Topic: The combined sidehack-novak usb stick review thread. AKA GekkoScience BM1384 - page 6. (Read 26372 times)

I think --suggest-diff is unique to ckpool.

I think I posted my note to the other thread, so just to repeat it here too -

Regarding feedback - I've shared my observations and feedback with sidehack already (in PMs, I'll leave it up to him if he wants to repost them here - that's fine by me). Aside from that this thread already covers 99% of the rest, so I'm not sure if there is any benefit of repeating that.

In a nutshell - a very nice design, the kind of solid plug-and-play stuff that you would expect for a USB miner, and of course if anyone wants to overclock it (I guess that includes everyone ) - don't forget to use a powered USB hub and cooling.

The only other thing worth mentioning again is cgminer. Version 4.9.0 was the only one that worked consistently for me (on Windows - both 7 and 8 and x86 and x64). For some reason the officially published 4.9.1 and 4.9.2 did not recognize the devices.

As for EU - if that's the same German guy (selling NF2s on bitshopper.de) I would highly vouch for him!

Nice, glad you put a limit on purchases so we can all get a few!  Really looking forward to playing with these bad boys

Sounds good I am looking forward to my batch.

hack are you going to post in here when you open up sales queue and link over to it ?

Hopefully MrTeal and at least one other can post some news of the sticks. Last I heard from vs3, he was having software trouble I think and hadn't gotten any sticks to light up yet. Once we have at least six favorable reviews, if no serious issues have been found that need to be addressed with a redesign and retest, I'll give a three-day warning on opening sales.

I think what I'll do is limit to 10 sticks per person, except for people who have already gotten ahold of me about bulk purchases. If you haven't done so by the time sales open, you missed your shot because I posted last week that folks wanting more than a few needed to get ahold of me directly.

I missed your posting.  I look forward to your thoughts on it.

I've been off the forum for a couple weeks, but just wanted to pop in and say I've received my stick miner as of yesterday and I'll try to catch up on the posts here and give it some testing this weekend.

Thus my mention of EU card size differences; 89mm is not long enough to house the Compac, let alone 85, unless you'd put it in diagonal (certainly an option).

I've had a different experience, but that probably comes down to the exact material.

Ultimately though, both are available for pretty cheap. Maybe if somebody wanted to make a large run the exact numbers begin to matter

A playing card is ~ 89x60mm, the case I linked is 85x60mm.  Since they are meant for mineral samples they tend to be very resilient.  I have many many and never had one crack.

Slight update on this bit - looks like it may have been due to an issue with pthreads.  Replaced the pthreadGC2.dll with an older version, and getting much better behavior now.  For reference, see the cgminer cross-compile build notes.

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Thanks!

I had a contact in AU reselling PSU hardware for a while, but he got burned pretty badly on a big Garden purchase or something and kinda dropped out of the game. I'l get ahold of him and see if he wants to do something for his continent. Otherwise, per-unit shipping would suck from either US or EU but I got no problem with someone buying from either. I don't care who buys from German Guy, but my limitation is I told him I'd forward EU customers to him (for the most part, it's for their own good) so that's what I'll do. The customer doesn't have to buy from him, but I'll recommend it.

TheRealSteve, that box was pretty sexy.

There's a few problems with most of those boxes, unfortunately.
1. They tend to be the wrong size; see my earlier post for dimensions.  These (EU, I should note - different card size) playing card boxes are just about the right size for presentation, inclusion of a bit of documentation, and optional SD card with all that's needed to be up and running quickly.
2. They tend to be hard plastics, which tends to crack.  PP is a much more forgiving material.  Ideally I would have gone for the Antminer U1/U2 / Mycelium Entropy type box, but it won't fit in those - and an AX seller with the same style, but larger, boxes (where it would fit) has not yet responded

Similar styles that are longer and less wide are typically advertised as being for pens and watches, so that can also be a good place to start if anybody wanted to box their bunch.

Thanks, both   Once finished (things need to be changed for the production version, there isn't any actual information at gekkoscience.com as of yet, etc.), I'd be happy to share the files (Inkscape SVG).

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Yep, I would humbly request (that is to say, get in queue) for at most two.  I know the German guy can deliver and am happy to send patronage his way

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If only we knew what happened to Barntech    Though any assembler in AU would still need chips as well anyway.  For finished product, maybe you get your pick between US and Germany?

what about australian based users? we're kinda of helf way between europe and the states.

I like his flat rate pricing.  If someone buy's one it is one price, makes it very easy.  

If he does discounts then people will buy to get the good price point.  And then sell excess miners.  They might sell here or ebay who knows.  But in a way he would be selling against those who bought at a discount, if they try to sell their extras soon after receiving them.  

While it's obviously your business to do with as you see fit, it would seem that perhaps for the first two weeks after you open your order queue, you put a limit on of say 50 sticks. I expect that are many dozens of folks, myself included that will want to purchase a couple. At some level it would make more sense for you to sell out as a dozen large orders, it would be kinda unfortunate.

Another option would be kinda the opposite of a bulk discount, a bulk premium price. The 1st 20 are at whatever X prices is. The next 20 are at 1.5X, and the next 50 are at 1.75X (or something).

Just some thoughts from a really small time miner that would like not to miss out on a couple.

Heh, what a dick move that would be to buy all of them.  There's a lot of people that want to play with these!

Mine will go here, and these 4 will go play somewhere else.

I am going for 20 or so.  I will play with them for quite the while.  Since .31 watts is nice.

most likely run them at freq 200 or 225.  I want the amps under .9 ..

 freq  250 does  need 1.07 to 1.13 amps

my hubs will do .9 amps with no issues.  So freq 200 or 225 is the more practical limit.

I'll probably put up some simple flat shipping rates and make you pay at the time the order is placed. So if you paid for 600 and were the first money in, I guess technically you'd get 'em all. But know there is no bulk discount so you'd be looking at about 56BTC forked over.

Fun times, will there be a max. order quantity?

"I'll take 600, please..."