Hello again everyone, back on page 52 you kindly gave me some advice for getting my bitshopper sourced compac going and this is just a quick update after I found some time to sit down and look at it again.

It turns out my hunch about power was correct as my crappy hub I was using clearly only does ~500mA per port (oddly it was ok running 3x block erupters back in the day) but I switched over to my PiHub that I had lying around which has a port rated at 1.1A (for plugging in a raspberry pi to power it) and it has been running for over an hour like this.

I have got it running in BFGMiner 5.4.1 ok with the following command:

bfgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 -O username --set compac:clock=150

The hash rate looks about right for 150:



I'm happy that its working but I have a couple more questions:

1. I have to manually add the device and tell BFGMiner what com port its on and then it works fine and is detected as AMU0, it doesn't seem to get auto detected is there a way to tell BFG to start on a particular com port? (sorry for the noobish question!)

2. It doesn't blink any lights at all whilst running and I thought they blink? I just get a nice bright green LED lit, could it be a slight hardware variance between the green heatsinked gekko and the bitshopper one?

3. I get the odd comms error but they are really infrequent "AMU 0: Comms error (werr=1)" is this anything to worry about?

Its running very cool with a tiny 60mm fan (from a socket 370 cooler, remember those?) running at 5V off the USB hub the miner is plugged into

I'm probably going to try novak's cgminer again now that the power issue appears to be solved to see what happens there but its nice to know that my miner is not defective.

Hi! Just picked up 5 sticks, excited to hook em up!

I ordered this USB hub ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ79UK6/ref=s9_hps_bw_g147_i1 )

Just wanted to confirm it will power up all my sticks correctly, as well as power a rasp Pi 2 and 2 arctic breeze fans...

Thanks for the help!

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Please tell me more? .

Yes I think so too, thanks again. Hopefully if there's another one more people will join in .

I just took a turkey out of the oven.  So I ate turkey cranberry sauce and apple sauce.  Today is the first of 21 days in a row of something to eat with turkey every day.

What is Rubicon? a drink or ?

Well, missed my 485,000 share estimate, but ended with 477,858.
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Not yet LOL, still got about 15min to go.

so hedgy73 is in first for highest share 11.6m


and If Jake36  keeps his together for about 1 ½ he will do most shares.  and he could sweep if he pulls a  big number like 12m in the next hour

If Jake36 crashes  I think Landy1264 wins most shares

After some sleep and with Just about 2 1/2hrs to go, still going at freq 435 with 23.85GH.

Looks like the shares might have slowed a little, at ~ 428,100 and still with a 3.62M best share.

And you got a very impressive best share too! Of almost 2M

yup the other day I had a 2200 uf cap on the power leads on a droc power supply @ 5.25v at the socket. ran 390 mhz 16+ hours with one (count em, one) hw error. but it was hard to fire it sometimes.. maybe 2 out of 10 times it fired but the other 8 it would fail with the usb_lib thing.

but I "improved" the setup last night. of course I ran out of time and it was a crappy job so I didnt trust it. so with 20 minutes left on my 7-7:30 am start I went to "plan b"  ie I just scrapped it and went with a molex connector from teh usb socket right to my seasonic x750 psu. no caps on it. tried for 400mhz but Failed.  btw no hardware errors 7 hours in @ 47*C

what external power supply?

for me at least the contest is more of a hardware/fun/lulz thing: what works? how far? and what did you do to get it.. far more interesting to me than winning

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Okay I was thinking.

I have in no particular order

Guruclef--------   724,261 =  highest share ever
Landy1264 ---- 6,994,043 =  highest share ever
hedgy73 -------    961,969 = highest share ever
vapourminer---     316,537 = highest share ever
Jake36---------  8,030,647 = highest share ever--------Jake has a screen shot showing his current high for 3.62 m


If anyone inside their current gui  please  post a screen shot.

that 3.62m could be the highest share winner!

and it does not get bounced if he crashes as

 highest share  does not have to be in a full 24 hour run.

most shares does have to be in a full 24 hour run.

shiny! 400 Mhz 22+ ghs in that screenshot! I tried for that and couldnt fire it. got 390 for overnight a few times but only 380 for the contest

what hub/whatever etc are you rolling with?

it does not hurt if you link an 8 hour screen shot a 16 hour screen shot and a final 24 hour screen shot.

I never ran a contest like this I have basics done but execution is a work in progress.

You are correct but I need both for quality control.  it is why I asked for both.