GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[hurricandave]

decide where to do a self moderated thread and put the link here, I'm gonna follow. You don't have to limit it to just the flashlight if you have other projects your willing to share about. I think more than a couple of us love seeing cool shit developed period.

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[philipma1957]

decide where to do a self moderated thread and put the link here, I'm gonna follow. You don't have to limit it to just the flashlight if you have other projects your willing to share about. I think more than a couple of us love seeing cool shit developed period.

yeah a simple flashlight 🔦 well made with:

1) low power long life
2) high power shorter life

One high power in the 🚘 car.

One low power on my night table for those times I need to move in the night to the little boys room.

[MoparMiningLLC]

maybe a btc wifi router like the bitmain r3 was for ltc?

one day there was like 10k of the r3 in stock, I went to buy 10 and they were all sold out. makes me think a cable company bought them... imagine, they take it out of the antminer case, put it in a standard linksys case, pre-configure them and then provide to their customers...

1. charge them 9.95 for the wireless router
2. they mine ltc for the installer

[sidehack]

That sounds uncomfortably like theft and my ethics don't allow for deceptions, profitable or otherwise.

[MoparMiningLLC]

That sounds uncomfortably like theft and my ethics don't allow for deceptions, profitable or otherwise.

oh for sure, i was not suggesting that you do that. I am just curious where over 10k went and it was a thought that maybe some cable company or installer might have bought them all to do such a thing, by no means do I recommend doing the same nor would I condone it.

[gt_addict]

Ok...SO back on topic.

I've been playing with my R606 the past couple of days and managed to set the freq to 900, set the voltage to max and she seems to settle at 800. I'm curious though as thw "WU" unit reads "WU: 94%" and I have set tune down to 90.

I'm assuming that 800m is the fastest my weakest chips wants to go even though its hashing at a better percentage than my tune down is set to??

[os2sam]

I've been playing with my R606 the past couple of days and managed to set the freq to 900, set the voltage to max and she seems to settle at 800.

I had my Batch 2 unit up to 850Mhz and the performance was about the same as 750 but consumed more power.  Sidehack suggested to not go over 750Mhz.  So I'm now running my Batch 1 and 2 unit at 725Mhz and getting 1.9Ths+ out of the two.

So I would recommend testing and comparing at the higher and lower frequency for performance and power consumption.

[sidehack]

Probably. The tune works off not just the total hashrate but the health of individual chips. If a weak chip is getting starved and stops returning nonces, the software will notice, drop the target a bit, restart the string and ramp up to the new target. VH did that specifically because something like a 90-92% target could still be met even if one chip isn't hashing at all, which would cause that chip unnecessary damage in the long run and kill the whole string.

I'll probably start that flashlight thread tomorrow, but earlier today I had an idea. Phil, that low-brightness model you wanted, it'd be a shame to turn an LED capable of 800lm down to 25lm but I already have a reel of white LEDs I built my shop lights out of that max around 120lm (test is 36lm) which would work perfectly for a low-intensity model. Just did some checking for compact lower-current regulators and the winner's one I'm already testing with so I could use an existing driver pill design, replace a couple parts and have the same control system dialing in 0-240mA (0-120lm) instead of 0-2.5A (0-800lm) for the big one. Would save multiple dollars off the parts cost and make more sense for the end product. I can play around with the specifics for that anytime this week.

[philipma1957]

that would be nice.

i would want 2x low power units and 1 x high power.

durable durable durable.
simple simple.
more up time
for the low power one. as they get used all the time.

the high power
durable
simple.
it will be used as car flashlight 🔦 .

[sidehack]

Building a Better Flashlight

Here's a link to that flashlight design discussion. Now we can stop talking about it here and aggravating mods and people who actually want their R606 needs serviced.

[philipma1957laptop]

Building a Better Flashlight

Here's a link to that flashlight design discussion. Now we can stop talking about it here and aggravating mods and people who actually want their R606 needs serviced.

Nice I will take 2 low power and 1 high power.

[bluudz]

Hello guys.

I have finally got my Sipolar powered hub, but I still struggle to see how can I get my massive mining farm (2 gekkos) to work as I'd like. WHen I have one there is no problem run it on 500Mhz and after couple of restarts it will clock up to 500 and runs fine, but with two they always get target locked lower and I can't get much more than 450 / 400. How do you do it when you run more sticks in one hub to have them all clocked to 500? I'm sure you don't just keep restarting until they all gets target to 500. Or is there a way to disable the auto target clock lock?

Thanks for any advice.

[gt_addict]

It depends on how the usb power is split on the hub PCB. Sidehacks hub is labelled so that you can anticipate the current load on the “insert technical pcb item name” and arrange the sticks or adjust the freq accordingly.

[bluudz]

Where can I find any more information on how the hub should be connected? All the information with the hub are in chinesee and on hub itself it doesn't show any labels?

This is exactly the same what was happening with my old usb hub and you guys told me it doesn't have enough power and I should get Sipolar. Now I bought Sipolar and nothing changed :/

[gt_addict]

Its probably a more powerful hub but you need to try and find out how the ports are arranged for power. Have you tried putting the sticks at either end of the hub? So one at one end and the other at the other?

[bluudz]

I will try. Thank you for helping.

This just keep happening:



Edit: This is the full spec of setup.

OrangePi3 running raspbian, LAN cable plugged through usb adapter as the LAN driver on raspbian is not woking correctly. Sipolar 10 2.0 usb 60W, (came with USA plug so had to use adapter to be usable in NZ), arctic cooler plugged into rasp pi, 2x Gekko miner.

Can there be issue with either LAN through USB or with power to brick going via adapter?

I have now compiled cgminer on my pc to see whether the problem will be same.

[gt_addict]

I think you may have answered your own question. It could well be the LAN through the USB. Does the Orangpi not have wifi or an ethernet port?

If your pc runs win10 then dont expect much better results. Personally I had lots of trouble running my gekkos through my PC. I ended up buying a pi4 instead.

[bluudz]

I think you may have answered your own question. It could well be the LAN through the USB. Does the Orangpi not have wifi or an ethernet port?

If your pc runs win10 then dont expect much better results. Personally I had lots of trouble running my gekkos through my PC. I ended up buying a pi4 instead.

I'm running Linux mint on my PC and the result was the same..Going to try some more testing, probably get different OS on OrangePi to try to get the LAN port working properly, but as the same issue occurs on my laptop i doubt it will help.

Update: I have reduced the clock to 400Mhz and that seem to run without problem, but I expected that with Sipolar hub I should be able to run two sticks on 500Mhz fine. More testing to come. One of the sticks seem to have problem with 500 clock itself. Could changing the voltage slightly help? How would I go about it? Just turning the screw slightly?

Thanks!

[sidehack]

If it's not the computer, it's either the hub or the sticks. Increasing the stick's voltage slightly will probably help. Knob's in the bottom corner; clockwise goes higher. You'll need a tiny screwdriver or equivalent tool.

[gt_addict]

Well after a bit more tinkering I've finally settled on 775 on voltage setting 6 getting 1.014Th average over the past 5 hours. Not sure if thats a good thing or not. But all I wanted was to hit 1Th with it