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Board Hardware
Re: New GekkoScience product, the Compac A1
by
MaxMidnite
on 12/06/2024, 07:01:28 UTC
These should be in the wild soon.

The new code is up in my git (see my sig)
It reports temperature and per chip voltage on the screen
It does cooldown if it overheats Smiley
Voltage is controlled by startup and via the API.
Current code is only tested on Linux so far.

There's a new 01-cgminer.rules needed for linux for the new USB chip
See the README/USB for details,
though this works the same as required before for linux, just an updated file.

I'll update the help page https://kano.is/gekko.php at a later date,
but the dual BM1362 has mostly the same API as the R909 and CompacF
but a couple of extras.

It has a specific A1 start value - which I guess all the old Gekkos should have had before,
but it's there for the new A1
All the A1 specific options are:
--gekko-compaca1-start-freq NNN
--gekko-compaca1-corev nnn (mV)
--gekko-compaca1-detect
--gekko-compaca1-freq NNN


Miner selection by serial --gekko-serial can now also be a comma list of miners,
not only just one miner.

The blinky led is as follow:
When you first plug it in, it blinks every 1 second until it starts mining.
When mining, it blinks with work processing.
When you stop mining, the led goes off.

Have fun Smiley

Hey, see my question above, curious about running your miner?