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

[Mymine]

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive.  Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

[dyland]

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive.  Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

I feel less and less sure about my small mining investment--although I love the slow trickle of BTC.

I think  mid-July is a good time to sell gear to see if you can make a slight profit.

[dyland]

I have red, yellow, and blue wires inside my power cord in my kit. The plugs are chinese from the looks of it.

anyone know how these match up to their PSU a la the NA green, black, white?

[Mymine]

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

[dyland]

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

[suchmoon]

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

[dyland]

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

I have a Chinese plug though...

[suchmoon]

http://www.openelectrical.org/wiki/index.php?title=Cable_Colour_Code

according to that yellow is your earth, but I'd check it before plugging it in

Thank you; I'm not really sure how to check it, and I don't want to fry anything.

On the North American plug ground is the round pin. Check continuity between that and the wire that you are going to connect to the ground terminal on the PSU.

I have a Chinese plug though...

Ok, so you are going to use an adapter or replace the plug, right? That's when you can check the wiring.

[MobGod]

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

[CartmanSPC]

Ok, not sure where to post this so for lack of a better place I will put it here for discussion:

KNC is now specifying a MINIMUM of 250 Mh/s for 10K or $40 per 1 Mh/s! Compare that price to performance cost to the Gridseed 5 chip miners (360 Kh/s) and they should be selling for $14.40 each  

Supposedly KNC is shipping Q2/Q3 2014 but by that time they may increase the hashrate yet again (originally specified at 100 Mh/s about two weeks ago?).
If KNC wasn't a reputable company I would call BS.

I find myself hard pressed to order more Gridseeds at $165/piece  

Just had a thought...wonder if KNC announced their hash rates to slow down Gridseed sales? Would be interesting to know if it had an affect on the sale of Gridseeds and GPUs. I know it stopped me from buying more.

That is actually a pretty good point and valid!

I can tell you it does slow down the gridseed sales. I know someone that was going to order an amount of 600 of them and is now going to buy much much less and invest it into pre orders.

I wish I could get them at 165$ but here in Europe it's more 165€ and above! more often 200 if you buy by the unti

I'm willing to take delivery and send them anywhere in the world as long as you pay the shipping and $10/unit or 1 GS per 20 to compensate for the time.

[CartmanSPC]

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

Mob, I spent a few hours on this last night...can help you out but from my initial analysis dtbartle cgminer is better right now. What are you doing buying these? Their a rip off at $165

[wolfey2014]

Not to be a troll...but after reading extensively on getting a gridseed setup...ROI looks to be 6-8 months...well after the high powered ASICs arrive.  Is buying gridseeds really worth it?

Yeah, I fear this too.
I have 6 GPU's and 10 Gridseeds happily hashing , but I fear they'll never reach ROI.
Furthermore, with all those big companies producing ASICs (scrypt and SHA256), I'm sure they all do "quality control" for a fair amount of time
=> difficulty goes up even before you have your miner
=> large amounts of BTC are being sold making the rate drop.

...

So yeah, I still believe in the concept of BTC, but in the long run, and not as a small miner. I'd just buy some coins with some money you don't really need and wait (a long time)

Let me know if you want me to mod your 6 pods. Since modding mine, they are now producing as much as 10 or 11 pods would at 300KH/s each.
PM me if you'd like to mod yours.

[suchmoon]

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

I'm assuming you're using Linux (I have no idea how to compile this under Windows nor should you attempt that - there are binaries available).

1) Install prerequisites:

libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake

E.g. on ubuntu and its clones you would run:

apt-get install libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake


2) run this in your home folder:

git clone https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
./autogen.sh
./configure
make


This is just to get you on track, if you have any problems please report back and I'll try to help.

[MobGod]

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

I'm assuming you're using Linux (I have no idea how to compile this under Windows nor should you attempt that - there are binaries available).

1) Install prerequisites:

libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake

E.g. on ubuntu and its clones you would run:

apt-get install libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake


2) run this in your home folder:

git clone https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
./autogen.sh
./configure
make


This is just to get you on track, if you have any problems please report back and I'll try to help.

i'm looking for a way to compile this on windows...

Cart if you can hit me up you know were i rest

[suchmoon]

i'm looking for a way to compile this on windows...

Does this not work for you?

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1883-download-the-latest-bfgminer-3-99-0-for-windows-with-gridseed-asic-support/

[MobGod]

i'm looking for a way to compile this on windows...

Does this not work for you?

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1883-download-the-latest-bfgminer-3-99-0-for-windows-with-gridseed-asic-support/

no i keep getting this https://i.imgur.com/oFCWhfQ.png

do you want to upload yours? Is it working?

[CartmanSPC]

can someone put my in the right direction to compile this please
https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer/tree/feature/gridseed-support-new

I'm assuming you're using Linux (I have no idea how to compile this under Windows nor should you attempt that - there are binaries available).

1) Install prerequisites:

libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake

E.g. on ubuntu and its clones you would run:

apt-get install libudev-dev build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev yasm libncurses5-dev git autoconf automake


2) run this in your home folder:

git clone https://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
./autogen.sh
./configure
make


This is just to get you on track, if you have any problems please report back and I'll try to help.

I think you have to use the proper branch with:

Code:

sudo git clone -b feature/gridseed-support git://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer

Here is what I used on Ubuntu:

Code:

cd~
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libcurl4-gnutls-dev libjansson-dev uthash-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libevent-dev
sudo git clone -b feature/gridseed-support-new git://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer
cd bfgminer
sudo ./autogen.sh    # only needed if building from git repo
sudo CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall" ./configure --enable-scrypt --enable-gridseed
sudo make

sudo ./bfgminer --scrypt -S gridseed:all --set-device gridseed:clock=850 -o stratum+tcp://xpool.net:8820 -u WhkG5CHetw5Mcp7VXhNsueSS3Jay43pxCZ -p x

There is a LOT of development going on with this version but I went back to cgminer until they get further along.

Mob, look for the windows binaries from the developer (nwoolls) in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=168174.3080

[suchmoon]

i'm looking for a way to compile this on windows...

Does this not work for you?

http://cryptomining-blog.com/1883-download-the-latest-bfgminer-3-99-0-for-windows-with-gridseed-asic-support/

no i keep getting this https://i.imgur.com/oFCWhfQ.png

do you want to upload yours? Is it working?

I don't use anything Gridseed-related on Windows atm, sorry. I would suggest that you get rid of the OCL devices in your bfgminer, these might be interfering. Use something like this in your config file (substitute the appropriate COM port numbers):

Code:

...

"scan" : [
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM5",
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM7",
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM8",
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM9",
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM10",
	"gridseed:\\\\.\\COM12"
],
"device" : [
	"0",
	"1",
	"2",
	"3",
	"4",
	"5"
],
"set-device" : [
	"gridseed:clock=850"
],

...

If this doesn't help you can perhaps test with one Gridseed and see if it still crashes.

[suchmoon]

I think you have to use the proper branch with:

Code:

sudo git clone -b feature/gridseed-support git://github.com/nwoolls/bfgminer

You're probably right, sorry about the misleading instructions, my last bfgminer build was a while ago and it took a few attempts to get it right.

[sandor111]

LightningAsic V3 Firmware vs BFGminer + Rpi
V3c firmware just released is now available for download, and it works with standard Tp-link 703N controller.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=554542.0