GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[philipma1957]

debian build works have 19 sticks on 2 hubs.

[sidehack]

Sexy. That's probably the biggest single was of these that have ever been run at once. Pictures?

[Jake36]

debian build works have 19 sticks on 2 hubs.

Glad it's working.

Sexy. That's probably the biggest single was of these that have ever been run at once. Pictures?

Even sexier would be a short video of them all hashing in the dark. Probably light the area up pretty good.

[sidehack]

Dangit, I just now noticed my typo and I can't fix it for it's been quoted. Biggest single wad of those, but I reckon that's probably fairly obvious. Hopefully we can get one of those big effin' hubs off Klintay soon for to play with; his sticks should arrive probably next week so he can test it out first.

I ran a set of nine test sticks in my room at the house for a weekend before sending 'em out to folks. The flashes were quite a sight. Mesmerizing, one might say.

[Mikestang]

Can the voltage be adjusted on the fly while the stick is hashing, or do I need to shut it down and unplug it?

BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

I tried on my WinXP laptop as well and 530 did not see the compac. *shrug

[sidehack]

Adjust on the fly. If you go too low you'll start to see hardware errors, just turn it back up.

[Searing]

Can the voltage be adjusted on the fly while the stick is hashing, or do I need to shut it down and unplug it?

BFGMiner is plug-and-play... :p

bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

I tried on my WinXP laptop as well and 530 did not see the compac. *shrug

you have an old xp laptop you can't upgrade further on the windows stepladder use Unbuntu 12.04 (that is the highest i can use on my old only good for xp laptops)

here is the link of how i set my old laptops up to get the sidehack miners to work and the hub i used
so this is how to do so with a CD burn of the above and the steps


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1173963.msg12378834#msg12378834

anyway I had 2 sidehack usb sticks and it worked

anyway too many people are 'tossing' their old non upgradeable xp laptops etc....if nothing else toss unbuntu 12.04 on it and in a closet as a spare way to use a laptop
browser etc for your gmail email or some such.....emergency backup laptop....esp if it was worthless now in the windows world

just saying

[philipma1957]

Sexy. That's probably the biggest single was of these that have ever been run at once. Pictures?


pretty lights





and numbers  set at freq

[philipma1957]

best of all I opened those hubs and the mean well  psu inside is 78% efficient .


 I found a direct replacement that is 85%  and I found a oversized one that is 90%

The 90% one can do 30 amps

Would be the best power supply for the 49 port hub  if you stay under 25 sticks.

I am ordering 1 direct fit and 1 oversized  will get back on this when they arrive.

[Searing]

Sexy. That's probably the biggest single was of these that have ever been run at once. Pictures?


pretty lights

      I like the 'evil genius' and 'dark empire' lighting ...very dramatic

[philipma1957]

Sexy. That's probably the biggest single was of these that have ever been run at once. Pictures?


pretty lights

      I like the 'evil genius' and 'dark empire' lighting ...very dramatic

Thank you,   


   Yeah my garage looks cool at night.

[Mikestang]

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:
http://i57.tinypic.com/317gjkp.jpg

3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:
http://i57.tinypic.com/k3q70p.jpg

This has dropped back several pages and I'm still struggling with the Comms error, I cannot figure out what is causing it.  Any one have any suggestions?

And here's another issue to toss around, on my Win7 box the --set compac:clock tag in my .bat file for bfgminer has no effect on the sticks.  I tried several different values and the sticks always hashed at the same rate.  I tried omitting the command from my batch file entirely and the sticks hashed the same.  What's going on?

you have an old xp laptop you can't upgrade further on the windows stepladder use Unbuntu 12.04 (that is the highest i can use on my old only good for xp laptops)

Been wanting to build a linux machine for a while, may as well start out with the old laptop, good idea.  Thanks, I'll get back when I get around to installing it.

[philipma1957]

the linux build is working great.

more photos

20 sticks stable on ck's solo pool




the stud hubs

[notlist3d]

the linux build is working great.

more photos

20 sticks stable on ck's solo pool

Glad to hear linux worked out.  Seems that there is a big advantage with these sticks on running debian then windows and messing with drivers.

And thanks for pic!  Nice to see 20 of these hashing away quite impressive.

[Jake36]

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:
http://i57.tinypic.com/317gjkp.jpg

3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:
http://i57.tinypic.com/k3q70p.jpg

This has dropped back several pages and I'm still struggling with the Comms error, I cannot figure out what is causing it.  Any one have any suggestions?

And here's another issue to toss around, on my Win7 box the --set compac:clock tag in my .bat file for bfgminer has no effect on the sticks.  I tried several different values and the sticks always hashed at the same rate.  I tried omitting the command from my batch file entirely and the sticks hashed the same.  What's going on?

you have an old xp laptop you can't upgrade further on the windows stepladder use Unbuntu 12.04 (that is the highest i can use on my old only good for xp laptops)

Been wanting to build a linux machine for a while, may as well start out with the old laptop, good idea.  Thanks, I'll get back when I get around to installing it.

About the only thing I can think of, is try changing this: --set compac:clock=x0b83  to this: --set compac:clock=0x0b83

Not up on building and running under windows, so don't know if it needs that leading 0 or not.

[mindtrip]

I just ordered some more sticks so ll test to see how many I can get working on my 49 Port hub soon

[Mikestang]

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:
http://i57.tinypic.com/317gjkp.jpg

3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:
http://i57.tinypic.com/k3q70p.jpg

This has dropped back several pages and I'm still struggling with the Comms error, I cannot figure out what is causing it.  Any one have any suggestions?

And here's another issue to toss around, on my Win7 box the --set compac:clock tag in my .bat file for bfgminer has no effect on the sticks.  I tried several different values and the sticks always hashed at the same rate.  I tried omitting the command from my batch file entirely and the sticks hashed the same.  What's going on?

About the only thing I can think of, is try changing this: --set compac:clock=x0b83  to this: --set compac:clock=0x0b83

Not up on building and running under windows, so don't know if it needs that leading 0 or not.

So there's a miss-type in my OP and I do, in fact, have the leading 0 in my batch file.  I tried omitting the leading 0 and still no effect, just to be sure.  It's as if bfgminer is ignorning the --set compac command on this computer.  Could it be related to my comms error I wonder?

[Jake36]

First, no hub with bfgminer using .bat = bfgminer.exe -o [pool] -u [user] -p [pass] --set compac:clock=x0b83

1) bfgminer530 will not see the sticks on my old WinXP box.  Neither starting bfg with them (or just 1) plugged in nor hot plugging while bfg is running wakes them up.  The program just sits there and asks me to add hardware.

2) bfgminer530 on my Win7 box sees the sticks, however I get comms errors.  Here is just 1 stick:
http://i57.tinypic.com/317gjkp.jpg

3) when I plug a 2nd stick in the errors happen twice as often:
http://i57.tinypic.com/k3q70p.jpg

This has dropped back several pages and I'm still struggling with the Comms error, I cannot figure out what is causing it.  Any one have any suggestions?

And here's another issue to toss around, on my Win7 box the --set compac:clock tag in my .bat file for bfgminer has no effect on the sticks.  I tried several different values and the sticks always hashed at the same rate.  I tried omitting the command from my batch file entirely and the sticks hashed the same.  What's going on?

About the only thing I can think of, is try changing this: --set compac:clock=x0b83  to this: --set compac:clock=0x0b83

Not up on building and running under windows, so don't know if it needs that leading 0 or not.

So there's a miss-type in my OP and I do, in fact, have the leading 0 in my batch file.  I tried omitting the leading 0 and still no effect, just to be sure.  It's as if bfgminer is ignorning the --set compac command on this computer.  Could it be related to my comms error I wonder?

Have you tried adding the:     -S compac:all      to the bat?

I've seen that for U3's you add -S antminer:all for bfg to see the U3 sometimes, so wondering if it might have carried over to the compac (Novak stripped icarus down for compac and rebuilt it for cgminer, so did Luke jr do the same??).

EDIT: Just a thought to, is the "compac" maybe supposed to be "Compac"?  Don't know if it would make a difference or not, but?.....

[Mikestang]

New hardware fixed part of my problem.

2) edit - new usb hub and ran 2 sticks on xp laptop just fine, old hub was crap, will update soon >2 sticksplug in a second stick and all goes to hell, LIBSUB_ERROR out the wazoo and both sticks only hash around 2GH.  I didn't try more than 2 sticks.


Any ideas what's going on here?  The errors on the Win7 box are very confusing, I did not expect any issues there.  I'm thinking most of the fail on the XP machine is probably just the fact that my old WinXP box is old so I'm not too concerned there (gotta build a new computer one day...), but I can run 6 nanofury usb sticks on it at the same time no problem.  In fact I can run the 6 nanofury sticks in one instance of cgminer and 1 compac stick in cgminer-gekko at the same time (pictured below), zero issues, so I'm at a loss why more than 1 compac grinds it to a halt.
http://i60.tinypic.com/28vxerk.jpg

[philipma1957]

New hardware fixed part of my problem.

2) edit - new usb hub and ran 2 sticks on xp laptop just fine, old hub was crap, will update soon >2 sticksplug in a second stick and all goes to hell, LIBSUB_ERROR out the wazoo and both sticks only hash around 2GH.  I didn't try more than 2 sticks.


Any ideas what's going on here?  The errors on the Win7 box are very confusing, I did not expect any issues there.  I'm thinking most of the fail on the XP machine is probably just the fact that my old WinXP box is old so I'm not too concerned there (gotta build a new computer one day...), but I can run 6 nanofury usb sticks on it at the same time no problem.  In fact I can run the 6 nanofury sticks in one instance of cgminer and 1 compac stick in cgminer-gekko at the same time (pictured below), zero issues, so I'm at a loss why more than 1 compac grinds it to a halt.
http://i60.tinypic.com/28vxerk.jpg

you have to try the linux 7 build .

night and day over windows.