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I have bought a GekkoScience Compac F USB miner (200-350 GH/s) and I want to try solo-mining. I know my chances are extremely slim, but I like learning mining.
I installed cgminer from this repository: https://github.com/wareck/cgminer-gekko. However, when I leave it mining for a few minutes, it slowly declines in hashrate until it completely reaches zero. I think it has to do with overheating, because I tried touching it, and I almost got my finger burned; it's extremely hot. I use a Y cable (2 male, 1 female) to connect it to my computer, because it needs more power than the USB port can provide.
I was wondering if there's a way to go around this problem. I don't want to unplug and plug it throughout the day. Maybe could I somehow program it to use less resources or have less frequency? I don't care falling from 200 GH/s to 2. I just want to have it working. (I tried lowering its frequency using the --gekko-compac-freq and --gekko-compacf-freq flags, but none seemed to work; at some point, it just stopped working again.)
I'm sending 15000 sats to the person who can help me make it working.
I installed cgminer from this repository: https://github.com/wareck/cgminer-gekko. However, when I leave it mining for a few minutes, it slowly declines in hashrate until it completely reaches zero. I think it has to do with overheating, because I tried touching it, and I almost got my finger burned; it's extremely hot. I use a Y cable (2 male, 1 female) to connect it to my computer, because it needs more power than the USB port can provide.
I was wondering if there's a way to go around this problem. I don't want to unplug and plug it throughout the day. Maybe could I somehow program it to use less resources or have less frequency? I don't care falling from 200 GH/s to 2. I just want to have it working. (I tried lowering its frequency using the --gekko-compac-freq and --gekko-compacf-freq flags, but none seemed to work; at some point, it just stopped working again.)
I'm sending 15000 sats to the person who can help me make it working.
Original archived GekkoScience Compac F miner stops hashing
Scraped on 25/07/2025, 14:46:58 UTC
I have bought a GekkoScience Compac F USB miner (200-350 GH/s) and I want to try solo-mining. I know my chances are extremely slim, but I like learning mining.
I installed cgminer from this repository: https://github.com/wareck/cgminer-gekko. However, when I leave it mining for a few minutes, it slowly declines in hashrate until it completely reaches zero. I think it has to do with overheating, because I tried touching it, and I almost got my finger burned; it's extremely hot. I use a Y cable (2 male, 1 female) to connect it to my computer, because it needs more power than the USB port can provide.
I was wondering if there's a way to go around this problem. I don't want to unplug and plug it throughout the day. Maybe could I somehow program it to use less resources or have less frequency? I don't care falling from 200 GH/s to 2. I just want to have it working. (I tried lowering its frequency using the --gekko-compac-freq and --gekko-compacf-freq flags, but none seemed to work; at some point, it just stopped working again.)
I'm sending 15000 sats to the person who can help me make it working.
I installed cgminer from this repository: https://github.com/wareck/cgminer-gekko. However, when I leave it mining for a few minutes, it slowly declines in hashrate until it completely reaches zero. I think it has to do with overheating, because I tried touching it, and I almost got my finger burned; it's extremely hot. I use a Y cable (2 male, 1 female) to connect it to my computer, because it needs more power than the USB port can provide.
I was wondering if there's a way to go around this problem. I don't want to unplug and plug it throughout the day. Maybe could I somehow program it to use less resources or have less frequency? I don't care falling from 200 GH/s to 2. I just want to have it working. (I tried lowering its frequency using the --gekko-compac-freq and --gekko-compacf-freq flags, but none seemed to work; at some point, it just stopped working again.)
I'm sending 15000 sats to the person who can help me make it working.