Topic: [RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread - page 26. (Read 69935 times)

Thanks for the update.

There's 47 sticks between now and yours. That puts them probably being made on Friday and either going out Friday or next Monday.

I have a dumb question... Is the queue for the shipped or to ship public ally available? I'm not sure where I fall on the list.

Shipped out 57 sticks today, making 77 total, and updated the queue numbers on the first post. This is every order shy of valkir's Canada group buy. I have two sticks tested waiting to go out, and nine waiting to be Novak'd into shape.

Had the first full failure stick today. I messed with it for about an hour but the buck just wouldn't come online. I was seeing some bizarre errors, even after replacing every active and most of the passive parts of the circuit, so I really don't know what the heck was going on unless the PCB was somehow hosed. So I hit it with a bat and moved on. We bought 20 extra PCBs just in case of problems like that.

In order to effectively divide my time between Compac order fulfillment and necessary project R&D, I'm going to shift my schedule to a format I've found to be ridiculously productive in the past. First thing when I come in, I'll straightaway assemble and clean up 20 Compacs. Depending on what needs to be touched up and tested, this could take between four and seven hours. Usually it's ASICs not fully connected, which for a 32QFN can be pretty annoying to troubleshoot, but occasional other problems like bad power and such are the issue. This time also includes installing the USB jacks, cleaning up any solder blobs, cleaning excess flux and any snap-tabs still on the PCBs. This means I'll probably ship Compac batches every two days, at least until the small order queue is caught up. After that it'll depend on how long it takes to make the next large batch (which range from 20 to 50 right now).
After getting 20 Compacs looked over and ready to roll, I'll be spending the remainder of the day (anywhere from three to six hours) on R&D. This'll mean dev and prototyping for miner boards. First priority is a PCB design for testing TypeZero power systems, and then working on all the integrated controls for the pod and TypeZero boards. Still waiting and hoping PlanetCrypto can get some chip news from someone, and I intend to keep working on a product assuming we'll get chips.

I used a few Orico ten port units with DualMiner USB sticks. They were stable with 9 units, but you had to leave the tenth slot nearest the power switch empty or it wouldn't be stable. Apparently this has to do with the underlying Orico sub-hub layout.

I made the mistake of populating a hub leaving the wrong port empty because I didn't think it made a difference, and sure enough I had stability problems. Note that these DualMiners were much lower power at 1.5 watts maximum per unit.

Here's a diagram from the DualMiner folks that explains it:



So if the diagram is accurate (and if I'm interpreting it correctly) the 4 ports nearest the power switch share the same DC power. The other two sets of 3 ports have separate power.

In my case I'll only have two sidehack sticks. Since I only need 4 ports, I'm thinking that I'll use the first two furthest from the power switch, skip a port, then use the next two from the next powered sub-hub. Specifically I'll use 1+2 and 4+5 from Hub-1 in the diagram. Maybe I'm over optimizing, but since I have the ports I might as well spread them around.

Again, I'm not sure that the above diagram is accurate. But following the DualMiner support advice when fully populating the the Orico did help.

I can echo Phillip's comments regarding the Orico 10-port hub. I too had that, and my experience was that 6 was very reliable, and I never got 7-10 to work. The interesting thing is that it was during the device recognition phase. Maybe it was some kind of power surge during the initial power on, but I didn't even get to the actual hashing under bfgminer. I tried several different combinations of ports and sticks, and the key was "6 devices work great". Under Windows things continued to get worse until I got frustrated and just stopped worrying about getting more than 6 to work.

If somebody elsehas  better luck than I, that's great, but my experience is that it's  really a dandy 5-6 port hub with good spacing because of the empty slots.

YMMV.

yep got them cables from way back from your previous post (yep i pay attention to you ) ....still not here thou (china,,, boat sank probably) but then again no sticks yet so it is a race

none of us are gonna ROI worth a damn on these toys but then again fun fun (or in my hope when in 10yrs BTC hits say 5k a btc we can go...see we ROI'd)

(drank the kool aid ...saw the unicorn)

I have used those and they do 5 antminer u2 sticks fine 24/7/365

the 6th or 7th would be problematic.

So I expect the same with these sticks.  5 will work fine at 200-225 freq  .

I have had more then 1000

erupters
u-1's
u-2's

ice furies

and other sticks.

Almost no 10 port hub did 10 sticks with no issues.

But most 10 port hubs  with 3 amp  did 5 sticks rock solid

Most 10 port hubs with 4 amp did 8 sticks.

A few 10 port hubs did 10 sticks.  the older anker , orinco's   solid aluminum are good cost was 40 bucks. up to 55 when the stick sales were crazy hot.

Edit: Thanks for the update Sidehack. You do amazing work.


It will, some retailer here sell 5A psu to go along with those Oricon 10 slot usb 2.0. I'm not sure how the stock PSU will deal at 100% load 24/7 and you wont have headroom for OC, etc. But unless you have 9-10 sticks, this isint a problem.

So today was what you might call "balls-out productive". Novak and I between us got caught up on at least a full day's worth of work, such that everything that needs to ship tomorrow (not just sticks, literally everything) is already done and tested. I put up 30 sticks today, which means we have 59 sticks waiting to ship. 57 puts us through every shipping order shy of valkir's Canada buy. Those might be ready by Wednesday.

That puts me at 49 (as of right now) remaining in the small-order queue. There are 43 large-order sticks to ship amongst them, however.

cavaliersrus, just let me know when you want to come by and I'll make sure to have sticks waiting for you.

Tomorrow I'll spend the morning on sticks, and the afternoon probably packing and shipping, and the rest of the day I need to get back to some TypeZero dev. Actually the specific thing I'll be working on will be multipurpose but the initial intent is to be used on TypeZero mining boards. I'll have more details after it's prototyped and thoroughly tested. That discussion belongs in a different thread, of course; I just wanted to let folks know I was going to be spending time specifically not producing sticks because I've already been doing that six of the last seven days and I need to get back to R&D.

I have the same one new in the box as well I would think that will work just fine

Isn't it a 12V 3A brick to a hub with internal regulation? Assuming the innards are 90%, you got 32W to play with. These draw under 3W at 150MHz so that'd be ten sticks. I don't know what the current limit per port is, but if it'll do 1A you could run around 225-250MHz on five or six sticks. How many you can pack in also depends on port spacing.

they won't do 7 they will do 5.  don't forget to get some cables

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221661361513?

The ones above work well at  freq 250

All my high speed  testing has been at freq 250.  Including running without a fan for 24 hours.

hey hack i dont know when i will be back in rolla area but fill other peoples orders before my sticks and let me know via pm when to come get them and i will try to get out that way ive been very busy working on cars and also regular work... even turned off my 4 s1's and my s2 untill i get car done

Looking very good there

Doing very well with updating during production. I can't wait to get one in hand

thanks I only have the 2 sticks from you guys coming ...so should work fine Considering the only ROI on these little toys is a Smile

anyway I'll have like 8 slots open for your next toy ..(hint hint: think bigger)

again as always I and others on here as well i'm sure appreciate you guys efforts!

Any USB2 hub will work, how well it works is determined by the power available.  If the external supply is (as on the link) 3A then you could run about seven sticks at 150MHz (maybe only six sticks, or maybe you could run seven at 143MHz- it would probably be a little low for seven at 150).  Probably you could use a higher current supply with the same hub to do much better.

Our high power hub is just an unpowered hub with beefy wires ran as extra power traces and a molex connector to the PSU for 5V in.  It's crude but effective.

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novak

Yay! Sticks incoming!!! Can't wait to get them flashy lights!

I forgot I had this I assume it will work fine with the sidehack usb sticks?

http://www.amazon.ca/ORICO-Adapter-MacBook-Desktop-Tablet/dp/B00EH44AA6





anyway forgot I had this beast from 2013 when I was gonna use a USB miner but never got around to it

I figure this will work fine but hey figured I'd better ask

sexy, would love to see a video of a 49 port hub filled with flashing lights. I have one here I'm hoping to dust off at some point when I get enough usb miners to fill it.