[GUIDE] GridSeed Blade (80 Chip) Miner Support/Tuning

[toephank]

Not trying to dig some old thread here, but to help others.

Am running 10 of gridseed blade using cgminer 4.3.5 win7 x64bit, and mining eth at the same time.
Basic config for cgminer:

cgminer --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://gcpool.eu:3346 -u xxxx -p xxxx --scan-serial \\.\COM3.\COM4 --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=850,chips=80 --hotplug 80
pause

Hope it helps.

Is this config suitable to ether as well? I thought the blades could only do scrypt.

Nope. Eth mining using 2 GPUs running win7 64.

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[Aenonn]

I fixed it
i will post the full info when i get home

Yes i know that this is on this thread and others BUT
it can get confusing for some of us OLD gits
so i thought i would do it command by command


ok heres what i did
make sure you are sudo su to root
cd   
apt-get install build-essential libtool libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev autoconf automake screen
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf curl-7.34.0.tar.bz2
cd curl-7.34.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ..

tar -xvf jansson-2.5.tar.bz2
cd jansson-2.5
./configure
make
make install
wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu/pool/main/a/automake1.11/automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i automake1.11_1.11.6-2_all.deb
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjansson.* /usr/lib/
cd ..
git clone https://github.com/jmordica/cgminer-gc3355
if you have a problem with git then use  'apt-get install git'
cd cgminer-gc3355/
./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
make

Thats it your done
./cgminer --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=800,chips=40,modules=1,usefifo=0,btc=0 --hotplug=0


this works on Ubuntu 13.10  and the new version 14 Ubuntu

Hope this helps someone out.

Helped even after a few years, Thank you! - Additional: Working on Current(Nov, 2017) Raspberry Pi 3, over secure WiFi, Debian, cgminer-gc3355.

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[igotek]

WHO SEL LTHİS ?
how much is it ?

[hercthx]

I've been finding them on eBay.

[GoldBuffalo]

4 running, neat hobby for the price. Mod the fans with quieter artic fans, lower cfm but so far no problems. Any thoughts on lowering CFM from 90 to 50 on these blades? 

[QuintLeo]

The heatskinks are seriously overkill for the wattage used by the Gridseed 80 - you could probably get away with a 10 CFG fan (if they exist in 92 mm).

 I put some of my old NFB fans on a couple of these - ballpark 40-50 cfm rated - with ZERO overheating issues other than the usual "power conversion circuitry is poorly cooled" problem.

[Cryptocoinmin]

Hi all
I am a newbie and got few blades with 80 chips (2x40) to learn.

I have hard time to set them up in my windows 10 laptop

They are both recognized from cgminer but only one seems to mine

BFF miner does not recognize them at all

Any tips or hints highly appreciated
Thank you

[nvmextc]

Hi, I'm running on Windows, and using cgminer for the first time now since buying a GridSeed (Normally use ccminer on my GPUs)
Has anyone had any luck running on 2 pools simultaneously? I can't find anything about doing this with GridSeeds or GPUs
Since it's 2x40 chip boards I thought it would be easy to separate the devices and run each board on a separate pool?

[bronan]

When you want to use bfgminer you have to use the vcpi driver which can be found by here > https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/software/CP210x_Universal_Windows_Driver.zip
However if you use cgminer you have to switch to the zadig driver.
In my experience the zadig driver is a pain in the behind, caused me many issues when using my blades.
Anyway you can not install both so only 1 driver can be installed to prevent even bigger issues.
Only have 2 left of them which run for nostalgic reasons at my house.