Hello,
I bought this little device for around $20 second hand. I am completely new and noob in crypto mining. I have some questions, probably stupid, but I have nowhere else to ask.
1. There is a link in the first post about Driver Repo, a link with some files to download. Do I have to download any of this and install. If so, what to install? (I am using Win10)
2. In one of the post here, I think the constructor of this device said "People use this mostly as cheap little lottery miners. They cost next to nothing to run, and you have a chance of making about $100 if you get lucky". What did he mean? Where to sign up for it?
3. From what I understand, the device will run with no problem with no fan under 144MHz, if I would like to overclock it in need a fan. Is something like ARCTIC Breeze Mobile will be OK?
4. Is there a possibility to overheat it do death? Does it have some kind of safe feature like in desktop computers where you can't easily "burn" your processor?
5. I understand frequency setting which I can change in the Start_Moonlander.bat file, bot how is it connected with voltage adjustment? Is there any table or chart, for example if frequency is set to X turn voltage to Y?
I apologize for my ignorance and I hope someone would be so kind to answer my questions.
1) Yes you need to download the silicon labs COM drivers for windows 10, as well as the actual bfgminer driver to run these
2)I mean you can run these on a solo pool, where the pool pays you out for the entire block if your miner is the one that actually happens to find the right solution (the current block reward for litecoin is 25 LTC, so that roughly equals about 100 bucks). Nicehash has a nice solo pool
https://solo.nicehash.com/3)Yes, as long as some airflow is blowing over the fan blades even high end clock speeds will be fine
4) Yes...there is no internal temp on this asic...it will most likely just crash before it fries itself, but damage is still a possibility especially if it runs at over 90C for any lengthy period of time.
5)You just have to play with it...you can run bfgminer in -benchmark mode which will return many shares/s...which will allow you to see your hardware error rate in real time. You can then manually change the voltage with the pot as you watch the error rate. Just turn the voltage down untill you see lots of errors, then slowly turn it up. Once it reach nearly zero errors you know you have found the sweet spot for that frequency.