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Topic: GridSeed 5-chip USB miner voltage mod - page 45. (Read 157001 times)

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April 15, 2014, 09:15:05 AM
Good news, but i think it isn't worthy to buy, one can buy even more ltc than buy this little thing
ZiG
sr. member
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April 15, 2014, 08:41:47 AM
I posted an idea here:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6222366 to resolve the shoddy work on the heatsink/pcb design in regard to it not making contact with all 5 GC3355 chips due to two components that are taller.

It's easy (if you have a steady hand) and takes about 5 minutes...afterwards you have perfect contact to all 5 GC3355 chips.


... and for your reference ...:

My post just above nst6563 post...explaining the reason for a bad contact between the chips and heatsink...

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6208700


Good job, nst6563...

What are your results after the mod...any improvements...?

ZiG
legendary
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April 15, 2014, 07:47:05 AM
more reason to buy that dremel i have been wanting Smiley
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April 15, 2014, 07:33:48 AM
I posted an idea here:https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6222366 to resolve the shoddy work on the heatsink/pcb design in regard to it not making contact with all 5 GC3355 chips due to two components that are taller.

It's easy (if you have a steady hand) and takes about 5 minutes...afterwards you have perfect contact to all 5 GC3355 chips.
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
April 15, 2014, 07:18:52 AM
I have now done 4 units, here is some of my handy work



two units have thermal compound on the chips while the other two i have reused the existing thermal pads.  I will post a comparison in 24hrs.
sr. member
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April 14, 2014, 11:48:56 PM
Don't know where you are running bfg on but I had trouble with it on windows, not sending shares.

Never had any trouble since on CPUminer
sr. member
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April 14, 2014, 11:19:33 PM
Is anyone having issues with bfgminer where if the internet connection goes down (Like an IP change) bfgminer will not send/accept shares. I had this issue happen twice last week. bfgminer was only able to send/accept share after 3 hours (to my luck, I was sleeping :/ Lucky me  Angry)

Also, anyone knows of a good place to buy these TP-LINK WR703? All I can find is china but I do need these next week.

Thanks!
sr. member
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April 14, 2014, 07:29:54 PM
Hi Guys,

Modded my first unit using 47K axial resistor.  Running for 24hrs now @1150 with solid 500KH and no HW errors  Smiley

A quick question - I have a heap of 47K resistors with the a sixth band, which is red.  are these ok to use for the mod?

Yes, red 6th band is temp coefficient of 50ppm
it will be fine to use for the mod...
Go for it.. Wink
sr. member
Activity: 406
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April 14, 2014, 07:02:54 PM
Hi Guys,

Modded my first unit using 47K axial resistor.  Running for 24hrs now @1150 with solid 500KH and no HW errors  Smiley

A quick question - I have a heap of 47K resistors with the a sixth band, which is red.  are these ok to use for the mod?
sr. member
Activity: 308
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April 14, 2014, 04:21:53 PM
I'm going to give this a try tomorrow evening, but it sure looks like delicate work.  I really appreciate Wolfey's contributions to this thread and the pictures.  Looked completely doable given those great pictures until I saw how incredibly small the areas we are working with are IRL!

Wish me luck.  You know *for sure* I'm going to practice ALOT on an old motherboard before taking my iron to one of my 'seeds.

I was really afraid too when I saw IRL how small it was. but I tool my courage and did it just with a regular solder iron.

I reckon it was not easy for me and took me some time but it worked out great
newbie
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April 14, 2014, 04:11:18 PM
I'm going to give this a try tomorrow evening, but it sure looks like delicate work.  I really appreciate Wolfey's contributions to this thread and the pictures.  Looked completely doable given those great pictures until I saw how incredibly small the areas we are working with are IRL!

Wish me luck.  You know *for sure* I'm going to practice ALOT on an old motherboard before taking my iron to one of my 'seeds.
legendary
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April 14, 2014, 03:17:18 PM
OK, I didn't search for them. I'm not sure if going that high is a good idea, though.. (in terms of Watt per KHs,
I even see myself reversing the 47k mod in a couple of weeks, when efficiency will be more important.
At german energy rates, at least :/)
sr. member
Activity: 308
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April 14, 2014, 03:17:00 PM
we should start a GB for 47k and 49,9k 0402 resistors

can get them here in 10.000 piece reels only
Really? Cheesy I bought 50 on ebay germany for 1 Euro..
yeah, that ones I found some time after posting, too
but still can't find 49,9 or 50k except on reel (24 + 6€ shipping)

but these are pin-thru, not SMD

True not SMD but most of us do not use SMD's Smiley
hero member
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April 14, 2014, 03:07:52 PM
we should start a GB for 47k and 49,9k 0402 resistors

can get them here in 10.000 piece reels only
Really? Cheesy I bought 50 on ebay germany for 1 Euro..
yeah, that ones I found some time after posting, too
but still can't find 49,9 or 50k except on reel (24 + 6€ shipping)

but these are pin-thru, not SMD
donator
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April 14, 2014, 02:52:41 PM
I bought 500 pieces  47.5K resistors on Amazon for $6 US.
member
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April 14, 2014, 01:12:50 PM
we should start a GB for 47k and 49,9k 0402 resistors

can get them here in 10.000 piece reels only
try ebay, might take a while delivery, but im sure there was one from uk that had them 1% too. think it was 100 per strip couple of quid bout 10p each or somethign like that.
legendary
Activity: 1036
Merit: 1005
April 14, 2014, 01:01:43 PM
Yeah, 1.3.3., and sure in principle it works with higher frequencies, but poolside numbers were very low. Just put Hashra in idle mode
and compile the girnyau github (I'm sure there must be a how-to somewhere if you search). The Hashra GUI is nice, but in the end it's
the hashrate that matters, right..?
newbie
Activity: 17
Merit: 0
April 14, 2014, 12:55:49 PM
try CPUminer, BFGminer did not submit shares correctly for me.

Thanks I will try this tonight.  Any reason why all the sudden BFGminer would not work?  Or does it not just work with the higher modded units?  I am currently using the hashra image on my Raspberry pi to run the bulk of the miners, so hoping to stay with BFG.  
Yeah, that was exactly my problem with the hashra image. It seems that BFGminer doesn't work with modded units, at least in some cases. I ended up with girnyau's cgminer fork, it was the only thing that worked.

What version were you running?  1.3.3 (Current as far as I know) has support for the higher clocks.  I had some units that didnt accept shares when running higher, but at 850mhz all my units checked in and got shares.  I really like the Hashra image gui, thinking of just reverting to stock for now and running it.  How hard was it to put in the CGminer fork? 
sr. member
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April 14, 2014, 12:45:27 PM
You can also get them at digi-key  (Well at least in Canada)
sr. member
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Merit: 250
April 14, 2014, 11:09:41 AM
we should start a GB for 47k and 49,9k 0402 resistors

can get them here in 10.000 piece reels only
Really? Cheesy I bought 50 on ebay germany for 1 Euro..

Same I bought them on ebay, was real quick to get them

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190574128289&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649#ht_1195wt_900
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