The next thing you'd hear would be a tracking number when it ships.

The set of 6 pins is a PIC programming header. The offshoot pin with a jumper sends power to the PIC. This controller handles temperature monitoring, fan speed and string lockup resetting. The two pins are connected to GND and Reset, so tying them together will force a reset of the chip string.

Ooh handy, error codes. Gonna have to update my testing station.

Yes, voltages across the different nodes would be handy. Maybe on the reset pin also.

Wait, you're looking at the chips? You pulled off the heatsink?

When it re-enumerates, does it tell you how many chips are detected? VH, I don't know if updated version of your software mention how many chips are detected (the old version on my bench computer does) but that's useful diagnostic info.

I'll give you a hint. The --usb :1 command is explained in cgminer's README file. Basically, the number tells cgminer how many USB devices to use. So you start a cgminer instance to run one device pointed at one pool, then start a second running one device and configured for a different pool.

Based on your log there, it looks like the miners are detected and trying to run. I'd run each one individually for an hour or so and see how they behave on their own.

By the way, anyone asking support-type questions like how to use these things should do so in the support thread.

1) USB 3.0 is irrelevant, this is a USB 2.0 device.

2) Did you generate a config file? Pretty sure VH said somewhere that a config file will override command-line flags, so that's something to look into. Also "the bat file lines above" have only a single leading hyphen so either you transcribed them inaccurately or there should be a syntax error being thrown somewhere. Problems are easier to diagnose when all the data is correct.

3) One cgminer instance means one pool. It's possible to run multiple pools from a single controller if you run multiple instances, which is exactly what VH states how to do in the portion you quoted. Not sure why it wouldn't work, unless there's conflicting config issues or a hardware limitation (not enough RAM, etc).

The USB transfer issue has to do with the limitations of USB 2.0 itself, possibly exacerbated by the hardware or software configuration of whatever you're using as a controller. Additionally, why sell units that aren't working? If it's the miner itself that doesn't work, take advantage of the warranty. That's irrelevant if they do in fact work and the issue is your controller setup.

--gekko-terminus-freq should do it.

I test them 2 at a time to a Pi at 200MHz. 3 started having issues, but 2 was okay.

Part of it is, these are run straight of a USB/UART so all work is sent straight off the USB bus. There's timing and packet count limitations that put a ceiling on effective hashrate. VH has already told me we need to conjure up a means of buffering or generating work packets onboard and save some bandwidth on the new stuff.

How many Terminus can be run off a single machine probably depends on how USB controllers are set up internally.

I bet if you only run 2 you'll get the full hashrate out of 'em. Could be a USB traffic limitation, same as several other people are running into.

175MHz should run you 77GH

As for heat, these guys automatically kick off at 80C. Temp sensor's under the heatsink, down with the chips.

There's something seriously wrong with your setup, if those hashrates are to be trusted. Nothing's running more than about half as fast as it should.

Okay I will say though, if you see a note that the frequency unexpectedly changed to 200MHz, that means the hardware controls detected a string dropout and forced a reset. If you have turned the voltage down, you might turn it back up a bit.

No, the pods are awesome when they work and garbage when they don't. You haven't seen all the work I've had to do just to get some out the door, only to have an embarassingly high percentage of reported issues.

Goose - I'll be honest, cgminer logs are useless for the kind of diagnosing that'd help me solve a problem. If you don't have an O-scope or at least a decent multimeter you're probably better off sending it back for me to look at it myself.

These pods are having a lot more trouble than they should. Not sure what's up, but they kinda suck.

You ruled that part out when you tested them individually and they worked.

The way I'd see if USB throughput was the issue is by plugging one in, then a second, and so on until you start seeing trouble like the hashrate topping out at a certain level regardless how many miners are plugged in.

To the guy whose post was recently deleted, asking about D3 hacking, someone on the previous page mentioned looking into it.

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I'm gonna say this again then.

I can scrounge up a bunch from scrapped boards. Maybe not hundreds, but many. If you can't find a proper source.

So when they forked Litecoin, did they also change the algorithm from SHA256 to Scrypt?

No response at all, or no response about placing an order? Because if there's no response at all, she probably didn't get your message.

What frequency are you trying to run at? Does your old laptop also have old USB (like 1.1 vs 2.0)? It's incredibly unlikely that power is costing you hashrate. Power's sort of an all-or-nothing deal. What could be costing you is trying to run too high a frequency for the voltage setting and the string trips out and resets, or your USB throughput sucks and they're not getting enough work to stay busy.

No, they're actual production units. Stock is still pretty limited, so Laura contacted the first people on the list as as more stock is made available she's going down the list. Right now even if I didn't hold back any for bulk sales, the total "first batch" would have covered slightly more than half the interest list.

So if Laura's already got your name in the hat, you're good to go and will be contacted as soon as I have more Terminus miners available.

I uh, I didn't make a formal announcement about sales because we already had such an extensive list and since there was already a protocol in place for being added to that list.

For anyone left behind - email laura@gekkoscience.com to talk to Laura the fabulous and efficient salesgal and she'll give you all the details. She also has both regular stock 2Pacs and 2Pac seconds available for immediate shipment.