How to get the most out of s19 miners?
779 sats \ 3 comments \ @DesertDave 14 Mar bitcoin
I am an off-grid solar bitcoin miner. I want to convert as much sun light into bitcoin as possible while not overcharging or overdepleting my batteries. So, I spend a lot of time looking to optimize my miners for most efficiency.
I have noticed that every miner is different. And so optimization on an individual level seems key to pulling out as much as possible. I have been using braiins for tuning them. And I have been comparing braiins and lincoin, for my pools.
My questions are, what is the best firmware for fine tuning these miners? Is it possible to tune on a chip by chip basis to super optimize efficiency? And what mining pools give the best rewards for small scale miners that do a lot of curtailing due to solar only operation?
Thank you for your insights
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569 sats \ 2 replies \ @nullcount 14 Mar
BraiinsOS firmware is already tuning on a chip-by-chip basis for maximum efficiency. The software just does it in the background without showing you the exact values or letting you tweak them.
Braiins Pool also gives you a discount on pool fees if you use BraiinsOS firmware.
https://vnish.com/ is opensource firmware with more features/controls/insight into your asics. You can view and tweak the exact voltages applied to each chip and debug issues more easily. However, there is a dev fee collected by acics running vnish firmware.
With great power comes great responsibility. All it takes is one fried hashboard to undo all the gains from an entire week of tweaking settings.
Also look into https://foreman.mn
You can orchestrate and monitor deployments of many different asics remotely using foreman.
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @StoneCodlHodl 14 Mar
The above reply by @nullcount is exactly what I was going to add.
There are also methods to hack the S19 hardware, splitting the hash boards out, so that you can mine on 110V, using a single hashboard; if that's useful. I can't find the link for doing this to save my life. But if you're interested, I can get the link from a friend..
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 14 Mar
https://pivotalpleb.com/products/loki-kit
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