Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 82. (Read 61906 times)

When the list fills in a bit more I will use randomnumber.org to pick winner.
If you are on list and win I need two things proof of purchase and an address to send the prize.
I realized this prevents a false claim to a certain extent.
If you win you do not go into next  free raffle. There will be 7 maybe 8 raffles 1 stick to be given for each one.

1) DieselWeaseI
2) Irowland21093
3) Kingofhammers
4) mstrozier
5) gcanelson

mstrozier,
Thanks for your instructions, they got me going with my new RPi today.  They were a big help.
Sam

Ok now wanted to post up what I've collected on power usage on these devices.  Along with my setup.

https://ibb.co/RcFfs6v
https://ibb.co/6vhjjjC

The above images are pictures of my currently lil setup.  Ignore the wire mess with the Arduino.  Was tinkering with it the other day and decided to make a unit that measures the area temp and humidity. I plan on making some more permanent and prettier later.  And this unit is in our bedroom that doubles as my home office since I work remote.  Since I put this on a wired rack I used a piece of cardboard for the meantime (going to later replace with a piece of wood or plastic shelf material to be a little more presentable.  As well as some much needed cable management.  I put pegs on the PSU so that the breakout board would not be touching any of the metal shelving.

Now the power usage.  I took the power readings of ONLY the PSU powering the gekko hub, two usb fans and the R606's.  The Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu Linux box are on a separate power strip so I took only the power readings of these miners and it's own dedicated PSU.   The Raspberry Pi averages (from memory) between 5 and 10 watts.  And my FX-6300 since it's mainly idling with little processing on these R606's  (cpu less than 15%) should be ~100 watts give or take.  The R606 is at volt setting 5.

Here is a screen shot of the miner setup it at idle: https://ibb.co/QPnvkR1.  This is just the PSU powered on with the Gekkoscience Hub, newpacs, moonlanders and R606's all attached, powered on however doing nothing at present.  Just sitting there, about 46 Watts for everything.

Next, screen shot of just the Hub being used (newpacs / moonlanders mining).  I waited for them to reach their target speed and leveled out: https://ibb.co/wS0yrL6.  This brought the total usage up to 83 watts.

Now with the R606's added and hashing.  Again I waited until the units had leveled out before I settled on it's reading.  As it slowly continued to climb.   Once the units leveled off, my total system usage is 257 Watts: https://ibb.co/Byfyrnz.

I attached it to my old Win10 machine that has 32GB memory and an AMD FX-8350. Set for 775MHz on voltage setting 7 and I'm seeing ~1.020Th/s and 97+% WU after it tunes it down to 763Mhz. I had to enable low boost after I was getting ASIC plateau errors upon starting to mine. I just accidentally closed cgminer, so I'll have to let this run for a bit before I grab a new screenshot.

UPDATE:

Here's a screenshot of what I'm getting after a couple hours of runtime.

https://imgur.com/a/UyiejjB

Yup you are running into the problems I had with the Pi.  A couple of pages back in this thread you'll see the test results I had with this.  The ARM cpu that the Pi uses is a great little gadget however just isn't powerful enough to run these r606's at the right speeds.  No matter what voltage I set it to, low to mid 400Mhz is where is always settled.

However if you have the newpac's those work great on the Pi.  So what I did was ended up breaking down this setup into 2 different rigs.   I put my newpac's and moonlanders on the Raspberry Pi.  I have the moonlanders clocked at 720Mhz and the newpac's clocked at 400Mhz and they are working great.   8Mh combined for the Moons (have 2 of them) and for the 4 newpacs they are all getting about 90Gh/s each on a non-AB supported Pool.

I then moved my R606's over to a AMD FX-6300 powered Ubuntu Linux box that I have sitting around at home.  It originally had a 8350 however the 6 core chip is a little more power friendly.  And they have been running perfectly since.  On Volt setting 5 I set them at 700Mhz and oddly it depends on the pool I am on to what final Mhz it settles on.  When mining Bitcoin or Litecoin Cash, they will stay around ~700.  One settles at 681 and the other either remains at 700 or drops to 698.

However when I switch to a Digibyte mining pool, they both settled at 644Mhz on this setting.   Still got some reviews to see on this as I am unsure why which pool you are on would matter.  I'm wondering if I had something kick off in the background that may have effected the speeds to downclock.   *shrugs*

It's all still a learning experience for me and enjoying it.   If you have any old PC hardware laying around, only suggestion is to build up a small Linux box and run the R606's there.

** Edit **

If you are still wanting to use SBC to run these, you can possibly try a Asus Tinker Board (same chipset however 1.8Ghz Quad core and 2Gb of DDR3 memory).   Or possibly the Nvidia Jetson Nano.  I've been curious about that SBC since it's designed mainly for AI development.  However the stats on the board are quite nice.  4Gb of DDR4 memory.  16GB of onboard flash memory.  Quad core A57 CPU (believe up to 2Ghz).  Neat lil SBC for $100.

When the list fills in a bit more I will use randomnumber.org to pick winner.
If you are on list and win I need two things proof of purchase and an address to send the prize.
I realized this prevents a false claim to a certain extent.
If you win you do not go into next  free raffle.

1) DieselWeaseI
2) Irowland21093
3) Kingofhammers

This is damn near a mirror of what I am seeing. My Pi is hardwired just because of proximity.

Good to know that someone is having a similar experience. Time to pull an old desktop out and start fiddling with it.

Thank you for the insight @DieselWeaseI

You are first on list.

1) DieselWeaseI

@DieselWeaseI

Those asic chips of the R606 expects work every few ms, on the dot.   If the CPU gets diverted elsewhere or the USB bus gets congested by other traffic for even a short period, it's not going to perform ideally.

I'd love to join in, but my account isn't allowed to send pm's yet. I bought mine from 419 and received it on Thursday.

it can run in a 90f garage at voltage 7 and do 1.035th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANZPRnjCpA

video show 775 and 1.035th.

over time (a week) it sagged to freq 767.5 and 1.025th.

Even at V5, it throttles down. I'm betting on the issue being the pi. Autotune drops it big time if I try to use any of the resources on the pi while mining. I'd set it up in my office and connect it to my antique AMD mining rig, but the temperature is still swinging up and down in New Jersey and my heat may kick on at some point and blow hot air on my equipment overnight.

I am getting  767.5  with voltage 7   and  about  1.025 th

power is an evga 750 watt T2  psu. (Titanium class)

cpu is  a ryzen 2700

16 gb ram

1 tb  sandisk ssd.

this is nice unit.  happy with it.

http://solo.ckpool.org/users/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje

Will be throwing a nice party when I hit that block with it.


I still have 8 compacs to give away.

I think I will do first raffle. Today will be the start.

Send me a pm  that you purchased a r606  from

sidehack or 419miner or rockmoney  or minefarmbuy.

lets try to get the first drawing done  on Tuesday the 21st.

588Hhz @ Voltage level 4 sounds pretty good.  If your shooting for a higher frequency why haven't you set the voltage higher?  The power draw seems high, but I have no idea what your power supply is consuming.

I'm testing a run at Power Level 6 and it's at 681Mhz and drawing 91 Watts, ATX Power supply and R606 only, although it may still be tuning.

Edit: yep it was still tuning.  Seems to have settled at 656Mhz.

Try a higher voltage setting first. If it still throttles low, it's more likely the controller than the miner.

Just wanted to share my testing results from the past two days with my R606 powered by an HP1200. Running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ over wifi, so it looks like I'm maxxed out on this config as 600MHz is autotuning to 588. Might try an ASUS Tinker Board since that has a little more horsepower. I really want to keep this setup as mobile as possible. Still need to run a cable to where I have this sitting, so I haven't tried a hardwired network connection yet.

V4 550MHz - whole setup is drawing 102W at the wall (if you trust my Wemo Insight switch):

https://imgur.com/a/0nb1vWf

V4 600MHz - drawing 107W at the wall:

https://imgur.com/a/QVnpGaV

@sidehack- after careful consideration I have decided to forgo re-engineering a case. The fun part is outweighed by the cost part.

One more data point - I have three R606 from 419.  One of them was giving me the blinking lights and would not mine higher than about 200GH.
I worked with Nick from 419 and after compiling the latest cgminer on a RPi all three are hashing 800-900 each now.
This is using a Gekko USB hub and one of the HP DPS-1200FB power supplies.  
Again it is on a RPi.  I have tried mining with cksolo, kano, and slush and ASICBoost works on all at the same 900GH on all.

The one miner that is blinking is apparently #1 off the "assembly line" according to Nick (it does not have a notch on the case for the USB connection).
While it is still blinking, it is running nicely now.

Using a laser thermometer, the temperature on all three miners is about the same - about 100F.

These are great little machines - thank you sidehack for making them and vh for updating the cgminer!!

Message sent. My apologies for the delay, as we have been extremely busy (like sidehack mentioned). Also as sidehack mentioned, we have been talking about how to best resolve the issue you're experiencing.

Please shoot me another email when you get this. Thanks!  

I appreciate that @sidehack.   Integrity makes all the difference in this day and time.  It says a lot about you.  Thanks.