GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[powrslave]

Where are you guys pointing your miners?

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[marousi]

ckpool for me. its a long shot, but I believe in luck

[goose1072]

I have my miners pointed at ViaBTC mining BCH for now, I was mining DGB at theblocksfactory for a while.

[klintay]

"Turn up the voltage"? You mean the tiny, almost impossible to turn screw?

are you trolling? It is easy to turn that screw...with a small screwdriver obviously

ckpool for me. its a long shot, but I believe in luck

me too, ckpool all the way. its comin baby i can feel it!

[lok8nusa]

I've got this little setup pointed at kano.is
https://imgur.com/a/sh5kd

Edit: Planning on adding about 350 GH/s tomorrow. 

[goose1072]

I've got this little setup pointed at kano.is
https://imgur.com/a/sh5kd

Edit: Planning on adding about 350 GH/s tomorrow. 

Nice but the 3 at kano would be dust payments and not payed out, I think.

[lok8nusa]

goose1072: Yeah, I know. Just a test run before I re-allocate my meager mining resources.

Note my status - I'm still making lots of mistakes. Occasionally, I learn. 

[goose1072]

goose1072: Yeah, I know. Just a test run before I re-allocate my meager mining resources.

Note my status - I'm still making lots of mistakes. Occasionally, I learn. 

LOL... we all started somewhere.

I was on Kano last year, sounds long ago but not really. Had my bigger miners there.(Avalon's)
I liked Kano then but everything got harder for smaller pools so I moved on to viaBTC, gave me options that kano didn't.
Kano is still a great pool for some but not for the smaller stickminer.

Currently I mine different pools on the Gekko and different coins to see how they do, it's fun.
I like to play with the configs and figure out what works best.

[lok8nusa]

goose1072: Yeah, I know. Just a test run before I re-allocate my meager mining resources.

Note my status - I'm still making lots of mistakes. Occasionally, I learn. 

Kano is still a great pool for some but not for the smaller stickminer.

Currently I mine different pools on the Gekko and different coins to see how they do, it's fun.
I like to play with the configs and figure out what works best.

I was on Kano about 2 minutes when I figured out the sticks weren't going anywhere. I've got other gear pointed elsewhere, including viaBTC. Pointing the micro-miners there after I reconfigure the others. Pulling out of a big BTC pool to dig for a couple of alts.

Unlike most, I DO NOT expect to "turn a profit" on mining. Not in the wallet, anyways.

[vegascoinpool]

Here's my 2Pac rig... Eyeboot plugged into a Raspberry Pi. Running cgminer. I didn't do the cgminer install, a friend did it for me.... but its worked ever since.

At 225 I'm getting about 280-300gh out of the right most days, 13 sticks. I have two that zombie out a lot, and they look like they got smoked out by the previous user, so they may be heat damaged. Overall, solid right. My weak point, at the moment, seems to be the Pi, which freezes up at least once a week.

[goose1072]

Here's my 2Pac rig... Eyeboot plugged into a Raspberry Pi. Running cgminer. I didn't do the cgminer install, a friend did it for me.... but its worked ever since.

At 225 I'm getting about 280-300gh out of the right most days, 13 sticks. I have two that zombie out a lot, and they look like they got smoked out by the previous user, so they may be heat damaged. Overall, solid right. My weak point, at the moment, seems to be the Pi, which freezes up at least once a week.

Nice rig!

I am not sure if you can do this on a raspberry but try opening a separate instance for the ones that zombie or up the voltage on them.
I was having similar problem so I decided to run each one individually and it has worked out great, also up the voltage on a few.

I have an exp Pi but have heard people having problems with freezing so I deceived to stay with the PC instead.   

[vegascoinpool]

Nice rig!

I am not sure if you can do this on a raspberry but try opening a separate instance for the ones that zombie or up the voltage on them.
I was having similar problem so I decided to run each one individually and it has worked out great, also up the voltage on a few.

I have an exp Pi but have heard people having problems with freezing so I deceived to stay with the PC instead.   

Thanks!

Using the advice on this thread I upped the voltage on a few that were giving more HW errors than the rest and seemed to not only improve my overall hash rate, but also the stability. The two I've got left have darkened backs that look like someone "cooked" em by overclocking and/or not cooling them enough. They got pushed to their limits and likely aren't stable any longer. I got ALL of these on eBay from various sellers and who knows what abuse they took before they got sold off.

I'm wondering how many more I can push on this Eyeboot.

[lok8nusa]

Here's my 2Pac rig... Eyeboot plugged into a Raspberry Pi. Running cgminer. I didn't do the cgminer install, a friend did it for me.... but its worked ever since.

Cool, sir.   I need to do voltage adjustments, too. My seconds have been killing it, but I've got one I bought used that zombies two or three times a day.

I also have a box of Orbs I need to break out.

[marousi]

I increased the voltage for all 2pacs and they run at 250 MHZ with 0 HW errors. That is good, but every so often 1 or 2 go into "zombie" mode. Does this mean I need to increase the voltage or maybe better cooling? I am tempted to push them to 300 MHZ but am afraid they might go kaput.

[der_wasi]

My weak point, at the moment, seems to be the Pi, which freezes up at least once a week.

There ´s somethin you can do about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=494625.msg5932931#msg5932931

I increased the voltage for all 2pacs and they run at 250 MHZ with 0 HW errors. That is good, but every so often 1 or 2 go into "zombie" mode. Does this mean I need to increase the voltage or maybe better cooling? I am tempted to push them to 300 MHZ but am afraid they might go kaput.

Yes, turn up the voltage a little bit more. You need to do that anyway if you want to turn up the frequency. I´m running at 350 MHz with a arctic breeze fan on each 2Pac. They´re getting pretty hot. Same as on factory setting at 100 MHz with no cooling. So I assume it´s fine.

...go kaput.

You´re from Germany, right?

[marousi]

Ok, all 6 2pacs are running at 275 mhz and no HW errors but 2 of them going into zombie mode quickly.

[Cissou]

Hello,

I have 3 2Pac, 2 are working greatly, but the third only have blue light constantly.

I tried to plug it in another computer without mining, and always blue light.

some advices?

[marousi]

I don't know about the blue light, but they are temperamental devices. When 1 goes zombie I just change the port on the same hub and its ok again for awhile. two of the 2pacs keep going into zombie mode no matter what I do.

[sidehack]

White light means you've probably got a chip that shot craps.

[marousi]

When increasing voltage and one turns to max voltage, does it stop turning, or go to lowest voltage?