GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[primaris]

Does anyone know if I can daisy chain powered usb hubs to mine with Gekkoscience Newpacs? My laptop doesn’t have enough USB ports; so I was wondering whether my 3rd powered hub could be connected to the 2nd via usb and still work? Or would that damage the miners?

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[NotFuzzyWarm]

Does anyone know if I can daisy chain powered usb hubs to mine with Gekkoscience Newpacs? My laptop doesn’t have enough USB ports; so I was wondering whether my 3rd powered hub could be connected to the 2nd via usb and still work? Or would that damage the miners?

The only concern is that the power hub has enough power per-port available and how it divvies it up. Some like the 7-port one from Plugable can only supply full power (3A) to 3 ports: 1, 3, 5. Ports 2,4,6 & 7 each share regulated power with those 1st 3 I listed.

Most folks here will recommend Sidehack's hub as it can supply 3A per-port (or 6A if you use every other one).

[PakoTor]

Hi guys!
New here and searched the 108 pages or this thread but no luck finding a solution to my problem.
So I had the R606 running fine for about a month but now it keeps crashing.
I can plug it in and it turns on normally wit orange and white light but as soon as I connect the USB cable it will shutdown and restart a few times and eventually terminate cgminer.
The same thing happens on Windows 10 or Ubuntu.
Someone mentioned the temp sensor.
Where is it located?
I could try replacing it.
Thanks


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 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Started cgminer 4.11.1-wrk
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.171] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.375] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 8192
 [2021-10-14 23:58:06.489] Rejected untracked stratum share from pool 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.402] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.730] 0: GSH 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.992] 0: GSH 0 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036204)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] 1: GSH 1 - NewPac Bitcoin Miner (10036884)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:07.993] Network diff set to 19.9T
 [2021-10-14 23:58:33.901] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] 2: GSI 0 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:34.162] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 0
 [2021-10-14 23:58:36.090] GSI 0 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.568] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] 3: GSI 1 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040460)
 [2021-10-14 23:58:44.831] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 1
 [2021-10-14 23:58:46.769] GSI 1 failure, disabling!

[kano]

Does anyone know if I can daisy chain powered usb hubs to mine with Gekkoscience Newpacs? My laptop doesn’t have enough USB ports; so I was wondering whether my 3rd powered hub could be connected to the 2nd via usb and still work? Or would that damage the miners?

You use the hubs to power the devices, the chain is for the data.
So e.g. if you have 2 hubs that can power a miner each, then you put a miner in each 'powered' hub and chain them to the computer.

Of course if you are talking about standard USB, you can use a hub to distribute power to multiple devices, but the miners use way too much power to consider doing that.

[Otomaze]

Hello !
I post here because I need some help. I bought 3 GekkoScience NewPac ASIC Miner since a while and I'm encountering a problem with one of them. For the details : I'm running them at 300Mhz with active cooling, they are plugged on a 10-Port USB Hub coming from Sipolar and using a RaspberryPi 4 (the hub is plugged on the 2.0 port). I have the message "0 Chip(s) found" Do you know what can the problem could be ? Thanks !

[altruisticminer]

my R606 has been running nearly perfectly for 1yr at roughly 1 terahash... I did have a power supply fail, but swapped that out and was up and running a day later...

Just recently it dropped to a very low hash rate and I'm unsure what the trouble might be.

I'm running on the same Raspberry Pi4 controller and using the same configuration as previous:

./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u -----------.worker1 -p x --suggest-diff 128 --gekko-r606-freq 750


Here is what I'm seeing:

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-15 17:06:28.984]
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 (5s):22.69G (1m):20.16G (5m):20.13G (15m):20.04G (avg):19.23Gh/s
 A:1396224  R:9728  HW:437  WU:268.6/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 512 with stratum as user -----------.worker1
 Block: 1740459c...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [11:09:56.212]  Best share: 825K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 175.00MHz T:31  P:25  (26:18)  |  9.0% WU:^ 7% | 23.45G / 19.23Gh/s WU:268.6/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Any suggestions on setting or changes I could make to get back to 1 terahash?

Thanks!

[os2sam]

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 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 175.00MHz T:31  P:25  (26:18)  |  9.0% WU:^ 7% | 23.45G / 19.23Gh/s WU:268.6/m
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

It' really odd that your Freq is 175Mhz but your Target is 31Mhz and Plateau is 25Mhz.

I don't recall ever seeing something like that.

[altruisticminer]

I agree, in the past on a reboot it would always work its way up to the 750 target and land at ~1Th/s

It seems like maybe this is a hardware issue since I haven't changed anything in software or settings... I'm just not really sure how to interpret it or how to test it.

Any ideas?

[os2sam]

I agree, in the past on a reboot it would always work its way up to the 750 target and land at ~1Th/s

It seems like maybe this is a hardware issue since I haven't changed anything in software or settings... I'm just not really sure how to interpret it or how to test it.

Any ideas?

The only time I couldn't get mine over 200Mhz is when I had it connected through a USB 2.0 hub.

Are you plugged directly into the USB Port on the Pi 4?  Try both the 2.0 and 3.0 Ports on it.

Verify your Power Supply is good.  I use an ATX computer P/S.

[altruisticminer]

Thanks for the recommendations.

I'll double check the USB.

I have a suspicion it is the power supply. This is the power supply I currently have:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Z9X4GLW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1


I have a few old computers laying around. Any suggestions on how to utilize the power supply from one of them?

[os2sam]

I have a few old computers laying around. Any suggestions on how to utilize the power supply from one of them?

Just plug one of the 6pin PCIE cables into the R606 connector.

[altruisticminer]

The powersupply I have is a 2yr old Corsair TX550M

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Power-Supply-Units/txm-series-2017-config/p/CP-9020133-NA#
https://www.corsair.com/corsairmedia/sys_master/productcontent/TXM_Manual.pdf

I think this should work fine, do you agree?

Now I need to try to track down a 6pin cable...

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Only trick is that you will need the 'paperclip trick' to turn on the PSU. If you look at the large mobo plug you will see a green wire in it, use a piece of wire or bare metal paperclip to join the green to one of the black wires next to it to turn on the power.

[n0nce]

Only trick is that you will need the 'paper clip trick' to turn on the PSU. If you look at the large mobo plug you will see a green wire in it, use a piece of wire or bare metal paper clip to join the green to one of the black wires next to it to turn on the power.

Alternatively, fool-proof and maybe more secure long-term (paperclip might fall out) - one of these.
Just looking for 'PSU jumpers' yields many (also cheap) results.
Also included in many higher-end PSUs as far as I know.

[altruisticminer]

thanks for the help with the paperclip!

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I just plugged in the PSU and now I'm getting this set of errors, any ideas how to interpret?



 cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-21 08:33:59.938]
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 (5s):4.402M (1m):13.90G (5m):15.12G (15m):6.851G (avg):42.40Gh/s
 A:0  R:8192  HW:0  WU:597.3/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 512 with stratum as user -----.worker1
 Block: 288029d8...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [08:33:59.939]  Best share: 847
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12  200.00MHz T:750 P:0   (10:16) |  0.0% WU:  0% | ZOMBIE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [2021-10-21 08:34:16.183] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 2
 [2021-10-21 08:34:32.314] GSI 2 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:34:36.944] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-21 08:34:37.210] 3: GSI 3 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040368)
 [2021-10-21 08:34:37.211] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 3
 [2021-10-21 08:34:45.053] GSI 3 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.656] 0: GSI 0 - Toggling ASIC nRST to reset
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.925] 4: GSI 4 - R606 Bitcoin Miner (10040368)
 [2021-10-21 08:34:47.925] Hotplug: GekkoScience added GSI 4
 [2021-10-21 08:34:50.428] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 1638
 [2021-10-21 08:34:50.429] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
 [2021-10-21 08:34:52.548] GSI 4 failure, disabling!
 [2021-10-21 08:35:20.452] Pool 0 difficulty changed to 512

[altruisticminer]

and here is the message when I quit:

[2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] Summary of per device statistics:
                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 0 (5s):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:0.0/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 1 (5s):0.000 (avg):3.486Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:51.1/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 2 (5s):0.000 (avg):11.27Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:157.4/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 3 (5s):0.000 (avg):4.741Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:66.2/m                   
 [2021-10-21 08:40:01.462] GSI 4 (5s):0.000 (avg):1.725Gh/s | A:0 R:0 HW:0 WU:24.1/m   

[altruisticminer]

nevermind, a quick reboot and repositioning of the paperclip and I'm back in action!

Thanks so much to everyone that helped out with comments!

...

Just ordered one of these for the PSU:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X9SVB5K?psc=1&smid=A1QLGMVB669WW&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp



cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-21 08:51:19.768]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1.013T (1m):1.016T (5m):1.017T (15m):986.4G (avg):983.1Gh/s
 A:709450  R:8192  HW:157  WU:13734.2/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 1.06K with stratum as user ------.worker1
 Block: 1fce3401...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [09:39:48.710]  Best share: 572K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 750.00MHz T:750 P:750 (8:4)   | 98.9% WU:^96% | 1.016T / 983.1G
h/s WU:13734.2/m----------------------------------------------------------------

[os2sam]

nevermind, a quick reboot and repositioning of the paperclip and I'm back in action!

Thanks so much to everyone that helped out with comments!

...

Just ordered one of these for the PSU:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X9SVB5K?psc=1&smid=A1QLGMVB669WW&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp



cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-10-21 08:51:19.768]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 (5s):1.013T (1m):1.016T (5m):1.017T (15m):986.4G (avg):983.1Gh/s
 A:709450  R:8192  HW:157  WU:13734.2/m
 Connected to us-east.stratum.slushpool.com diff 1.06K with stratum as user ------.worker1
 Block: 1fce3401...  Diff:20.1T  Started: [09:39:48.710]  Best share: 572K
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 USB management [P]ool management Settings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
 0: GSI 10040368: BM1387:12+ 750.00MHz T:750 P:750 (8:4)   | 98.9% WU:^96% | 1.016T / 983.1G
h/s WU:13734.2/m----------------------------------------------------------------

Glad to hear it.

That connector came with the last few Power Supplies I've bought.  They do make things easier.  Especially when all the wires are the same color.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

@ altruisticminer  Faboo! Merit given for letting us know you got things worked out  

@ OS2sam, all the wires the same color? If so then the PSU does not meet the ATX standards - those mainly deal with the physical sizes, AC power connection and cooling vent locations and of course, wire colors. The PON signal wire is supposed to be green and blacks are supposed to all be returns...

[os2sam]

@ OS2sam, all the wires the same color? If so then the PSU does not meet the ATX standards

On my Seasonic Titanium they are all black.