GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread

[gt_addict]

Just to give you a heads up. Ive been running my sticks at 650m getting 140Ghs on a GekkoHub for well over a year.

[Flair14]

Just to give you a heads up. Ive been running my sticks at 650m getting 140Ghs on a GekkoHub for well over a year.

Wow that's incredible. How hot do your sticks get at that speed?

I've got mine at 300 now and it is warm to the touch. I'm going to ramp it up to 325 and to from there.

[gt_addict]

Wow that's incredible. How hot do your sticks get at that speed?

I've got mine at 300 now and it is warm to the touch. I'm going to ramp it up to 325 and to from there.

You wouldn't to pick them up straight away that's for sure lol. I can probably hold my fingers on the heatsink for a few seconds before its uncomfortable. I had six sticks being cooled by a 92mm fan on a 3D printed stand from 419mining.com. They've been rock solid.

[Flair14]

Good to know. Thanks for the info!

What's the general consensus for how to run these guys. Do people tend to join mining pools or go about it solo?

[Abuliglig]

Hi all, I have started running my GekkoScience NewPac using cgminer. I'm new to all this and I'm not a programmer, just someone eager to learn. Can you please tell me what I have to change in the batch file in order to "overclock" (? increase hash rate).

The syntax of the batch file is the following:

Code:

 @echo off

for /F "tokens=2-8 delims=/:. " %%i in ("%DATE%.%TIME%") do @set TS=%%k%%i%%j_%%l%%m%%n%%o
set LOGFILE=cgminer_%TS%.log
set /p log=Should we log? (y/n) 

if %log%==y ( title Logging to : cgminer_%TS%.log ) else ( set LOGFILE=nul )


mode con: cols=120 lines=60
cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 --suggest-diff 128 -u bc1mybitcoinaddress123456789 -p x --usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%



echo. & pause

How do I increase the frequency?? I'm running it at 100 at the moment. How high can it safely go (with fan cooling)? Thank you very much.

Abulig.

[sidehack]

Take a look at the first post of this thread. There's even charts!

[Abuliglig]

Thank you for pointing that out,  so I know to include --gekko-2pac-freq 150. but what do I do about this part: --usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%.

Thank you.

[gt_addict]

2pac freq is not for the NEWPAC stick.

[Abuliglig]

2pac freq is not for the NEWPAC stick.

Sorry meant to say  --gekko-newpac-freq 200

But what about "--usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%" do I leave that in??

[os2sam]

But what about "--usb :1 2>%LOGFILE%" do I leave that in??

Without knowing why you put them in there in the first place it's hard to tell you to take it out.

If you have just one device and you want to mine to it then you probably don't need the usb argument to limit it to one device.  If you don't want the log file then take that out.

But it's up to you.

If it were me I would take out all the extra crap and just leave the basic

Code:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 --gekko-newpac-freq 200 --suggest-diff 128 -u bc1mybitcoinaddress123456789 -p x

[Abuliglig]

Thank you, I'll do that 😊.

[moriaville]

@sidehack

I'm on MacOS 10.15 and I know that Moonlanders and NewPacs don't play well together.

I did find an instance on the other support thread of a user that managed to get both working together on Ubuntu by pointing each to their specific USB bus : port.

I now have the ML2's set to their corresponding UART addresses. No longer are they set to 'ALL'.

Still, CGminer doesn't show the NewPacs after booting and entering the command to [L]ist all devices.

Does the VCP driver make this conceptually impossible? Even if I could direct the NewPacs to their correct --usb bus address : port address? And if I could, do you know the Terminal command that would show me that information?

I'm new to this world. Thanks for making such a cool product. And thanks in advance for your help.

[sidehack]

Yep, it's a driver thing. NewPacs require the winUSB driver and sometimes it's not possible to distinguish between the two devices in the OS.

[moriaville]

Yep, it's a driver thing. NewPacs require the winUSB driver and sometimes it's not possible to distinguish between the two devices in the OS.

So as long as VCPdriver is on the computer, even if the ML2 is no longer auto-scanning, there is no way to run both together on MacOS?

[sidehack]

Well I've never tried, but it's entirely possible the driver is auto-installing for both devices. There might be a way to force it to recognize them as distinct but having no MacOS machines or Futurebit hardware to play with, I can't really say anything for sure.

Anyone else messed around with this?

[allwise]

So frustrated. I have a newPac USB and tried in both linux and windows 10. Seems to be recognized as a valid USB device on both platforms.

Code:

PS E:\btc> gwmi Win32_USBControllerDevice |%{[wmi]($_.Dependent)} | ? { $_.DeviceId -match "GS-" } | sort Manufacturer,Description,DeviceID | ft -groupby Manufacturer Description,Service,DeviceId -auto
   Manufacturer: Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
Description          Service DeviceId
-----------          ------- --------
NewPac Bitcoin Miner WinUSB  USB\VID_0403&PID_6015\GS-10037777

cgminer -n
 [2021-02-26 18:01:33.745] USB all: found 12 devices - listing known devices
.USB dev 0: Bus 3 Device 4 ID: 0403:6015
  Manufacturer: 'GekkoScience'
  Product: 'NewPac Bitcoin Miner'
 [2021-02-26 18:01:33.746] 1 known USB devices

Trying the highly recommended solo.ckpool.org, but also two other mining pools.

ALL I EVER GET IS: No servers were found that could be used to get work from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Code:

 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.618] Global quota greatest common denominator set to 1
 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.622] Started cgminer 4.11.1
 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.626] Probing for an alive pool
 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.626] RES: thread starting
 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.626] Testing pool stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333
 [2021-02-26 17:38:38.668] Succeeded delayed connect
 [2021-02-26 17:38:57.812] Failed to recv sock in recv_line
 [2021-02-26 17:38:57.812] Closing socket for stratum pool 0
 [2021-02-26 17:38:57.812] Failed to parse a \n terminated string in recv_line
 [2021-02-26 17:38:57.881] Succeeded delayed connect
 [2021-02-26 17:39:17.033] Failed to recv sock in recv_line
 [2021-02-26 17:39:17.033] Closing socket for stratum pool 0
 [2021-02-26 17:39:17.033] Failed to parse a \n terminated string in recv_line
 [2021-02-26 17:39:17.033] Initiate stratum failed
 [2021-02-26 17:39:17.033] Closing socket for stratum pool 0
 [2021-02-26 17:39:22.034] Testing pool stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333
 [2021-02-26 17:39:22.077] Succeeded delayed connect
 [2021-02-26 17:39:38.659] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.

Clearly the recv sock network is the issue.  Connects but cannot "talk". But I also see some references and pics  mentioning a serial COM port - but I see no mention on either platform, chalking that up to older versions. So I have sort of ruled out a bad newpac board. But that leaves me with exactly zero ideas.

Anyone have any thoughts?  Or any diagnostics for just board-level functions?

[os2sam]

So frustrated..
I have a newPac USB and tried in both linux and windows 10.

What version of Linux?

On Windoze did you install the WinUSB driver using the Zadig utility?

What's your full command line?

[allwise]

Debian 10 (buster)
 - compiled cgminer from git source 4.11.1

Yes I installed WinUSB using zadig

Downloaded 4.11.1 from this forum

Code:

cgminer.exe -o stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333 -u mYBTCAddress  -p x

[100knot2dae]

Check if your router is blocking outbound communication to destination port 3333.

Try a

Code:

telnet solo.ckpool.org 3333

and see if it gets connected.

Other than that, the command itself looks good. So If the telnet works, a line break (as indicated by the \n) might have slipped in by copy and pasting the command.

[allwise]

I had used netcat to confirm port 3333 open.

BUT it turned out to be aiprotection in my ASUS router!  Not blocking ports, nor name.. but was definitely blocking! Thanks for your inputs.