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Topic: [GENERAL SALES CLOSED] GekkoScience 2PAC - 2x BM1384 USB Stick Miner - page 4. (Read 56153 times)

hero member
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Oops. Sorry mate! Now its your turn to correct me with particulars. Thanks in advance.
If you read the "whole" first post, you can easily find the table with hashrate versus power for the 2PAC. If you are still having trouble, check immediately below the pretty picture. Grin
sr. member
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Oops. Sorry mate! Now its your turn to correct me with particulars. Thanks in advance.
legendary
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Curmudgeonly hardware guy
No, that's still incorrect.
sr. member
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Yes, you are wrong. About pretty much everything. Read the first post.

My bad, got it...60W hashrate about 190GH, with a 100W hashrate of 250GH. PMing you.
Thank you so much.
legendary
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Yes, you are wrong. About pretty much everything. Read the first post.
sr. member
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Well, looks like I'll be doing another 2Pac batch. These things sold out pretty fast and I'm still getting requests.
Correct me if I am wrong, these sticks hash around 100 GHZ with 100-120 watt power and uses Rasberry PI with CG miner and only mines Bitcoin?
If so, can you make something for Scrypt mining as well?
Thanks so much. Well done as well.
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newbie
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That's good news, I'm looking forward to see the first BTC block mined by a 2Pac. Grin
As a side note, I've made some (minor) changes to my setup - added some angle adapters to change the position of the sticks. Cooling seems to be better now; adapters are not getting hot and performance is not degraded.



Hi,

I was considering the same hub for 5 sticks. Do you think there is enough room or should I get larger USB board?
legendary
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Also, a reminder for folks who might have missed it.

Okay, new rules for purchasing.

I don't know how many times it's been stated that sales are open. It will be very well-known if sales are closed. So I will no longer respond to the question "are sales still open?"

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but past a certain squeakiness threshold the wheel gets discarded. To this end, I will no longer respond to multiple identical purchasing requests sent within the same 12-hour period. If you want something, ask for it and be patient. Impatience is annoying.

I'm a builder, not a babysitter, so I won't sell to people who haven't done their homework. If you can't correctly identify the thing you want (for example, there is no "gekko stick", no "compaq" and no "2 pack") I'm just going to ignore you.

I really really like the parts of my job that are designing and building stuff. I really really don't like the parts of my job that are nickel-and-dime sales to chumps with bad spelling, so I'm just going to cut that part out. I like money but I don't like being annoyed all the time by other people. So if you want something, find out for yourself the sales status, find out its actual name, and politely ask for it one time. If you can't do that, go bother a reseller.
newbie
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It arrived today!!! So stoked. It's in and mining for their future USB Hub home Smiley
legendary
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I believe you. The South Africa postal system, at least for packages from the US, has been reliably terrible. We had a guy a few years ago wait three months - with multiple calls with all available information - for a box of PSU kits. If the guy who paid for fast shipping just got his a couple days ago, no idea where the slow shipping package is. They shipped at the same time.
newbie
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I'm still waiting for my 2Pacs down here in SA?  Huh  Cry
newbie
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no problem , let me know when you got some stock , would probably be taking 5
Thanx
We (SA folk) should do a group buy for pods for SA.
I agree , or a reseller because the price per unit on here works out to about R500 (depending on shipping costs) and the only other GekkoScience 2pac miners I can find are all over R1000 and out of stock.

Placed my order a while ago and it is currently at JHB customs so - YaY!!! ~Gooo Customs

If there are more SA guys considering to buy maybe we should consider creating our own SA Group buy so that sidehack only deals with one crazy at a time  Wink [ME INCLUDING]...
Just waiting to see how long it takes for my sticks to go through customs... currently standing on 6 days and counting.

Anyone interested in purchasing direct from Sidehack here is the shipping costs I was quoted
Standard Shipping: $ 15 - Local postal services are used when it reaches RSA
Fast Shipping: $ 47 - Still waiting for my delivery to verify if there are any release fees and how it gets delivered

Once I have an idea of how long it takes to clear from customs and what the waiting period is from start to finish delivery and if there are any release fees then I am sure we can make a plan.


How do you know it is with customs.. di you recieved any calls from them.... just curious as waiting for mine

I opted for fast shipping and got a tracking number, I then requested USPS to mail me an update the moment something happens, last update was - Your item cleared customs in SOUTH AFRICA at 10:31 am on May 15, 2017.

So it is on its way to me and I am so excited, I just can't hide it...  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

Expecting Speed Services or some courier service to hopefully surprise me by Thursday or Friday or maybe next week who knows... That's all part of the fun and mystery that is SAPO.


UPDATE: So picked up my package at my local post office today - YaY~, for the SA guys it takes a month to get your package (on fast shipping) so extreme patience is required (my crux).
As for the $15 shipping my one contact informed me that his package is still in transit, so strongly recommend not to go for the $15 option when shipping to SA.

Now just to build up stock and get my mining on...
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Per aspera ad astra
That's good news, I'm looking forward to see the first BTC block mined by a 2Pac. Grin
As a side note, I've made some (minor) changes to my setup - added some angle adapters to change the position of the sticks. Cooling seems to be better now; adapters are not getting hot and performance is not degraded.

legendary
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Curmudgeonly hardware guy
Well, looks like I'll be doing another 2Pac batch. These things sold out pretty fast and I'm still getting requests.
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https://eloncity.io
I would be keen for the pods.
I want a few pods to replace my S3.
newbie
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no problem , let me know when you got some stock , would probably be taking 5
Thanx
We (SA folk) should do a group buy for pods for SA.
I agree , or a reseller because the price per unit on here works out to about R500 (depending on shipping costs) and the only other GekkoScience 2pac miners I can find are all over R1000 and out of stock.

Placed my order a while ago and it is currently at JHB customs so - YaY!!! ~Gooo Customs

If there are more SA guys considering to buy maybe we should consider creating our own SA Group buy so that sidehack only deals with one crazy at a time  Wink [ME INCLUDING]...
Just waiting to see how long it takes for my sticks to go through customs... currently standing on 6 days and counting.

Anyone interested in purchasing direct from Sidehack here is the shipping costs I was quoted
Standard Shipping: $ 15 - Local postal services are used when it reaches RSA
Fast Shipping: $ 47 - Still waiting for my delivery to verify if there are any release fees and how it gets delivered

Once I have an idea of how long it takes to clear from customs and what the waiting period is from start to finish delivery and if there are any release fees then I am sure we can make a plan.


How do you know it is with customs.. di you recieved any calls from them.... just curious as waiting for mine

I opted for fast shipping and got a tracking number, I then requested USPS to mail me an update the moment something happens, last update was - Your item cleared customs in SOUTH AFRICA at 10:31 am on May 15, 2017.

So it is on its way to me and I am so excited, I just can't hide it...  Roll Eyes Roll Eyes Roll Eyes

Expecting Speed Services or some courier service to hopefully surprise me by Thursday or Friday or maybe next week who knows... That's all part of the fun and mystery that is SAPO.
newbie
Activity: 2
Merit: 0
no problem , let me know when you got some stock , would probably be taking 5
Thanx
We (SA folk) should do a group buy for pods for SA.
I agree , or a reseller because the price per unit on here works out to about R500 (depending on shipping costs) and the only other GekkoScience 2pac miners I can find are all over R1000 and out of stock.

Placed my order a while ago and it is currently at JHB customs so - YaY!!! ~Gooo Customs

If there are more SA guys considering to buy maybe we should consider creating our own SA Group buy so that sidehack only deals with one crazy at a time  Wink [ME INCLUDING]...
Just waiting to see how long it takes for my sticks to go through customs... currently standing on 6 days and counting.

Anyone interested in purchasing direct from Sidehack here is the shipping costs I was quoted
Standard Shipping: $ 15 - Local postal services are used when it reaches RSA
Fast Shipping: $ 47 - Still waiting for my delivery to verify if there are any release fees and how it gets delivered

Once I have an idea of how long it takes to clear from customs and what the waiting period is from start to finish delivery and if there are any release fees then I am sure we can make a plan.


How do you know it is with customs.. di you recieved any calls from them.... just curious as waiting for mine
newbie
Activity: 11
Merit: 0
no problem , let me know when you got some stock , would probably be taking 5
Thanx
We (SA folk) should do a group buy for pods for SA.
I agree , or a reseller because the price per unit on here works out to about R500 (depending on shipping costs) and the only other GekkoScience 2pac miners I can find are all over R1000 and out of stock.

Placed my order a while ago and it is currently at JHB customs so - YaY!!! ~Gooo Customs

If there are more SA guys considering to buy maybe we should consider creating our own SA Group buy so that sidehack only deals with one crazy at a time  Wink [ME INCLUDING]...
Just waiting to see how long it takes for my sticks to go through customs... currently standing on 6 days and counting.

Anyone interested in purchasing direct from Sidehack here is the shipping costs I was quoted
Standard Shipping: $ 15 - Local postal services are used when it reaches RSA
Fast Shipping: $ 47 - Still waiting for my delivery to verify if there are any release fees and how it gets delivered

Once I have an idea of how long it takes to clear from customs and what the waiting period is from start to finish delivery and if there are any release fees then I am sure we can make a plan.
copper member
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Per aspera ad astra
Hi,

I don't have access to my sticks at the moment, can someone please measure the dimensions of the heatsink?
I'm trying to see if I can make some improvements to the way chips are cooled by adding a small fan on top.

Thanks.

Later edit: I'll have to measure everything precisely, but basically this is what I'm trying to do. Smiley
The fans on each stick will be connected to a USB male (3-5 cm) which will go into the hub.

https://image.ibb.co/eUF7GQ/download.jpg

you are not satisfied with a usb fan? you can bend it and cool multiple sticks:
https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-USB-Powered-Portable-Solution-Gooseneck/dp/B003XN24GY

Thanks for the Arctic link, a few other members pointed me to that product and I know they're good (I do use Arctic PWM fans for my PC case and they do a nice job).

In other words, I'm satisfied, but not 100%. Currently I'm using some other type of USB fan (15cm diameter, see pic below and don't laugh at the red color - it was the only one in stock) and the heatsinks are kinda hot. Not burning hot (ie: I can keep my finger on them) but hot compared to my other gear (Baikal miner). And I want them to keep working for a long time, w/o risking overheat failure.

Oh, and yes, sidehack's way of building things makes me want to start tinkering again - that's one reason also. Tongue



Happy hashing!
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