take your pick:

a - he's a savant
b - recent blow to the head
c - self deprecating humor
d - all of the above

:|

I'll be busy scraping the paint off one of my titan cubes to see if it says Neptune underneath

yeah to clarify the above..i'm talking about the 4/6 port boards being the same in everything...ever made by knc up and thru use on the neptunes and titans....
lazy/fast/cheap and late KNC's motto If i 'get' that 2nd oct 2013 saturn board I will try to just direct pin the wires w/o a daughter board to a pi for the titan
and I'd be the odds of it working is better then 90%....still have no time/days off to get to the clone daughter board test on my oct jupiter 4 port card....

too much to do too little time

as to the dumb question no doubt I am....all this tech stuff is beyond my normal day to day work and experiences...out in the sticks by myself....(sure can't mention
bitcoin ..last time that happened a  plumber saw my stuff I said bitcoin..and have not heard from the guy since..how many of you had your bank sic the SEC on you
when in 2013 'btc was evil' ? at least in 2015 they just thing of me like a 'deluded Amway Salesman' when the topic comes up....damn I need to start a crypto club
or something.....its like the frigging "I am Legend" movie around here and don't even have a dog..btc wise that is....


probably because I am the dumb...I realize my limitations (esp as a newbie....bfl drank the kool aid....alpha tech put 30% down got it back because if you have an American
Express Gold Card..and alpha lies on the invoice that I paid in FULL and I can prove I paid 1/3  pre-order.....well never heard an amex rep swear before...gave me refund on the spot
with a point to the web page on the pre-order info...I gather one does not LIE to AMEX ..they were 'miffed'


so I've made ALL the mistakes since 2013 (more if you count not getting in BEFORE 2013)

that aside..you got to understand I work with the 'dev disabled' in a 'deaf blind' house as awake overnight staff...thus have lots of time (and permission) to mess around on the computer
when things are och and taken care of ...my bosses LOVE the fact I've done this for years and no turn over..and stay awake etc etc

So I admit that my grammar and the rest in a 'tossed out in 5 min post' is not the best answer sometimes here at work..but on the other hand I'm getting paid to reply to some of this stuff...so you got to take what I say with that in mind and a grain of salt

/ignore is always an option......many do ...feel free....

but again I have no clue...occasionally I trip over something ...but most of the time the tech and coder types simply indulge me....explain something ..and I move on

(If I as the 'wounded wilder beast" can keep up with the rest of the herd...well that imho means that any brighter 'newbie' has a better leg up when he trips over topics/replies
I reply on with questions...only as strong as the weakest link...if the goal is to take this 'mainstream' btc and crypto in general...sometimes 'obvious' questions are needed


we imho are already seeing from the btc devs...a bit of that ....we know all ...get in line ....no need to explain..my way or the highway...has to move beyond for such 'tech types' to the regular guy ..who is gonna use btc etc and not give a damn about halving and bitcoin core and the rest...

so I muddle along asking the dumb questions no one else will ....trying to make my clueless-ness of some use

but considering I have the tech skills of hamster.....I've levered myself up about as far as possible....now if others say...bitcoin devs..would lever themselves up a bit more
on PR and informing the rest of us...and put some ego aside and do that same....well .....it might not be as efficient a way to promote crypto and btc ...but hell at le..ast
it would be less intimidating to the (hopeful) future newbies to this circus tent..

but KNC is pretty transparent....if their is an 'EVIL' angle... they can get theirs first (just ask the Neptune pre-order folk shoved last in line for 4 months while they filled
their data hall  up first) they will do so ..looking thru that prism...it is NOT a big deal...ie their RMA tech support on cubes was mostly from what I think was simply fixing
thermal paste..from shoddy temp workers (their info) as they slam'd units out the door (for neppie and titan) big whoop.

if so well hell at least it is interesting as hell as something for me to do at work

and there is the fact clueless or not....KNC did not WIN I have ROI'd on all my stuff and all is well....that is a big deal to me....I 'escaped' the 'shafting' that they fully
expected to Neptune and Titan owners with their 4 month late and in the Titan's case...somewhat 'dubious' firmware.....

so bitcointalk and this thread is a 'testament' to the efforts to overcome the 'lemons' these units were on the above and make lemonade ...between glen tarkin's efforts and lightfoot's efforts we are in a heck of a lot better position in FEB 2016 then I'd have ever guessed

and always remember ..the NEPTUNE or the TITAN is the worlds BEST space heater! As long as it makes 1c more then 'old tech regular" space hearters per month in electric use...that can never be taken away from us here...(well till they 'brick themselves anyway" they are 'evil' knc spawn don't ya know)

yeah well ..even a blind hedgehog occasionally finds a 'truffle'

on a side note

looking at the wayback machine archives..if I was to download all of them....and attempt a merge of such to get (hopefully) on kinda sorta complete (at least as far as the wayback machine archives are concerned) knc forums thread mirror.....

does someone with more expertise then me know of a program to do such

or

would it be a simple manner of just extracting all onto a hard drive 'ASSUMING' the web page threads are 'unique' to the pages/forums in question and just plain
copying over the same web links over and over ...which means ANY links DIFFERENT after this would expand the particular wayback merged archive I'm trying to make?

or

is there a better 'comp sci' process etc?

the reason just ONE newest archive is not good enough imho ..is KNC techs killed a lot of stuff that made them look stupid .others on here can verify such in that for a time you could do a search and see all the deleted posts they had tried to make (the techs of knc in 20/20 hindsight and glen tarkins efforts as comparison were more then kinda inept imho)

so on some archives i get down to the title of a forum post and it is not there ...so either

1) the wayback machine is hit and miss on how deep it delves branch/tree wise down with files ..and a lot is lost

or

2) it exists on some and not others an willy nilly catch all catch can and only a complete merge of all the archives available will give us the truth

anyway suggestions or hell tell me if it is a lost cause and only individual archives can be accessed at a time and not merged in the somewhat 'unexpert' manner I suggest

just ticks me off I never archived the works properly....lots of lost tech info on there (mostly from the users)

thanks

Small update here on firmware progress....

I rewrote the "Energy Saver" controls to be simpler and more intuitive. Primarily because trying to compensate for nearly every situation a user could want became too great of a task w/ endless options and potential bugs.

There is still a freaking anomaly bug happening when user has dies set to odd configurations (off outside the voltage parameters of "energy saver") ... Im still trying to track down why stuff aint working correctly in these more rare situations. Once I have that ironed out ... should be real damn close to release! .... crosses fingers!

Definite rule is voltage less than -0.0366 is recommended at 325mhz. Each die varies in quality which determines what speeds and voltage it can run at reliably. -0.0366 is fine for 325mhz long as its the only die in the cube at that voltage. Running all 4 dies at that voltage at 325mhz increases chances of melting stuff drastically.
My upcoming firmware will try to find the most reliably lowest voltage for each die at the clockspeed they are set to.
So, basically any dies which u set to 325 -0.0366v when starting the "Energy Saver" on my firmware, will have their voltage stepped down until their HW% climbs above 1.1% or they become unstable. Once either of those conditions is hit their voltage is bumped up one notch and tuning is completed for that die.

So, if you have really good dies(my titan has a few) ... I usually start my tuning at -0.0439 @ 325mhz .... some of my dies will end up stable and happy around -0.0732v after tuning is completed. While the worse of my dies (just 1 or 2) have to be bumped up to -0.0366 to run  decent hw%. While my average dies end up being tuned to -0.0513 -0.0586. This is all after tuning completes =)

Awesome! Thanks for ur purchase and support. News of new release of firmware will be on my site and of course in this topic .. when it comes out =)

It may just be heat related to the dies...afterall.. We have no idea what their temps even are! Lol  Which would tie into ur theory bout the bad shoddy tim application.

I recently bought titan on eBay.  One cube got damaged Durring transport.  Heatsink lose (screw holding it got lose)  which i think is common.  I managed to put it back with some DIY.  Was hashing fine.  Then unplugged it and now its dead and on top of it psu shuts down when connected to that cube.  Any idea why? How to fix it?

Any pointers on repairing burnt power connectors on cubes ?

By the way if anyone has the brain-search power to figure out what a TSOT6 chip with Z17C or Z17R or THR is, I would appreciate. I'm thinking linear power regulator to run the hotel circuits on the chip, but without specs I can't figure out what is a signal input and what is an output to the chip's cores.

Note: This is not what I am looking for here....