Re: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread
Sidehack nailed it. If you are using a Windows Machine I would highly suggest switching it over to a Linux based machine or SBC (Raspberry Pi 4 as example of SBC). I have 3 Raspberry Pi's in total lol, 2 are 4's and the 3rd one is a 3 b+. I use the 3 b+ as a pihole server. The 2nd Pi runs my mining hardware. And the 3rd one I use as my everyday machine. 2 watts of power draw on normal operations (web surfing, email, videos etc) and 5 watts whenever it hits full load. No complaints. I use my windows machine mainly later at night if I am in a gaming mood. As yup that one is a windows 10 machine with a Ryzen 2600, 32gb Trident rbg memory, multiple ssd/m.2 /hdd drives for storage and a MSI RTX 2080 gpu for 1440p gaming entertainment. I have gotten where I use this machine less and less.
Anyway, onto the miners:
On my Raspberry Pi 4 I have 4x Newpacs and 2x Futurebit Moonlanders 2. All 4 newpacs are clocked at 450Mhz. The average on them are as follows:
1: 100.7 Gh/s
2: 102.0 Gh/s
3: 102.1 Gh/s
4: 102.2 Gh/s
However their 5 second hash rates range anywhere from 90.5Gh/s to 105 Gh/s. I have the Gekko hub powered by a HP Server PSU since I'm also running 2x R606's off it. The moonlanders I have those clocked at 700 Mhs and getting 3.98 Mh/s each. So the power draw being used up on this gekko hub would be the same as 6 newpacs. I have 2 Artic Breeze fans (one is the bendable usb fan and the other is usb driven as well but stationary as it has a base) on the newpacs and moonlanders. Both USB fans are plugged into a 4 port additional USB hub that is in turn taking up the 7th port on the gekko hub
No power issues at all. And plenty of air flow on my miners. The room average temp in the day is typically 78 Degrees F. And 68 - 72 Degrees F at night. I live in mountain areas and often have a window up and desk top fans (and ceiling fans) running all day. Don't need AC much with current temps.
If you just want to test and see. Take at least a 16gb USB stick and load Linux on it and boot off the usb drive. I did this for a while with Ubuntu on a GPU mining rig. No hard drives or SSD. Just a 32gb usb 3.1 stick as a drive You can try that and see if you notice a difference. And by then, you may like Linux well enough to remain on it. I had to use 2 usb sticks to get this to work though. I put the bootable flash on a 8gb usb stick. And once I booted my machine up with that, I had it format and install the Linux OS over to my 32gb usb stick. Then next time I rebooted, I had only the 32gb stick in and ran my os off that.
** Edit **
Also, if you are using only 1 fan on that hub then you possibly are not getting enough airflow on them and could also be a factor at hitting roughly 90% of your mark. I have two of them blowing on my mining sticks from different angles to make sure all of them have proper amount of air. I'd suggest getting another fan to add to that mix and possible one that is corded so that you can move it around for a better angle.
Anyway, onto the miners:
On my Raspberry Pi 4 I have 4x Newpacs and 2x Futurebit Moonlanders 2. All 4 newpacs are clocked at 450Mhz. The average on them are as follows:
1: 100.7 Gh/s
2: 102.0 Gh/s
3: 102.1 Gh/s
4: 102.2 Gh/s
However their 5 second hash rates range anywhere from 90.5Gh/s to 105 Gh/s. I have the Gekko hub powered by a HP Server PSU since I'm also running 2x R606's off it. The moonlanders I have those clocked at 700 Mhs and getting 3.98 Mh/s each. So the power draw being used up on this gekko hub would be the same as 6 newpacs. I have 2 Artic Breeze fans (one is the bendable usb fan and the other is usb driven as well but stationary as it has a base) on the newpacs and moonlanders. Both USB fans are plugged into a 4 port additional USB hub that is in turn taking up the 7th port on the gekko hub
No power issues at all. And plenty of air flow on my miners. The room average temp in the day is typically 78 Degrees F. And 68 - 72 Degrees F at night. I live in mountain areas and often have a window up and desk top fans (and ceiling fans) running all day. Don't need AC much with current temps.If you just want to test and see. Take at least a 16gb USB stick and load Linux on it and boot off the usb drive. I did this for a while with Ubuntu on a GPU mining rig. No hard drives or SSD. Just a 32gb usb 3.1 stick as a drive
You can try that and see if you notice a difference. And by then, you may like Linux well enough to remain on it. I had to use 2 usb sticks to get this to work though. I put the bootable flash on a 8gb usb stick. And once I booted my machine up with that, I had it format and install the Linux OS over to my 32gb usb stick. Then next time I rebooted, I had only the 32gb stick in and ran my os off that.** Edit **
Also, if you are using only 1 fan on that hub then you possibly are not getting enough airflow on them and could also be a factor at hitting roughly 90% of your mark. I have two of them blowing on my mining sticks from different angles to make sure all of them have proper amount of air. I'd suggest getting another fan to add to that mix and possible one that is corded so that you can move it around for a better angle.