Hey everyone. Hope you’ve been having a good time mining lately!
(yep, not the best joke; not sorry)
So, GekkoScience is launching some fresh gear. Our new product for 2024, and the first of many if all goes well, is a new stick miner. Of course, it's another stick miner, that's how we roll.
Introducing the Compac A1.
If you know our products, you’ll realize the naming is a nod to Eureka Seven, where the Amita Drive was linked to Renton’s Compac Drive, enhancing its features. Similarly, we’ve added our version of an Amita Drive to the Compac A1 (get the reference?) with built-in telemetry and software control. No more hunting for a tiny screwdriver to adjust voltage; everything’s gonna be done through software with cgminer commands or the API. Plus, you’ll be able to monitor the temperature, the USB bus voltage, and even how the blinking light behaves! Adjusting the voltage on the fly should make tuning super easy. Sounds fun, right?
There’s also an optional 2-pin fan jack for adding fans without using another USB port. That’s a cool new feature. Resellers will likely have fan packages ready for this too. Just a heads up: the fan jack is only for fans and CAN'T be used for external 5V power. Trying that would definitely fry something.
This stick miner runs on S19 chips, making it pretty efficient, around 30% better than the Compac F. We’ve seen samples of the Compac F hitting speeds of about 260GH on under 8 watts.
These should be in the wild soon.
The new code is up in my git (see my sig)
It reports temperature and per chip voltage on the screen
It does cooldown if it overheats
Voltage is controlled by startup and via the API.
Current code is only tested on Linux so far.
There's a new 01-cgminer.rules needed for linux for the new USB chip
See the README/USB for details,
though this works the same as required before for linux, just an updated file.
I'll update the help page https://kano.is/gekko.php at a later date,
but the dual BM1362 has mostly the same API as the R909 and CompacF
but a couple of extras.
It has a specific A1 start value - which I guess all the old Gekkos should have had before,
but it's there for the new A1
All the A1 specific options are:
--gekko-compaca1-start-freq NNN
--gekko-compaca1-corev nnn (mV)
--gekko-compaca1-detect
--gekko-compaca1-freq NNN
Miner selection by serial --gekko-serial can now also be a comma list of miners,
not only just one miner.
The blinky led is as follow:
When you first plug it in, it blinks every 1 second until it starts mining.
When mining, it blinks with work processing.
When you stop mining, the led goes off.
Have fun
Thanks for releasing the new linux cgminer Kano! We received our first batch of Compac A1s yesterday so looking forward to test.
Will you also be releasing the windows version soon?
Just the stick and IglooPac Cooler in a Fancy box
Would highly recommend purchasing a smarthub along with Gekkoscience products. It can run 9 miners and makes everything plug and play.
I am stupid I should have asked what is an igloopac cooler?
hmm I now see a photo of the fan which I assume is the cooler.
I wonder why it did not show yesterday.
the net was cranky I guess
happy to hear you guys at Altair took delivery of some! preordered a couple as soon as they hit your site =)
I'm going to take a gander and say we've got to update the SmartHub - any info available on where to download the new img?
can certainly use my gen2 GSHub and my RPi or OPi in the meantime.
I was wondering the same thing. Seems like a fairly substantial update for the UI that IAmGPIO has to sort out with all the newly controllable aspect of this stick. Hopefully he won't keep us waiting too long
I tried that procedure, but it may be obsolete now. Kept getting errors for various missing libraries.
I guess we have to wait for kano to release the executables.
Got mine today! Very excited! LOVE how the temp/core voltage are shown RIGHT in the CG miner A1's line of text. Fantastic.
What are the recommended core clocks?
No secret squirrel pre production unit sent before anyone else knew they existed?
Hope the code writing goes well. Looking forward to getting the new image then hopefully ordering a few to get on my smarthub and retire the Ferraris.
I put up a windows binary yesterday.
The gekko setup/config/running is updated here: https://kano.is/gekko.php
It has the windows download link at https://kano.is/gekko.php#doz
Hi all,
Im new to this miner, I was wondering if @sidehack you can help me understand about it,
There really is not proper guides on the net.
My plan is to plug this into a Rasberry 5, running a bitcoin node such as Start9orCitadel.
This way it be my own solo miner.
But Im not sure the software is compatible, if not running on node then maybe just run it of Rasberry Pi 5,
Hope this makes sense?