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Re: [∞ YH] solo.ckpool.org 2% fee solo mining 273 blocks solved!
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BiticaMan
on 15/05/2023, 19:33:59 UTC
Will you be notified here when the pool returns?
Does anyone know what happened?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new pod miner, just in time for Christmas
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BiticaMan
on 08/12/2022, 17:42:12 UTC
I've only tested 1 at a time on my Pi, but we're running five per USB bus (10 per machine) on the old Dell 755 testers. If a current model Pi has comparable horsepower to half an office PC from like 2010 you'd be fine. Given a Pi will run something like 12-14 Compac F, 3-4 R909 shouldn't be difficult.

By the way, 1.5TH is the baseline spec. The last batch off testers were running 1.6-1.7TH and still had headroom. Kano and I have both tested units at 2TH and up. Of course the top-end of your units will be dependent on the hardware behaving nicely but I bet you could get 3.6TH just from the R909s.

sidehack I have 350gh/s in my each compacF, if the R909 reaches 3Th/s that would give between 8 to 9 compacF, is this comparison correct?

I would like to know how many compacF or S17 processors have 1 R909 for me to calculate here and see what it pays for me to assemble my next miner, can you help me with this information?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new pod miner, just in time for Christmas
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BiticaMan
on 07/12/2022, 20:23:35 UTC
It's a brand-new product and we busted our butts to get the assembly line up to speed in time for the first batches to be out for Christmas, which is still 19 days off. Reseller stock requests are being filled right now, so they'll be "in stock" with resellers in one to two weeks.

sidehack how many s17 chips does this miner pod have?

From what I understand I could use 3 or 4 on a PI connected directly to the USB port?
Could you please confirm.

Thanks.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 07/12/2022, 19:50:50 UTC
There was a change in the USB connector from the original batch to all successive batches (2022 models). In testing, I've had *fewer* issues with mechanically reliable connections with the new jack than the old one, and if there's an issue in testing it gets replaced. I have no experience with the issues some are seeing, and no solution except using a different meter.

sidehack could you indicate a model of usb meter that you know works on newer compacF models?

Thanks
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 28/11/2022, 13:29:32 UTC
There was a change in the USB connector from the original batch to all successive batches (2022 models). In testing, I've had *fewer* issues with mechanically reliable connections with the new jack than the old one, and if there's an issue in testing it gets replaced. I have no experience with the issues some are seeing, and no solution except using a different meter.

Could you indicate a model of usb meter that you know works on newer models?

Thanks
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 23/11/2022, 13:53:22 UTC
The two are effectively exactly the same but for one difference, a slightly higher pot voltage setting on the newer ones.

Yes and because of this configuration the usb meter does not work?
Would there be a model of usb meter that has already been tested in the new version?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 22/11/2022, 13:01:23 UTC
Hi guys can anyone help me? It is difficult to come up with an answer to this problem.

I have the compacF v8.2 that works with usb meter, but I received new ones on v8.31 and they don't work with the usb meter, it doesn't receive power.

Has anyone gone through this with the new compacF?

sidehack, can you help?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 15/11/2022, 15:58:12 UTC
Hi guys, Can you help me?

I'm using compaF v8.2 and newer v8.31.
This version 8.31 doesn't work with my usb meter, when I put it directly on the hub it works normally, but on my usb meter it doesn't even seem to receive power.
Would there be any changes that I need a specific usb meter for these new compaF?

The usb meter is this one:

https://ferramentasdachina.com.br/usb-tester-medidor-voltimetro-amperimetro-capacidade-de-energia-detector-de-corrente
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 05/11/2022, 16:12:01 UTC
Hi sidehack or who can help,

I'm using compaF v8.2 and newer v8.31.
This version 8.31 doesn't work with my usb meter, when I put it directly on the hub it works normally, but on my usb meter it doesn't even seem to receive power.
Would there be any changes that I need a specific usb meter for these new compaF?

The usb meter is this one:

https://ferramentasdachina.com.br/usb-tester-medidor-voltimetro-amperimetro-capacidade-de-energia-detector-de-corrente
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 01/11/2022, 23:14:18 UTC
Hi sidehack or who can help,

I'm using compaF v8.2 and newer v8.31.
This version 8.31 doesn't work with my usb meter, when I put it directly on the hub it works normally, but on my usb meter it doesn't even seem to receive power.
Would there be any changes that I need a specific usb meter for these new compaF?

The usb meter is this one:

https://ferramentasdachina.com.br/usb-tester-medidor-voltimetro-amperimetro-capacidade-de-energia-detector-de-corrente
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 01/11/2022, 23:08:58 UTC
Hi Sledge,

I have 2 hubs from the old version and 2 from the new version.
Today I'm connecting the fourth hub in a daisy chain, but I would like to connect it directly to the PI4B, so it's not possible?

Sidehack in another post said that it was not advisable to use the hubs in a chain, do you know if it harms the mining or the equipment?

Thanks.

With the old hubs port D and 1 is limited to 2A total so I see no reason why port 1 couldn't be used to daisy chain a few hubs together since I certainly wouldn't recommend port 1 for mining with the Compac F's.






On old hubs I only use 3 compaF due to the current limit on the port pairs, so ports are left over.
For the new hubs I can use 4 compaF, it's great.
I followed your comment and I'm using 14 compaF on the PI4B at 525mhz, they are on average with 350gh/s each, it's going very well.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, they help me a lot.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 01/11/2022, 21:50:25 UTC
Hello guys, can anyone use 4 gekko hubs connected directly to the PI4B?

When I connect 4 usb hub gekko on my PI4B the all usbs ports are disabled generating an error, if I keep up to 3 hubs it works normally, would there be any configuration to solve this or is it really a limitation?

When I connect the fourth gekko hub directly to any other gekko hub, the 4 hubs with 14 compacF in total work normally, they just don't work if I try to connect the 4 hubs directly to the PI4B.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

If you are using the older version of the hub, use port 1 to daisy chain a few of the hubs together. That seems to have worked for me Smiley


Hi Sledge,

I have 2 hubs from the old version and 2 from the new version.
Today I'm connecting the fourth hub in a daisy chain, but I would like to connect it directly to the PI4B, so it's not possible?

Sidehack in another post said that it was not advisable to use the hubs in a chain, do you know if it harms the mining or the equipment?

Thanks.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 01/11/2022, 15:01:58 UTC
Hello guys, can anyone use 4 gekko hubs connected directly to the PI4B?

When I connect 4 usb hub gekko on my PI4B the all usbs ports are disabled generating an error, if I keep up to 3 hubs it works normally, would there be any configuration to solve this or is it really a limitation?

When I connect the fourth gekko hub directly to any other gekko hub, the 4 hubs with 14 compacF in total work normally, they just don't work if I try to connect the 4 hubs directly to the PI4B.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
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Re: KanoPool 0.9% fee 🐈 since 2014 - Solo 0.5% fee - Worldwide - 2433 blocks
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BiticaMan
on 08/09/2022, 21:36:49 UTC
Hi kano

I did some tests with ping and I have 160ms for kanopool, is this value high or does it not influence mining?

I'm in Brazil, do you recommend any server that would be the best or some configuration in cgminer? I use compacF.

Thanks.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 08/09/2022, 19:21:48 UTC
Please, is there somewhere I can find the difference between mining for ckpool and kanopool?
Which would be better to mine solo with compacF sticks?

I saw that it is possible to mine for 2 different pools in the same cgminer, check? Have a problem or lose efficiency instead of mining for 1 pool only?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 30/07/2022, 16:50:20 UTC
For reference, I'm running three sticks on a pi with the following metrics:

  • Stick 1: 335 MHz (38:19)
  • Stick 2: 400 MHz (32:16)
  • Stick 3: 400 MHz (32:16)

My first time hearing about this setting, so I am also curious if it's a problem that the computer can't process a task within the USB's task time? Or if I am understanding that correctly. What is a use case for the numbers?

It just indicates the performance issue, which process (hashing out) less block header data within the expectation of usb stick's capability. Then, chance to hit a BTC is reduced. (32:16) indicate, it took 32 milliseconds average time to process a header data. (8:16) indicate, it took 8 milliseconds average time for hashing process (sub tasks: check status of usb stick and process, obtain header data, format data, write data to usb stick, etc). Sometime, checking usb status cost time when usb stick does not work well.
 
cgminer is an multiple threads program. More usb sticks are used, more process threads will be created and running there, which compete limited system resources. You can test if a PI 4 computer can handle how many of compacf sticks without impact the performance of whole system to achieve (8:16).

 


Can you get to 8:16 with 400mhz?

I see that when I increase the mhz this value 28:14 is decreased, however the lower the mhz this value gets higher.
If so, it's not the system alone that leaves this value lower, but how much mhz you can leave in your compacF?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 29/07/2022, 16:51:40 UTC
^^ Please learn how to use quotes correctly... You've been here long enough to know how to not make the entire post look like a quote. Roll Eyes
As for the CPU stuff... unless you are running dozens of sticks from 1 computer a RasPi does just fine.

I'm using a PI4b with 8gb of memory, I also have 11 compacF and will have 15 in total soon.
Is it coherent to use like this? From my research on the forum, I would be right.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 29/07/2022, 16:40:52 UTC

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Mine is showing 28:14 for the 450mhz sticks and 38:19 for the 330mhz one

Are these numbers ok? Is there anything to configure to improve this?


(28:14) indicate it take longer time to complete a hashing task (hashing a block header data), which is running slower.
Now, it needs a fast computer to speed up processing, like 8 cores, 16 cores, R7 5800, 6800, R9 5950, threadripper, etc.

(task_ms : scan_ms)  
task_ms:  complete a task, time in mill seconds, a average speed measure
scan_ms:  usb stick or compacF  given specific time gap to complete a task.  hashrate higher, this gap time is smaller.

(7:14) or (14:14) indicate the computer can complete a task cycle within usb stick specified time gap, which mean
computer's speed matches usb stick's speed. More sticks need more CPU power.



Thank you for the informations.
I'm adjusting my sticks now, I managed to make them work on the usbs that were disabled before, it was a problem with the current, adjusting with the screw behind the stick was possible to solve the problem.

About the parameter (28:14) I realized that it is related to the mhz, because the higher the frequency, the lower this value is, is this correct?
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
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BiticaMan
on 28/07/2022, 16:13:32 UTC
turn right or clock turning,  increse current => increase frequence, then, increse hashing. But, increase hot?

There is another indicator (7:20) on display screen in cgminer, which rules out the performance of compacF stick miner.
It often change and has more impact on hash rate on this stick miner.
(7 : 20) got more hashrate, faster.
(16: 20) got less hashrate, slower.

Mine is showing 28:14 for the 450mhz sticks and 38:19 for the 330mhz one

Are these numbers ok? Is there anything to configure to improve this?

Another question, can you tell cgminer the mhz for 1 specific stick? I have a usb hub that does not support the sticks at 450mhz and I would like to leave these with a smaller mhz, but cgminer tries to keep increasing the frequency to the programmed 450mhz.
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Re: GekkoScience has a new stickminer that does 300+GH
by
BiticaMan
on 27/07/2022, 20:24:41 UTC
Can you help me?

How do I use the screw to adjust the compacF current?

If I turn right, does the stick current increase or decrease?

Does this adjustment decrease or increase the stick's mining ability?

Thanks.