[RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread

[sidehack]

PCBs and heatsinks should be here within a week; most components should be in next week and I can get started on manufacture. Looking good so far.

[Biodom]

...and someone (or several people) immediately paid for 100 more sticks (queue jumped to 303).
i might have room for 2-3 extra on my four hubs as well  

[bronxnua]

...and someone (or several people) immediately paid for 100 more sticks (queue jumped to 303).
i might have room for 2-3 extra on my four hubs as well  

I paid for 15... selling my old yellow jacket 2GB usb.

[jstefanop]

Printed very large in the first post of this thread, with only slight modifications for emphasis on some things a heck of a lot of people have somehow been overlooking this week (specifically, that 750 - 189 = a buttload of sticks left for sale; take a note of that, four people who have messaged me since yesterday):

SECOND RUN QUEUE: 189 sticks paid (0 shipped)

Sales for the second run of Compacs is now open. I will be assembling using pulled chips, but every Compac will still have the same testing requirements and warranty. Delivery should start in the middle of February. Total batch size about 750 sticks.

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here's the official process:

1. Calculate the total cost of your order:
1a - $25 for every stick desired.
1b - US Domestic Priority Shipping: 1-5 sticks $6; 4-20 sticks $10
1c - International shipping, 1-10 sticks: $15 first-class (2-3 week); $25 Priority (6-10 days)
2. If you bought one of those t-shirts (and can prove it) knock off $5 from the total.
3a. Bitcoin payment: Convert this US dollar value to bitcoin and send it (from an address you control) to our for-this-project sandwich address 1BURGERAXHH6Yi6LRybRJK7ybEm5m5HwTr
3b. PayPal payment: The above-calculated dollar value can be sent to sales@gekkoscience.com
4. Sign a message (maybe something about sandwiches) with the sent-from address and send the message, TXID, quantity purchased and your shipping address to me in a PM, or in an email to sales@gekkoscience.com

BTW check out USPS prices...they just hiked everything this week. I just realized this shipping some of my sticks. (priority international flat rate box went from 26-34 for example).

[sidehack]

Holy balls, you're right. That small flat rate got retarded.

I guess everyone who's already paid for international shipping will appreciate the savings.

[baazju]

Just sent payment for some. Excited as I missed the other batches.

[sidehack]

Heatsinks just arrived. Got shipping notification on PCBs, so they should be here Monday. Unfortunately the bank kinda messed things up and delayed a parts order, so it probably won't ship until Monday and arrive Thursday. Puts me a couple days behind, but I should have about half the current orders shipped by February 12th or so.

[Biodom]

Holy balls, you're right. That small flat rate got retarded.

I guess everyone who's already paid for international shipping will appreciate the savings.

US small flat rate also went to $6.80 from $5.35 (before tax), just saying.

[bronxnua]

I can't wait to see them hashing and flashing  around on my  49 port hub..    33 on order

[zOU]

I can't wait to see them hashing and flashing  around on my  49 port hub..    33 on order

I hope you have a good power supply

[sidehack]

PCBs arrived today.

[bronxnua]

I can't wait to see them hashing and flashing  around on my  49 port hub..    33 on order

I hope you have a good power supply

1200 watt gold is efficient one. 

[zOU]

1200 watt gold is efficient one.  

that's pretty good, but keep in mind that's the Amp on the 5V that counts (unless your hub uses 12V power ?)

then for 33Sticks, running each 5V/2A (as an example) , you'd need 10W/stick, that's 330W on the 5V rail.

is the 5V rail rated at 66Amp+ ?

if I take the Cooler master http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/silent-pro-gold/silent-pro-gold-1200w/

it has 3.5A on the 5V, so 17W => not good enough for 33sticks :p

it has 98A on the 12V so 1170W (that's where the 1200W comes from)

also, this hub: http://www.dipo-electron.com/en/Product_DIPO-136.html only provides 1A/port. (same as this one: http://www.eyeboot.com/49-port-usb-hub)
this one (http://www.hardwaresphere.com/2009/07/24/49-port-cambrionix-usb-hub-detail-specification/) is even lkimited to USB2 Amp: 0.5A

So you will still Y cables,.... and with 49 ports, you can only plug 24 sticks.

unless of course you're happy running all 33 at stock frequency

(I know, I'm a mood killer...  )

[bronxnua]

I have the eyeboot version it supply 1.5ma to each port.

[bronxnua]

I have the eyeboot version it supply 1.5ma to each port.

http://www.eyeboot.com/49-port-usb-hub

[bronxnua]

1200 watt gold is efficient one.  

that's pretty good, but keep in mind that's the Amp on the 5V that counts (unless your hub uses 12V power ?)

then for 33Sticks, running each 5V/2A (as an example) , you'd need 10W/stick, that's 330W on the 5V rail.

is the 5V rail rated at 66Amp+ ?

if I take the Cooler master http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/silent-pro-gold/silent-pro-gold-1200w/

it has 3.5A on the 5V, so 17W => not good enough for 33sticks :p

it has 98A on the 12V so 1170W (that's where the 1200W comes from)

also, this hub: http://www.dipo-electron.com/en/Product_DIPO-136.html only provides 1A/port. (same as this one: http://www.eyeboot.com/49-port-usb-hub)
this one (http://www.hardwaresphere.com/2009/07/24/49-port-cambrionix-usb-hub-detail-specification/) is even lkimited to USB2 Amp: 0.5A

So you will still Y cables,.... and with 49 ports, you can only plug 24 sticks.

unless of course you're happy running all 33 at stock frequency

(I know, I'm a mood killer...  )

so 33 operation at stock .. what will they consume?

[sidehack]

I'm not just showing off, but it is pretty cool to be able to show off. This smexy Eyeboot 49-port-hub setup is what we used to test all the last batch of Compacs. Purchased from Amazon, and reimbursed by klintay on the condition that I publicise it. I generally disapprove of compensated endorsements (you always gotta question motives), but I will gladly endorse a product I actually do approve of and this hub is a heck of a lot better than the scrounger we were using. So, meeting that condition. It's probably a bit late but I'm fairly certain we'll be doing another 500 batch of Compacs (I'll know for sure early next week) and we have plans to continue the Compac line with new chips (whenever possible) and we'll keep using this hub (and 60A PSU) for testing until, I dunno, if it ever breaks I guess.

I'm not sure if it's an issue with cgminer or USB or what, but we couldn't get more than about 300GH out of a hub full of sticks. But even so, that was a decent load of power for a USB hub. Seriously.

So, shameless plug out!

[bronxnua]

This is a 49 port hub that is capable of reliably supplying 1.2 Amps per port even when it is fully loaded with 49 devices.   so I will see.

[cavaliersrus]

i still love looking at that picture hack

[bronxnua]

so at what wattage you ran all to test?  I have same.