Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread

Quote from: leowonderful on June 02, 2017, 08:14:40 PM

Quote from: zumpbond2000 on June 02, 2017, 07:17:14 PM

So I just have a entire night mining with my 2pac BM1384, it works great.

I would like to ask, I´m running it at 260mhz (havn't measured the voltage, but is as low as it can be) The stick is pluged into my Notebook USB Port, does that means that my notebook usb port can deliver around 2A?
Isn't that too much for a non powered USB Hub?

Another question is, what's the ideal temperature of it? I'm measuring around 50º Celcius(at the dissipator) with my home made Computer Fan

What about HW errors? Likely you are getting a lot of hw errors and bad shares due to that. Ideal temps is anything below 90 Celsius imo, any air over the miner is good below 300 mhz. USB 3 is only capable of .9A on laptops so I am betting that the miner is not truly running as it should at 260mhz.

I have a old Dell laptop and old Dell PC that can both dish out more than 2A to run a single 2Pac at 275MHz. The USB 2/3 spec is more of a minimum guarenteed value ( in order to support devices drawing up to that value ). Though you generally can't expect hosts to go much higher.

Edit: keep in mind high resistance thin wiring can probably start melting at 2.5A - 4A.