Topic: We have an Asic Cube Miner and want to know if we done the correct steps? (Read 608 times)

Seems OK, although it shouldn't be that complicated, they are pretty easy things to get going. Was it a new or used Cube?

What fan was with the Cube when you bought it? The fan can affect the miner if it is faulty, but if it's rated correctly & working fine it should be OK. The fan in my cube is upgraded to a Scythe Gentle Typhoon, that is a 1850rpm fan, but it is much quieter and moves more air than the rubbish stock fan. I tried a Corsair Air Series SP120 High Performance Edition (2350 rpm) fan in my cube, but then it would not power on, the relay just kept clicking and resetting the cube over and over in a loop. The Typhoon draws a current of 0.083A, while I note the Corsair draws 0.18A, so maybe if the fan is drawing too much current or not enough is the problem with the fan, maybe check yours?

Also, when you say the fan needs to be blowing out of the cube, do you mean you reversed your fan so that it is essentially sucking air across the blades and through the cube, or is it blowing into the cube across the blades? As you look at the rear of the Cube with the LED's, fuse, power ports etc, the fan should be blowing inwards, although I guess it won't make much difference as in theory it should be moving the same volume of air over the heat sinks.

What PSU are you using, the power supply can be a cause of a lot of problems with Cubes too.


Everything else seems sine, although I would advise against keeping bit coins in an online wallet. Much better to send them to one on your computer such as the official Bitcoin-Qt, which you can then back up regularly to another location or paper etc.

Hi guys, me and my friend bought an ASIC Cube Miner. We've configured it with almost no help and we wanted to know if we done all the steps correctly.

1. After trying a couple fans we found out that you need at least 2000+ RPM speed on it in order for the miner to work without turning off. Also make sure you install it so that the fan blows outside the miner and not inside the miner. This was very tricky problem for us to mull and it wasn't the most obvious thing. So after we connected it the right way, it would then run up properly. We're using a 500W PSU for this setup.
2. Next up, we connected to the interface through 192.168.1.254:8000, so then boom were in. Zeros everywhere and a couple parameters to include settings.
3. We changed the IP, and then we googled to find out that the Miner needs to run a Getwork protocol which means that it needs to connect to a mining proxy correct?
4. We changed the pool ports on the miner so that they would run on the same as the mining proxy program we downloaded from Slush's Pool (but we haven't portforwarded anything), correct?
5. We started up the mining proxy on a computer and pointed the pool ip to this machine. After that we made an account on Slush, and got a worker user and password. We put this in the correct parameters of the miner and hit "update". So far so good it seems.. Correct?
6. Next we changed the clock frequency on the miner from low to high and after that it started producing results when checking on the account tab of Slush.
7. The bitcoin address bar was empty, so we figured we need to generate one from a exchange site, we chose "cryptsy" (the following steps are the one's that make me less comfortable right now).
8. Under the list of Cryptovalues we selected "Bitcoin" and "deposit bitcoins" and then we generated a code through there, correct?
9. Next, we took that code and pasted it into the blank parameter of Slush's "Bitcoin Address" parameter and hit "Save".
10. So far so good, it seems that there's no problems but are any of the steps wrong? We just want to make sure it's working as it should.

We have only runned the miner for a couple hours which is why we don't know if something will go wrong in the payment process.

Big thank's in advance!