[GUIDE] GridSeed 5-Chip USB, Blade & Black Miner Support/Tuning - page 102.

Blueman666

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You say that the power plug is 5.5x2.1 but on the lightningasic website the mass of chinese text against the picture of the power cables ends with the number 2.5mm I would guess this is the power plug size?

Also the cable you show 8 into one does not look suitable, as it would need to carry 30 amps through the single plug to the power supply and I think that is way over the spec for those.

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Any links to suggested individual power supplies?

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OVERCLOCKING:

HARDWARE OVERCLOCKING GS5
HARDWARE OVERCLOCKING BLADE

HARDWARE OVERCLOCKING GS5

Quote from: Andareed on March 17, 2014, 02:54:33 AM

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BREAK YOUR MINER! THIS WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY!

If you are feeling brave, there's a small modification you can make to your miner to increase the voltage a bit, which will let you run at a higher voltage. First, you will need to perform a bridge solder (soldering a jumper might also be doable, though I did not yet try that). Second, you need to use my modified cgminer (https://github.com/dtbartle/cgminer-gc3355) and set voltage=1 in the gridseed-options part of your config. I've been able to run at 950 MHz without hardware errors. This will cause the miner to use an additional 1.6 W of power.

HARDWARE OVERCLOCKING BLADE

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Code:

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The goal of this thread is to consolidate all informations to operate and fine tune the gridseed blade (80-chip) miner.

Brand:

Chips:
Gridseed GC3355. Each unit has 80 chips.

Mining Capability(Official Number):
Scrypt: 5.2M

Power Consumption:
Scrypt: 100W/Unit

DEVELOPMENT

GRIDSEED:

- GRIDSEED Orginal GitHub

CGMINER:

- CGMiner-GC3355 by JMordica

CPUMiner:

- CPUMiner-GC3355 by sandor111

Quote from: sandor111 on April 21, 2014, 01:22:59 PM

Code:

./minerd --gc3355=/dev/ttyACM0,/dev/ttyACM1,/dev/ttyACM2,... --gc3355-autotune --gc3355-chips=40 --freq=825 --url=stratum+tcp://doge.ghash.io:3333 --userpass=user.pass

CONTROLLER

SOFTWARE:

- HASHRA BLADE CONTROLA

... work in progress ...

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[GUIDE] Innosilicon [A1 Booster + A2 Terminator] Support/Tuning
[GUIDE] Hashra [Lunar Miners] Support/Tuning

Code:

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        \/      |__|   |__|                        \/                         \/        \//_____/

The goal of this thread is to consolidate all informations to operate and fine tune the gridseed usb (5-chip) miner.

Brand:

Chips:
Gridseed GC3355

Chips: 5 x GC3355

Mining Capability(Official Number):
BTC Mode: 10G,
LTC Mode: 300K

Power Consumption:
Dual Mode or BTC Mode: Approximate 100W/Unit,
LTC Mode: 20-25W/Unit

Chips: 80 x GC3355

Mining Capability(Official Number):
Scrypt: 5.2M

Power Consumption:
Scrypt: 100W/Unit

Chips: 5 x 80 x GC3355

Mining Capability(Official Number):
Scrypt: 26M

Power Consumption:
Scrypt: 450W/Unit

DEVELOPMENT

GRIDSEED:

- GRIDSEED Orginal GitHub
- USB Drivers for Silver/Gold
- CGMiner GridSeed Source, dtbartle

CONTROLLER

RASPBERRY:

- SCRIPTA - Litecoin mining distribution for Raspberry Pi

- HASHRA CONTROLA - WebGui with bfgminer open now ... thx a lot to HASHRA for this.
USER: pi
PASSWORD: 3K4Hb8FMeZjQZJEX6scYzZa

- [MINERA] New web management system for Gridseed devices with cpuminer

- Temporary solution to run Scripta with gridseed 5 chips miners
- Simple Wheezy with CGMiner Tutorial

Quote from: worldlybedouin on March 18, 2014, 08:09:41 AM

Quote from: Ofenkaese on March 18, 2014, 07:50:49 AM

Very cool, thank you very much for sharing the link. Will also go to donate.
Do you also have an image version containing the detailed frequency setup? Would love to test that.

Here's a link to the complied version of cgminer made by Girhes: https://mega.co.nz/#!asJixSiC!kNLgTzZv4qN1j06yptsC__KVdFZ7n8zsRydVja1dwPw

Please don't forget to donate to him as well if you like the modified version he's made! Donate to Girhes here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=477709.msg5752544#msg5752544

Once you download this version, you'll want to backup the existing one by renaming it to another file name. Then take this version and change it's name from cgminer.girhes to cgminer instead.

Also, don't forget to change permissions on this file so you can execute it.

MINING SOFTWARE

SCRYPT (LTC):

- CPUMINER
CPUMiner with Gridseed GC3355 Support by siklon

- CGMINER
CGMiner 4.3.5 with Scrypt and support for Gridseed and Zeus ASICs by dmaxl
CGMiner 3.7.2 with GridSeed GC3355 support by jmordica
CGMiner 3.7.2 with GridSeed GC3355 support by girnyau

- BFGMINER
Modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C, featuring overclocking, monitoring, fan speed control and remote interface capabilities. by luke-jr

SHA256 (BTC):

- cgminer-3-8-5-gridseed-windows.zip for BTC only (read)

INSTRUCTIONS

- How to Mine Both BTC and LTC on Gridseed 5-chip GC3355 ASIC

KNOWN ERRORS

- CPUMiner doesn't show accurate hash rate infact it shows 0.0 kh/s

CASES

- Multi-tier open-air case for Gridseed miners by Spotswood

ACCESSORIES

- Gridseed DIY Cables for the newb
- ATX PSU to 2.5 or 2.1/5.5mm 12V coaxial plug power cables by Cablez

THREADS & GUIDES

The Official LighteningAsic/GridSeed 5 Chip Setup Guide by UnicornHasher
LightningAsic usb miners based Gridseed GC3355 Tech Support Thread by EricKennedy

How to's:

STEP BY STEP RASPBERRY SCRIPTA INSTALLATION
BUILD CGMINER ON THE RASPBERRY
ROOT ACCESS TO LIGHTNINGASIC CONTROLLER
UBUNTU/LINUX INSTALLATION GUIDE

STEP BY STEP RASPBERRY SCRIPTA INSTALLATION

Quote from: darkfriend77 on March 09, 2014, 09:23:07 AM

Step by Step Raspberry SCRIPTA Installation:

1 - SD Formatter (link) clean up your SD Card. At least a 4GB SD.
2 - Download the SCRIPTA Image (link)
3 - Win 32 Disk Imager (link) and write the scripta image on the SD Card.
4 - Put the SD Card into your Raspberry.
5 - SSH access on port 7722, user: root / psw: scripta
6 - Use WinSCP (link) to move over the latest rasp cgminer for gridseed (https://db.tt/UygLkqwd) or Use PuTTY (link)

Code:

wget https://db.tt/UygLkqwd -O cgminer

7 - Go to the location where you copied over your cgminer and do "chmod 777 cgminer"
8 - Go to the SCRIPTA Web GUI, under Miner hit Miner commands, STOP
9 - Go to the location where you copied over your cgminer and run it from there using these commands:

Code:

./cgminer --scrypt -o  -u  -p  --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=850

Stability-Fix:

Code:

sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

Add the following code at the end of the first line (on the same line as the other text, DO NOT add new line!)

Code:

slub_debug=FP

Orginal Sources from: https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=9908.0

Quote from: Blueman666 on March 11, 2014, 03:45:04 AM

How to get Scripta working as it was intended

Follow the instructions by Darkfriend77 below but when you get to step 6, go to directory opt/minepeon/bin and remove the original cgminer there (rm cgminer). Now copy the new cgminer into this folder to replace the original and chmod it as below.
Now go to directory opt/minepeon/startup and edit the file miner-start.sh with nano.
Change the line -

Code:

sudo /usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

to

Code:

sudo /usr/bin/screen -dmS cgminer /opt/minepeon/bin/cgminer --scrypt --no-submit-stale --gridseed-options=baud=115200,freq=850 -c /opt/minepeon/etc/miner.conf

Lastly apply the stability fix.
Now you can close ssh and restart your pi and it should automatically fire up your gridseeds and start mining.

BUILD CGMINER ON THE RASPBERRY

referenced from litecointalk

Quote from: maardein on February 27, 2014, 08:08:41 AM

Ok, I will post this here, since I think people could benefit from it. I'll have to give most of the credits to Girhes, since he told me about the failsafe mode of openWRT, and assisted me while trying to gain access (he did not have a controller himself yet).

Please note that this is at YOUR OWN RISK, you could brick your device when you have root access to the controller. Please do NOT install any programs when you have root access, unless you really know what you are doing. There is almost no room left on the device, so installing a program could brick your device.

1 - Start the controller in failsafe mode:

Quote from: Girhes

There are different HW versions of the TL-WR703N - on version 1.6 you have to power on the controller, wait until the led starts flashing twice a second (it takes about 4 seconds to get there), then push the reset button immediately. When the led starts to flash much faster your device is in failsafe mode. All other HW versions: power on the controller, wait 10-12 seconds until the led starts flashing, then immediately push the reset button for 1-2 seconds. Again, if the led will start blinking rapidly you are in failsafe mode.

The versioin of your device is stated on the back of the device, underneath the barcode.

2 - Telnet into the device:

On windows go to start, type 'cmd' in the search bar, and start 'cmd.exe'. In the command window you get afterwards, type 'telnet 192.168.1.1'. Make sure you use the correct IP, my device used 192.168.1.1 in failsafe mode.

There is no user/pass required in failsafe mode.

3 - Switch to the live partition:

Type 'mount_root'

Warning! You are in the live partition now, with root permissions. You could seriously fuck thing up now!

4 - Change the root password:

Type 'passwd', and enter the password you would like (twice).

5 - Enable SSH:

Type 'vim /etc/config/dropbear', this will open the SSH config file in the vim text editor. You need to change "option enable" to "on".

You can start editing the file by hitting the 'i' key. You can now insert/delete characters. After you are finished editing hit the 'esc' key to stop editing. Now hit the ':' key, and type 'wq'. This will write the file, and quit the editor. If you made mistakes while editing, and just want to quit (without writing the file), type 'q' instead of 'wq'.

6 - Reboot the device:

Just unplug the usb power, and plug it in again.

7 - Have fun!

You can now SSH into the device while it is running in normal mode. (user: root, password whatever you entered in step 4). Just be carefull not to mess things up. If you are not at least a little familiar with linux, please be very carefull.

UBUNTU/LINUX INSTALLATION GUIDE

Quote from: meinhard on February 07, 2014, 04:41:30 PM

Hi Scrypt miners,

I was lucky enough to get one of the first Scrypt ASICs produced by Chinese GridSeed during my stay in South Korea last month. Cheers to Dis Btopia of xbitcoinx.com!

I just hooked up one unit containing 5 chips to my Ubuntu box via USB port and here is what I did to get it running. Mind you, these instructions are for mining Scrypt, not SHA256 or dual mode, which the ASIC can also do. Most of the information I pieced together from this post in Chinese: http://cybtc.com/article-468-1.html

Download GridSeed's modified cpuminer and unpack zip file:

Code:

wget https://github.com/gridseed/cpuminer/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd cpuminer-master

..or download via git:

Code:

git clone [email protected]:gridseed/cpuminer.git
cd cpuminer

Install automake:

Code:

sudo apt-get install automake

You might need to install other compiling tools. I didn't need to, because I compiled other things before.

Compile:

Code:

./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

Connect and power up ASIC.

Find correct USB device:

Code:

ls /dev/*USB*

..or watch syslog while plugging in ASIC:

Code:

tail -f /var/log/syslog

Start mining (replace "ttyUSB0" with device found above and add your pool data):

Code:

sudo ./minerd --freq=600 --gc3355=/dev/ttyUSB0 --url= --userpass=user:pass

You should now see lots of output with yellow "LTC" lines. If you see red lines, that's bad. Wink

Anyway, post here if you run into troubles.

I am not quite sure what the green and red LEDs are about. As far as I can tell there is no English documentation about that anywhere. I assume green (which is on as soon as power and USB are connected) indicates a certain ready state and red (which flashes sometimes) means hardware errors.

I am getting a lot of "Invalid nonce" errors in the cpuminer output along with red LED flashing. Probably because by mistake I got a 12V/0.5A power supply instead of 12V/5A and chips run low on power. So I can't tell you much about hash rates etc. right now. I'll get another power supply next week, so stay tuned.

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