[GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher

[Mudflap]

Ahh I can imagine how quiet its it without the fans! Good work on the modifications all!

My fans are going for a little longer and watching from a distance.

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

I am watching the cablez post closely with a change of PSU on the cards power to all miners with one plug sounds sweet! (as well as the PI upgrade)

[bhai]

I replaced the fans the day I got them with these http://www.silverstonetek.com.tw/product.php?pid=136&area=en

4 of them running and almost no sound.

rgdz,
bhai

how much you pay?

10 eu per piece + 3 euro shipping. I live in the Netherlands.

rgdz,
bhai

[chanberg]

I replaced the fans the day I got them with these http://www.silverstonetek.com.tw/product.php?pid=136&area=en

4 of them running and almost no sound.

rgdz,
bhai

how much you pay?

10 eu per piece + 3 euro shipping. I live in the Netherlands.

rgdz,
bhai

lol, thats expensive haha

[wolfey2014]

I replaced the fans the day I got them with these http://www.silverstonetek.com.tw/product.php?pid=136&area=en

4 of them running and almost no sound.

rgdz,
bhai

how much you pay?

10 eu per piece + 3 euro shipping. I live in the Netherlands.

rgdz,
bhai

A waste of money, if you ask me.

Wolfey2014

lol, thats expensive haha

[Mudflap]

The price of silence eh? 

Just cut them off, no?

[wsirianni1]

hey thanks for the great guide just have a couple of questions
1. why do you need that lightning asic router thingy cant you just use the usb hub alone?
2. where can i get one if i need one?

thanks alot

You need something to run the mining software, the controller or a windows/linux/pi box.  Not sure who sells the controllers by themselves they come with the 10 packs (LA3M)

I have 4 units on my windows 7 PC running the CPU miner
and I have to say they have not missed a beat
I have 6 more on order that I should get on Monday

I will try the PI later in the week

You are running with a USB hub to windows PC? I've heard rumors of the firmware update that will give 500 khs but they said that's just for the controller?

[miaviator]

The price of silence eh? 

Just cut them off, no?

Pretty sure it's posted all over.

Cut the stupid wires.

Make sure you cap the ends so you don't short the board.

"At your own risk"

[pjcltd]

hey thanks for the great guide just have a couple of questions
1. why do you need that lightning asic router thingy cant you just use the usb hub alone?
2. where can i get one if i need one?

thanks alot

You need something to run the mining software, the controller or a windows/linux/pi box.  Not sure who sells the controllers by themselves they come with the 10 packs (LA3M)

I have 4 units on my windows 7 PC running the CPU miner
and I have to say they have not missed a beat
I have 6 more on order that I should get on Monday

I will try the PI later in the week

You are running with a USB hub to windows PC? I've heard rumors of the firmware update that will give 500 khs but they said that's just for the controller?

Hi yes i have 10 Gridseed miners running on windows 7 64Bit
i'm using cpu miner for each one at the moment.

Speed on the pool is 3100 - 3500 Kh/s

[worldlybedouin]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

[copyfile]

I see gridseed miners with a red heatsink and with a brownish heatsink. What is the difference between them?

[chanberg]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient

[worldlybedouin]

I see gridseed miners with a red heatsink and with a brownish heatsink. What is the difference between them?

The red ones were the "1st generation"...those were given out to folks as testers to verify to the community that these are legit.  They also have a small white switch on them which allows firmware updates to the miner unit itself.

The gold ones are "2nd generation"...don't be fooled though, these are the EXACT same as the red ones only difference is that little white switch is no longer on them.

[worldlybedouin]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient

Yeah, I'm guessing I could squeeze out a bit more if these were connected to higher quality PSU (i.e. 80+ platinum)....also one of the silver PSU's fan always stays on...while the other has a thermal sensor and only turns on when needed.  The 2nd one I bought later from Amazon so it's not the exact same as the ones supplied by the seller.  I had to get the 2nd one because one of the 2 original PSU's burned out on Day 3 that I got them.

[wolfey2014]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient

Yeah, I'm guessing I could squeeze out a bit more if these were connected to higher quality PSU (i.e. 80+ platinum)....also one of the silver PSU's fan always stays on...while the other has a thermal sensor and only turns on when needed.  The 2nd one I bought later from Amazon so it's not the exact same as the ones supplied by the seller.  I had to get the 2nd one because one of the 2 original PSU's burned out on Day 3 that I got them.

Yo WB,
looks like you're having fun today.
I decided to put a fan back on one of my pods and stick it in the middle of the other 4 close in so they all get cooled by the center fan. Works like a charm! With no fan they cook at 102*F....with the one fan, they are all running at around 80* F....nice and cool...But I doubt 102* is a big deal either. I don't mind the one fan running. Can hardly hear it.

How many pods are you running, WB?
Maybe now, you can power all of them off of one power supply. Those LED sign psu's are around 360W, right?

I just ordered another pod. Should be here mid-week....Gonna run 6 now. And as I can afford it, I'll keep adding them as I go.

I'm trying ScryptGuild.com multi pool. Was on Litecoinpool.org but SG is supposed to pay 30% to 40% more per day than just mining straight LTC. SG mines LTC, Doge plus many others....it ads up quick! I want maximum profit per hash out of these things. $$$

Wolfey2014

[worldlybedouin]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient

Yeah, I'm guessing I could squeeze out a bit more if these were connected to higher quality PSU (i.e. 80+ platinum)....also one of the silver PSU's fan always stays on...while the other has a thermal sensor and only turns on when needed.  The 2nd one I bought later from Amazon so it's not the exact same as the ones supplied by the seller.  I had to get the 2nd one because one of the 2 original PSU's burned out on Day 3 that I got them.

Yo WB,
looks like you're having fun today.
I decided to put a fan back on one of my pods and stick it in the middle of the other 4 close in so they all get cooled by the center fan. Works like a charm! With no fan they cook at 102*F....with the one fan, they are all running at around 80* F....nice and cool...But I doubt 102* is a big deal either. I don't mind the one fan running. Can hardly hear it.

How many pods are you running, WB?
Maybe now, you can power all of them off of one power supply. Those LED sign psu's are around 360W, right?

I just ordered another pod. Should be here mid-week....Gonna run 6 now. And as I can afford it, I'll keep adding them as I go.

I'm trying ScryptGuild.com multi pool. Was on Litecoinpool.org but SG is supposed to pay 30% to 40% more per day than just mining straight LTC. SG mines LTC, Doge plus many others....it ads up quick! I want maximum profit per hash out of these things. $$$

Wolfey2014

The ambient in the room is keeping mine cool...I don't know how to measure the temps...does it show up on cgminer somewhere? 

I'm running 10 miners w/out fans over night to see how they hold up.

Yeah, the PSUs are 360watts, 12v, 6amps.

I've been using magepool.com for the same reason...however mining straight LTC isn't too bad these days either.  Incidentally let me know how your miners deal with higher difficulty coins...from what I've been reading folks have been theorizing that these don't like higher difficulties...that's part of the reason I'm running them on magepool.com as TheMage stated his pool isn't mining higher diff coins.

[wolfey2014]

Worldly did you notice a drop in power since the fans have been snipped?(in watts)

Ok, just finished cutting and taping the wires on the fans for all 10 miners. 

Before:  ~110watts
After:  ~83watts

I don't have a decibel meter, but WOW its so quiet by comparison!  Hopefully these will keep chugging along...

I guess this means I kiss my 30 day warranty goodbye! 

wow, these little suckers are really efficient scrypt miners... 8 - 2.7watts = 5.3 watts / 350khs lol super efficient

Yeah, I'm guessing I could squeeze out a bit more if these were connected to higher quality PSU (i.e. 80+ platinum)....also one of the silver PSU's fan always stays on...while the other has a thermal sensor and only turns on when needed.  The 2nd one I bought later from Amazon so it's not the exact same as the ones supplied by the seller.  I had to get the 2nd one because one of the 2 original PSU's burned out on Day 3 that I got them.

Yo WB,
looks like you're having fun today.
I decided to put a fan back on one of my pods and stick it in the middle of the other 4 close in so they all get cooled by the center fan. Works like a charm! With no fan they cook at 102*F....with the one fan, they are all running at around 80* F....nice and cool...But I doubt 102* is a big deal either. I don't mind the one fan running. Can hardly hear it.

How many pods are you running, WB?
Maybe now, you can power all of them off of one power supply. Those LED sign psu's are around 360W, right?

I just ordered another pod. Should be here mid-week....Gonna run 6 now. And as I can afford it, I'll keep adding them as I go.

I'm trying ScryptGuild.com multi pool. Was on Litecoinpool.org but SG is supposed to pay 30% to 40% more per day than just mining straight LTC. SG mines LTC, Doge plus many others....it ads up quick! I want maximum profit per hash out of these things. $$$

Wolfey2014

The ambient in the room is keeping mine cool...I don't know how to measure the temps...does it show up on cgminer somewhere? 

I'm running 10 miners w/out fans over night to see how they hold up.

Yeah, the PSUs are 360watts, 12v, 6amps.

I've been using magepool.com for the same reason...however mining straight LTC isn't too bad these days either.  Incidentally let me know how your miners deal with higher difficulty coins...from what I've been reading folks have been theorizing that these don't like higher difficulties...that's part of the reason I'm running them on magepool.com as TheMage stated his pool isn't mining higher diff coins.

I'm using an infrared thermometer gun to monitor temps.
Your math is a tad off there mate, 360W @ 12V,,, actually 13.8V to 14.2V is around 25 Amps,without being exact.
You've got plenty of power in that single psu to cover 10+ miners easily!
Wolfey2014

[CartmanSPC]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that I could run more than 5 miners on each 12v 30a 360w led switching power supply but if your running scrypt then 5 only uses about 55W!

Going to wire up 5 more on each PS since my vendor only shipped 2 out of 4 so far.

[wolfey2014]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that I could run more than 5 miners on each 12v 30a 360w led switching power supply but if your only running scrypt then 5 only uses about 55W!

Going to wire up 5 more on each PS since my vendor only shipped me 2 out of 4 so far.

Well, based on your data, you can run around 30 pods on one psu....
I'd keep it to 20 though so there's plenty of overhead, just in case
And, do it at your own risk! of course.
Wolfey2014

[CartmanSPC]

Here's what my Scripta+RasPi+Andareed's cgminer looked like when I tested it Friday:  http://imgur.com/38OUKz5

I've stopped that setup for today as I'm trying to spend some time to isloate why that 1 miner in the dashboard seems to throw way more HW errors than the rest.  Maybe a bad cable, port, or something else...

Please post if you figure it out. One of my miners is also throwing more HW errors than the others when I run at 850. At 800 I rarely get any HW errors. I am guessing the one miner just is not that strong.

[miaviator]

Hmmm, hadn't thought that I could run more than 5 miners on each 12v 30a 360w led switching power supply but if your running scrypt then 5 only uses about 55W!

Going to wire up 5 more on each PS since my vendor only shipped 2 out of 4 so far.

I have 10 running at under 70 watts total from the wall.