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What hub are you using? Also the pi3 shares the usb bus with the ethernet connection (i think from what ive read in here) and it will saturate the bandwith and cause issues.
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Thank you! That did it. Holding steady at 300MHz for over an hour. I read through the entire 70+ page thread but forgot the simple stuff on page 1.  Ill give the low boost command a try. If it does not work ill go back to no boost command. Edit: Low Boost is also holding steady at specified MHz. Thanks again! Glad you got it sorted. Just as a heads up, when I ran on win10 it did drop tge sticks out occasionlly and if left to run it will run out of numbers (dont know the texhnical term) and then the sticks will stop running completely. Just keep an eye on it and restart it if you notice them dropping out. |
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I had a similar issue when using my win10 pc. Windows is a PITA when in comes to gekkos. Have you tried the “noboost” option in the command line?
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What machine are you runnng them on? Win10, Ubuntu etc?
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Thats the same one I started with. Its good for a couple of sticks. |
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Are you worried about efficiency and making a profit? If not you could get an S9 and remove one or two boards, that would lower the power consumption (it would run at roughly one third of the total) and earn you something. You might also want to consider the noise if its in the open office environment. I've not experienced an S9 running on one board so have no idfea how it behaves. I used to have an S7-LN (Low noise varient) which is woefully inefficient now but, if you aren't worried about profits too much and using it as a lottery machine, then I can personally vouch for its volume, I had one under my desk at home and could hardly hear it.
yeah, good call, I did think of this a while ago but found out that some versions of s9's dont run without all boards present and exactly the same board revision number, I know this having used a number of units myself and swapping boards around, but cant see any thing definitive on any website, at first I thought it was a batch of bad unit I had, but new ones act the same aswell, have not seen anyone else complain about it so I am at a loss as to whats happening, I am currently chatting a a few people with units I am hoping to nab, I am not worried about efficiency, or noise as I mainly use remote connection to work setup so I dont actually have to be there 90% of time, I heard of the s7-LN but for some reason they sell for as much as a S9 here in UK ^^ so I would rather "one board" a S9 if I can get away with it. thanks for your response, I should be done if one of the people I am talking to pulls through for me. Yea I keep an eye out on ebay aswell (I'm in the UK too) and prices seem high on ebay all the time, even for really for efficiency gear. Anyway, fingers crossed you get something |
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That link goes to one that only puts out 1.3A at 12v so no way would it be enough.
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Are you worried about efficiency and making a profit? If not you could get an S9 and remove one or two boards, that would lower the power consumption (it would run at roughly one third of the total) and earn you something. You might also want to consider the noise if its in the open office environment. I've not experienced an S9 running on one board so have no idfea how it behaves. I used to have an S7-LN (Low noise varient) which is woefully inefficient now but, if you aren't worried about profits too much and using it as a lottery machine, then I can personally vouch for its volume, I had one under my desk at home and could hardly hear it.
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did you select winusb from the drop down menu in zadig? looks like its got something else selected.
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Come on blockbuster!! Got to get this thing done before the halving!
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Well after a bit more tinkering I've finally settled on 775 on voltage setting 6 getting 1.014Th average over the past 5 hours. Not sure if thats a good thing or not. But all I wanted was to hit 1Th with it  |
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Thanks for the relpy!
Even the psu fans? I know the big boys that cool the chips need to blast away, but does the psu get super hot and need a jet engine loud tiny fan?
Also philipma1957, I seem to remember you have a good box design, do you have a video or pics of how you put it together? Or even more ideal the materials you used?
The PSU fans are small for space saving. They are essentially server PSUs and the fans MUST spin insanely fast to get enough airflow (and pressure) to cool the psu. Noctua fans aren't designed for that at all. |
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I think you may have answered your own question. It could well be the LAN through the USB. Does the Orangpi not have wifi or an ethernet port?
If your pc runs win10 then dont expect much better results. Personally I had lots of trouble running my gekkos through my PC. I ended up buying a pi4 instead.
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Its probably a more powerful hub but you need to try and find out how the ports are arranged for power. Have you tried putting the sticks at either end of the hub? So one at one end and the other at the other?
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It depends on how the usb power is split on the hub PCB. Sidehacks hub is labelled so that you can anticipate the current load on the “insert technical pcb item name” and arrange the sticks or adjust the freq accordingly.
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im just starting out with this so i just put this in the console
cgminer.. -o stratum+tcp://pool... -u ... -p x --suggest-diff 32 --gekko-2pac-freq 150
(with the correct pool details etc)
EDIT:
fixed it, thanks for the direction
steps,
show hidden files
open .cgminer > config.conf (text editor)
change the frequency in that file > save
Easiest thing to do is make your own .bat file then you dont need to mess with the existing config file. But glad you got it sorted |
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thanks for the fast response
im guessing it must be the config file. any ideas how to change that?
What file are you currently using? The one in the cgminer folder? Or the “.bat” file you've created? |
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Ok...SO back on topic.
I've been playing with my R606 the past couple of days and managed to set the freq to 900, set the voltage to max and she seems to settle at 800. I'm curious though as thw "WU" unit reads "WU: 94%" and I have set tune down to 90.
I'm assuming that 800m is the fastest my weakest chips wants to go even though its hashing at a better percentage than my tune down is set to??
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Looking to buy 4x 1TB 2.5” NAS drives for a Raspi Nas I’m going to be building.
Just wondered if anyone has any spare/not needed that I could purchase.
Will need to be shipped to the UK.
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Could you post a link to it on the first page of this thread so we dont have to filter through the faeces?
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