Here is an updated screenshot. I let them run for 5 hrs and only a few HW errors. This screenshot is after running only 15 min or so.
Topic: [GUIDE] GridSeed GC3355 5 Chip Setup/power/windows/linux/rpi by UnicornHasher - page 63. (Read 365630 times)
March 11, 2014, 12:18:56 AM
hehe.
Here is an updated screenshot. I let them run for 5 hrs and only a few HW errors. This screenshot is after running only 15 min or so.
Here is an updated screenshot. I let them run for 5 hrs and only a few HW errors. This screenshot is after running only 15 min or so.
March 11, 2014, 12:16:00 AM
So I hit a USB limit in ubuntu... I have 120 gridseed 5-chip devices plugged into one linux box and getting this message: no more free ACM devices.
So having to use another box on the rest so just running 88 now. Here is the screenshot
They won't all fit on my screen.
So does anyone know how to increase this limit on linux?
So having to use another box on the rest so just running 88 now. Here is the screenshot
They won't all fit on my screen.
So does anyone know how to increase this limit on linux?
How are you not getting any hw errors? lol
Edit: Also how exactly did you plug them all in? Did you plug hubs into other hubs?
March 11, 2014, 12:09:57 AM
So I hit a USB limit in ubuntu... I have 120 gridseed 5-chip devices plugged into one linux box and getting this message: no more free ACM devices.
So having to use another box on the rest so just running 88 now. Here is the screenshot
They won't all fit on my screen.
So does anyone know how to increase this limit on linux?
So having to use another box on the rest so just running 88 now. Here is the screenshot
They won't all fit on my screen.
So does anyone know how to increase this limit on linux?
March 10, 2014, 11:57:59 PM
does anyone no if theres a DIY guide on how to make the power cords for a modular psu for these gridseeds? I read part 3 of this guide and it doesn't help me because I'm ignorant with this kind of stuff and require pics with steps lol This guide is good an i'll donate as soon as I get my miners up and running
There is a link in the op to my post with pin outs for molex and pcie connectors.
I think its labeled making your own cables.
The only thing I could find was the "Hacking together the power" section. That section shows how to wire up a unicorn hasher(?) up to a wall socket and connect that to a barrel connector.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5448809
But I could not find how to best connect up to a standard ATX power supply. Since I'm transferring over from GPU mining, I already have 1200W power supplies ready to go and would prefer to just reuse those. Splicing the molex connector is straightforward, but not sure which is which on the barrel connectors...
Any guidance on that would be great.
March 10, 2014, 11:13:17 PM
When starting cgminer it lists my firmware as 01140113.
March 10, 2014, 11:09:27 PM
Hey, I have a 13 volt, 120 amp power supply. Would that work for 100 of these things? I have successfully used it on rechargeable batteries for RC cars, for charging car batteries, for jump starting a car without a battery, and for a bunch of 12 volt devices.
I'm pretty sure I can make it work with 100 gridseeds.
I'm pretty sure I can make it work with 100 gridseeds.
March 10, 2014, 10:04:24 PM
does anyone no if theres a DIY guide on how to make the power cords for a modular psu for these gridseeds? I read part 3 of this guide and it doesn't help me because I'm ignorant with this kind of stuff and require pics with steps lol This guide is good an i'll donate as soon as I get my miners up and running
There is a link in the op to my post with pin outs for molex and pcie connectors.
I think its labeled making your own cables.
March 10, 2014, 09:53:33 PM
Best source to buy a power supply online? My Gridseed didn't come with one. It needs to be 12V and at least 7amp, correct?
Thanks!
Thanks!
If you are Dual mining it needs to be at least 12v 5amp. But for scrypt only it needs like 12v 1amp.
March 10, 2014, 09:43:54 PM
Best source to buy a power supply online? My Gridseed didn't come with one. It needs to be 12V and at least 7amp, correct?
Thanks!
Thanks!
March 10, 2014, 09:38:01 PM
does anyone no if theres a DIY guide on how to make the power cords for a modular psu for these gridseeds? I read part 3 of this guide and it doesn't help me because I'm ignorant with this kind of stuff and require pics with steps lol This guide is good an i'll donate as soon as I get my miners up and running
March 10, 2014, 09:06:23 PM
Personally I'd say unless you absolutely have to buy 100 of these now, then don't. Just too much "stuff"...wires, miners, fan noise, controller firmware issues, etc. According to Jack there's supposedly a ATX form-factor version of these coming out...I bet in that version they'll stop doing this inefficient round miner form factor and cram a bunch of these chips onto one or more boards. That's when the Gridseed chips will really be worth it.
I had hoped that the these miners worked out better and even wanted to buy another set of 10 miners....but I won't be doing so after my current experience with them. I wanted to retire my 3Mh gpu miner due to high power costs, but the way things have turned out looks like it'll be around at least for the next two months.
For now I'm just going to wait this out a bit longer...there's a few companies out there which are working on better specs and price points relative to these..so my meager few $ will stay in my pocket for a while.
I had hoped that the these miners worked out better and even wanted to buy another set of 10 miners....but I won't be doing so after my current experience with them. I wanted to retire my 3Mh gpu miner due to high power costs, but the way things have turned out looks like it'll be around at least for the next two months.
For now I'm just going to wait this out a bit longer...there's a few companies out there which are working on better specs and price points relative to these..so my meager few $ will stay in my pocket for a while.
That's interesting, any pointers to when the larger boxes will be ready and who is building them. I'm trying to decide if it's best to go all in for a bunch of gridseed round devices, or wait for a better form factor...
March 10, 2014, 08:23:27 PM
I just ended up buying 12 of these cause they were available for overnight shipping.
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
That will work perfectly for Scrypt only mining. I would not even try it for SHA mining though. Too much current to pull through a single feeder.
What is the part number/supplyer info, if you please?
Thanks!
Wolfey2014
got it on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Female-2-1mm-Plugs-Power-Adapter/dp/B004EAHJAG/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1394499921&sr=1-2&keywords=female+2.1mm+jack+to+8
Right, well, perhaps I wasn't clear enough. I mean the single MALE connectors and wires going to each plug are probably okay to use for mining but DO NOT use the single pigtail / end!
They don't specify the wire gauge size of that setup. So I'm figuring 16 gauge which is good for around 3.5 amps MAX! But, the wire gauge can be anything. Even 22 or even 24 gauge which is like telephone wire! Maybe good for a half to 1 amp MAX! You won't know what the gauge of the wire is until you cut it off the pigtail and strip it. It might be worthless for hashing actually, so don't be impatient or hasty and risk frying your power supply or worse, your mining pods.
So, cut the thing into 8 separate plugs. Strip and connect each plug's wire end to the main power supply.
Make sure you check and keep the polarity correct throughout the entire process. Center conductor is + Positive +.
If you want to pigtail them off of one wire from the power supply, use 14 gauge minimum which is good for up to 15 amps. Mining S-CRYPT is low power consumption but even at 1 amp each, that's 8 amps at the input wire which is too much to draw through it.
As usual, do this at your own risk! You fugg it up, you eat it!
Good luck!
Wolfey2014
March 10, 2014, 08:05:56 PM
I just ended up buying 12 of these cause they were available for overnight shipping.
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
That will work perfectly for Scrypt only mining. I would not even try it for SHA mining though. Too much current to pull through a single feeder.
What is the part number/supplyer info, if you please?
Thanks!
Wolfey2014
got it on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Female-2-1mm-Plugs-Power-Adapter/dp/B004EAHJAG/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1394499921&sr=1-2&keywords=female+2.1mm+jack+to+8
March 10, 2014, 07:19:46 PM
Right, I read up on Takai - coin...geesh! Quite the fiasco! Anyway, not interested in charities just yet....
I'm only interested in mining the TOP coins. TAK coin is way down in the middle somewhere at coinwarts
and, it's a SHA coin on top of that. I'm only mining Scrypt. That is, until SHA becomes more profitable per hash than Scrypt, if it ever does.
TAK coin, kind of TAK-ee sounding anyway, if you ask me ;/
Wolfey2014
I'm only interested in mining the TOP coins. TAK coin is way down in the middle somewhere at coinwarts
and, it's a SHA coin on top of that. I'm only mining Scrypt. That is, until SHA becomes more profitable per hash than Scrypt, if it ever does.TAK coin, kind of TAK-ee sounding anyway, if you ask me ;/
Wolfey2014
Yeah it is a SHA coin... and as far as coinwarz goes... TAK spends half the day on again off again at the top of the chart then somewhere in the middle...
Price right now is rock bottom after the problem so I see nothing but profit in the near future when the new team finishes their rebranding... so mining at current average profitability is just a fraction of what I should be able to turn when it settles again.
Already back up above 60TH/s global on TAK.
Cool!
Wish I had the hashing power to spare on 'potentials' like TAK. Alas, I'm just starting out and only mining with 5 GS5's right now, 6th one on the way to me as of now
...Building up to 80, believe it or not.I'm searching for the most bang for my 'hash'. And mining pools that always monitor and switch between dozens of top paying coins are the ones I'm interested in pointing my miners at. ScryptGuild is probably going to end up at the top some day but right now, I think they don't rank high enough for me.
Personally, I like the idea of TAK coin NOT being attached to Takai. Geesh! Who ever thought of that??? Never was much of an actor. I just don't understand what all the fuss is over that guy. He has NO talent! He's lucky he didn't end up wearing the RED T-shirt in Start Trek!
Now, Chekov, he could act! What about BonesCoin, SpockCoin, KirkCoin, OhuraCoin, !Wolfey2014
March 10, 2014, 06:41:48 PM
Right, I read up on Takai - coin...geesh! Quite the fiasco! Anyway, not interested in charities just yet....
I'm only interested in mining the TOP coins. TAK coin is way down in the middle somewhere at coinwarts and, it's a SHA coin on top of that. I'm only mining Scrypt. That is, until SHA becomes more profitable per hash than Scrypt, if it ever does.
TAK coin, kind of TAK-ee sounding anyway, if you ask me ;/
Wolfey2014
I'm only interested in mining the TOP coins. TAK coin is way down in the middle somewhere at coinwarts
and, it's a SHA coin on top of that. I'm only mining Scrypt. That is, until SHA becomes more profitable per hash than Scrypt, if it ever does.TAK coin, kind of TAK-ee sounding anyway, if you ask me ;/
Wolfey2014
Yeah it is a SHA coin... and as far as coinwarz goes... TAK spends half the day on again off again at the top of the chart then somewhere in the middle...
Price right now is rock bottom after the problem so I see nothing but profit in the near future when the new team finishes their rebranding... so mining at current average profitability is just a fraction of what I should be able to turn when it settles again.
Already back up above 60TH/s global on TAK.
March 10, 2014, 06:32:06 PM
I only run a single gridseed, and it is not mining BTC... it is pointed to the TAK pool at minebig along with my other ASIC. Just a personal choice as I have been making damn good profit off it even with the trouble it is having right now. Scryptguild is where I am pointed now as well.
I am less concerned with making profit off this little guy, as I bought it with $1 worth of electricity via my profits from TAK on day 4. My ASIC currently costs ~$.5 a day to run... I sold 4 days worth of TAK starting from launch for a whole BTC and then used that to buy my gridseed shipped overnight and a PSU block for less than half a BTC... therefore... it cost me less than $1 in all reality.
I am less concerned with making profit off this little guy, as I bought it with $1 worth of electricity via my profits from TAK on day 4. My ASIC currently costs ~$.5 a day to run... I sold 4 days worth of TAK starting from launch for a whole BTC and then used that to buy my gridseed shipped overnight and a PSU block for less than half a BTC... therefore... it cost me less than $1 in all reality.
Sorry, you lost me.
*How much are you making per day mining at minebig? What is the URL?
Dunno because I do not look at it in the way you do... I am mining for future sale at much better prices... I have a 34 GH/s ASIC and the 6 GH/s from the gridseed pointed at the tak.minebig.com pool.
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*What is TAK? Is it a website? Can you provide a link to this?
Takeicoin but it is now being rebranded by a charity group into TakeActioncoin. It has had a rough ride the last few days but the arbitrage is continuing to fill my BTC coffers.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=452902.0;topicseen
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*You state that your pointed at ScryptGuild.
Are you pointing all of your miners there now or half and half or what?
I'm using ScryptGuild right now too. I'm still testing to see if they can actually back up their claim of providing me with 30 to 40% more profit per day than just mining straight LTC at LiteCoinPool.org
Are you pointing all of your miners there now or half and half or what?
I'm using ScryptGuild right now too. I'm still testing to see if they can actually back up their claim of providing me with 30 to 40% more profit per day than just mining straight LTC at LiteCoinPool.org
I only have the scrypt core of my single gridseed pointed at scryptguild... I do not care to speculate that they can make you 30-40% more than LTC mining because that is a broad statement you can make mining ANY scrypt coin from the top of the coinwarz chart.
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*How exactly did you work it out to buy a GS3355 for $1, exactly?
Thanks
Wolfey2014
Thanks
Wolfey2014
Simply that I mined Takeicoin from launch and after 4 days sold my entire stash for 1 BTC then turned around and bought the gridseed from Zoomhash. On my 34 GH/s ASIC that is about $2 in electric costs, which is my only overhead as this miner has paid itself off repeatedly already due to good mining choices. I took half of that BTC and used it to pay for this gridseed. So from an absolute cost standpoint... I came out of pocket ~$1 for the gridseed.
Right, I read up on Takai - coin...geesh! Quite the fiasco! Anyway, not interested in charities just yet....
I'm only interested in mining the TOP coins. TAK coin is way down in the middle somewhere at coinwarts
and, it's a SHA coin on top of that. I'm only mining Scrypt. That is, until SHA becomes more profitable per hash than Scrypt, if it ever does.TAK coin, kind of TAK-ee sounding anyway, if you ask me ;/
Wolfey2014
March 10, 2014, 06:26:37 PM
I just ended up buying 12 of these cause they were available for overnight shipping.
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
That will work perfectly for Scrypt only mining. I would not even try it for SHA mining though. Too much current to pull through a single feeder.
What is the part number/supplyer info, if you please?
Thanks!
Wolfey2014
March 10, 2014, 06:24:35 PM
Does anyone know if a single unit from Zoomhash includes the barrel power connector??? I want 20, but plan on using a RPI, so I dont see the point in spending the extra $$ on the controllers.
No, they do not, unfortunately.
I can make them up for you though, if the price is right.
I made all of mine from type H and M plugs I bought at Radio Shack.
Soldered the cords on. The gauge I used is too thick for the plastic screw on jacket to fit so I simply heat shrinked on a jacket instead, since all other connections are also heat shrinked to prevent corrosion and electrical shorts too, of course
Very easy for me to do as I have decades of experience in the electronics and electrical trades.
They'll work 100% perfectly of course!
I'm thinking of making a couple different designs. I'll save the particulars for 'paying' customers
Wolfey2014
March 10, 2014, 06:22:19 PM
I just ended up buying 12 of these cause they were available for overnight shipping.
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
I should be fine if i splice this wire and use it like the single pig tails right?
March 10, 2014, 06:02:39 PM
Only 35 running right now and 60 of the total 80 i will have. Need more barrel plugs the chinese vendor screwed up
Total 16,595.46 KH/s Shares:1,760,128/14,464/0/0/0
35 gridseeds @ 850 + 8 r9 280x's
Hah! Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnice rig!!! Thats-wut-ahm-talkin-bout! My goal is 80 miners! Or maybe a few of those 25MHs Scrypt FPGA's, if they ever finish making them!
How much is the Chinese guy selling you those barrel plugs for?
Are you making up your own power cords?
Do you know Radio Shack sells the plugs?
Being a trained and experienced electronics/electrical technician of many years, I'm considering providing tech support, parts and such for my fellow miners.....for a fair price of course
I need to know what people are paying for their custom parts though.
Might be enough work to keep me busy and making some duckets in the process.
Oh, and I'm located in the USA too
Wolfey2014
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