GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[edonkey]

I mentioned this before, but these things are remarkable. I just got my first hardware error in 5d 3h 46m 37s of run time.

That's pretty damn stable!

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[notlist3d]

anyone inrtrested or having issue with getting BFG 5.3 to work i had to use this

bfgminer -S all -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u your BTC -p x --set compac:clock=0x0782

I can get bfgminer to see the sticks, but regardless of what I put into the 'clock' field the sticks run at "default" 225 freq.  I also get comms errors {CBM 0: Comms error (werr=1)} with bfg that I do not get with cgminer.

Honestly Novak did such a great job on compac cgminer version.  I highly suggest just going and using it.

If you look back hes done some impressive things to allow higher frequency's.  And most importantly it works great.   And that really is most important thing.

[philipma1957]

I mentioned this before, but these things are remarkable. I just got my first hardware error in 5d 3h 46m 37s of run time.

That's pretty damn stable!

yeah they are very good.

I now have 20 running at freq 250

17 are error free.

the other three I will tweak a bit.

I am running a pc + 2 hubs and using only 161 watts take out 40 for the pc running this and 121 watts = 270gh

I am running the pc because I can do a node  along with the sticks.

[HerbPean]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

[edonkey]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

I've been running two sticks at 306 MHz powered by USB Y cables for 5 days straight with 1 HW error. Each stick is running at 16 GH/s.

Originally I was running at 150 MHz and 8 GHs each with stock USB power and a whole lot more HW errors.

If you have the available current with your USB hub, you should be able to turn up the frequency and manually increase the voltage via the pot by the USB connector to achieve a balance between frequency and performance.

Short answer: these suckers are meant to be tweaked, so have some fun and optimize the hell out of them

[philipma1957]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

I've been running two sticks at 306 MHz powered by USB Y cables for 5 days straight with 1 HW error. Each stick is running at 16 GH/s.

Originally I was running at 150 MHz and 8 GHs each with stock USB power and a whole lot more HW errors.

If you have the available current with your USB hub, you should be able to turn up the frequency and manually increase the voltage via the pot by the USB connector to achieve a balance between frequency and performance.

Short answer: these suckers are meant to be tweaked, so have some fun and optimize the hell out of them

I just did what you said and now have 20 sticks doing freq 250 hw free    they do just about 270gh and at the wall 126 watts.

they are impressive toys for sure.

126/270 = .46 at the wall

or I can drop them down to freq 125 use about 65-70 watts to do 140 gh.

So with a very efficient power supply they are more efficient then the s-5 at the wall .  plus they can be quiet.

[HerbPean]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

I've been running two sticks at 306 MHz powered by USB Y cables for 5 days straight with 1 HW error. Each stick is running at 16 GH/s.

Originally I was running at 150 MHz and 8 GHs each with stock USB power and a whole lot more HW errors.

If you have the available current with your USB hub, you should be able to turn up the frequency and manually increase the voltage via the pot by the USB connector to achieve a balance between frequency and performance.

Short answer: these suckers are meant to be tweaked, so have some fun and optimize the hell out of them

Yeah i was running it at 150 but apparently the stick couldn't be stable over time with my usb port on my PC.

I ordered from some Y, waiting for them ;-)

[philipma1957]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

I've been running two sticks at 306 MHz powered by USB Y cables for 5 days straight with 1 HW error. Each stick is running at 16 GH/s.

Originally I was running at 150 MHz and 8 GHs each with stock USB power and a whole lot more HW errors.

If you have the available current with your USB hub, you should be able to turn up the frequency and manually increase the voltage via the pot by the USB connector to achieve a balance between frequency and performance.

Short answer: these suckers are meant to be tweaked, so have some fun and optimize the hell out of them

Yeah i was running it at 150 but apparently the stick couldn't be stable over time with my usb port on my PC.

I ordered from Y, waiting for them ;-)

yeah on a pc port you are better off using a y cable.

[Mikestang]

Yup, on my laptop I can only run the sticks at 125 freq.  Funny thing is one of the ports on my lap top provides a bit more voltage than the other (0.02V) at the same amperage, so have a stick plugged into that port.  I need to get a couple Y cables, too, so I can push the ones on my hub a bit more.  I can run them at 262.5 freq for 14.4GH/s, had to turn up the voltage a hair to zero out the HW errors which were still less than 0.1%, even at that freq with no voltage adjustments.

[chiguireitor]

I set my compact to 125mhz, since them no more HW or reset ;-) (18 hours)

400Mhz/0.8V at 0 HW errors/24 hours when you tweak them with a multimeter and watch that your usb port gives good current (and have good ventilation).

[toptek]

got it working with BFG 5.3.0 on a PI without using minera but did have it inside minera working.

ON CKPool.

using   .

./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.topekstick -p x -S compac:all --set compac:clock=x0b83


noticed something , if i try to cool it at this speed i get HW error, if i  only use the  cooling it came with no HWerror. haven't tried OC yet .  

[toptek]

anyone inrtrested or having issue with getting BFG 5.3 to work i had to use this

bfgminer -S all -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u your BTC -p x --set compac:clock=0x0782


with these driver  http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx


They work fine with windows 10 , I m trying to get to it work with minera with BFG 5.3 as the main BFG miner now not using the custom folder in minera .

As far as I know, the bfgminer that's included with Minera is not new enough to support the sticks. Also, when I last tried to build bfgminer 5.3 on a RPi, it had a messed up version number. This apparently was a known problem at the time.

In the end I gave up on bfgminer for the Pi and concentrated on building cgminer-gekko and getting it running as a custom miner under Minera. That has worked perfectly and is very stable.

Note that my info on bfgminer might be dated at this point. I never bothered to circle back after I got cgminer-gekko working so well.

If you're interested, I posted a Minera image that includes cgminer-gekko. All you have to do is copy the image to your SD card, boot, then set your pools. The download URL is in the first post.

The only negative aspect of my posted image is that that version of cgminer-gekko doesn't really support any other mining hardware. Ideally it would support all the normal hardware, including U3's. Unfortunately there are compile conflicts when you enable both icarus and gekko.

At some point when the cgminer sources are cleaned up, I plan to rebuild cgminer-gekko and re-post the Minera image. However, if gekko support finds its way into the main cgminer sources sooner than that, and if the Minera author rebuilds and reposts, then there will be no need for me to continue to update the image that I posted. At that point it will be part of the main Minera image.

Hopefully the above makes sense. Let me know if you have questions.

The one i use it just came out not the one inside minera i don't use 5.1 i think is the default BFG in minera i replaced it with my own complied one, i made a post on minera thread, on how to do it .

right now i have it running on CK pool in the club at about 12 GS with one HWE on BFG 5.3 and had 5.3 running with minera on Ckpool solo for a hour then took if off line to try other stuff .


AS far as i know BFG was never replaced beyond 5.1 in minera and MIch confirmed it one day to some one on his thread. I don't use the custom folder in minera, i just replace all the software  miners as they  update. BFG is kept up to date and has a working S5 version still in the works, it works better then CG atm reason that is bitmain suxes at it, software wise but sense its still in the works, it has issue. but it does work once it released live it looks like its gonna fix a lot of S5 issues bitmain never did and never will to any extent.

My setting with BFG 5.3 on CKPool solo :

./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.topekstick -p x -S compac:all --set compac:clock=x0b83 --api-listen --api-allow W:10.0.0/24,W:192.168.1.0/24

 same setting work in minera as long as you replace BFG to what was released a week ago and do all the sudo updates for minera and pis.

I took it off line to try some API setting so i can use https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=569924.0 and screen out BFG and turn off my windows PC's, as needed .

[toptek]

Hey sidehack, il be honest, i said a long time i would never touch stick miners ever again but these are very impressive, so far, how they work, i do hope, you can get more Chips, i can see your stuff out doing anything the chip makers do, miner wise. or even make your own chips and miners  one day US made .


American, made, is still there you proved that, if it wasn't for all the greed and fast buck making, so many want .
Sorry, i had to say that because it's the truth .


cya .

[sidehack]

Any chip-making I get in on will probably be by cooperating with what PlanetCrypto wants to do. Right now I'm having enough fun raising enough capital in non-bastardly ways to get smaller projects off the ground without having to worry about the seven-figure price tag of an ASIC.

I do hope to continue making good miners. Thanks.

[Mikestang]

./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.topekstick -p x -S compac:all --set compac:clock=x0b83

You do not need the "-S compac:all" if you are using the production sticks, that command was only necessary for the engineering samples (and why the command does not appear in the first post of this thread).

[toptek]

./bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u 1JiWuyX94wrCr7JhkAn7x5qNMCEef1KhqX.topekstick -p x -S compac:all --set compac:clock=x0b83

You do not need the "-S compac:all" if you are using the production sticks, that command was only necessary for the engineering samples (and why the command does not appear in the first post of this thread).

ok I'll try again !! .That worked thanks !!!.  guess the mistake i was making,was I should have either  unplugged the stick then plug it back or with some  new setting I had  to turn it off then back on for it set to right . in this case i set that line with

--set compac:clock=x0b83

unplugged it then back worked, ty  i have it back in minera and working great .

[toptek]

Any chip-making I get in on will probably be by cooperating with what PlanetCrypto wants to do. Right now I'm having enough fun raising enough capital in non-bastardly ways to get smaller projects off the ground without having to worry about the seven-figure price tag of an ASIC.

I do hope to continue making good miners. Thanks.

Please keep them afford able , i want a S7 but can't afford one at 1.500 from them or buy it off ebay or amazon for 2k , 350 or so was better but, i guess, I'll buy a few more S5 for now . sense my power cost is not that bad for  S5 and S3 and even some S1 I am running  that  still work well for me . or wait and see what you come up with . i do like these stick miner wasn't gonna buy one but saw all the fun everyone was having with them etcccc . and gonna  buy another one in few days. Do like the idea of building my own miner or upgrading old gear that is still usefull , which I'm also doing right now because i like to . i m buying parts for ASICMiner Block Erupter Tube as i go and all most have a full one to put  to gather for fun. I'm ware of all the bad things, they can do.

may even build a Avalon 4.1, i saw they are selling parts on there site to build one but the cost might be to much to justify that sense, I can buy one right now for around 320 or so used and buying parts even as i go would cost all most 700 $ . but it's temping because i like putting that kind of stuff to gather and all the fun is actually in buying it , when you can then once you have it, do it . once that's done the fun is over then we need to find more to do for fun .

but your miners are top of the line, so far, i look forward to more of them,I hope you can but no parts, can make things, not so good ..

[notlist3d]

Any chip-making I get in on will probably be by cooperating with what PlanetCrypto wants to do. Right now I'm having enough fun raising enough capital in non-bastardly ways to get smaller projects off the ground without having to worry about the seven-figure price tag of an ASIC.

I do hope to continue making good miners. Thanks.

I hope to see more products from you and Novak.   I cannot say how much fun it was to play with USB miners again.   I truly enjoyed it and was a little like the old days. But the updated chip that you allowed to be pushed so far is great for my RPI lotto machine pointed twords phils sidehack compac club.

I can understand on chips it sounds pretty hard unless you just throw a massive amount down.  I still hope Innosilicon will be more open then others on selling, but I'm sure lketc will get the first batch if not more.   But if you have a cooperating to get chips I think that is awsome as far as future then.

[kipper01]

Anyone familiar with Minera?  I have 1 stick throwing multiple hardware errors and would like to single that particular stick out.  All Minera shows is Compaq0 to Compaq8

[Mikestang]

Anyone familiar with Minera?  I have 1 stick throwing multiple hardware errors and would like to single that particular stick out.  All Minera shows is Compaq0 to Compaq8

Unplug them stick by stick until the one with HW errors is the one you unplugged.