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Hi all.
Where would I obtain the original power supply for the BFL ASIC Single 60GH/s mining cube unit?
I may be purchasing one & it doesn't have a power supply.
The seller is telling me to get a regular ATX PSU but I don't wish to be bothered with the ugly PSU in my living room nor do I wish to deal with the headaches of having to purchase something else, (unless push comes to shove), in addition to the PSU to jump start it.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Why would you want to buy a junky fire hazard? A metal cased reasonable quality PSU will be much safer and reliable. BFL doesn't sell replacement PSUs anyway as far as I know. (not that you'd want to buy one)

Edit: Just buy a fully modular PSU, it won't have the cable clutter.

Thanks for the response.

But being that I just got into this I missed the info pertaining to what made BFL's power supply so dangerous?
I really, really, really, don't want an ugly PC power supply sitting out on my desktop being that my mining operation is quite small & discrete as to not piss off the wife.

My BFL PSU just went out Friday night while I was out of town. So I missed out on mining this weekend due to it. Just buy a good PSU and you will need to jump it with a wire since you are not hooking it up to a motherboard, but you will be much better off.

Thanks for the responses Photon939 & Aurel57.

Pardon my ignorance, but how big a PSU (wattage wise) and how would I go about plugging in the BFL 60GH/S cube as well as the jumping starting part of it?  Pictures?

400W (or higher) with 2 x PCI-e 6 power connectors should be enough. You connect the PCI-e connectors to the BFL Single and jump pins 4 and 5 of the ATX connector.

 You will need 1 jumper wire or paper clip .  On the PSU’s 24pin motherboard power cable, you have to cross the “Green” line and the “Black” line. The PSU will not run without this jumper wire in place.

Thanks Aurel57. (Check your PM when ya get a chance.)

BFL's power supplies suck, I have my 60gh/s bfl miner and a 25GH/s BFL sitting behind my pc with a 1050W gold PSU with the pcie-E cables pulled out of the back of the case through the water cooling holes with the rubber grommets on them so it looks all pretty and doesn't leave anything ugly looking, or jerry rigged/fire-hazard like, and they run fine.  I did this after the BFL psu's blew out after about a month each.

To reinforce above comments. I have first hand experience, they are fire hazards, BFL should be sued for distributing such junk. I have a brand new one they sent me and  I wouldn't even give it to anyone,  well unless they just want to just destroy it, I would have to be invited to said destruction though.

My BFL PSU blew out about 5 seconds after plugging it in.

It wasn't 'til after that happened that I found the 120v-240v toggle switch on the back :)