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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 15/06/2018, 19:25:04 UTC
I´m running with about 35 GH/s per stick.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 15/06/2018, 15:42:04 UTC
so 300 mhz is the max to overclock? how long will it last on 300 without a fan?
Mine are running at 350 MHz with the arctic breeze fan. The´re getting pretty hot but are working for months now.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 13/06/2018, 15:14:59 UTC
Hello.
 Now i have played with 2pac sticks a while.3 still working and 3 are dead.
I have attached simple water blocks to sticks and connected to pc-s cooling.
they are running 225 Mhz and core 1,47 V and I get 24,67Gh/s.
Temp holding between 35 and 45 degrees Celsius,depending if i use PC for other purposes.

Are always the same working and the same dead? Usually it´s a power issue.
light is green but they are not hashing and core voltage are 0.
That wasn´t the quesition.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 12/06/2018, 15:51:06 UTC
Hello.
 Now i have played with 2pac sticks a while.3 still working and 3 are dead.
I have attached simple water blocks to sticks and connected to pc-s cooling.
they are running 225 Mhz and core 1,47 V and I get 24,67Gh/s.
Temp holding between 35 and 45 degrees Celsius,depending if i use PC for other purposes.

Are always the same working and the same dead? Usually it´s a power issue.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 04/06/2018, 15:18:08 UTC
12.5 BTC is correct. But there is almost no chance to solve a block while solo mining.
Mining in a pool give you constant payout. But it´s pretty low.
I am making 35 GH/s with one stick. The actual Hashrate inside the network is about 35 EH/s. That´s 35 000 000 000 GH/s. So, if I´m correct here, there is a chance of about 0,000 000 1 % to hit a block with a well running 2Pac.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 30/05/2018, 16:49:53 UTC
Thanks for answer.

As i have 2 Gekko (same PCB), i could compare.  There is a difference of 1 resistance (9 Ohms) between them.
And in the upper right edge of both sticks you see the pot. But it seems to be set to a good position. Looks like 2 o´clock. So it should run fine at 100 MHz.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 29/05/2018, 14:37:19 UTC
Under 25M, the device become "disabled" after few minutes.  
Why are you trying to let it run below 100 MHz? 100 MHz should run fine. What position is the voltage pot looking at it on the electronics side with the usb port facing down? Should be at about 2 or 3 o`clock.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 11/04/2018, 16:43:16 UTC
So what does the vcore part do on the left hand side? I have my usb multimeter hooked up to my stick but i dont see that reading on there? When i turn my pot clockwise to the right (2 oclock 3 oclock position) my amps go down, when i turn my pot to the left counterclockwise (to the 1 oclock noon position) i see my amps increase to like 1.69, am i reading something wrong or understanding something wrong?
The actual values aare not that important if you have no issues. Just increase the frequency and check if it works. If you´re facing any power issues we can check the amps again.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 11/04/2018, 14:58:50 UTC
Hello jogger1,
the view is alway on the pot, so the heat sink on the side away from you, with the usb port facing down.
I have no actual amp values. But there is a table with an overview of values in post #1. I had found them not perfectly correct but nearly.
If you want to adjust the fequency up, just do it and check for HW errors comming in. If there are any, turn the pot a bit clockwise until there are no new HW errors coming in. If your hub isn´t strong enough the stick will zombie. That´s the easiest way to check.
But I think at 2 or 3 o´clock 200 MHz should be possible.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 08/04/2018, 15:00:29 UTC
Try starting cgminer with the sudo command:
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sudo ./cgminer ......
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 07/04/2018, 08:46:10 UTC
Ooooww should I be using rasping lite?
Raspian Stretch lite is just the usual Stretch version without a desktop. I´m using it and it definitely works.

Greets.

Just got another couple of 2Pac for my collection. But getting a problem with one of them not being detected. When I plug it in, the blue LED lights up, but turns off as soon as I let go.

I.e. if I touch the heatsink, the blue LED lights up. The USB bus sees it but shows as inactive. cgminer does not detect it. The other one runs fine. I presume I have a faulty 2Pac ?

Incidentally, they run months on end without intervention.

What happens if you try the faulty one alone in the hub? Does it work then?
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 06/04/2018, 15:25:48 UTC
Which operating system do you use?
Try the newest version of raspian. The commands on post #1 should be up to date.
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 06/04/2018, 13:30:20 UTC
I've gone through all of page 1 and keep coming up with the same problem. As I said I'm really new to coding so I'm blind really as to what the commands are that I'm typing in.
Did you try this?
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sudo apg-get update
After that try installing the packages again.
And be sure there are no line breaks inside your command. So be careful with copy and paste.

Try https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/apt/apt-get/
It´s a good and informative wiki.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 03/04/2018, 16:59:38 UTC
so, should the next test be to up the hertz on this one or test the other stick at 200 .... hmm.
zac
Maybe first get the HW errors to 0. Turn the voltage to 4 o`clock and see if there are new HW errors coming. If not you can increase the frequency again.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 02/04/2018, 12:52:34 UTC
i'll next be able to check it about 17:00hrs UK time. that's approx 28hrs time
OK. Then let me know if it worked.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 02/04/2018, 10:56:35 UTC
currently have the pots pointing towards 5 o'clock running at 250htz. i get about 24hrs until they need restarting with ~9 hardwre faults.

still tweeking. my aim is to have them running @ 300 stable. we'll see. but its good fun getting it all work. the long term plan it to have 5 of these running on a ras-pi in a little cooled box that i'm designing so it can sit on my desk at work :-)

zac

Are you still running one at a time? Are you able to run one alone at 200 MHz at 3 o´clock? I think that 3 Amps isn´t enough for 250 MHz to run stable.
What happens after 24 hours? Do they go zombie?

In my experience putting them into a box isn´t the best solution. I tried this, even with an open case and two fans. They get hotter than with my current setup, open just inside the hub with the arctic breeze fans.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
der_wasi
on 01/04/2018, 09:28:06 UTC
Ok, running continuously at say 250 mhz? or higher? My setup is 6 2pacs, 2 2pacs/powered usb hub running at 200 mhz. holding the 2pac with the usb port down, the screw is set to 5 Oclock. They do not run continously. Don't know why?
Like I wrote a few times before, I have two 2Pacs. Each one in a 30 W Hub. Both running at 350 MHz. Voltage pot is set about 6 or 7 o´clock. Each one cooled with a Arctic Breeze fan. Both controlled by one RPi with cgminer.

I have a problem that cgminer shows different in EU. It's more log rather than US is like "window".
https://i.imgur.com/ZN38SuA.png
And the EU:
https://i.imgur.com/HQK3oWf.png
The question is, how could I switch between this to views? In some cases I need to work with the first one, in other moments I need the second one with log format.
I'm running the same command in two cases, for me is a mystery why in one rpi are showing in log format.
Can you post the cgminer.conf file you are using? Does it have the --text-only option? Or do you start with this option? The option -t is the same? Do you use this one?
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
der_wasi
on 31/03/2018, 17:04:27 UTC
Hi thanks for the reply.
Yes trying them on their own was the first thing I did. Black one is stable green one not.
Try turning the voltage pot to 3 o´clock with the USB port at bottom and view on the pot. Then set the frequency to 100 MHz. Then set the frequency to 175 or 200 MHz. If there are HW errors coming in, turn the pot clockwise until they stop coming in. Maybe you have set the pot too high already.

Doubt it, theoretically possible, but really they are toys. Impossible to keep them running continously.
I think moste of the people here, me included, have got them running continously. So I won´t say it´s impossible. My oppinion is, it wasn´t even hard. Mine are running for weeks without any issues. Only the PI freezes occasionally. But even that happened once or twice in the last months.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 30/03/2018, 23:26:55 UTC
i'm using a 3amp Orico USB powdered 7way.
I´d think that 3 amps is not enough for two sticks at higher frequency.
Turning the pot clockwise is setting the voltage up. But this causes higher power consumption. Try both of the sticks alone in the hub. Do they work then?
What happens exactly when they stop working? Do they go into zombie mode?
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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der_wasi
on 02/03/2018, 15:26:02 UTC
The discription says:
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The maximum port charge possible is 1.5 amps depending on power supply used.
1.5 A is not enough current for one stick @250 MHz. I don´t know what "depending on power supply used" means. I would buy another one. Make sure there is no limitation on the current per port. In my experience you need about 3 A per stick @250 MHz.