GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[aciphexdnb]

Yeah I figured, I'm not really in the posession of both . Anyway, thanks for the help, garbage can it is.

[sidehack]

Or contact the person you bought it from. Hopefully it was a reputable seller with a warranty. If it was a disreputable seller without a warranty let me know.

[aciphexdnb]

Nah it wasn't, I've gotten it second hand off the net.

[sidehack]

Well if the seller doesn't stand by it, at least the manufacturer will. Send it in and I'll fix it.

[aciphexdnb]

Well if the seller doesn't stand by it, at least the manufacturer will. Send it in and I'll fix it.

You're the best. I'm in contact with the seller at the moment, trying to figure out his setup so i can perhaps copy it.


Thanks for everything!

[Percivul]

If anyone has any programming skills, could I request that someone compile CGminer to include the #xnsub function as well in a build that has the Gekko drivers?

I have zero programming skills or I'd just do it and post it myself.

Thanks in advance.

[aarons6]

If anyone has any programming skills, could I request that someone compile CGminer to include the #xnsub function as well in a build that has the Gekko drivers?

I have zero programming skills or I'd just do it and post it myself.

Thanks in advance.

i dont think xnsub will help you much with these..

if you are mining on NH, try zpool. it pays more.

[Percivul]

I did setup a miner with them but when I started looking at the overall gains for 12 hours, it seemed like NH was giving me more.  The biggest problem with NH is they tend to set the difficulty way up there so it takes awhile for a share of mine to be accepted.  ZPool was accepting plenty of hashes but the payout seemed low.  I don't know.... Maybe I'm just not giving it long enough???

[aarons6]

I did setup a miner with them but when I started looking at the overall gains for 12 hours, it seemed like NH was giving me more.  The biggest problem with NH is they tend to set the difficulty way up there so it takes awhile for a share of mine to be accepted.  ZPool was accepting plenty of hashes but the payout seemed low.  I don't know.... Maybe I'm just not giving it long enough???

it depends on the market.. today NH is paying right at .00122 and zpool is at .0019...

NH has 3% fee and zpool is 2%..


you can keep track of the pools here
http://poolpicker.eu/table?algo=sha-256

keep in mind, yesterdays payout is not guaranteed to be todays payout..

but you can clearly see NH is usually on the bottom of those pools.


zpool and nh you can set the diff with a d= in the password.

you can try d=128 or d=64

[Percivul]

See, I didn't even know about pool picker.  Ugh!!!  I hate being a novice.  But thanks for informing me.

I do appreciate it.

[Mikestang]

Are you guys really renting out your gekko sticks on NiceHash?  I don't see how they can make any money, or why someone would rent such a small amount of hash. I mean I guess the stick would just get lumped in with other orders, but it seems strange to me to be setting up a little 20GH/s usb stick as a rental machine.

[gt_addict]

I did setup a miner with them but when I started looking at the overall gains for 12 hours, it seemed like NH was giving me more.  The biggest problem with NH is they tend to set the difficulty way up there so it takes awhile for a share of mine to be accepted.  ZPool was accepting plenty of hashes but the payout seemed low.  I don't know.... Maybe I'm just not giving it long enough???

it depends on the market.. today NH is paying right at .00122 and zpool is at .0019...

NH has 3% fee and zpool is 2%..


you can keep track of the pools here
http://poolpicker.eu/table?algo=sha-256

keep in mind, yesterdays payout is not guaranteed to be todays payout..

but you can clearly see NH is usually on the bottom of those pools.


zpool and nh you can set the diff with a d= in the password.

you can try d=128 or d=64

You can try putting d=(whatever) but I doubt it will work. Certainly hasn't worked for me on my S7LN that im balancing between two pools. They still set the diff really high anyway even though I set the d= to what the other pool automatically sets.

[aarons6]

I did setup a miner with them but when I started looking at the overall gains for 12 hours, it seemed like NH was giving me more.  The biggest problem with NH is they tend to set the difficulty way up there so it takes awhile for a share of mine to be accepted.  ZPool was accepting plenty of hashes but the payout seemed low.  I don't know.... Maybe I'm just not giving it long enough???

it depends on the market.. today NH is paying right at .00122 and zpool is at .0019...

NH has 3% fee and zpool is 2%..


you can keep track of the pools here
http://poolpicker.eu/table?algo=sha-256

keep in mind, yesterdays payout is not guaranteed to be todays payout..

but you can clearly see NH is usually on the bottom of those pools.


zpool and nh you can set the diff with a d= in the password.

you can try d=128 or d=64

You can try putting d=(whatever) but I doubt it will work. Certainly hasn't worked for me on my S7LN that im balancing between two pools. They still set the diff really high anyway even though I set the d= to what the other pool automatically sets.

it does work for me on zpool.. i put d=8000 on my s7 and its been mining away for days..
altho their website is not working right now...

[Percivul]

Well, you have to keep in mind that from the time I started posting on this forum to about now, my total experience in actual bitcoin mining has been about a week or so.  I'm kinda one of those "jump in and learn" kinda guys.  Since I've been learning, I have switched over to ZPool and haven't had any complaints.  Overall, I never expected to make a fortune (or possibly not even a RoI) but the experience is a neat one.  I DO have access to free power which is kinda what propelled me into going for it.

If you guys have any tips or tricks you care to share, I'm a dry sponge and am ready to learn.

Thanks

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Well, you have to keep in mind that from the time I started posting on this forum to about now, my total experience in actual bitcoin mining has been about a week or so.  I'm kinda one of those "jump in and learn" kinda guys.  Since I've been learning, I have switched over to ZPool and haven't had any complaints.  Overall, I never expected to make a fortune (or possibly not even a RoI) but the experience is a neat one.  I DO have access to free power which is kinda what propelled me into going for it.

If you guys have any tips or tricks you care to share, I'm a dry sponge and am ready to learn.

Thanks

Access to free power is a really good start to making money mining.

That leads to parts 2 and 3 of the equation:
2) How much power/is it in a readily accessible area for miner maint?
   and
3) Heat removal from using said free power. Remember that miners are 100% perfect heaters -- all power fed in comes out as heat. A LOT of it!

[Percivul]

Well, you have to keep in mind that from the time I started posting on this forum to about now, my total experience in actual bitcoin mining has been about a week or so.  I'm kinda one of those "jump in and learn" kinda guys.  Since I've been learning, I have switched over to ZPool and haven't had any complaints.  Overall, I never expected to make a fortune (or possibly not even a RoI) but the experience is a neat one.  I DO have access to free power which is kinda what propelled me into going for it.

If you guys have any tips or tricks you care to share, I'm a dry sponge and am ready to learn.

Thanks

Access to free power is a really good start to making money mining.

That leads to parts 2 and 3 of the equation:
2) How much power/is it in a readily accessible area for miner maint?
   and
3) Heat removal from using said free power. Remember that miners are 100% perfect heaters -- all power fed in comes out as heat. A LOT of it!

Well, to answer your questions....

2.  A fairly decent amount, but I couldn't swear to what the cap would be.  The thing about that is that it is somewhat limited as to how much network access would be available.  I'd likely have to switch to wireless (which doesn't bother me) but from the originator point to the reception point is going to be fairly small as there are thick concrete walls in between each room.  So space is not necessarily a premium, but it is limited.

3.  They have standard A/C in the various rooms but that's about it.  They keep the place at around 74 and I have no way of changing that.  I could use fans, but this goes back to the space issue.  For example, I don't have the option of setting up many (or any, in most respects) larger miners like the S7 or S9.  I MIGHT be able to get away with 1, but it wouldn't be likely.

The USB route is probably going to be the primary way I get away with it, mostly because it's fairly silent.  If I stick something in the rooms that has a pair of jets attached to them, they might have a problem with that. 

[Percivul]

Hey guys, I have a question.

So I now have 3 of the miners and the first one I dialed into .9A and on my meter it showed that it was running at around 5V.  So that one seems to be just about perfect.

The second and 3rd one are acting a bit funny (or I'm just not understanding them).  When I tried to up the voltage on those, they were showing lower voltages and higher amps.  I tried checking them by dialing them down until the amps showed around .9A but the voltage jumped up to 5.25 and higher.  At this point, they would just error out.  So I tried going the other way and the voltage dropped to around 4.7V but the amps would suddenly shoot up to around 1.7A-1.8A.

My question is, what should I be shooting for to get these two dialed into the "sweet spot" as it were.  The hub is an Anker hub 60W and .9 at the post so I know the hub has the power to run 3 of them without issue, but the ASIC's themselves are jumping all over the place.  I do have them hashing and with only minimal errors (less than 1%) but I'd like to get it even lower and I know I should be able to.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

[sidehack]

Remind us again, what software are you using and what frequency are you trying to operate at?

[boymoku]

Hello Everyone Again  

I has new quest if i has a  AntMiner S5 ASIC Bitcoin Miner

https://i.imgur.com/ign2tKs.jpg

How i set cgminer_run.bat to run that item

Thank you Gentleman  

[Percivul]

Remind us again, what software are you using and what frequency are you trying to operate at?

Sorry, forgot to add the info.

Currently, I'm using the Gekko modified CGminer from this forum and running at 300.  I can't really seem to get higher than that without stability problems.