Wouldn't have a fancy shiney case or milled heatsinks. The 606 takes freaking FOREVER to build, what with all the custom metalwork. Going fast and simple here. Quiet I guess depends on how much of a 120mm fan it takes to clear 140 watts. Sure won't be a turbine.

...that ran around 2TH over USB from around 145W (12V PCIe), would anyone buy it?

Probably want to talk to the guy you bought it from.

Hit me up in messages and I'll give you an address.

Yeah we had so much trouble with those we started epoxying the jack to the board. Yours must be an early batch. I'll take care of it.

edit - Definitely an early batch, because we also put a notch in the case punchout to help accomodate the end of the cord and yours doesn't have that either. Your serial number must be like '1'.

I'm gonna agree with gt_addict, looks like you've got a flag set to report every gosh darn thing. Usually it just reports accepted shares, which when everything's working right you might see a few every minute. The A number up near the top is the number of accepted shares, and it's a big number so you're definitely mining and cooperating with the pool.

What's your command line? You can strip the credentials for safety, we just want to see what else is in there to help find the root of this.

Curious how that works.

2020deception: You did not buy it from GekkoScience. You bought it from a reseller. If you check the order details there should be further info on the actual seller, including some kind of contact info.

Stavroski: Connect to the pool and let it mine for a while - an hour at least. Typically the starting share threshold is high because pools expect a higher hashrate so it may take a while before any shares register, but after a few the pool should adjust the threshold. You may also look into the --suggest-diff command.

Who's the seller? If you contact the seller directly you should be taken care of.

Also. Bit of diagnostics. Is the circuit board inside green or yellow? There are two heatsinks, one solid and one milled around the base; is the top one or the bottom one milled?

Plus, apparently, PD power with data basically doesn't exist so you'd still need two cables so what's the point.

Depends if you're powering it off 120VAC or 240VAC, and what speed you're running the pods at, but in the worst case, about six.

VH also put in a gekko-specific flag to use only particular serial numbers in each instance, which might simplify things especially if something comes unplugged or gets re-enumerated on the bus.

mikeywith, I gotcha. I wasn't thinking a general case, but specifics of this device.

In the USB-C cable is a data pin outside the standard USB signals, used for initial power negotiation between the host and device. They negotiate which is the source and which is the sink at that moment, and what voltage and current levels are available and will be used.

Video is unnecessary. Only data and PD. Not supporting video is fairly irrelevant.

What do you mean, capped by the power source? It *is* the power source. "all devices you plug into it" won't need to provide anything. They'd be loads. I wonder how much of a market there is for a PD hub that still does data. Seems like something like that should exist, if only because it'd be awful handy to be able to have devices that use USB PD for brickless power like what's been talked about but apparently never addressed for the last few years. Might have to add that to the list of projects to accomplish eventually.

Wonder what it would take to build a USB Type C hub with data and PD. Might have to do a bit of research on this. Be interesting if it's possible to, say, grab a USB2/3.1 hub and line up a PD controller alongside each output port that ties to per-port adjustable bucks coming off a MeanWell 24V PSU. Surely it's more complex than that.

There aren't a lot of decent hubs either, really. Most USB-C "hubs" I could find split it out into several USB-A, HDMI, ethernet, a card reader and who knows what else.

Three or four years ago when this standard was rolling out, all kinds of people asked if I'd build a miner that could use it. Looks like there's still no good reason to because nothing supports the portions I'd require. Which sucks because it could be a pretty decent device.

I'm not convinced that motherboard would do the trick either. The manual has zero information on USB power handling. The standard it references for the Type-C port is mostly for data rates. Newegg's product page has no pertinent info.

But it does confirm something I've been noticing more lately, and that's that apparently system builders are now addicted to shoving RGB LEDs into every frickin' thing. The manual has more data on how to make things glow rainbow than anything else, which is, quite frankly, so useless it actually circles back around to negative utility.

The chip would be whatever chip I want to build it around. Right now the question has nothing to do with the capability of the miner itself. I'm solely interested in whether or not enough host devices exist in the wild with 12V PD support that there'd even be a market for it.

Hello, guys. Got a quick question.

If I were to build a USB-C bus-powered miner would anyone buy it?

What I'm thinking is a small self-contained device, probably around 8cm cube, that takes in 12V/5A from a USB-C PD bus and therefore doesn't need a brick.

Problem is, I don't know how common it is to have a host capable of doing that. A brief glance seems to indicate most motherboards with USB-C just tie it to a 5V/3A dummy bus and have no support for PD protocol, so it looks like this device would not be compatible with the majority of available hosts.

I have no USB-C equipped devices. My newest computers came from scrapyards. I have no direct experience with that system. But the idea's been tossed around long enough, and goodness the USB-C PD standard has been out for years. Is it widely available enough to merit the effort of designing and building a product for it, or is everyone stuck on 5V/3A which is still stickminer territory?

There is not. The NewPac has no telemetry.

I connect six through a GS hub for pre-shipment testing, but they're not on a Pi. The hub will handle the throughput. Not sure about the Pi.