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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
ppetrovic68
on 25/03/2017, 20:23:13 UTC
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If you intend to stay at 250MHz, you can turn the potentiometer lightly clockwise until the HW error on that stick stop increasing.
That fixed the HW errors. They are now 0 after running for about 10 minutes. I also backed the throttle down to 225MHz. I have a little USB fan cooling the devices but right after I posted my first reply I got a seg fault that crashed Raspbian and had to hard reboot it ('reboot' command wouldn't actually reboot it, it would just hang). I am not sure if they are related but since I had the devices hashing all night @ 100MHz without issue it seems too coincidental to not be the cause. I'll keep an eye on it for sure.

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try turning it to 12o'clock.
I definitely don't have 20 year old eyes anymore but it looks like the dial on the pot has two flat sides. Are you saying I should turn it nearly half way? Clock or counter clock-wise? Is there a way to check what the actual wattage being pulled is (like in the USB management)? I didn't see it on a cursory glance but maybe its something that can be calculated?

Thanks for the support guys!

Checkout Biodom's post https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.msg17678108#msg17678108 on where to measure the voltage.

You can use one of these guys to measure power-draw



Search ebay/aliexpress for "usb voltmeter amperemeter/ammeter"

Edit: Forgot to mention, vcore of about 1.5V should get you close or slightly above 300Mhz but you'll need proper cooling, that's for sure. These guys get very hot.