Announcing GekkoScience's new USB stick miner, the aptly-named NewPac

BitMaxz

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Block halving is coming.

Quote from: Davidd82 on June 06, 2023, 02:31:04 PM

It seems this is the last post from the admin FuzzyBear. Please does anyone know how i can get my Devtome account up?
I already sent a message to admin FuzzyBear but his last post is saying 2021, please can anybody help me out on how to get Devtome account??

Are you sure? He is active here recently it would be better make a separate thread about devtome because this thread is for Gekkoscience.

Or bring your concern to their official thread here

Ok I just PM him for you and expect for response through PM.

Davidd82

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@ admin FuzzyBear, I already sent you a message according to the instruction given but i'm seeing a new criteria for getting a Devtome account here in one of the threads posted in this forum that if my username starts from G to L, that i'm to message you but my username started with a "D" @Davidd82 and i already sent you a direct message because ur admin was the one i saw to message first if a username starts from A-F.
Also, after sending you a message, i realise you do not enable messages from newbies and just have to find one of your posts and get ur attention. I will be so grateful if you help.

Davidd82

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It seems this is the last post from the admin FuzzyBear. Please does anyone know how i can get my Devtome account up?
I already sent a message to admin FuzzyBear but his last post is saying 2021, please can anybody help me out on how to get Devtome account??

HagssFIN

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Electrical engineer. Mining since 2014.

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I would go 'solo lottery mining' at Kano.is (you can create a solo mining account) or solo.ckpool.org

gt_addict

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Quote from: kalamc on December 01, 2021, 09:20:33 AM

Hello all I need some help setting up my Gekkoscience newpac with Antpool I can not get it to link to my account or even show any workers on the screen at all.
What is the best mining pool for the Gekkoscience newpac? Please someone help me

Any pool should accept the stick. The trouble with a big pool like Antpoo. Is that your stick is almost insignificant, so it will probably only show up once it has found a share at the diff dictated by the pool. How long did you leave it for before saying it doesnt work? does the stick hash at all? if so then it is working but its the pool side not picking it up. Just be patient.

kalamc

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Hello all I need some help setting up my Gekkoscience newpac with Antpool I can not get it to link to my account or even show any workers on the screen at all.
What is the best mining pool for the Gekkoscience newpac? Please someone help me

FuzzyBear

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Quote from: Filax on March 12, 2021, 05:17:04 AM

Hey Smiley

Just few words to give an idea for Newpak owners! Those keys are very funny to use (and indestructible), the most big problem is the cooling. I tryed many solutions via fan etc and after 2 years of work

I finally got a good setup!

The solution is : Get out the native passive cooler and replace it by a bigger one! I printed with PLA a support base and this aluminium cooler is cooldown by a 90 mm PC fan... And another fan in front to cool the other electronics chips.

This setup allow me to put a freq of 400/420 Mhz (10 keys) for a hashrate of 950 Mh/s - 1 Th/s for 130 watts.

Just wanted to say this is a lovely setup you have running here, giving me miner envy!

vintag386

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Quote from: Filax on March 15, 2021, 12:24:30 PM

Quote from: gt_addict on March 15, 2021, 06:31:53 AM

There should be pads on the back for testing the voltage with a multimeter. Something like Vcore and GND.

Hi

The problem is, i don't find clear informations to setup voltage screw!, it's very nebulous... I tryed a freq of 500 MHz but i get lot of errors? Maybe the screw is not setuped correctly (i got the initial screw setup)

Regards

I found that messing with the voltage screw really didn't help. I deleted all my instances of cgminer and reinstalled it from scratch using the instructions in this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-newpac-terminus-r606-bm1387-official-support-thread-5053833, and it worked great. You have to have a good USB hub and cooling, but it helped me get the newpacs running great.

heslo

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Quote from: harmonicdrive on March 15, 2021, 07:58:37 PM

I'd be happy if I could buy more 606's :/

Looking to sell mine, if you're keen hit me up and we might be able to sort something out

harmonicdrive

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I'd be happy if I could buy more 606's :/

gt_addict

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Quote from: oldman123 on March 15, 2021, 08:15:39 AM

I don't see anything marked like that. I see, A, F, N0, N1, 4,8 and 16 as marked items along with one pad circled...
the card is v6.3d

Sorry my mistake. That was the previous generation stick. Not sure where the newpac probe points are. They will be mentioned in this thread somewhere.

Quote from: Filax on March 15, 2021, 12:24:30 PM

The problem is, i don't find clear informations to setup voltage screw!, it's very nebulous... I tryed a freq of 500 MHz but i get lot of errors? Maybe the screw is not setuped correctly (i got the initial screw setup)

The voltage pot should have the flat side set to about 4 - 5 o’clock if the stick is orientated so the heatsink is laying on a surface and the usb connector is closest to you. These shouldnt need voltage adjustment though. I ran mine at stock voltage and got a freq of 650m.

Usually poor performance and errors is due the USB hub you are using.

Filax

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Quote from: gt_addict on March 15, 2021, 06:31:53 AM

There should be pads on the back for testing the voltage with a multimeter. Something like Vcore and GND.

Hi

The problem is, i don't find clear informations to setup voltage screw!, it's very nebulous... I tryed a freq of 500 MHz but i get lot of errors? Maybe the screw is not setuped correctly (i got the initial screw setup)

Regards

oldman123

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I don't see anything marked like that. I see, A, F, N0, N1, 4,8 and 16 as marked items along with one pad circled.

the card is v6.3d.

gt_addict

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There should be pads on the back for testing the voltage with a multimeter. Something like Vcore and GND.

oldman123

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I have a few NewPacs and one of them had been underperforming the rest and now it seems like it is on it's last leg. All of them are on a Gekko hub with a high speed server fan blowing down on them to keep them real cool. Now I can't get it running at standard frequency (100) with any type of consistent results. I have changed the voltage a bit to see if that would help, but everytime I try it, the output looks like this:

Code:

cgminer version 4.11.1 - Started: [2021-03-14 22:00:52.738]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(5s):1.185G (1m):1.063G (5m):309.8M (15m):110.6M (avg):1.716Gh/s
A:0 R:32768 HW:0 WU:24.0/m | ST: 1 SS: 0 NB: 2 LW: 326 GF: 0 RF: 0
Connected to prohashing.com diff 32.8K with stratum as user xxxxxxx
Block: c5e7c5ba... Diff:1.67G Started: [22:01:21.123] Best share: 1.1K
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: GSH 10033302: BM1387:02+ 75/75/ 15 (499:251) [oo] | 4.7% WU:^ 5% | 2.376G / 800.2Mh/s WU:11.2/m A:0 R:0 HW:0

The green LED is on all the time and the white one is on when powered on and then goes between on and off while the cgminer is running.

Any thoughts? Is there a way to confirm what the voltage is out of the adjustment pot?

Thanks.

sidehack

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Did you tune the voltage? 130 watts for only 1TH across 10 sticks isn't that great, can probably do better.

gt_addict

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Nice setup. But thats not as far as they can go. I had 6 running 650m for 140Ghs each being cooled by a 92mm fan. Ran like a champ for 18months no problems.

With your setup you should get that no problem.

Filax

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Hey Smiley

Just few words to give an idea for Newpak owners! Those keys are very funny to use (and indestructible), the most big problem is the cooling. I tryed many solutions via fan etc and after 2 years of work

I finally got a good setup!

The solution is : Get out the native passive cooler and replace it by a bigger one! I printed with PLA a support base and this aluminium cooler is cooldown by a 90 mm PC fan... And another fan in front to cool the other electronics chips.

This setup allow me to put a freq of 400/420 Mhz (10 keys) for a hashrate of 950 Mh/s - 1 Th/s for 130 watts.

100knot2dae

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If you are EU based, bitshopper.de ~~has~~ had some in stock.

saxtron3000

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Quote from: HarrySquater on February 22, 2021, 08:38:41 AM

Are there any plans for restocking NewPac?

I'd like to get one - slowly getting in to nodes, mining and lightning network at home through a small Raspberry Pi set-up. It would be good to get one if these new - all the deals on eBay and Amazon are being sold at wack prices. Guess the halvening killed these machines - but, hey, its not about the money just wanted an ASIC chip to mess with.

Any suggestions?

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