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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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hercthx
on 24/06/2018, 20:06:54 UTC
Hey ther moonpeeps! so I'm getting an error on one of my moonlander2s. (timestamp) futureBit write error: Permission denied over and over again, any ideas what the issue is? windows 10, bfgminer 5.4.2.38-gl06380a99, all other moonlanders are hashing away just fine, its just the one stick so far.
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Re: Who likes pod miners?
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hercthx
on 20/05/2018, 18:58:53 UTC
so, months ago, I was on the pre order list to buy some pod miners, even was in contact with the person arraigning transactions. I went from being on the pre order list, to being on the waiting list, and then nothing. no emails. no info. what happened? was sales to Canada quietly closed or something. had an opportunity to buy multiple units. that time has passed. I know loosing an order is no big deal to ya, but feel pretty perturbed for being ghosted like that. just wanted to put my whateves in. anyway, not a big deal really just wanted to say sup? lol keep up the good work!
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
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hercthx
on 20/05/2018, 18:42:27 UTC
Hi there! I seem to have run up against an error I cannot find a fix to. I'm running a Moonlander 2 on a windows 10 machine using bfgminer 5.4.3-38. I'm showing a " FutureBit Write error: No space left on device ". any ideas or help? stick is running zeros across the board, 0 work 0 HW, just the error cycling non stop.
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Re: Who likes pod miners?
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hercthx
on 07/02/2018, 05:55:57 UTC
emailed!!!! totaly stoked we are so close!
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Re: Who likes pod miners?
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hercthx
on 17/01/2018, 06:59:31 UTC
Great news! That's awesome!!!
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Re: Who likes pod miners?
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hercthx
on 12/01/2018, 05:26:51 UTC
Dude I would like to buy 4 at whatever price you feel is fair! You put so much hard work into these, and we are all ready to support ya!
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Re: Keeping My GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 StickMiner Cool
by
hercthx
on 25/12/2017, 17:00:07 UTC
Hi. I just got my ASIC miner today and have quickly realized that it gets very hot very fast. How can I keep it cool?

Like any other electronics! fans, air-conditioning, running at slower clock speeds.
Here is my solution

https://i.imgur.com/X8LLLZF.jpg
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Re: [ANN] FutureBit Moonlander 2: The Most Powerful and Efficient USB Stick Miner!
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hercthx
on 22/12/2017, 16:02:05 UTC
I've got the exact same setup, and can confirm! same hashing rate spread on us2. I put a 200mm coolermaster fan over them for some extra cooling.
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Re: Repeal of Net neutrality - effects on miners
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hercthx
on 21/12/2017, 18:32:46 UTC
This has nothing to do with which  political  party you support. This has to do with do you want your internet neutral as in internet speed is neutral across the board for all websites (equipment dependant), or do you want your ISP to regulate which sites get better or worse speed (throttling). do you want to pay for the service speed to your local network alone, or do you want to pay extra for site packaging ala loot crate or cable service packaging?

The argument of which idiot in office you support, is the argument the ISP's want you to have.

This is about ISP's using government to monetise the internet further.

When this goes though, and it will, the full effect will be in about 5 years or so, you'll be wondering why your internet bill is so high. this is why. Look at how your cable service behaved. years ago you paid a flat rate for basic or local stations, and then extra for speciality or "satellite" stations back int the 80's-90's, now your cable is bundled and your paying more for the same if not less content. Compare the history of your cable service, that is what to expect of your internet going forward.

The least of the worries is that we'll be paying more for internet, the bigger worry is the ISP's now have the ability with protection  of the FCC to throttle connection speed to "undesirable or unfavourable" websites.

The worry for us is that the banks could use this as an attack on crypto by incentivising the ISP's to throttle connection speeds to crypto exchanges, pools and nodes. The results could be longer delays on trading, and lower returns on mining.

This is a move by the ISP's that can, and will be exploited, regardless of which political party is in power. That is why we see such a high percentage of both dem and gop supporters against this.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 18/12/2017, 04:17:10 UTC
How many bitcoins can I roughly mine per month if I get 5 of these?
How fast can a car go? How much is enough? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
It all depends on your system resources, your internet service, your geographical location to the node, or pool you are using, Your voltage and clock settings, How often, and for how long you are planning on running your mining devices, and the difficulty level of bitcoin. A lot of factors to consider. Stock hashrate is what 15gh/h per device I think so around 75gh? you can google bitcoin mining calculator and enter in 75gh to get a rough idea I guess. Hope that helps!
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 16/12/2017, 03:18:58 UTC
Sure, you can go that route. I believe that each stick has unique id that can be retrieved (at least on *nix, never tried it on Windows) and with a bit of scripting you can probably automate everything
Sounds familiar, I recall it being numerical in relation the the lsusb enumeration so, --usb 1, or something along those lines. Never had a real use for it personally but definitely a nice feature to have and might be suitable for goose1072.

Just tried

--usb 0-gekko-2pac-freq 200

and --usb 0-freq 200

none worked
cgminer.exe --usb :1 --gekko-2pac-freq xxx and so on... when starting cgminer with this, cg miner detects and uses the first available 2pac and ignores the rest. if you put in --usb :2, then it detects and uses the first 2 usable 2pacs and ignores the rest. and so on...
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
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hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 20:24:57 UTC
Cheers!
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 18:22:57 UTC
Voltage has nothing to do with the workload, just the hardware's stability. In general, the higher the voltage at a given frequency, the more stable it'll be (until heat or junction breakdowns become an issue).

The amount of work done is proportional to the operating frequency. I see about WU 1.53/MHz with a 2-chip stick, so 225MHz should run about 344 - plus or minus, because USB traffic and pool latency and whatever.
And that's what I am seeing now, OK thanks for the confirmation! Ok I'll Bump them back up to 250Mhz, And return the voltage to 1.4 as that seemed to be running fine. I just wanted to see if the 2pacs would be more efficient or stable at the lower clock with higher volt.
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 17:53:26 UTC

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I have noticed as well initial WU is down by 40 per 2pac. average per 2pac at 250/1.40 was 383, on restart at 225/1.46 showing 340, expecting that number to rise over the next few hours though.

I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this, and what where your results?

That appears in range.   WU change is proportional to freq.   About a 10% change in each there.
more details:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1764803.msg18329715#msg18329715


Ahh, I see, so a lower freq at a higher voltage will not necessarily return a more stable workload, rather less work overall yeah?
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Re: GekkoScience 2Pac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 17:26:48 UTC
https://i.imgur.com/X8LLLZF.jpg


Running an experiment, Trying with initial settings of 250Mhz*1.40v and changing to 225Mhz*1.46v to see if I can get better stability out of the 2pacs.

So far temp with addition fan cooling and 5C ART has not changed, 45C probe reading at the heat-sink from 2pac at centre of array, 61C-65C IR reading from the 2pac boards outer row.

I have noticed as well initial WU is down by 40 per 2pac. average per 2pac at 250/1.40 was 383, on restart at 225/1.46 showing 340, expecting that number to rise over the next few hours though.

I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this, and what where your results?
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 16:29:07 UTC
Another good report jstefanop. Had another power outage this morning, same as yesterday. BIG difference with the updated driver, this time on power restore from UPS backup, all my MLDs remained monitoring, and continued operating once internet came back online!!!! Yesterday with the prev driver all MLDs hung!!!! I'll monitor the next hour to see that the MLDs continue to operate. But on initial work restore, all went well! I see my nBTC/h score is lower by @40, but I think that is just due to the MLDs hashing restart. I'm expecting that score to increase over the next few hours, will report back on status after a few hours. Great update!!!!!
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 06:13:57 UTC
>> Getting around 5Mh per x 5 and running at 876 in BFG miner bat file, extra usb fan for cooling.

Same here. Note that hashrate = 5.66 x clockfrequency, so 876x5.66= 5Mh/s (if all cores are working). I had to trim the core voltage a bit more compared to my previous 832Mhz. I tried first 856, then I got a bit more HW errors, then 876 and a lot more HW errors (>> 1%), that gave me an idea how much to change the core voltage pot. Now it is steady at just below 1% error rate.


Hey lenny, just curios what core v you're running for 832Mhz? would like to give that a try.
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Re: [ANN] The First Litecoin PPS Pool (litecoinpool.org)
by
hercthx
on 15/12/2017, 00:32:15 UTC
Hi,

A somewhat newbie to crypto mining and really just playing around as a hobby, I've been trying to get my gridseed miner working on the litecoinpool.org servers and seem to not be having much luck, cgminer detects the miner but I keep getting some errors and dont appear to be producing any hashes.Please see below. can anyone help or point me in the right direction... many thanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lj7h8F5oy3DbTClbx94zyUZD7WZcyEpY/view?usp=sharing
try cgminer v3.7.2 that's what it took to get gridseeds working on my system win10. Also for each gridseed you should be seeing 2 devices GSD0 and GSD1, 1 for each blade. Hope that helps.
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 14/12/2017, 21:04:51 UTC
First Impressions..VERY nice!, I like that [attempting restart] if the MLD doesn't init correctly on first run! Kicked 2 of my MLDs into gear where before I know I would have had to do a re-init!
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Re: Official FutureBit Moonlander 2 Driver and Support Thread
by
hercthx
on 14/12/2017, 13:46:26 UTC
Here's something, I had to reboot my router this morning, on internet restore, I had to restart My MLD BFGminer exe's. I know this is more of a BFG question but just in case someone here has a solution, is there a way to set the MLD BFG to auto resume on internet restore? Current BFG is the 5.4.2-34 futurebit provided to run with MLDs.