Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 99. (Read 61906 times)

Thanks, oh! sure it's possible to make a more design model But when you need to clean it to remove dust
i prefer get a simple model to build/unbuild

At the begining i wanted to make a model with invisible fans, but when i tested, it was not pratical...

else, publish your! i'm curious it's cool to give the choice to this topic users

PS: I printed the first one a user made, but there was to much air flux lost...

That looks great, I was considering the same idea but now im going for something just for aesthetics.

Hey

I just finished my optimized air flux box for my gekko newpac Work only for the gekkoscience USB HUB (the best...)
For a best cooling i removed the top HUB cache.

Due to my printer size bed i needed to cut the box to 8 parts, you need to glue them, but it work

Here is the stl files if you want.... You need two 9 cm classic PC fans, the up fan let
in the fresh air, and the second fan get out the hot.

DOWNLOAD:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vquh8zgrgyj27n3/GekkoBox.zip?dl=0

Note : Under CURA you need to do a scale X/Y/Z of 1000 to get the correct size.

IMAGES
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/09/3/1551291718-20190227-135127.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/09/3/1551291715-20190227-135137.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/09/3/1551291717-20190227-191555.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2019/09/3/1551291717-20190227-191614.jpg

With this setup i can run them to 600/615 mhz without problem

PS : Do not glue the top and the bottom, same for the fans, do not glue them if you want to remove dust or craps...
The glued angle pieces are enought to keep them in place.

See ya

God told me to buy 10 more.

Doing the multipool things since i got my newpac. I like it.
First on multipool.us now on dutch-mining.

I like it, got the idea its more efficient, although i did not make calculations to proof this.

What are the default for the miner Vcore.  in my UDDO, I am able to got to .cgminer and get in the conf file for cgminer to make the changes.  In PI i can get into .cgminer and the conf file is not there?

There might exist a prototype with software voltage setting and the like, for which this flag is relevant, but it has no effect on production sticks.

quick question:

I haven't played with it yet, but i just discovered


is the default setting in cgminer.  I looked though this whole forum topic, and nobody has mentioned it - only using the potentiometer to adjust vcore.

should i adjust it higher to get a better overclock?  was it only for pre-production newpacs (i.e not valid for production units)? ...etc?

I change to Kano.is and the nonce stopped.

The miners stopped again.  I have no clue why?

Maybe it's God telling you to stop buying stickminers.

I have 11 Units that were running. and stopped all together.

I tried or Raspberry Pi, The other with my UDDO on the PI they stopped hashing in a few hours.   one the UDDO, it worked for a few days.

not sure why they all stop?

Like others have mentioned, the NewPac can only mine SHA256 algorithm coins/assets, like Bitcoin. BUT, what you can do, is use these sticks to mine on a "multi-pool" to receive payouts in almost any coin asset out there. Better yet, do some research, find a new, young, upcoming project that you believe in, and get paid out in their coin/token/asset while the value and difficulty are low (speculation). Then, just sit on the accumulated coins/tokens/assets until the price goes up. Rinse, wash, repeat..

I used to have a raspi3 setup with 3x 2pacs and a couple of USB hubs. All powered from an atx psu. It was better to run the power from two USB ports to one stick.

https://imgur.com/a/JmYOV

New miner her, just bought 2 x NewPac in addition to the 2Pac I already got last week.  I'm enjoying the potential modding possibilities here as a pet project and wanted to ask if anyone can share experience in replacing the heatsink or other fun mods?  I would rather not try to drill a hole in aluminum, I'm a horrible driller and have an old corded drill.  I think my options are either a single hole or using thermal adhesive compounds, not sure if there is enough surface area on the chip to hold a bigger heatsink.

My experiment is putting these stick miners completely on mini solar panels with the Pi Zero W and see what they can do.  So far I have the Pi Zero W with the current 2Pac running at around 4-5w at the wall,  waiting for solar panel and meter (and NewPacs) to measure more accurately DC draw.

Some discoveries of interest are the Pi 3b has a current limit,  was only able to go to 143Mhz before power maxed out, on the Pi Zero I actually got it to hit 300Mhz and was drawing 12w from the wall.  Got scared was gonna burned out my Pi Zero and turned it back down,  but interesting nevertheless that the Pi Zero will pull a lot more power and apparently as much as you can give it.  That's why a larger passive heatsink is something I'm pursuing.  Also, found out the Pi 3b has a controllable USB HUB, you can use uhubctl to turn off power to the port.  My plan was to put some solar panels on the back of my car and program a pi to automatically turn on/off mining as it detects open Wifi signal, or go into power saving mode by turning off the ASIC.

If anyone has any experience or suggestions to share, would appreciate it.

I wish 419mining was within walking distance too.  My wallet is happy they aren't.

I picked up a NewPac to play with so my son could see what mining bitcoins was all about.  
We received a NewPac yesterday and had a seamless Raspberry Pi install thanks to the directions on this thread.
It's fun to play with overclocking, so I've been pushing it a bit without a powered hub.  
The NewPac has been running great on the pi @225MHz and averaging just over 50 GH/sec.  250MHz causes immediate zombie (guessing power limit is reached?)
Small 40mm USB fan for active cooling and the heatsink is barely room temperature.  

40mm USB fan link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CNJ4DYX/

Setup with temporary pi base: https://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h263/dfib/Mobile%20Uploads/20190215_151727_zpsrinv2sk7.jpg

Now I have to talk myself out of ordering a hub and a bunch more NewPacs!

Yea im not all that great at swimming either  

You could, but it would be a long walk...

Yea i took out all the freq stepping info and tried just the serial option but no success. Its just sat on my desk awaiting replacement. Shoutout to 419mining again for superb customer service. Its s shame im on the other side of the pond and cant walk in the store lol.

...and I just remembered that the frequency scaling stuff doesn't work on the Newpac.  (I assume its a Newpac?)
*slaps forehead*
Not sure why the serial part isn't working though.

but yeah, if its only showing one chip, that's a bad sign.  good luck with your return/replacement!

Were taking care of it.