[RUN 2 CLOSED][SIDEHACK STICK]GekkoScience Compac Official sales thread - page 36.

brush242

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Quote from: sidehack on August 19, 2015, 07:49:36 AM

Also, Bitmain just announced their new chip. I guess this makes the Compac obsolete before it ever shipped?

Or does it mean I should design a new Compac? Honestly I doubt much would change from the current design. Core voltage range would drop but that's a couple resistors; footprint would change but that doesn't take long. I bet the protocol is relatively unchanged.

Well, the question would be: can you get the chips?

It reminds me of Apple's advertising for the past few iPhones: "Enjoy the new iPhone! Slightly better than it's predecessors--you need it NOW!"

sidehack

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How many folks were turned away because they had to use coin instead of PayPal? I didn't realize it would be a problem but now the subject's been breached I've had two or three people in the last day asking about it.

PayPal sales can be sent to [email protected], same calculations apply.

Also, Bitmain just announced their new chip. I guess this makes the Compac obsolete before it ever shipped?

Or does it mean I should design a new Compac? Honestly I doubt much would change from the current design. Core voltage range would drop but that's a couple resistors; footprint would change but that doesn't take long. I bet the protocol is relatively unchanged.

sobe-it

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Quote from: sidehack on August 18, 2015, 07:28:00 PM

I have taken in a few PayPal sales, if you'd rather go that route.

well I'm in for a few via PP and a few via BTC then. gotta see what my funds look like.

sidehack

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I have taken in a few PayPal sales, if you'd rather go that route.

Also, it looks like Luke-Jr's Compac has arrived and he's working on BFG code for it. Novak's also been working on cgminer code, and took one of the test sticks home with him to keep working. So that's good news.

Sales queue count is updated. I have one invoice still out which would put us over 300 sticks sold, which I'm okay with.

brush242

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Did I miss something somewhere: can we use $USD?

For those that would hesitate to buy from SideHack, the Curmudgeonly Hardware Guy, because you don't know him personally: just do it. You have zero reason to fear for your hard-earned (mined?) dollars (BTC?).

Mikestang

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Quote from: sidehack on August 17, 2015, 10:02:11 AM

BOOM
http://gekkoscience.com/misc/compac/compac_pcbs_delivered.JPG

Oh wow, now things are going to get super exciting. I mean, watching the stick develop was really cool, but I cannot wait to see what these boards are going to be capable of. Cool

AJRGale

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Quote from: sidehack on August 17, 2015, 05:10:58 PM

Parts are ordered for sticks. We should see them end of this week, about the same time stencils show up. Hopefully I'll be assembling by Friday. Also hopefully we have word by Friday of the friggin' pick-and-place shipping and hopefully it actually gets delivered this time.

still in china? lemmie get in my dingy and paddle across the channel and get the spurs out?

if only you were a few hundred Kays away, I'd saddle up skippy and come and help..

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Parts are ordered for sticks. We should see them end of this week, about the same time stencils show up. Hopefully I'll be assembling by Friday. Also hopefully we have word by Friday of the friggin' pick-and-place shipping and hopefully it actually gets delivered this time.

philipma1957

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It does freq 250 13.75gh in its sleep. I get about .33 watts a gh.

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Quote from: sidehack on August 17, 2015, 11:31:57 AM

According to TheRealSteve's playing around, if you got enough current and cooling they'll do 20GH each.

Yep, though at that point efficiency is pretty low

My earlier test did eventually shut down (some libusb error) and had to power cycle the Compac, but it's been running okay again at 23.34Gh/s;

Code:

 cgminer version 4.9.2-compac - Started: [2015-08-17 17:57:31]
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 (5s):21.72G (1m):23.32G (5m):23.31G (15m):23.19G (avg):23.33Gh/s
 A:23316  R:18  HW:4  X:14  T:14  GN:22996  WU:325.83/m  WE:100.00% HE:99.78% cf:425.00 ch:23375.00 t:4235
 Connected to pool0.btcdig.com diff 18 with stratum as user BEUSB@gscompac
 Block: 76d9c6fd...  Diff:52.7G  Started: [19:04:33]  Best share: 8.14K

I wouldn't run that without active cooling, but lower hash rates are probably okay.

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If you're of a mind to, I would surely appreciate the sale. According to TheRealSteve's playing around, if you got enough current and cooling they'll do 20GH each.

Chris_Sabian

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I'm tempted to pick up a few of these sticks and run with via a R-pi attached to a spare solar panel with a deep cycle battery. I would run on the CK Solo 'pool' and try some luck.

AJRGale

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Quote from: sidehack on August 17, 2015, 10:02:11 AM

BOOM

P0RN! someone get me a towel!!

TheRealSteve

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Quote from: sidehack on August 17, 2015, 10:02:11 AM

BOOM

mmmm panels!

sidehack

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BOOM

sidehack

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Technically, "deadline" is whenever they're all gone. Paying into this batch, however, ends in about five hours. Any sticks bought now, the entire price will go toward a components purchase for building all the sticks sold to date and as many as I can get into standing stock for sale once pending orders are met. The more paid down now, the more I'll have for stock and the easier it'll be to allocate funds to finish out the run.

The pick-and-place is still not shipped, which sucks. I expect to have PCBs and heatsinks all in hand in the next few days and all components by week's end. I'll start assembling fast as I can. We're slated to start shipping orders on the 25th, but until the robot's here and going they won't be coming off the line too fast.

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whens the order dead line and rough shipping date?

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Quote from: sidehack on August 16, 2015, 09:31:31 AM

Flep: Yeah, MacEntyre runs his own sales because he has his own stock. If you wanted to buy from my stock, either through me, Valkir (Canada), AJRGale (Australia) or chigiuerator (however the heck that's spelled, in Venezuela) I'd appreciate doing so in the next 24 hours. But if you wanted to buy from MacEntyre, that's completely separate.

I'll just buy local then. Want one or two to play with

klintay

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sidehack, I'll take 10 pieces to play with Grin

$250 + $25 usd sent @ 256 usd bitstamp

Here is the tx-id: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/c95785d7192f72212862f5351e900d019bda763368da87a4632931d25abda55e

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Yep, no bulk discounts. The price is already about as good as I can make it, and I don't really like the idea of giving people with enough money to buy many of them good deals and offsetting it by charging more to people without lots of money. Doesn't really make sense.

Right now, if someone wanted 20-50 said someone could purchase 20-50 but they'd still be $25 apiece.

Flep: Yeah, MacEntyre runs his own sales because he has his own stock. If you wanted to buy from my stock, either through me, Valkir (Canada), AJRGale (Australia) or chigiuerator (however the heck that's spelled, in Venezuela) I'd appreciate doing so in the next 24 hours. But if you wanted to buy from MacEntyre, that's completely separate.

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