GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 16.

Golddustpeak

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Quote from: os2sam on April 11, 2021, 08:27:16 PM

Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 11, 2021, 06:51:33 PM

Has anyone found a pool that accepts less than .001 BTC that they like?

kano.is will payout less than that, but your hash rate needs to be above the dust level which is probably around 500Ghs or so.

Asking about pools tends to get a bit ugly sometimes as we all have differing opinions on what constitutes a good pool to us.

Sorry not wanting to start a firefight

os2sam

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Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 11, 2021, 06:51:33 PM

Has anyone found a pool that accepts less than .001 BTC that they like?

kano.is will payout less than that, but your hash rate needs to be above the dust level which is probably around 500Ghs or so.

Asking about pools tends to get a bit ugly sometimes as we all have differing opinions on what constitutes a good pool to us.

Golddustpeak

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And another question (or two)...................

As I look at the various mining pools I see a minimum withdrawal of .001 BTC.

Has anyone found a pool that accepts less than .001 BTC that they like?

Are you doing solo in hopes of success or just waiting for the payout?

What pools do you like and why?

Sorry for all the questions....................

TNX
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Golddustpeak

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Update...............

I bumped the frequency up to 200 MHz and now I'm measuring:
83 deg. F. to 89 deg. F. on the boards
79 deg. F. to 85 deg. F. on the heat sink

This is after at least 8 hours of continuous running.

gt_addict

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I had a single 92mm fan blowing directly down onto 6 newpacs on a GekkoHub and ran comfortably at 650m for months. Ambient room temp was 20-23c (not sure what that is in F). So if the cooling is good then you should be able to reach that ok most likely.

slurfius

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I'm going to get a fan and start at 200 then go up 25 a day until I max the system out. Seems like that is what most have done

Golddustpeak

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New question......
I'm currently running 4 Gekkoscience-newpac @150 MHz on a gekkoscience hub being cooled by two ARCTIC Breeze blowing on them.
The heat-sink temps range from 79 deg. F. to 87 deg. F. and the board temps range from 81 deg. F. to 85 deg. F. after 8 hours of solid running.

The ambient room temperature is between 75 deg. F. and 76 deg. F.

My question is how much higher can I SAFELY raise the frequency and maintain a safe stable environment?

TNX

slurfius

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Quote from: gt_addict on April 09, 2021, 03:46:18 AM

Did you run it direct from your morherboard usb port?

yes

I watched the hashrate fall on the pool and checked later and saw that the cpu on the same machine slowed down mining monero around the same time and then the computer crashed and bios said that I needed to make changes. I think the newpac overheated pulling a ton of power and the extremely overclocked cpu didn't get enough power causing the crash that might have saved my newpac.

Quote from: slurfius on April 08, 2021, 08:42:11 PM

Be careful with cooling them I'm here because I ran my brand new stick at 125 and I'm afraid I may have cooked it. It ran great for hours then the hash rate went down gradually overnight and now it's hashing at 4.669 GH/s according to slush pool. I thought I wouldn't need a fan because my gaming tower has big top and rear intake fans and it seems like the air was moving a lot back there by the usb port but I think I was wrong.

Update: the newpac seems fine it ran at 100mhz all day and after an hour or so it resumed average hash rates between 16 and 33.

Golddustpeak

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Quote from: os2sam on April 10, 2021, 10:06:00 AM

Make sure you have good cooling on your sticks as you ramp up your frequency.

Yup got a pair of ARCTIC Breeze blowing on them

os2sam

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Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 10, 2021, 09:26:02 AM

Well that tool a while but I'm now at 150MHz................

I finally found and changed the cgminer.conf file.
It was hiding at : /root/.cgminer/cgminer.conf

Quote from: os2sam on April 09, 2021, 01:05:12 PM

I think it ends in .conf

THANKS !

Glad to hear it. I've never saved a configuration the .conf file before so I know very little about. I like doing things from a command line. However on my Pi 4 I did create a .sh file which contains my command line, which is quite lengthy since I have 4 or 5 fail over's.

Make sure you have good cooling on your sticks as you ramp up your frequency.

Golddustpeak

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Well that tool a while but I'm now at 150MHz................

I finally found and changed the cgminer.conf file.
It was hiding at : /root/.cgminer/cgminer.conf

Quote from: os2sam on April 09, 2021, 01:05:12 PM

I think it ends in .conf

THANKS !

MoparMiningLLC

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Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 09, 2021, 09:01:47 PM

Quote from: os2sam on April 09, 2021, 01:05:12 PM

Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 09, 2021, 12:23:49 PM

Any thoughts on which of them to look for the frequency parameter or whit it might be called so I can search for it?

I think it ends in .conf

I've looked through the CGminer folder and found no files ending with .conf, additionally I've searched through the configuration files mentioned above.

I've also read the READ ME file but I cannot see where the Gekko Variables (arguments) are stored.

Please do not tell me that I will need to recompile the CGminer.

Am I to believe that it is impossible to change the frequency with the argument " --gekko-newpac-freq xxx" once compiled?

TNX

let's start with the first question needing an answer - what os? Windows? Linux?

os2sam

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Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 09, 2021, 09:01:47 PM

Am I to believe that it is impossible to change the frequency with the argument " --gekko-newpac-freq xxx" once compiled?

I can change frequencies.

Golddustpeak

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Quote from: os2sam on April 09, 2021, 01:05:12 PM

Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 09, 2021, 12:23:49 PM

Any thoughts on which of them to look for the frequency parameter or whit it might be called so I can search for it?

I think it ends in .conf

I've looked through the CGminer folder and found no files ending with .conf, additionally I've searched through the configuration files mentioned above.

I've also read the READ ME file but I cannot see where the Gekko Variables (arguments) are stored.

Please do not tell me that I will need to recompile the CGminer.

Am I to believe that it is impossible to change the frequency with the argument " --gekko-newpac-freq xxx" once compiled?

TNX

gt_addict

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If you are using windows then you want to open a new Notepad file. Type in the same as the linux one but start it with “cgminer.exe” instead (I think) and save it as a .bat file. Then you can run the .bat file.

MoparMiningLLC

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the file you are looking for (if the usb ones work like the R606) would have very little text in it.

for example - here is one of my config files - but now this is on a linux though.

Code:

./cgminer -0 stratum+tcp://btc-us.f2pool.com:3333 -u moparmining.001 -p xxxxxxx --api-listen --api-allow W:0/0 --gekko-r606-freq 800

that is all that is in the file.

its a .sh file in linux

Golddustpeak

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I have the following:
configure.ac
configure
config sub
config.status
config.log
config.h.in
config.h
config.guess

Think it might be configure?
I searched it for freq and frequency but found nothing, I guess I could look for 100.........

What do you think?

os2sam

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Quote from: Golddustpeak on April 09, 2021, 12:23:49 PM

Any thoughts on which of them to look for the frequency parameter or whit it might be called so I can search for it?

I think it ends in .conf

Golddustpeak

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Quote from: os2sam on April 09, 2021, 11:41:56 AM

In CGMiner you should see T:150 where mine above says T:650. That is the target CGMiner is trying for. If you didn't see the T:150 then something is telling CGMiner to target 100 Mhz instead. Someone asked to check your .conf file for conflicting commands.

Nice we are starting to get there.

In CGminer i see T:100.

So something is really set to a freq of 100.
In looking in CGminer I see no less than 8 files referring to configuration or config.
Any thoughts on which of them to look for the frequency parameter or whit it might be called so I can search for it?

TNX

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Quote from: MoparMiningLLC on April 09, 2021, 11:44:26 AM

by target - I think he is meaning in cgminer - see where I circled?

Yep, you are correct sir.

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