I wanted to share a bit about myself first.
So, I’m based in Europe and I’ve got some background in Bitcoin mining. I got into it back in 2014 when Bitcoin was just kicking off, and I really liked the whole experience. I’m a big supporter of Bitcoin, crypto, and blockchain tech. Fast forward a few years, I’ve been keeping up with the scene and even started mining again, this time with GPUs.
I was on the lookout for ASIC miners (SHA-256) and honestly, apart from Bitmain, there wasn’t much happening. Then I stumbled upon Halong Mining and their DragonMint T1 (16 TH/s). I did some digging but couldn’t find much info since they had just launched. So, I decided to reach out to them directly to get more details and see if I could grab one of those ASIC miners.
The team at Halong was super helpful and responded to all my questions quickly and nicely. A few months down the line, I got a shipping notification from DHL, and just 5 days later, it arrived at my place. I’ve had the DragonMint T1 up and running for about 10 days now.
I’m using a Myrig power supply rated at 1600W, which Halong also provided. Over the past week and a bit, I’ve installed every firmware update available for the T1, and here are my thoughts so far.
Perhaps try reading the Rules of the Forum to find out what you can do here and when. You are brand new with zero activity history. You must earn the right to post different things.
Frankly ^^ reads almost exactly many other PR releases put out by Halong themselves with the one difference being you did point out a few of its warts. Kudos for not glossing over the power concerns.
You said:
Oddly very different response than ANY Forum member with long term cred got from Halong when they announced this machine last November. All anyone got from them was the sound of crickets. That is until these mysterious new members showed up with glowing comments about Halong and how unfair we are to not just trust them.
@NotFuzzyWarm : I can understand why you think that but I am more of the reading type.
I use Bitcointalk for years now and most of the the time, I found what I needed without the need to post other questions.
With this review I thought to do something back for the forum that helped me many times when I had some complications with GPU mining or needed Info on a new coin.
If you checked the link on top of my post you could see in the pictures that I did not cherrypick results or formed a biased opinion about the results.
I tell my experiences nothing more nothing less. I contacted them early on in december on their twitter account because that channel of communication looked the most active.
I refuse to lie about my experience because other people have had some problems. If it would be PR it would look different and would be more cherrypicked results.
@HagssFIN: The review includes a section "Links" their you can find a Pdf-manual and a Instruction movie. I don't think any extra info is needed as guide to get this miner configured.
I sincerely apologies for using your Tittle formatting but I thought it was board policy to make things easy to navigate. I am prepared to change it if you are offended by it.
Personally I Think it is a good format and it would make a improvement for the board.
Thanks for the welcome
I'm not offended.
It's just that usually if one posts a guide, it is made by him and it is not just a official guide which in most cases actually lack some of the useful information.
I mean it wouldn't make sense if for example I make a review/guide documentation for some Antminer model
and then I would just give a link to Bitmain website so you are able to download their user guide .pdf document.
Alright I can live with that, no bad blood. I will make the change .
In my experience most people like to read the original manual first, I couldn't think of anything I could've added to what information is already given in there.
I didn't got confronted with problems doing the configuration. But I am always open for advise & tips on what people like to see or have questions about.
Appreciate the update and review even it was about a year ago, good guide. However need to ask from the photos what were the readings pointing to as there were no unit on power meter...
Especially like to know the efficiency mode, or list out the power Kw for each mode. What is the actual drawn power KW?
Thank you very much.