GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[sidehack]

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[hedgy73]

Here are a couple of runs on 2 different Compacs - both were modded but the heatsinks are stock- - A fan is all that is needed, they are built like tanks

Hey Kilo nice work .

Can you please tell me roughly what the pot position is to achieve those speeds?

[sidehack]

There is no pot position to achieve those speeds. He's hacked the buck to get higher voltages.

[hedgy73]

There is no pot position to achieve those speeds. He's hacked the buck to get higher voltages.

What's 'hacked the buck'? Please excuse my lack of knowledge .

I've heard this term a few times recently and dont know what it is....

[WorkHorse78]

Seems working for me...  No Block yet.

If I have to buy a few multimeters and solder them directly I will! 

http://s15.postimg.org/6h3mzizwr/Working.jpg

I hope you cool it well at this speed

Using a 12volt 40mm fan sitting on top of the heatsink running on 5v.  Also have a digital thermometer  I picked up on EBay that runs on 5v and it is reporting the heatsink is at 43C-44C.

http://s22.postimg.org/5ro0r7fhd/Temp.jpg

[kilo17]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

[zOU]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Nice, now don't you wish you were mining solo :p

[hedgy73]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Nice one

[kilo17]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Nice, now don't you wish you were mining solo :p

I do- I will post pic tomorrow

[zOU]

Oh and you should switch to kano.s, it's a much better pool.

 

[zOU]

Another improvement in my cooling shelf:

I've cut a 80mm opening in a 100mm PVC pipe and I use it as a fan duct:



I'll adjust/finalize it when I take averything apart when I replace the stock heatsinks with the new one I posted earlier.

i still have to find someone who will drill/thread them properly as I don't have the equipment to do it.

[Guruclef]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

This is history!! 

[Mikestang]

I found a freakin block with a Compac on Bitminter --  

Nice, now don't you wish you were mining solo :p

I do- I will post pic tomorrow

Wow, would love to see a pict showing a compac pulled a 158G share, that's impressive.

But if you were solo mining you would not have found the same block, work you do on one pool has no relation to work you would do at another or solo.

[Guruclef]

Another improvement in my cooling shelf:

I've cut a 80mm opening in a 100mm PVC pipe and I use it as a fan duct:



I'll adjust/finalize it when I take averything apart when I replace the stock heatsinks with the new one I posted earlier.

i still have to find someone who will drill/thread them properly as I don't have the equipment to do it.

It looks like you're having lots of fun with those compacs zOU 

[zOU]

yep I keep having ideas...


Now I just brought my 2 heatsink to be drill/tapered at the local workshop....80$ ( for 2 heatsink paid 6$ :p)

[sidehack]

Jeez, for that kind of money you could buy the tools to do it yourself.

[zOU]

Jeez, for that kind of money you could buy the tools to do it yourself.

I know, but I don't trust myself to be capable to do it perfectly.

And I don't have a drill press, only hand tools...

[kilo17]

Oh and you should switch to kano.s, it's a much better pool.

 

I have my main hash on Kano and my Compac's and such on Bitminter.  By the way, the are a lot of pools that have payouts equal to or greater than Kano (except the last few days which have been crazy lucky).  

[zOU]

I used to use bitminter when I had only a few block erupter an antminer U2.

I was starting and their java UI was fun and nice.
Then I upgraded to U3 but the java UI doesn't support them.

So I gave up, and used my miner for science (Bitcoin Utopia).

After some time I came back to mining (thanks to gekkoscience compac sticks) and had to learn cgminer and stuff.

I found that kano's pool was simple, efficient and with excellent support.

I just can't find the same amount and level of info on Bitminter's website or thread here (609pages vs 46).

But hey, I'm not saying it bad or anything. I'm very happy where I am with my 2.5Ths (soon 3.5).

I can't see a much better paying pool as kano's fees are prob the lowest....

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Oh and you should switch to kano.s, it's a much better pool.
 

I have my main hash on Kano and my Compac's and such on Bitminter.  By the way, the are a lot of pools that have payouts equal to or greater than Kano (except the last few days which have been crazy lucky).  

I know this is going to start a firestorm but... Eclipse Mining Consortium https://eclipsemc.com/ is excellent. Leaving the BFL matters aside, they have been rock-solid for me since I started mining back in Feb. 2014

They have always been a small pool, current hashrate is 907THs. Yes their PPS plan charges 5% but - you get paid for every share ran no matter how long it takes them to crack a block even if it turns out stale or invalid. Hash rate applied is revised every 15min with the new rate immediately applied to your work and full new hash rate being shown in 1hr. No '5n windup'. No waiting for payment per block cracked and verified. If you have an EMC account, payment is upon the running kitty hitting your chosen payout trigger, in my case every 0.2 BTC.

Kano and Antpool are PPLNS meaning you are paid by average hashrate covering 5n shifts with payment only after the found block(s) mature. I have ran comparisons with them (Kano and Antpool) against EMC a couple months ago and looking at payouts once the PPLNS windup is out of the picture and payouts are stable, given 2 weeks or more run time on the pools EMC has ALWAYS come out ahead by ~ 5%.

However, as  kilo mentioned, Kano has been doing exceptionally well for the past couple weeks. Right now I have ~71TH pointed there and will be doing another spread sheet on the long-term results of Kano vs EMC again.