THELOGICALINDIAN - Avalon has a acclaimed name in the Bitcoin ASIC Mining industry As one of the aboriginal companies to aftermath and address ASIC accessory they had several models that were accomplished sellers Simple to use and able at the aforementioned time Other manufacturers accept stepped up in ability and achievement back those canicule Canaan Creative CO LTD the aggregation abaft the accepted Avalon name appear not too continued ago the Avalon 41 Bitcoin ASIC miner The Avalon 41 is agnate in architecture to the SpondooliesTech SP20 What makes it altered is the 41s acceleration and concrete admeasurement It is beyond in concrete admeasurement than the SP20 The specs are nice for a accepted gen miners as able-bodied While not absolutely as acceptable as an S5 in agreement of ability to ghs arrangement it is close
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Specifications: Avalon 4.1, 1 th/s Bitcoin ASIC Miner
The Avalon 4.1 runs at almost 1 th/s at banal settings with accomplished overclock and underclock achievement as well. Underclocking is key abnormally back BTC amount is lower and authoritative a accumulation aloft electricity costs is paramount. The aircraft gods were accepting a acceptable day as the miner accustomed safely. The aircraft box deeply protects the Avalon from accident and bouncing about too abundant while in transit.
When aperture the box, you will acquisition the miner as able-bodied as the USB UART adapter and cables to bung into your best of controller. Running the Avalon 4 requires a abstracted RPi or WR703N Router w/ Custom Firmware or PC. For this review, we acclimated the RPi (Raspberry Pi) image.
The Avalon 4 like the Antminer S5 runs on abundant beneath ability than the antecedent gen miners. At the banal freq the Avalon 4 ran at 1 th/s and pulled 633 watts at the wall. We acclimated an EVGA 1300watt Supernova PSU for the review. Another nice affection of the Avalon is how quiet it runs. The miner activated at 42 dB at 4 anxiety on banal settings and alone 48 dB on turbo settings. With the Antminer S4 and the SP20, they are abundant abundant louder authoritative them not abundant of an advantage for inhabited apartment in your house. While underclocking the miner, it absolutely went bottomward to 39 dB at 4 feet. Actual acquiescent and will not account a annulment if you accept a brace in the house. The Avalon can accomplish this by application a actual able fan and a beyond apartment than the SP20.
Normally we allocution about the affluence of ambience up the miner afore the acceleration but in this case we adored it for aftermost because of the underclocking that can be done with the Avalon 4.1. The angel for the RPi is absorbing in that it offers two means to bureaucracy and use your miner. The absence is the Avalon interface that is simple. It gives accomplished graphs and real-time stats with a simple console for the basin config and arrangement setups. The RPi ambassador defaults to 192.168.0.100 so if you use a altered IP ambit for your arrangement you will appetite to pop it over and set the angel to DHCP or a changeless IP of your choice. Addition nice aspect is the adeptness to run several of the miners from one RPi or addition controller. The USB dongle allows for use with the altered controllers. ASICMiner acclimated one that was similar, but the Canaan-Creative USB dongle is added aesthetic as able-bodied as accepting indicator lights to let you apperceive if it is alive appropriately or not. The miner additionally allows you to alternation them calm abundant the way the BTCGarden miners were chain-able. Avalon aesthetic this as able-bodied over the BTCGardens.
With the avant-garde approach of the Avalon 4.1, you will see a accustomed interface to abounding miners. The skinned cgminer abundant like Bitmain uses. The Avalon in the basin alternative awning has a simple alternative for modes. Custom, Eco, Normal, and Turbo. Each one will accord you altered speeds calmly after messing around. In Eco mode, we were able to get 510 gh/s at 252 watts at the wall. The Eco ambience makes it about 0.48 watt/GH. Add in the actual quiet performance, and you accept a actual adorable miner for the activity conscious.
The Avalon 4.1 we additionally pushed in overclocking and were able to ability 1.36 th/s abiding with Turbo mode. The ability burning hit in the 1170watt range. Still admirable but not apple shattering. With the custom ambience and a server PSU, we were able to get the miner up to 1.42 th/s. As consistently with overclocking and alike underclocking do so at your own risk.
The Avalon 4.1 is a absolutely built, alluringly assuming and affection affluent Bitcoin ASIC miner. We acclimated the miner on BTCGuild, AntPool, and NastyPool. The miner performed aural 2% on anniversary basin on boilerplate with no affinity issues. I acclaim this miner for home use to ample installations. The simple bureaucracy and affection affluent ascendancy software is excellent. There are so abounding settings and accomplished affability things you can do that it makes it actual powerful. Initially, the ambassador software that was aboriginal appear was a bit buggy but Canaan-Creative on the chump casework ancillary is additionally top notch. They accumulate alive to advance the software afterwards the auction so their barter can get their monies worth. Amount is area the better check comes in. Currently (although it may change) the Avalon 4.1 is priced added than added miners such as the SP20 (now awash out) or the Antminer S5. It is not a huge bulk but abundant to put the gh/s to amount arrangement a bit aloft the others. Of agenda admitting is Avalon is aircraft them now, there is no pre-order like the S5 or actuality awash out as the SP20. This actuality is a acceptable affair for those attractive to abundance now.
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Disclosure: Miner was provided by Canaan-Creative to be reviewed.
