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Board Hardware
Re: Who likes pod miners?
by
sidehack
on 16/01/2018, 19:48:22 UTC
I currently have one self-sufficient miner operating.

That means I've got a Pi (Minera with cgminer-vthoang compiled) powered off the Terminus aux USB jack, running cgminer for the Terminus itself. Only running 200MHz for 88GH, drawing 12V 3.6A so right around 0.5J/GH including the power to drive the Pi. I could turn down the voltage if I wanted, but eh.

If it keeps running well, that should be pretty much everything I need to know. I've already got an updated PCB layout and I'll be ordering a bunch of those later today.

And will probably make some with the existing layout and the jumper hack just a little bit so's we can get these in a few hands. VH will get one pretty much immediately so he can improve software support, specifically handling trip recovery.

Once we get to doling out full kits, I'll see about having an optional Pi with Minera and custom cgminer already installed.

And with that, BM1384 product development is pretty much officially closed. The next miner will use better and faster chips for, hopefully, a much more reasonable price efficiency.

And don't tell anyone I said so, but I'm going to look into compressing some of the onboard features to a future stickminer - trip recovery should greatly reduce "zombie" states, and if we can figure out communication maybe an onboard temp sensor will give readouts in cgminer?