with a hash rate of 80 Gh/s. So the time it is not doing anything is not averaged in? But this helps as it looks like the 2 are doing about 80 Gh/s not 110 Gh/'s. But it is used equipment. I'll take what I can get.
EDIT2: Rather dismal for one r-box. Starts as low as 4 Gh/s; runs most of the time at 15 Gh/s but finishes with an overall Average of 79 Gh/s ??? The math make no sense to me.

[chooka03]

Check this out guys!!

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AntMiner-Bitmain-U1-USB-1-6GH-s-Bitcoin-Miner-X3-BUNDLE-/182412327711?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&nma=true&si=J8PlJZOdOQObm5WzCewk82BVyRc%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

3 x U1 antminers sold for $268.00!!   + postage.
I think I should sell my 2 x U1's which I bought for $20 a few weeks back. The credits I'm gaining from them is minuscule really.

Edit - I think I'll wait and see actually. The 2 bidders who ran that price up have very low feedback and may have been a bit sus.

[chooka03]

Here's a U3 for sale on ebay if you want to buy out of Croatia. 5 available.
Seller has no feedback though........ Think I'll pass.
I noticed he also has an eBay ad to "rent 5 x Antminer U3's. When I asked him about it he said he has 5 for sale and 5 to rent..... all sounds a bit sus for my liking.

Maybe we should start a secondhand Bitcoin miner thread?  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bitcoin-Antiminer-U3-63-Gh-s-/152397061790?hash=item237b929e9e:g:eHAAAOSw5cNYe0rD#shpCntId

[Dataman]

The price of stick miners is crazy.

I physically id'ed which of the two r-boxes is bad (the one with no status light). Some stats:
Bad r-box
Summary of runtime statistics:
                   
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Started at [2017-01-16 04:05:27]                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Runtime: 1 hrs : 58 mins : 48 secs                  
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Average hashrate: 12977.5 Mhash/s                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Solved blocks: 0                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Best share difficulty: 28.5K                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Share submissions: 530                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Accepted shares: 529                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Rejected shares: 1                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Accepted difficulty shares: 20515                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Rejected difficulty shares: 8                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Reject ratio: 0.2%                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Hardware errors: 3695                    
[2017-01-16 06:04:16] Utility (accepted shares / min): 4.45/min

Good U3
Summary of runtime statistics:
                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Started at [2017-01-16 07:21:59]                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Runtime: 0 hrs : 23 mins : 38 secs                    
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Average hashrate: 56267.4 Mhash/s                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Solved blocks: 0                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Best share difficulty: 3.13K                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Share submissions: 453                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Accepted shares: 453                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Rejected shares: 0                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Accepted difficulty shares: 20488                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Rejected difficulty shares: 0                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Reject ratio: 0.0%                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Hardware errors: 0                    
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Utility (accepted shares / min): 19.17/min                   
[2017-01-16 07:45:38] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 785.97/min

Oh well, just the risk of used equipment. The other two stopped moving and I will not get them today. Winter sucks! Got an email from the seller that my R4 ships today.   UPS from New York City so will take a couple of days (or longer).
Seven more days of rain starting Wed. I am sick of it!!!

[chooka03]

Hi Dataman,

We have the opposite over here in the east of Australia...... absolute sweat box here in Queensland last week & this week. 
I'm just watching the grass grow at a record pace but it's too dam hot to mow it. 

Power bill is going to be HUGE...hence no GPU crunching for a while.

[chooka03]

In case anyone's interested, there's a guy selling 5 U3's on eBay in the U.S.A. (Now 3 remaining) USD $70.
I've been in contact with him about possibly buying one but I just can't justify the conversion/freight charges. Looking at multiple options, they all come out with a total cost of close to AUD $200.00....It's just too much for a U3 

Direct freight is nearly USD $100.00. Via Shopmate it's not much better. Throw in the lousy exchange rate via PayPal.... :(

Anyhow, I know how much people like the U3's so thought I'd mention it. Someone here might have deeper pockets than me and the seller was very accommodation to all my questions.

[Dingo]

In case anyone's interested, there's a guy selling 5 U3's on eBay in the U.S.A. (Now 3 remaining) USD $70.
I've been in contact with him about possibly buying one but I just can't justify the conversion/freight charges. Looking at multiple options, they all come out with a total cost of close to AUD $200.00....It's just too much for a U3 

Direct freight is nearly USD $100.00. Via Shopmate it's not much better. Throw in the lousy exchange rate via PayPal.... :(

Anyhow, I know how much people like the U3's so thought I'd mention it. Someone here might have deeper pockets than me and the seller was very accommodation to all my questions.

  Thanks chooka I bought two of them.  It was just over $240 Canadian for the two including freight.  I can't really afford it but I still have the bug for BOINC and when I see others crunching up big numbers I need to try and compete, well try anyway.    for delivery this Friday here in Arizona which is Saturday over there on the other side of the pond.

[chooka03]

Awesome Dingo!
I've actually bought one from Europe!

The freight was HEAPS cheaper. Plus Paypal had a $20.00 discount code.

Why did I think you lived in Australia Dingo?? (I'm sure you've mentioned it before.)
Should start getting close to 1Bil credits a day with all the extra gear we are buying LOL.

Crunch on ppl.

[Dataman]

In case anyone's interested, there's a guy selling 5 U3's on eBay in the U.S.A. (Now 3 remaining) USD $70.

Hahaha and I'm the dude that bought the first two. Will give me 4 of them. Apparently the USPS has lost the two r-boxes. The R4 has still not shipped despite the seller promising to do so. Looks like I will be filing some claims with eBay. 
Rain, rain and more rain for next 7 days.

[Dataman]

BTW, I looked into shipping my Gecko's to OZ. Bottom line is it is not going to happen. There are a lot of restrictions on "Application Specific Computer Hardware" and a whole bunch of customs forms. Also the very cheapest I could do is $121.00 USD to Sydney. Move out from Sydney and it gets even more expensive. Cheaper to send them to the moon via NASA. 

[chooka03]

LOL Dataman.
So The seller has sold nearly all his U3's to us here on Boinc Australia!.. That's GOLD 

Thanks for looking into the Gecko shipments.... that's very kind of you to consider that. That pricing is ridiculous though  ..... seriously.
I was told about USD$100.00 for the U3 with all the cables and power packs etc. In the end I've gone through Europe where the shipping cost has been AUD $33.00 for the same equipment.

Also asked someone at work about duties etc and there's no duty to pay on good coming into Aus if the value is less than $2000 AUD. The reason I asked is becuase the seller in Europe asked if I needed any documentation. Our import/export woman said no.
Mind you.... I didn't tell her exactly what it was I was buying.

Also the shipping of miner from Holy Bitcoin in the US was no way NEAR $100...... can't remember how much it was maybe $20 via USPS.

If you guys want more U3's... I tok the risk and bought from this seller in Europe.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152397061790?ul_noapp=true

He has 2 left and has actually been VERY helpful. Sent me the tracking details today! I wouldn't have bought it if it weren't for PayPal's protection AND they now have a 20% discount code for this item.
Maybe BOINC AUSTRALIA can soak up the worlds supply of U3's! 

[Dataman]

Thanks for looking into the Gecko shipments.... that's very kind of you to consider that. That pricing is ridiculous though  ..... seriously.

I have not given up yet. I am nothing if not persistent ...

@ Dingo: I did not know you were in AZ; thought you were still in Canada. If you like I could mail them to you and you could carry them back to OZ when you return for the Winter (if you are going back). You could just declare them as fancy swizzle sticks or something.   (What happened to the "big grin" smiley?) You could give them out to teammates who are interested. No worries if that is too much hassle. Just an idea. It will be at least two weeks before I retire them. I have a dozen of them and they are still providing 1/2 my credits until I get the 3 new arrays built.