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SkyscraperFarms Guide to setting up a Block Erupter Cube 30-38GH/s in Windows

I spent a few aggravating hours trying to set one of these babies up. Most guides gloss over a lot of the settings. This is my attempt to help make it easier for some of you.

(**) these are the areas where I had most difficulty and it seems most people did not have these issues.
(*) is only pertinent to those setting up multiple cubes. If you are only setting up 1 cube, ignore these * hints.

1. Tighten/re-screw heat sink screws.
   Every cube I received had this problem.
   You will need to unscrew both front and back plates.
   Unplug cooling fan.
   Carefully slide the board and blades out all together.
   There are guide rails that the blades may get stuck on from shifting and you may need to adjust so it slides out evenly.
   Make sure all screws in heat sinks are tight. Then reassemble.

2. Attach to PSU.
   You will need a PSU with at least two 6pin PCI-E cables on it and runs at 280W, preferably more.

3. Insert 30amp Fuse into Cube.
   I had a few fuses start to melt until I only pushed them in partially, enough to make the connection. (This only happened on high when the unit starts to get really hot, an external fan helped too)
   After buying New 30amp fuses from the Auto store, this problem never happened again, so I believe it was a Fuse quality issue.
   Turn unit on.
   If you bought a used unit, hit the reset button. This will restore it back to defaults.(if the prior owner changed the cubes IP address you will not be able to access it using the factory set 192.168.1.254:8000)

4. Change Router IP address.
   You will need to access your router.
   I changed mine from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100
   The Cube uses 192.168.1.1 as its primary DNS (remember the new address because you will need to if you want to access router settings at a later date)

**5. Unplug Ethernet Internet cable going into Router, the cable from modem to router (Where the internet signal comes from).
   For some reason when I accessed the Cube my router kept dropping and acquiring the internet signal so I couldn't update any Cube settings.

6. You will now need an Ethernet cable going from Cube to Router.

7. Type in 192.168.1.254:8000 in your browser, this should bring up the Cubes settings and dashboard.

8. Change the Cubes IP address.
   This is the very top input line on the Cubes Dashboard.
   Change it to 192.168.1.200 for the first cube and then update settings.
   You should now be able to plug internet back into router.
   *If you have multiple cubes the next cubes IP address change should be to 192.168.1.201 and so on.....
   Hit Update/Restart.
   Now enter 192.168.1.200:8000 into your browser to get to your cube's dashboard from now on. Leave this page open from now on.

9. Find your computers preferred IP address by opening the CMD window and typing in ipconfig.
   Next to "IPv4" is your prefferred IP address.


10. Enter computers preferred IP address into Pool Address in the Cubes Dashboard twice with only a comma separating them.
   No spaces in between.

**11. Download the Mining Proxy from here: http://mining.bitcoin.cz/mining-proxy-howto or just google slush's mining proxy.
   When it downloads it doesn't download into a folder of its own, so you will need to create one.
   Mine Downloaded to "My Downloads", I then had to create a new folder I called Proxy, and then dragged the "mining_proxy" application into it.

12. Create a bat. file for the pool you wish to join inside the "Proxy" folder where "mining_proxy" application is.
   I was using BTCGuild and coinex.pw pools.
   Right click inside the Proxy folder you created and click on "New" and open a "Text document".
   Right Click on the "New Text Document" and then click "Edit".

For BTCGuild, my bat file looks like this:

mining_proxy.exe -o stratum.btcguild.com -gp 8330 -p 3333
pause

-o is the actual pool's http address, BTCguild's in this case

The -gp number is the Pool Ports Number on the Cube's dashboard.
My Pool Ports looks like: 8330,8330
*This number is the only one that needs to be different for a second cube, both in the 2nd bat. file and on the 2nd Cube's dashboard.
*(I only have 1 BTCguild worker set up on their website and the Proxy will mine to that one worker no matter how many cubes and proxys' I have running.)

-p is BTCguilds port

13. Save the file as "whateverYouWantToBeTheNameOfTheFile".bat or whatever name you choose and make sure its saved as "all files" not just a text document.
   *Name your next Cube's BTCGuildProxy2.bat and so on...

14. For Miner user:password, Enter your Worker name followed by a colon and then your worker password.
   My worker:pasword is skyscraperfarms_1:1
   Just like the Pool Address and Pool Ports you must enter it in 2 times. So it looks like skyscraperfarms_1:1,skyscraperfarms_1:1
   No spaces in-between any of these inputs!

15. Update/Restart the settings on your Cube's dashboard once everything is filled in like below.

16. Run the bat. file you created and your miner should start mining.

This is what my Cubes Dashboard looks like for my first Cube

IP    ###.###.#.###

Mask    255.255.255.0

Gateway    0.0.0.0

WEB Port    8000

Primary DNS    ###.###.#.#

Secondary DNS    8.8.8.8

Pool ports    8330,8330

Pool addresses    ###.###.#.##,###.###.#.## (do not enter pound sign's in, it is an actual number but will be different than mine)

Miners user:pass    skyscraperfarms_1:1,skyscraperfarms_1:1 (these are my worker name and passwords, feel free to mine with them Wink

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In Red are all things I had to change and/or input.
In Green are the commas. Do not forget them and NO SPACES!

Please Feel Free to point out any spelling errors or any other mistakes or missed steps you think I may left out.

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Thanks! SkscraperFarms

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