Topic: My Terminus R606 - page 2. (Read 588 times)

RMA was completed and new miner came in and is up and running with zero issues after almost 4 hours of operation so far. Playing with voltage and freq settings presently. will update the post above as I try out different settings.

Thanks for the order Stryfe. Looking forward to reading more!

maybe so, but I am setting up only one pool at a time.

it struggles with switching pools.  iirc

I might - I switched it over to ViaBTC and it has had zero issues - so the pool may have been the issue.

Maybe try using a USB hub, mine would not even start if plugged directly to my PC.

In this post, I will be testing to see what the hash rate change is for each setting.

Setting 0:

Setting 1:

Setting 2:

Setting 3:

Setting 4:
with freq set to 750 in cg miner:
- freq ramped up and I got the following message: asic plateau: (1/3) 605.73 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (2/3) 631.25 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (3/3) 631.25 mhz
- it also gave the following message: plateau adjust: target frequency 750.00 mhz -> 625.00 mhz and then miner restarted
- it then gave the following message:  plateau adjust: target frequency 625.00 mhz -> 618.75 mhz and then miner restarted
- it then gave the following message:  plateau adjust: target frequency 618.75 mhz -> 612.50 mhz and then miner restarted
- it then gave the following message:  plateau adjust: target frequency 612.5 mhz -> 606.25 mhz and then miner restarted
- miner settled at T: 606.25 mhz and after 15 mins the average hash rate was 832.2 gh/s
- best share was 4.2M

Setting 5:
with freq set to 750 in cg miner:
- freq ramped up and I got the following message: asic plateau: (1/3) 628.13 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (2/3) 631.25 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (3/3) 631.25 mhz
- it also gave the following message: plateau adjust: target frequency 750.00 mhz -> 631.25 mhz and then miner restarted
- miner settled at T: 631.25 mhz and after 15 mins the average hash rate was 856.4 gh/s
- best share was 64k

Setting 6:
with freq set to 750 in cg miner:
- freq ramped up and I got the following message: asic plateau: (1/3) 660.94 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (2/3) 681.25 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (3/3) 700.00 mhz
- it also gave the following message: plateau adjust: target frequency 750.00 mhz -> 700.00 mhz and then miner restarted
- miner would keep restarting about 3-4 minutes after reaching 700 mhz but was not changing the target frequency, it was staying at 700 mhz
- after 4 restarts, I decided to move to next setting - hash rate before the restart was averaging 953.7 gh/s though it did hit as high as 1.01 th/s
- best share was 989k

Setting 7:
with freq set to 750 in cg miner:
- freq ramped up and I got the following message: asic plateau: (1/3) 700.00 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (2/3) 700.00 mhz
- after restart I got message: asic plateau: (3/3) 700.00 mhz
- it also gave the following message: plateau adjust: target frequency 750.00 mhz -> 700.00 mhz and then miner restarted
- miner would keep restarting about 5 minutes after reaching 700 mhz but was not changing the target frequency, it was staying at 700 mhz
- after 4 restarts, I decided to move to next setting - hash rate before the restart was averaging 940.2 gh/s
- best share was 251k

I will update the list above as I test more settings.

I am currently running the miner on zpool to clean up some dust (about 10k) I will be doing this with at least a dozen pools before I eventually toss it on kano.is or maybe go solo on ckpool

I realize this miner (along with my FutureBit Apollo Scrypt miner) is a hobbyist miner and will not be making me a fortune (unless I get some considerable luck when solo mining  But I like having these type of miners in the house away from the loud and hot ASIC's in my mining building. They are really handy when a visitor asks about mining and has very little knowledge - these beat taking them out there to the loud sweatbox lol

I will need some more days to fully test and get stats for the various settings this miner has available - but right now (and it may be the pool?) the hash rate is all over the place from 1.5 Kh/s to over 1.1 Th/s  - currently I am on the 440mV (setting 5) and it has dropped to zero hash rate for past 5 minutes.

when I restart the miner, it will go back up to around 1 Th/s but then within 15-20 minutes it goes back to zero.

I am not sure what the issue is - can it be related to running it via my pc? is it the pool? did I get a faulty unit? (I rather it be one of the first two than the last)

now after about 2 hours it is showing that if "found 0 chip(s)"



I am going to try another pool and see if it just a pool issue.

after almost 4 hours, it also stopped hashing on ViaBTC - says found zero chips again. only solution I can find is to turn miner off and restart it.



isn't lasting more than 30 minutes now no matter what pool I stick it on. always goes to zero chips message.

6th attempt - lasted 34 minutes, it slowly would lower the frequency eventually lowering the number of chips - screenshot below was right before it went to zero chips and 5s speed went to zero.



end result: Sidehack stated unit should be RMA and would send me a new miner asap.

I ordered from user MineFarmBuy on August 17th - it was currently back ordered at that time. The idea was within a week or so, they would have them in stock. On August 23rd, I got notice it would ship on August 27th (actually shipped August 24th) - miner was received at my home on August 31st. So, total time was 14 days - not too bad considered it was out of stock at the time of order.

I did not use escrow for the order as I placed it direct on their site minefarmbuy.com - there was a decent discount for paying in BTC so that was a plus.

The miner was packaged very well and came with a 8A power brick and a 6 foot long USB cord.





I did need to download a few things -

1. cgminer http://23.108.83.14/images/cgminer-4.11.1-windows-gekko-9e51f0b.7z
2. zadig http://zadig.akeo.ie/

both of the above originally linked here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-newpac-terminus-r606-bm1387-official-support-thread-5053833

once I opened Zadig I went to Options > list all devices and then selected R606 Bitcoin Miner and selected "Reinstall Driver"



after that I unzipped the CgMiner and reviewed the readme files - after which I ran cgminer.exe

following the prompts for pool info/user name/pw  and the miner was hashing away!

The loudest the miner got was 81 dB also worth noting the miner is cool to the touch, not even slightly warm



edit - when I took the dB reading, I had left my Apollo miner on - new reading with Apollo off 62 dB



Power usage I found after letting it run for 3 hours now on setting 5: 1.193 amps - 118.4 volts - 76.7 watts



I now have a miner on either side of my desk