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Title: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on October 25, 2014, 01:59:09 AM Dogie's Miner Setup Guides:
Nicely formatted version available at dogiecoin.com (http://goo.gl/pm6ciH)! https://i.imgur.com/ptViCVd.png (http://goo.gl/pm6ciH) https://i.imgur.com/AXm1t8k.png Contents: 0a) What to Expect (#post_section0a) 0b) What You Need (#post_section0b) 1) Powering (#post_section1) 2) Cooling (#post_section2) 3) Case (#post_section3) 4a) Configuration (TL-MR3020) (#post_section4a) 4b) Configuration (Windows PC) (#post_section4b) 5) Troubleshooting (#post_section5) 6) Where to buy (#post_section6) https://i.imgur.com/AXm1t8k.png 0a) What to Expect (top) (#post_contents) Technobit's 2HEX4M combines two HEX4Ms into a self contained case. Each board utilises four of BlackArrow's 28nm ASICs on large, flat PCBs. An external controller in the form of TP-LINK TL-MR3020 or Windows PC is required.
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Using a modified TP Link MR3020
Alternative Subnet Change:
Antpool Register! (https://account.bitmain.com/sign_up) Code: Servers : stratum.antpool.com:3333 Code: Servers : stratum.btcguild.com:3333 Code: Servers : us1.ghash.io:3333 4b) Configuration (Windows PC) (top) (#post_contents) An external controller is required which can either be a TP-LINK TL-MR3020 (http://goo.gl/k7RFz7) router or a Windows based PC. Wiring:
Using a Windows based PC
Antpool Register! (https://account.bitmain.com/sign_up) Code: Servers : stratum.antpool.com:3333 Code: Servers : stratum.btcguild.com:3333 Code: Servers : us1.ghash.io:3333 https://i.imgur.com/AXm1t8k.png https://i.imgur.com/AXm1t8k.png 5) Troubleshooting (top) (#post_contents)
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Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on October 25, 2014, 03:15:35 AM Wrong title maybe ::) Oops, fixed ^_^ This is why you don't write titles at 4am. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: MasterRadix on October 25, 2014, 08:05:12 AM As always: Very nice guide.
Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on October 25, 2014, 08:42:39 AM As always: Very nice guide. Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks I'm trying to test it now, but its hard without knowing the appropriate voltages for each hash rate. I have no doubt though that lower clock rates will have significant power savings though, as the Minion is pretty decent in that respect. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: MasterRadix on October 27, 2014, 11:10:44 AM As always: Very nice guide. Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks I'm trying to test it now, but its hard without knowing the appropriate voltages for each hash rate. I have no doubt though that lower clock rates will have significant power savings though, as the Minion is pretty decent in that respect. Thanks! Any news about that? Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on October 27, 2014, 11:39:01 AM As always: Very nice guide. Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks I'm trying to test it now, but its hard without knowing the appropriate voltages for each hash rate. I have no doubt though that lower clock rates will have significant power savings though, as the Minion is pretty decent in that respect. Thanks! Any news about that? Its too subjective to give actual numbers to be honest, but there are significant power savings to be had at the cost of hash rate. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: y_boonstra on October 27, 2014, 01:49:40 PM As always: Very nice guide. Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks I'm trying to test it now, but its hard without knowing the appropriate voltages for each hash rate. I have no doubt though that lower clock rates will have significant power savings though, as the Minion is pretty decent in that respect. Its the same as 2x a HEX4M board so see my speadsheet for some info.. I have done some more power meassurments. my results so far: POWER http://s28.postimg.org/74t82aeh9/hex4m_power.jpg SPEED/b] http://s3.postimg.org/qnbkvw1ab/hex4m_gh.jpg EFFICIENCY http://s3.postimg.org/dungvypoj/hex4m_efficiency.jpg 0 = Not stable Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: bobsag3 on October 27, 2014, 06:32:49 PM As always: Very nice guide. Do you have more infos about the hashrate in "power saving mode" technobit is talking about on their site (" 0.58 W/GHs ")? Thanks I'm trying to test it now, but its hard without knowing the appropriate voltages for each hash rate. I have no doubt though that lower clock rates will have significant power savings though, as the Minion is pretty decent in that respect. At .71-.73V, each minion should be able to do ~80GH for .5w/gh at the chip level (700-800mhz on the chip) Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: canemore on December 02, 2014, 10:17:56 PM Great guide dogie
I've followed it to the T, but my pc and zadig keeps seeing it as a hex8A1 which I have got 3 running fine. Any ideas that could help a noob? Cheers Mike Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on December 02, 2014, 11:00:08 PM Great guide dogie I've followed it to the T, but my pc and zadig keeps seeing it as a hex8A1 which I have got 3 running fine. Any ideas that could help a noob? Cheers Mike You'll have to ask Marto unfortunately, I'm not sure what cross interactions there are with multiple devices. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: Zich on December 03, 2014, 01:56:38 AM Great guide dogie I've followed it to the T, but my pc and zadig keeps seeing it as a hex8A1 which I have got 3 running fine. Any ideas that could help a noob? Cheers Mike This may cause by "handle usb detect error" setting. You can set it to hex4m and see the behavior. But if i may suggest, it's better to use TPLINK TL-MR3020 as controller then using PC. Cheap, easy configure, low power consumption. You can buy it in your local computer store then flash it with technobit firmware. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: canemore on December 03, 2014, 09:18:17 AM Thanks dogie and thanks zich
I'm going to have a play, and get a tp link hopefully I'll have it sorted soon :) is it possible to run the hex4ms and the hex8A1 together? Cheers Mike Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on December 03, 2014, 10:14:53 AM Thanks dogie and thanks zich I'm going to have a play, and get a tp link hopefully I'll have it sorted soon :) is it possible to run the hex4ms and the hex8A1 together? Cheers Mike Yes, there should be no reason why not. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: Zich on December 03, 2014, 10:24:46 AM Thanks dogie and thanks zich I'm going to have a play, and get a tp link hopefully I'll have it sorted soon :) is it possible to run the hex4ms and the hex8A1 together? Cheers Mike Anytime dude :) If you gonna play with TPLINK TL-MR3020, checkout this thread How to upgrade TPLINK TL-MR3020 firmware to technobit openwrt (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=476326.0) Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: canemore on December 03, 2014, 07:09:28 PM right ordered a tp link , but still cant get windows to see it for what it is :-\
i`m getting a few ghs out of it and a lot of HEXM 0 CHIP 0,1,2,3 last received nonce 2 secs ago reset and it see`s 0: HEXM 0 : 1016 805/0802mv 20.12gh ....... this is on cgminer technobit win 0-3-8 i`m using 2 cm750m to power, (but can mod a 2kw server psu) i`m a bit concerned because its a 2hex4m but i can only see 1 on cgminer screen anyone got any ideas??? thanks mike Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: Zich on December 04, 2014, 01:10:52 AM right ordered a tp link , but still cant get windows to see it for what it is :-\ i`m getting a few ghs out of it and a lot of HEXM 0 CHIP 0,1,2,3 last received nonce 2 secs ago reset and it see`s 0: HEXM 0 : 1016 805/0802mv 20.12gh ....... this is on cgminer technobit win 0-3-8 i`m using 2 cm750m to power, (but can mod a 2kw server psu) i`m a bit concerned because its a 2hex4m but i can only see 1 on cgminer screen anyone got any ideas??? thanks mike Seem like wrong setting. Can you post your setting? There is 2 board in there hence you will need 2 usb cable(1 usb cable per board) to connect 2hex4m to HOST. If using TPLINK TL-MR3020 you will need powered usb hub. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: canemore on December 05, 2014, 05:45:05 PM Yes did have wrong settings
Marto74 is a legend for sorting it out for me by remote :) I have got to say thanks to all who tinkle and post, I've learnt a lot from you all so thanks all Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: cannachris on December 07, 2014, 09:32:57 PM right ordered a tp link , but still cant get windows to see it for what it is :-\ i`m getting a few ghs out of it and a lot of HEXM 0 CHIP 0,1,2,3 last received nonce 2 secs ago reset and it see`s 0: HEXM 0 : 1016 805/0802mv 20.12gh ....... this is on cgminer technobit win 0-3-8 i`m using 2 cm750m to power, (but can mod a 2kw server psu) i`m a bit concerned because its a 2hex4m but i can only see 1 on cgminer screen anyone got any ideas??? thanks mike Seem like wrong setting. Can you post your setting? There is 2 board in there hence you will need 2 usb cable(1 usb cable per board) to connect 2hex4m to HOST. If using TPLINK TL-MR3020 you will need powered usb hub. marto just told me to use an unpowered hub for my 8*hex4m in another topic! Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on December 08, 2014, 01:02:18 AM right ordered a tp link , but still cant get windows to see it for what it is :-\ i`m getting a few ghs out of it and a lot of HEXM 0 CHIP 0,1,2,3 last received nonce 2 secs ago reset and it see`s 0: HEXM 0 : 1016 805/0802mv 20.12gh ....... this is on cgminer technobit win 0-3-8 i`m using 2 cm750m to power, (but can mod a 2kw server psu) i`m a bit concerned because its a 2hex4m but i can only see 1 on cgminer screen anyone got any ideas??? thanks mike Seem like wrong setting. Can you post your setting? There is 2 board in there hence you will need 2 usb cable(1 usb cable per board) to connect 2hex4m to HOST. If using TPLINK TL-MR3020 you will need powered usb hub. marto just told me to use an unpowered hub for my 8*hex4m in another topic! There appears to be a bit of draw via USB on these, so I'd put them on a powered hub. Doesn't have to be a beastly one, but a few amps wouldn't hurt. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: cannachris on December 08, 2014, 07:58:08 PM Does anyone have a suggestion for less noisy fans that could be used to replace the sunon fans? And my fans came without a grill >:( so it sliced off a peice of my finger whilst instaling it, 3 weeks ago now and it still hurts...
Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on December 09, 2014, 01:25:12 AM Does anyone have a suggestion for less noisy fans that could be used to replace the sunon fans? And my fans came without a grill >:( so it sliced off a peice of my finger whilst instaling it, 3 weeks ago now and it still hurts... Quite honestly I think these are quite overcooled, so any mid range high pressure fans (Corsair I'm looking at you). Might need a small underclock if hash rate goes unstable. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: cannachris on December 10, 2014, 12:03:00 PM Does anyone have a suggestion for less noisy fans that could be used to replace the sunon fans? And my fans came without a grill >:( so it sliced off a peice of my finger whilst instaling it, 3 weeks ago now and it still hurts... Quite honestly I think these are quite overcooled, so any mid range high pressure fans (Corsair I'm looking at you). Might need a small underclock if hash rate goes unstable. Could you post me a link to a correct model that i could use 'cause I'm a bit new to the miner modding thing... and the miner is not currently at this location so I can't measure anything Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: dogie on December 10, 2014, 04:17:13 PM Does anyone have a suggestion for less noisy fans that could be used to replace the sunon fans? And my fans came without a grill >:( so it sliced off a peice of my finger whilst instaling it, 3 weeks ago now and it still hurts... Quite honestly I think these are quite overcooled, so any mid range high pressure fans (Corsair I'm looking at you). Might need a small underclock if hash rate goes unstable. Could you post me a link to a correct model that i could use 'cause I'm a bit new to the miner modding thing... and the miner is not currently at this location so I can't measure anything It would be these (http://goo.gl/u0uNoZ). Its a significant step down in cooling power though so be careful. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: sbogovac on December 26, 2014, 09:54:17 AM Would these also work on a RasPi and cgminer-3.6.1 (I used in the past on the HEX16 boards...)?
Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: Zich on December 26, 2014, 09:58:45 AM Would these also work on a RasPi and cgminer-3.6.1 (I used in the past on the HEX16 boards...)? No, you need to use newer cgminer & apply the latest patch. Latest patch is for cgminer 4.6.1. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: sbogovac on December 26, 2014, 10:07:44 AM Would these also work on a RasPi and cgminer-3.6.1 (I used in the past on the HEX16 boards...)? No, you need to use newer cgminer & apply the latest patch. Latest patch is for cgminer 4.6.1. Thanks, for the (super-) quick reply! And do I need a PSU with 4 separate cables? Or would 2 cables with the integrated splitter (so 4 PCI 6pin connectors, 2 per cable) work too? Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: Zich on December 26, 2014, 10:11:38 AM Would these also work on a RasPi and cgminer-3.6.1 (I used in the past on the HEX16 boards...)? No, you need to use newer cgminer & apply the latest patch. Latest patch is for cgminer 4.6.1. Thanks, for the (super-) quick reply! And do I need a PSU with 4 separate cables? Or would 2 cables with the integrated splitter (so 4 PCI 6pin connectors, 2 per cable) work too? You must use 4 separate cables. 2 cables will be very hot. Title: Re: [Guide] Dogie's Comprehensive Technobit 2HEX4M Setup [HD] Post by: sbogovac on December 26, 2014, 10:37:01 AM Would these also work on a RasPi and cgminer-3.6.1 (I used in the past on the HEX16 boards...)? No, you need to use newer cgminer & apply the latest patch. Latest patch is for cgminer 4.6.1. Thanks, for the (super-) quick reply! And do I need a PSU with 4 separate cables? Or would 2 cables with the integrated splitter (so 4 PCI 6pin connectors, 2 per cable) work too? You must use 4 separate cables. 2 cables will be very hot. And... thanks again!!! |
