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How are people getting such huge variances in the wattage drawn for the 5GH/s miners? Wired measured it to be 43W-44W, Ars measured it as 50W [1], while David f
by ValentineC 14y ago
How are people getting such huge variances in the wattage drawn for the 5GH/s miners? Wired measured it to be 43W-44W, Ars measured it as 50W [1], while David from Coding In My Sleep [2] measured it to be 30W.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-labs-bitcoin-miner-and-its-pretty-darn-fast/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/weve-got-a-butterfly-...
[2] http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/ http://codinginmysleep.com/bfl-jalapeno-unboxing-and-demo/ (see 7:33)
- Jach 14y agoLikely because they're using different revisions of the hardware. BFL didn't meet their power usage promises and have been going through several design changes over the past few weeks to try to get the power down more.