I agree... While looks may not matter, the actual design does.

If you sell me a triangle shaped miner, I'm going to have a hard time putting 20 of them in one place.

AFIAK my rocketbox hasnt even shipped

its 6 days since the 25th was a promised ship date, with no tracking number or confirmation of shipping yet. Glad i only got a pair of them, since the remainder of my funds are now tagged for Bitmain gear.

lucky you at least know where they are. I am used to bitmain shipping a day or two before giving me a tracking number, but only because they have elivered on time again and again (other than an S2 shipping two days late).

Not overly happy that my rocketbox is at least 5 days late, particularly since it was confirmed over email by alex on the 17th that "miners will be shipped out asap,may before than 25th."

hopefully seeing bitmain S3 units for sale will get the rockminer crew back on schedule and with some price reductions. Bitmain is offering cheaper hashrate thats about 30% more efficient.

mine arrived today.
1) shipping packaging sucked. loose cables rattling around, both miners have bent corners on the frame, one box was opened by the security agency.
2) class 10 card is good - works off the bat
3) BIG and HEAVY. way too much aluminum for the heat produced, its rediculous and probably why shipping costs a fortune.
4) LOUD. why do the fans not seem to be variable speed? It is really loud despite not being terribly hot.
5) too manyu cables. 4xPCIe is silly, as is 4x USB.
6) what is the ip address to reach the RPi once running?  EDIT: 192.168.1.254 on my network
7) whats the login for the raspberry pi?


update after 1.5hrs of operation:

the unit is stable at about 927GH for two units - pretty good. still waiting for the pools delay to confirm.
Im using 1 DPS800 at 120V per rk-box, with 4 independant 16awg cables that I sell, and the second psu having two cables and two 16awg splitters. both methods are stable without wires getting warm. (up to ~130w per splitter or 260W were 16awg, with clear headroom to carry more )

the fan speed is silly though - how can this be turned down since the PWM functionality is clearly not in place and the fans are spinning at 100% blowing barely-warm exhaust and are probably in the same 70dB range as an SP10 at 60%

I tried but 70cfm fans were not sufficient - temps got up into the 55-65 range and 2 boards turned off. had to switch back. any good 100-120cfm suggestions?

also, after 9hrs operation the miners have 925GH hashrate but 12% rejects  - meaning only ~810Gh at the pool.

We are having a problem with most if not all of our RK Boxes on Pis, only 1 blade works at full speed and the other 3 almost shit off and only run at 40GH.

Rockminer.com points to an sd image for the rocketbox on megaupload that is actually an image for the rbox(1.3.1). You'll notice the web-UI is version .5. I had similar issues with this build. You'll need to download the 1.3.2 version from baidu(web-UI v.9). I have 2 RBoxes running at 450-500gh/s off of 1 RPi on the latest version, although with 10 percent rejects.

I also built the latest customized cgminer for beaglebone and an x86 box. They seem to be a bit more stable on those systems. I'll provide an updated windows installer sometime this weekend.

Disregard the previous version numbers I listed.

Right Image:
RaspberryPi_Rockminer_Rocket_V1.1.img

Wrong Image:
RaspberryPi_Rockminer_RBoxV0.3.1.img

I would try running against an x86 build of cgminer and see if they behave the same way. It seems yours are being recognized as rboxes… I had the same thing happen when I tested them on a 4.4.1 build of cgminer. Also, make sure they are getting enough power.

I have 6 running, 2 on rpi, 2 on beaglebone, and 2 on x86 ubuntu. No problems other than 10% reject rate.

someone already downloaded the 1.2.1 version ?
What's the difference with 1.1 ?
I can't seem to get it downloaded right,
it get's stuck at 16% from downloading or so.

Maybe someone can reupload it somewhere else.