Topic: [RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread - page 25. (Read 69935 times)

I know this is kind of off topic (and it may have been asked before), but have you looked at updating to the new BM1385 on the next run (v2)?  
I guess what I am asking is if the pin-out would be the same, could it be a "drop in" replacement?  
That, of course, being if you could source them.
Edit for brainstorm.... since the 1385 chip is so "low power", could you duplex them on a single USB stick?

We have parts right now for 400. It won't be difficult to extend that to 500. After that we'll have to re-buy a lot of the expensive components in bulk. The hard-limit limiters are PCBs, heatsinks and ASICs. We have enough of those for 1000 units.

How many units are you planning on making all together?  I thought that I read somewhere you were making about 1K...  I'm wondering what kind of reordering you'll get once people test these out and give you kudos on the forums...  I know I purchased 3 to start with and I'll probably want another 7 for an even 10 if the original 3 run smooth for me.

thanks for replying hack

im hoping i can get that way this weekend or the next i will keep you posted man thanks again for the good project

Call it Batch 2 in the next few months? I'm sure there will be more going after them once the public shows off their new toys

So we didn't ship anything today. I was having a bit of trouble with the first row of sticks; two of them have been sidelined with power issues and Novak handed me back two more that failed testing (though I think one of those was from the previous batch).

Last night I took some time to do a bit of maintenance on the robot, did a bit of cleaning and calibrating and think I finally got the process ironed out. I ran out a panel of 30 sticks last night with only one manual intervention after the 3rd stick, and then this morning ran out another full panel with zero manual intervention on the whole thing (one hour, 51 minutes runtime). I then patched up and handed to Novak 20 of the sticks from the one panel in about 4 hours' time, which includes touchups, cleanup, mounting the USB jacks and doing any required repairs and reseating of ASICs (which is most of the trouble, and mostly related to the crappy solder paste). So that's pretty much double the pace from when I started last week.

If I can meet my goals tomorrow before shiptime, I'll have everything through Chigiueritato's Venezuela lot going out which will put us at about 20 from being done with the small-order queue and starting on some big reseller batches. So, if you've bought fewer than 20 sticks and not within the last two weeks, your order is probably going out tomorrow.

Once we catch up on the small-order queue (which will probably be Monday) I'll start funneling all Compacs into large orders. The quota queueing will still exist but I'll shift the quotas, probably 20% small and 80% large since I have a lot of large orders left hanging. But that means I'd have four or five sticks per day which could meet small orders immediately, so starting next week small orders will be shipped approximately without delay.

That said, sales have just about caught up to what we have in parts. If many more come in we'll have to fetch additional components to manufacture 'em. But that's a good problem to have, right?

Plus it will be almost the same price to get them to Europe. Some countries aren't that picky on CE labeling, but the taxes will be a bitch since sidehack said he doesn't want to lie about the value of the product

I'd prefer if folks in Europe bought the sticks made in Europe.

THX, so a shipping from USA or Canada to Austria is not possible... -> customs officer...

If pull request is made and accepted, yes: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12377465
( in the mean time you can always use the custom builds/code or use bfgminer )


No.  The ones built in Germany will have CE and WEEE: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sales-open-sidehack-stick-official-sales-thread-for-europe-1141518

Cgminer (official) also support this sticks in the future?

How much is the shipping to Austria?

The miner have "CE"?

Yeah for more info please do see the support thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gekkoscience-compac-bm1384-stickminer-official-support-thread-1173963 which has info including a handy frequency table for bfgminer and a few tips on first things to try when troubleshooting.

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novak

Thanks sidehack - turning up the volts just a bit fixed the issue of bfgminer seeing multiple chips & spewing tons of errors.
Thanks Luke Jr - I am now able to adjust frequencies properly.

Fun stuff & great work guys!

Note at the very least, you will need to use --set-device compac:clock=x0782

I've tried other ports and also running the "problem" stick by itself and get the same results. Actually running it by itself, yields 4 chips 0a,b,c,d ...

I will try cgminer to compare.

Didn't know a support thread existed, I'll post my findings there instead. Thanks.

You know, Novak's cgminer has been tested to work with 8 sticks simultaneously and also doesn't require hex lookup tables for clock rate.

You might turn the voltage up a bit on the one. I set them to work at 150MHz on my brief bench test, but Novak burns 'em in at 200MHz and sometimes the volts are a bit low. No idea why it sees two chips. I've never actually used BFG.

You might send questions to The GekkoScience Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread instead of posting here.

Have you tried swapping the compaqs around to different ports in the USB hub to see if you get the same errors on that stick?

I received my 3 sticks today. WOOT!

Just want to confirm I'm running these properly. I compiled the latest version of bfgminer & starting with the following...

2 of my sticks seem OK, but the 3rd shows up as having 2 chips & lots of HW errors...
http://i.imgur.com/8VgPuZY.png