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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
If the fan was pulling extra juice and also plugged into Port 1 or Port D it mig…
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n/a | sidehack | August 19, 2020, 09:55:22 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Oh, right. You forgot your dot slash../cgminer -o whatever -u whateverThat's wha…
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n/a | sidehack | August 16, 2020, 11:03:04 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Did you type a zero instead of a "O" (capital o) in the autogen line and it retu…
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n/a | sidehack | August 16, 2020, 09:43:33 AM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
I'm about to finally catch up on manufacturing tasks so next week will have plen…
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n/a | sidehack | July 24, 2020, 11:19:14 AM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Got a boost driver that'll put up about 30 watts, and I need to test the buck-bo…
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n/a | sidehack | July 22, 2020, 01:51:46 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Also it's like a million degrees in my shop right now so it's hard to get motiva…
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n/a | sidehack | July 12, 2020, 12:10:27 AM |
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Bitmain delivery performance Service Discussion
That's great but I was hoping to be able to supply my people back in May, which…
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n/a | sidehack | June 18, 2020, 03:04:01 PM |
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Bitmain delivery performance Service Discussion
I've had trouble with orders from China for a while. A few suppliers using DHL h…
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n/a | sidehack | June 18, 2020, 12:25:57 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
That 130GH happens at more like 12-14W, really. So your numbers are probably goi…
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n/a | sidehack | June 10, 2020, 06:26:08 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
I think the newest batch of chips I got are a substantial improvement over the o…
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n/a | sidehack | June 08, 2020, 11:30:25 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
My neighbor's windows are about 200 yards from mine, across a horse pasture. The…
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n/a | sidehack | June 03, 2020, 03:53:40 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Easiest thing would be to put sharpie on the LEDs. Second to that, pop off the S…
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n/a | sidehack | June 03, 2020, 10:35:02 AM |
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5V/12V Molex adapter board, PCIe 6-pin input, 20A capable (GPU rigs and such) Computer hardware
I'm pretty sure what boards I had didn't survive the move. I did some scrounging…
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n/a | sidehack | June 03, 2020, 09:23:40 AM |
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Now that usb sticks are being sold by sidehack here is a new usb hub thread. Hardware
419mining and MineFarmBuy both offer a rock-solid 8A brick alongside the GS hub.…
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n/a | sidehack | June 02, 2020, 08:44:01 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Yeah I wouldn't recommend Windows 10 to anyone who doesn't like paying too much…
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n/a | sidehack | June 01, 2020, 10:25:48 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Anything that is running anything other than Windows 10, you're going to get bet…
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n/a | sidehack | May 31, 2020, 03:21:37 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
The chips have to self-balance so the reading across any one chip will vary. The…
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n/a | sidehack | May 31, 2020, 01:43:28 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
For that device, it means it's showing 2 functional BM1387 chips, and ASICBoost…
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n/a | sidehack | May 22, 2020, 11:26:14 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
The two square bare pads above center on the stick will get you voltages across…
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n/a | sidehack | May 20, 2020, 09:35:57 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Oh uh, hey guys. So I finally got some test PCBs in today. Took 2 days to get fr…
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n/a | sidehack | May 20, 2020, 09:29:15 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Unless it's a seriously badass cable, it's probably got severe voltage drop draw…
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n/a | sidehack | May 16, 2020, 10:14:40 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
If he's using a GS hub, I honestly don't know what the problem is because each p…
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n/a | sidehack | May 15, 2020, 04:54:05 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
1TH on power level 3? That's a pretty sweet unit you got.
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n/a | sidehack | May 13, 2020, 07:50:02 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
I'll probably fix it sometime. I tended to lean on my webserver for image hostin…
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n/a | sidehack | May 03, 2020, 10:09:28 PM |
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Antminer ‘T’ series vs. ‘S’ series Hardware
T series have fewer chips clocked higher, for roughly the same power draw but lo…
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n/a | sidehack | May 02, 2020, 07:57:04 AM |
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Bitmain Introduces the S17+ and T17+ Hardware
News about high failure rates doesn't surprise me much. I've been doing some lea…
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n/a | sidehack | April 29, 2020, 03:32:33 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
No, 12 would be the 12th chip (indexed as chip 11) at the other end of the strin…
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n/a | sidehack | April 22, 2020, 01:01:28 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
If there's a number on the heatsink it's the bench serial number used to identif…
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n/a | sidehack | April 16, 2020, 08:31:03 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Also make sure there's not a config file overriding your command line settings.
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n/a | sidehack | April 14, 2020, 08:46:39 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
gt - chip 0 is on the end closest to the fan. The string pulls a U-turn, so it's…
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n/a | sidehack | April 13, 2020, 09:01:17 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Also read through the first post of this thread. VH made some gekko-specific opt…
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n/a | sidehack | April 11, 2020, 08:47:55 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
gt - I'm guessing it has a lot to do with that the miner's only detecting six ch…
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n/a | sidehack | April 10, 2020, 08:55:02 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Factory burn-in is done on a Debian machine.
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n/a | sidehack | March 30, 2020, 11:03:28 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
The company that makes the above light also makes a similar one with zoom. I've…
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n/a | sidehack | March 06, 2020, 11:30:33 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Thinking about picking up some of these for the basic non-zoom version. It looks…
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n/a | sidehack | March 06, 2020, 03:31:33 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Six sticks at 600MHz or so, if you can give it enough 12V power.
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n/a | sidehack | March 01, 2020, 10:58:41 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Increasing the stick's voltage slightly will probably help. Knob's in the bottom…
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n/a | sidehack | February 29, 2020, 03:50:19 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Might have to do some work with a buck-boost driver instead of just a straight b…
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n/a | sidehack | February 26, 2020, 09:54:05 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
If it's not the computer, it's either the hub or the sticks. Increasing the stic…
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n/a | sidehack | February 26, 2020, 07:12:23 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
I'd rather send you something to play with first and test it out, see if it's an…
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n/a | sidehack | February 26, 2020, 10:52:39 AM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Electric cars do it because the average trip distance is only 30 miles so reduce…
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n/a | sidehack | February 25, 2020, 10:07:42 PM |
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GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread Hardware
Usually if you can't change the speed there's an issue with either the command l…
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n/a | sidehack | February 25, 2020, 02:09:26 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Building a Better FlashlightHere's a link to that flashlight design discussion.…
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n/a | sidehack | February 24, 2020, 09:45:45 PM |
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Building a Better Flashlight Off-topic
Hey guys. I'm sidehack. Haven't ventured over here before; I have lived in the H…
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n/a | sidehack | February 24, 2020, 09:34:12 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Probably. The tune works off not just the total hashrate but the health of indiv…
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n/a | sidehack | February 23, 2020, 06:46:57 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
That sounds uncomfortably like theft and my ethics don't allow for deceptions, p…
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n/a | sidehack | February 22, 2020, 12:58:31 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
I really only hit up here and Speculation. Don't care about much beyond hardware…
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n/a | sidehack | February 21, 2020, 04:30:17 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Right now I'm just interested in pocket-size, but if it proves robust and I can…
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n/a | sidehack | February 21, 2020, 11:23:52 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
I wouldn't sell you something that easy to break. Goes against my principles.
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n/a | sidehack | February 21, 2020, 09:36:39 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Yep, sure can.
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n/a | sidehack | February 21, 2020, 09:24:30 AM |
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Bitmain & Canaan To Release 5nm chip ASIC Miners in Q1 2020! Mining speculation
I talked to a contact last fall who does good business with Canaan - he runs an…
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n/a | sidehack | February 19, 2020, 01:19:53 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
It is not USB rechargeable, but I bet I could build a USB-powered recharger for…
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n/a | sidehack | February 16, 2020, 10:04:06 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
And because it's GekkoScience, it will have none of what that guy just suggested…
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n/a | sidehack | February 15, 2020, 10:58:52 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
The only thing far enough along to talk about is an LED flashlight. I like the l…
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n/a | sidehack | February 15, 2020, 09:04:40 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
I was kinda hoping bitshopper would show up to address Europe stock questions. H…
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n/a | sidehack | February 15, 2020, 01:22:20 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
The barrel jack is rated for 8A. Might be good for more than that, but I can't o…
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n/a | sidehack | December 31, 2019, 09:07:12 AM |
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Bitmain & Canaan To Release 5nm chip ASIC Miners in Q1 2020! Mining speculation
Focus on home-friendly miners, you say? That sounds familiar.
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n/a | sidehack | December 29, 2019, 02:00:58 PM |
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Bitmain & Canaan To Release 5nm chip ASIC Miners in Q1 2020! Mining speculation
So you think they're gonna start building miners with under 2000W power draw aga…
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n/a | sidehack | December 29, 2019, 09:54:05 AM |
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When was your last "Oh, shit!" moment - How did it turn out? Mining speculation
I stepped out of my workroom about a year and a half ago and smelled smoke. Usua…
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n/a | sidehack | December 28, 2019, 11:57:38 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
Building an FPGA miner goes way beyond what I currently have the time and desire…
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n/a | sidehack | December 26, 2019, 09:54:09 AM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
Again, nope. I don't really care about altcoins so I don't build gear for them.I…
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n/a | sidehack | December 25, 2019, 11:20:05 AM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
No. I build things that I think should exist but don't, and I still believe hobb…
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n/a | sidehack | December 24, 2019, 02:41:16 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
Those features? No. I don't have much interest in building tiny self-contained c…
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n/a | sidehack | December 23, 2019, 02:24:01 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Running on Linux is pretty easy. I've set up enough testing stations that, excep…
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n/a | sidehack | December 06, 2019, 10:06:43 PM |
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Can a big dump render Bitcoin unusable because of the mining difficulty? Mining speculation
Unless some really large bag holders get into a pissing match and want to watch…
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n/a | sidehack | November 28, 2019, 06:00:19 PM |
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Can a big dump render Bitcoin unusable because of the mining difficulty? Mining speculation
Being robust against that attack is less of a concern than against other types o…
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n/a | sidehack | November 27, 2019, 08:10:31 AM |
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What to do with all the old s-9s. Hardware
Ooh, firmwares. Maybe in early December I'll have time to test out some of that,…
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n/a | sidehack | November 25, 2019, 10:07:55 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Honestly, I'd recommend talking to 419mining. Tell him you bought it from Miners…
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n/a | sidehack | November 22, 2019, 09:55:03 PM |
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Best Solution for mining without letting my ISP know it Mining speculation
What's the situation there? Has the ISP itself banned mining, or is it reporting…
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n/a | sidehack | November 19, 2019, 07:58:24 AM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
Right now we're packing up the shop. The last units built in our current locatio…
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n/a | sidehack | November 13, 2019, 10:14:21 PM |
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Quiet mining only with quiet fans? Mining speculation
The other thing the R4 did was push air across only about four rows of chips ins…
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n/a | sidehack | November 13, 2019, 08:05:03 AM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
I would switch over to my in-house server but it looks like the ISP's static rou…
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n/a | sidehack | November 11, 2019, 05:06:48 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
The new fancy multi-core ones anyway. The 5V regulator on the R606 is the same c…
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n/a | sidehack | November 08, 2019, 08:15:14 AM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
Well there you go. The Pi4 can be a pretty hungry machine, and the internal 5V,…
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n/a | sidehack | November 07, 2019, 11:53:49 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
My guess is there's an issue with the 5V circuit. Not sure why there would be, b…
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n/a | sidehack | November 07, 2019, 09:15:35 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
So when it powers off, the fan is still powered and spinning? Or is it spinning…
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n/a | sidehack | November 07, 2019, 08:44:34 PM |
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GekkoScience Terminus R606 750GH (up to 1TH) quiet miner, now shipping Hardware
We've got some miners to test, and some to ship out to resellers in the next wee…
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n/a | sidehack | November 07, 2019, 10:35:53 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Probably an 8A brick? Then it's possible trying to run high speed and high volta…
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n/a | sidehack | October 29, 2019, 09:51:55 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Okay that's great. But what's your power supply?
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n/a | sidehack | October 29, 2019, 09:11:33 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. What's your power supply?
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n/a | sidehack | October 29, 2019, 08:58:07 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Heat has nothing to do with the speed re-targeting, unless it's getting so hot t…
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n/a | sidehack | October 29, 2019, 07:50:51 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
The lowest voltage at which it'll run stable for a given frequency is the voltag…
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n/a | sidehack | October 28, 2019, 02:00:28 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
This isn't really the place to talk about 2Pacs, but there were two "versions" -…
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n/a | sidehack | October 27, 2019, 08:17:03 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
If it behaves the same even with an R606 plugged in, it's not a USB throughput l…
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n/a | sidehack | October 24, 2019, 03:46:00 PM |
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50 million from investors to create a massive mining farm in Texas Mining speculation
Good thing there's someone here to translate without condescension.
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n/a | sidehack | October 23, 2019, 07:50:50 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Pipe the output to a log file so you can see what errors are popping up that wou…
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n/a | sidehack | October 21, 2019, 11:08:34 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Not sure what pool you're using but if it's not ASICBoost-enabled your speed wil…
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n/a | sidehack | October 21, 2019, 10:16:19 AM |
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GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread Hardware
If upping the voltage makes it worse, it's probably your hub sucks.
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n/a | sidehack | October 20, 2019, 11:00:39 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
Means to look in the current directory. Two dots means up one directory. Without…
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n/a | sidehack | October 20, 2019, 09:59:29 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
419mining in the US, Eyeboot in Hong Kong and bitshopper.de in Germany will be s…
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n/a | sidehack | October 17, 2019, 06:24:26 PM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
When you get it depends on the seller, but the next batch starts shipping from m…
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n/a | sidehack | October 17, 2019, 04:26:41 PM |
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GekkoScience 2Pac/Compac BM1384 Stickminer Official Support Thread Hardware
If 2Pacs are dropping out, try adjusting the core voltage up slightly. More volt…
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n/a | sidehack | October 16, 2019, 10:37:18 AM |
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Current Bitmain Hardware Dump 10/13/19. Very ugly at 10c kWh to ROI Ever! POLL! Mining speculation
If I had a 10% failure rate inside 2 years for gear I built, I'd probably quit t…
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n/a | sidehack | October 15, 2019, 07:56:30 PM |
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Canaan Announces 11 Series Hardware
And safer. I've replaced 15A outlets in hosting that were drawing maybe 8A conti…
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n/a | sidehack | October 15, 2019, 02:06:34 PM |
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Canaan Announces 11 Series Hardware
The problem isn't the noise. The problem is how much current the one power cable…
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n/a | sidehack | October 15, 2019, 01:40:36 PM |
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Canaan Announces 11 Series Hardware
And if I was doing it I wouldn't build a machine requiring a 3300W PSU.
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n/a | sidehack | October 15, 2019, 10:39:41 AM |
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Canaan Announces 11 Series Hardware
Do the *17 miners have four boards or three? An odd number of boards would weigh…
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n/a | sidehack | October 15, 2019, 09:58:44 AM |
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GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread Hardware
iankasyp, yes it's normal. The idle power at stock voltage is typically around 1…
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n/a | sidehack | October 14, 2019, 01:25:08 PM |
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Bitmain is taking paypal !!!! Service Discussion
Opening up the doors for the masses is good for decentralization and adoption, w…
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n/a | sidehack | October 08, 2019, 12:49:29 PM |
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Bitmain is taking paypal !!!! Service Discussion
Guess they figure they can eat the 3% fee, what with their 150% markup on gear.
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n/a | sidehack | October 08, 2019, 09:33:13 AM |
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