GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

[vh]

I got it working on my windows 10 machine just fine after my first try, it's my windows 7 machine that I'm having the issue on

start the zadig installer, select option -> list all devices, select "2Pac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner"
once the left side gray box of Driver shows "WinUSB (...)", you should be okay driver wise.   
add a reboot step if that already looks okay.

[fonzerrellie]

I got it working on my windows 10 machine just fine after my first try, it's my windows 7 machine that I'm having the issue on

start the zadig installer, select option -> list all devices, select "2Pac BM1384 Bitcoin Miner"
once the left side gray box of Driver shows "WinUSB (...)", you should be okay driver wise.   
add a reboot step if that already looks okay.

it still says something about permission to access the USB, I have a 5 mh scrypt USB miner in my windows 7 PC as well that I had to download drivers for, and after I tried installing the Futurebit USB I had to re-install it's drivers again. So it seems like they might be conflicting. I'm guessing I might have the different USB miners on different machines?


are there plans to make USB ETH asics or the other algo's ? these are great devices

[sidehack]

I pretty openly don't care about other coins at all, so no I have no plans to make miners for not bitcoin. Got enough on my plate trying to do the things I want to do, without having to pencil in stuff I don't care about.

Also yes, the Moonlander requires a different driver (for the same USB chip) so as far as I know the two devices can't be run on the same system, at least with Windows.

[fonzerrellie]

I pretty openly don't care about other coins at all, so no I have no plans to make miners for not bitcoin. Got enough on my plate trying to do the things I want to do, without having to pencil in stuff I don't care about.

Also yes, the Moonlander requires a different driver (for the same USB chip) so as far as I know the two devices can't be run on the same system, at least with Windows.

right on, I figured that was it.

How close are you to releasing the 20-60 gh unit's?  I'll try to have some BTC set aside to grab a few when they come out. I don't have access to lots of power or space so these USB devices are fantastic.

what kind of deal are you offering on the "seconds" sticks you have for sale?  I'm guessing "seconds" means "used"?

Thanks for your responses, and thank you for making these 

[sidehack]

"Seconds" means they failed regular testing at stock settings but passed at a higher voltage. Right now I have none available, but prices have come down so much that a regular stock stick costs about $3 more than a Seconds stick last time I had any.

The new sticks are still on the workbench. Getting them hashing was the easy part, so I wanted to integrate a few extra features and that's adding to the R&D time. I'm working on firmware right now that'll communicate with cgminer for temperature monitoring and software voltage setting, and once that's tested we'll finalize the board layout and run some prototypes. A production batch is, absolute best-case, at least six weeks out. Also just between you and me, 20-60GH looks to be a very conservative rating.

Here soon I'll probably be running a deal on 2Pacs to clear the stock shelves and bring in some funds to help pay for the first batch of the new sticks. Need to get rid of those things.

[Mike@256]

Hi

I have been mining ubuntu with 2 2Pac's for a couple of months, and now on one of the two pac's the led has gone permanently white, but the miner is showing both two packs are still mining and the hash rate on ckpool looks to be in the correct region is this scenario possible as I saw on previous post's the condition usually meant that the 2 Pac had failed.

[sidehack]

If it's still mining, it hasn't failed. It's just an issue with the voltage level talking to the USB chip being low enough that it trips the threshold on the LED flash circuit.

[mhyde71]

so i posted a page or two ago and finally got it figured out and think i am mining

lights are flashing, that black screen is scrolling with neat stuff   ...accepted 03927d diff 72/32    etc etc


so but the question is- i am struggling with this comment in the ckpool narrative

If you find a block, 99% of the 12.5BTC + transaction fees get generated directly at your bitcoin address!

HUH???   12.5 btc???  

what is the reward now for finding block?   and what are my chances??  and 12.5btc??  how the what the can that be???  must be typo ??
page here    http://solo.ckpool.org/  down at bottom

i totlly get it is like a lottery now
but i am feeling good that at least i got it to work

should i be going to pools??   or should i try my luck here and if i do get lucky, how much btc do i get???


also is it okay to use electrum wallet addy for user/payout???  nothing wrong with that right ??

[der_wasi]

12.5 BTC is correct. But there is almost no chance to solve a block while solo mining.
Mining in a pool give you constant payout. But it´s pretty low.
I am making 35 GH/s with one stick. The actual Hashrate inside the network is about 35 EH/s. That´s 35 000 000 000 GH/s. So, if I´m correct here, there is a chance of about 0,000 000 1 % to hit a block with a well running 2Pac.

[mhyde71]

here are my stats
i would like to know how to tweek it to gain a more momentum, but soundslike it is still way far fetched for me to find block - which im not even 110% sure what that means- but thats okay - i dont need to right now> but so - should i stay in the solo project or join like nicahash or whatever pool?


   "workername": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
   "hashrate1m": "31.3G",
   "hashrate5m": "24.1G",
   "hashrate1hr": "22G",
   "hashrate1d": "8.29G",
   "hashrate7d": "1.51G",
   "lastshare": 1528147805,
   "shares": 225981,
   "bestshare": 168972.5336568022,
   "bestever": 168972



are there other coins that i could be mining that might even give me some compensation ??
maybe something off this list- i dont care what they are worth really- just want to see numbers of something coming in

1. BTCitcoin(Its funny to write about bitcoin bcoz everyone know this)
2. 21Coin (21)
3. Peercoin (PPC)
4. Namecoin (NMC)
5. Unobtanium (UNO)
6. Deutsche eMark (DEM)
7. Betacoin (BET)
8. Bytecoin (BTE)
9. Joulecoin (XJO)
10.Devcoin (DVC)
11.Ixcoin (IXC)
12.Terracoin (TRC)
13.Battlecoin (BCX)
14.Takeicoin (TAK)
15.PetroDollar (P$)
16.PremineCoin (PMC) {Premined, Mine only tx Fees}
17.Benjamins (BEN)
18.Globe (GLB)
19.Unicoin (UNIC)
20.Snowcoin (SNC)


I have been mining now for about 24 hours - should i even have maybe like a couple of sence in my wallet from mining btc???   or is it totally normal to have 0??

[NotFuzzyWarm]

@ mhyde71
A. Stick miners are only useful on a solo pool and viewed as a 'lottery ticket' or if en-mass maybe ckpool. Any other pool will reject you as being far too small.
B. The miner can mine only coins using the SHA256D algorithm. That rules out about 90% of the (alt)coins you listed.

[mhyde71]

@ mhyde71
A. Stick miners are only useful on a solo pool and viewed as a 'lottery ticket' or if en-mass maybe ckpool. Any other pool will reject you as being far too small.
B. The miner can mine only coins using the SHA256D algorithm. That rules out about 90% of the (alt)coins you listed.

yeah i thought for sure that was alist of all sha256 coins.

ok my bad-
yeah i think i am just going to stick to lottery ticket idea and stay in ck pool

so that means that it may take 1500 years before i see something come in???  or i will see trickle of negligible amount every week???  with the chance of hitting something any day now??   

just trying to understand

pls thx

[NotFuzzyWarm]

That is better answered in the solo.ckpool.org thread. That direct link is spot on with your question.

[Sledge0001]

So I ordered my first 3 sticks from AsicPuppy via Ebay to see what I could do.

I love the solo mining lottery and actually bought these for myself and 2 team members to have fun with.

Following the instructions I was easily able to get them up and running in no time although 1 has a smaller heat sink and is going into zombie mode at 100....

I am looking forward to filling the 2 x 10 USB hubs from Sipolar to see if this really will be that miracle!!!

[pasuljeffreys]

I may have asked this previously but I cannot find my post anymore so wanted to ask again...

I have 6 2Pac  15Gh/s USB stickminers running off of a 10 port Sipolar Hub.

I have seen other users with 10 miners plugged in to this but I am not getting 6 x 15Gh/s, not even close. Currently I think I am getting around 45 Gh/s average.

When I had 4, the countdown to the 0.001 BTC payout was 11 months ish, but when I plugged the 5th & 6th in, it went up to 1 yr 4 months...

I don`t think I am being throttled in the upload amounts as my wife streams music a lot and she requires a fair amount of upload too (and hasn`t complained yet so I believe I am not using it all)...

Is the issue that they are all going through 1 USB3 port? Does it sound like I`m just maxing out the 5 GB/s transfer speed? I want to get more miners, but I woudl also like to know if I have to get more hubs and/or PCI-e USB 3 cards to get a better transfer amount through?

Any thoughts?

Pj.

[goose1072]

I may have asked this previously but I cannot find my post anymore so wanted to ask again...

I have 6 2Pac  15Gh/s USB stickminers running off of a 10 port Sipolar Hub.

I have seen other users with 10 miners plugged in to this but I am not getting 6 x 15Gh/s, not even close. Currently I think I am getting around 45 Gh/s average.

When I had 4, the countdown to the 0.001 BTC payout was 11 months ish, but when I plugged the 5th & 6th in, it went up to 1 yr 4 months...

I don`t think I am being throttled in the upload amounts as my wife streams music a lot and she requires a fair amount of upload too (and hasn`t complained yet so I believe I am not using it all)...

Is the issue that they are all going through 1 USB3 port? Does it sound like I`m just maxing out the 5 GB/s transfer speed? I want to get more miners, but I woudl also like to know if I have to get more hubs and/or PCI-e USB 3 cards to get a better transfer amount through?

Any thoughts?

Pj.

I had 10 miners on a Sipolar usb 3 hub, was hashing around 280Gh+ had them mining at 200mhz always had a few stop mining after a few hours.
I also tried 150Mhz and 100Mhz thinking it was to much for them but same problem.
I sold them all was fun for a while.
I also had the 7 port Plugable USB hub which I started out with then grew to much but had mixed the 10 port with the 7 at one time and was mining with no issues.

My thought I don't think the Sipolar can handle all ten without issues.

[pasuljeffreys]

I may have asked this previously but I cannot find my post anymore so wanted to ask again...

I have 6 2Pac  15Gh/s USB stickminers running off of a 10 port Sipolar Hub.

I have seen other users with 10 miners plugged in to this but I am not getting 6 x 15Gh/s, not even close. Currently I think I am getting around 45 Gh/s average.

When I had 4, the countdown to the 0.001 BTC payout was 11 months ish, but when I plugged the 5th & 6th in, it went up to 1 yr 4 months...

I don`t think I am being throttled in the upload amounts as my wife streams music a lot and she requires a fair amount of upload too (and hasn`t complained yet so I believe I am not using it all)...

Is the issue that they are all going through 1 USB3 port? Does it sound like I`m just maxing out the 5 GB/s transfer speed? I want to get more miners, but I woudl also like to know if I have to get more hubs and/or PCI-e USB 3 cards to get a better transfer amount through?

Any thoughts?

Pj.

I had 10 miners on a Sipolar usb 3 hub, was hashing around 280Gh+ had them mining at 200mhz always had a few stop mining after a few hours.
I also tried 150Mhz and 100Mhz thinking it was to much for them but same problem.
I sold them all was fun for a while.
I also had the 7 port Plugable USB hub which I started out with then grew to much but had mixed the 10 port with the 7 at one time and was mining with no issues.

My thought I don't think the Sipolar can handle all ten without issues.

Well, the 6 that I have don`t stop too often, though 1 a week at least needs to be unplugged and plugged back in...

My issue really is that all 6 seem to average anywhere from 6G/s - 15 Gh/s locally, but the pool reporting just does not reflect this...

Pj

[pappaaa]

Hello.
 Now i have played with 2pac sticks a while.3 still working and 3 are dead.
I have attached simple water blocks to sticks and connected to pc-s cooling.
they are running 225 Mhz and core 1,47 V and I get 24,67Gh/s.
Temp holding between 35 and 45 degrees Celsius,depending if i use PC for other purposes.

[Snemelc]

I googled my as off but got not fixed my issue so i hope somebody can help me here.
I am running 6 2pac for a while at 200 MHz cooled with a fan. I have a USB hub that is able to provide 120 watts, 2 Amps at each of it's 10 ports. Controller is a Raspberry Pi 3 running cgminer.
Suddenly one of the sticks throws an error during startup that only 1 chip is detected and it wont mine.
Tried to run that stick alone, same result. Tried on a PC running win 10 with same result. Only one of the two chips is detected.
Any clue?
Thanks in advance.

[sidehack]

Hardware issue, needs repair or replacement. Contact the seller.