Project Update

[chooka03]

I may be able to offer some insight here quickly.....
I bought one of those USB voltage testers which arrived today. My miner timed out today and wasted about 4hrs doing nothing again so I decided to check the USB voltage. It measured 5.06V. I'm thinking straight away that isn't enough voltage for these miners?
With the miner plugged into the other end of the tester (like a pass through) the voltage dropped to 4.9V.

I'm thinking that it could be a lack of V which is the cause??
My USB hub is on the slow boat so will be here next weekend to check.

Perhaps this helps.

ps ...I'm using a USB port on my PC, not one on the mobo. Same V on mobo though.

@Dingo - I posted a few posts back about roughly how much 1/4 turn of the screw was in voltage difference. (Sorry...got to pick son up from daycare so can't find it for you)

[Dingo]

Thanks chooka I guess I need to look into getting a multi meter but then I don't even know how to use one.  I think the best thing to do is fiddle till it works as there is only one now out of the four that keeps stopping.  Once I hotplug it it starts again.

Crunch on  we will make up a position in the world soon.

[Dataman]

Hurrah!! All the lizards made it for 24 hours. I agree, I think they are shipped with minimum voltage. Of my 14, I have adjusted 9 of them.
On another matter, Texas A&M can hear our hoof beats now. A thundering herd of drunk Gecko's.  biggrin

[Dataman]

Eureka! I made some progress in identifying which Gecko is which in the hub. The device location in device manage (e.g. Port_#0003.Hub_#0011) seems to correspond to the position in the hub (reading left to right on my Superbpag). If the position listed in device manager is the same order as they are discovered and numbered in BOINC (e.g. Miner ASIC (device 5)), then I can tell which slacker is which.   Otherwise I can't easily tune them. My run times on the Gecko's are rather dismal from 3 min. to 45+ min. I also have strange error messages that I do not understand. But they complete and validate and I am pleased with that.
Obviously I need to do more research. However it is a lovely day and I have a lovely woman who wants to go over to the American River and commune with nature. That is so much better than looking at BOINC logs. 

[chooka03]

Have you got 14 of these Geko's now DM?? WOW! 
Your room really must look like a disco lol :)

Enjoy nature & the sunshine mate........ it's what really counts in life.... the beauty of nature.

[Dataman]

Only 5 of my 14 flash and I put all of them in the array in the server room where they do not annoy anyone.

Spent a beautiful day along the American River. Had lunch here:

http://www.xpressionscatering.com/the-cork-fork-restaurant/

Nothing special but the hot wilted-spinach salad was good and Karen liked the fish tacos. Life is good.

[Dingo]

I finally got all four of mine working and all the lights flashing.  I did notice that when the light was not flashing and they times out they did not appear on the "Invalid" or "Error" list, they just seemed to disappear.  Now that I have them all flashing I can follow them on BoincManager and when they finish they appear almost immediately on the "Valid" list.

Had a look at the American River website and it looks like a nice place, and good eats at the restaurant as well.


I also noticed that some do not work for a couple of minutes then start crunching OK.  It looks like it hotplugged itself as I did not do it.

[2016-06-16 18:19:49] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart                    
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
[2016-06-16 18:21:21] Hotplug: Icarus added AU3 0
[2016-06-16 18:21:21] Hotplug: Icarus added AU3 0                    
(5s):0.000 (1m):0.000 (5m):0.000 (15m):0.000 (avg):0.000h/s          
[2016-06-16 18:21:24] Accepted 1765e2a3 Diff 11/8 AU3 0 pool 0
[2016-06-16 18:21:24] Accepted 1dc77bc6 Diff 9/8 AU3 0 pool 0
[2016-06-16 18:21:24] Accepted 1765e2a3 Diff 11/8 AU3 0 pool 0                    
[2016-06-16 18:21:24] Accepted 1dc77bc6 Diff 9/8 AU3 0 pool 0                    
(5s):4.909G (1m):615.8M (5m):127.7M (15m):42.81M (avg):207.5Mh/s          
(5s):9.916G (1m):1.592G (5m):338.3M (15m):113.9M (avg):539.1Mh/s          

[chooka03]

Oh dear...... maybe I need a guardian like you guys have. 

http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/results.php?userid=6049&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=

Had a shocking run of invalids.

[Dataman]

Oh dear...... maybe I need a guardian like you guys have.  

http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/results.php?userid=6049&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=

Had a shocking run of invalids.

Can't access the file. Do you have view computers turned on there? Do you have it in a powered hub yet?
Mine have settled down after the last adjustments. No invalids in 4 days.
Do you have a statue of a Tasmanian Devil?  biggrin

[Dingo]

I have my four working now after a lot of tuning.  They are in a Powered hub which makes a huge difference.  I am getting 46 - 47 million credits a day on bitcoin utopia with the four ASIC's.  I have moved up 255 places in the world rankings so far this month.  Would like to break my best ever at 175 and now on 769.

[kashi]

Can't access the file. Do you have view computers turned on there? Do you have it in a powered hub yet?......

No, computers are not hidden. You can't show tasks from all someone's computers using a userID link unless logged in as that user. You can't even see your own results with a userID link after you log out, it will ask you to log in first.

For general viewing by everyone it needs to be shown as a link to each computer (hostID),  eg:
http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/results.php?hostid=9656&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=

Alternatively you can link to the user themselves and then click on their computers "View" link (if not hidden), eg:
http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/show_user.php?userid=6049

Anyway, that's disappointing that 5 tasks timed out after 2 hours each.

My hub arrived on Friday, couldn't believe it when my good stick started misbehaving on it and losing connection needing replugging often. Most disappointing. However after I adjusted it to the same as the other one which worked well on the TV it has not missed a beat since. Using a case fan to cool them both until USB fan arrives from UK.

With both in hub I tried running 1 task on both sticks using  --usb :2 --icarus-options 115200:2:2 commandline parameters plus <count>1</count> in an app_config.xml file to enable pool splitting but it was much slower overall than running a task on each stick. Tried with just --usb :2 and <count>1</count>; that was better but still slower overall than single task per stick.

Be useful to find out how to insert novak's custom cgminer into Bitcoin Utopia BOINC files so that frequency can be adjusted using --compac-freq parameter.

PSU for duallie arrived with hub and registered RAM has reached Sydney from China. That Amazon is dangerous, just bought a 15" Chromebook for US$229. Don't know if I actually need a Chromebook but my mum can use it to watch movies in bed if she wants. Plus I can muck about putting Linux on it with Crouton. Credit card bill next month will be a doozy, haha.

[Dataman]

I have my four working now after a lot of tuning.  They are in a Powered hub which makes a huge difference.  I am getting 46 - 47 million credits a day on bitcoin utopia with the four ASIC's.  I have moved up 255 places in the world rankings so far this month.  Would like to break my best ever at 175 and now on 769.

My best was 283 at 2010-03-15. Now at 351. Gaining 10-20/day.

[Dataman]

Credit card bill next month will be a doozy, haha.

Not looking forward to mine either. 

[chooka03]

Got my three new USB Miners today and loaded the driver one by one and also tested on Bitcoin one by one.  After a lot of messing with the voltage I have them all working individually and about to put all four on at once to see if the lights flash and the credit is blinding.

I am typing this as I go while the miners are going or not going and after a bunch of hotplugging I have two running steady and one not running at all and the other one on and off.  :furious:


EDIT:  OK I got the  :buzz out of it and all four are running at the moment., hope they stay that way....

EDIT:  Checked back and only two working again.  Need to play with the voltage I guess.  I wish I knew what the voltage was when I play with the screw as they are so small I never really know if it moved.

Do you have to change anything in the info file to get more than 1 working? Or should they just plug in and go after installing the driver using Zadig?

[kashi]

Yes you have to change <count> value in cc_config.xml file to match the number of miners you have. Using app_info.xml file or app_config.xml file is not necessary.