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Having been on both sides of law suits there are a few things to consider. The first of which is are there any liquid assets? The second is legal fees, who will pay. The third is obtaining a chapter 7 bankruptcy considering that the company may well argue that such action is not warranted. Also the company may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy under which the company is protected from it's creditors. The company can also argue "Buyer's Remorse" and I feel sure they will have many other arguments. Usually my attorney convinced me that while I had a good to excellent chance of winning I should consider the possibility of loosing and even if I win will the legal costs be greater than the recovered money. In all but one case I did not sue. I did win one suit but was never able to collect because there was no money to be payed with. Note that there are already two federal lawsuits alleging fraud, along with five separate arbitration cases. See: Arstechnica post. I'm not saying not to take legal action, I'm saying to go into this with your eyes-wide-open. Make sure you are not throwing good money after bad. Disclaimer: I have no interest in the company in any manner. |
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The miners that did not work were an ASICMiner V3 Erupter Cube and a BFL Jalapeño.
I'm using a BFL Jalapeño with this version - we've probably got a backend behaviour here - one thing I would suggest is starting the BTC miners BEFORE starting the gridseed miners on LTC mode  If that's not it, I wonder whether it's an issue with the proxy for the cube… I'll try that. But it is really late for the those miners, they are no longer profitable at the current BTC price with poor luck so I am shutting them down in the next week. My electricity cost is $0.08/kWh. |
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Bad: Neither of my BTC miners work, back to 1.5.18e.
What are the BTC miners that are not working? The miners that did not work were an ASICMiner V3 Erupter Cube and a BFL Jalapeño. |
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I'm also particularly interested for gridseed users to give the bfgminer included a shot as this is the latest from github.
I have two Gridseed 5-chip units, currently mining with minerd via Terminal, one device per minerd. I am willing to try 1.5.20b1 but would like some setting information. Also do I need to have two instances of MacMiner, one per Gridseed unit? Unfortunately using the CPU miner window which uses minerd you do have to have two instances but I'm hoping you'll now be able to use the devices in one instance of the GPU window with manual flags either -S gridseed:all or -S dualminer:all i :: think :: the latter is for 1 chip and vice versa but not totally sure. Good: "-S gridseed:all" works for me, finds and mines with both Gridseed devices. Bad: Neither of my BTC miners work, back to 1.5.18e. |
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At the current difficulty and my electric cost of .08/kWh I am below break-even, that is I can buy BTC cheaper than mining with the Cube.
But I have found that mining scrypt coin with an ASIC is above break-even because ASIC script miners are extremely power efficient, that is because of the tradeoff of processing power to memory.
An example: Gridseed (5-chip, $99) crypt mining only does not even need a fan and only consumes ~4W running at ~320Kh/s. Monthly figures: Converting the script coin to BTC produces about .03BTC * ~$400/BTC = $12 at a cost of $0.23 in electricity. There are better mining script solutions and more becoming available.
The cube was fun while it lasted and with luck may be profitable again.
Anyone wanting to buy a fully functional ASIC Cube make me an offer.
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I'm also particularly interested for gridseed users to give the bfgminer included a shot as this is the latest from github.
I have two Gridseed 5-chip units, currently mining with minerd via Terminal, one device per minerd. I am willing to try 1.5.20b1 but would like some setting information. Also do I need to have two instances of MacMiner, one per Gridseed unit? |
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I don't feel comfortable with my IP settings out where everyone can see them.
The only IP address that might be a problem to share is your external IP. All 192.168.x.x are non-routeable addresses. |
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Hi everyone... I love bit coining but I am not loving this Block Erupter Cube... I have been trying to set it up for 5 days, I got as far as entering my data into the cubes interface and running the proxy, but this is the errors I am getting =
08:09:40,259 info proxy client_service.handle_event # newjob ccd9 for prevhash a28087c3, clean_jobs=False
Please supply more info, a screen shot of the cube configuration display, how you are connecting to the pool, etc. Read the original post here for more info as well as the blog in my signature. |
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I have the latest version cube. I think I may have friend it. When it is plugged in and NOT mining, what lights are lit up on the back? My only light that's on is "SB Power".
Are you sure that you have a good ethernet connection to the cube? Tried another device (computer, etc) in place of the cube and that it works? |
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The problem from my perspective is all the extra junk that has to be installed: MultiMiner requires an installation of Mono to run on both Mac OS X and Linux, and requires an installation of Xquartz on Mac OS X. Of course MacMiner has a terrible user interface—just horrible. |
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Just use MacMiner on the Mac--it is free. I have it working with no problems. See my sig for my blog with more info. If you want you can run cg or bfg from the command line with the versions embedded in MacMiner, doing that for Gridseeds. |
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Alright guys, looks like we're going to go with Neptune refunds since KnCminer will do a US bank transfer.
What will KnCminer miner be refunding? The exact number of BTC paid or UD$? If US$ is that be based on the exchange rate at the time of purchase or the time of refund, there is a considerable difference. |
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I found one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835119032 in my "scrounge" bin. It seems to work well. A couple of things to note, however: it will only mount with the airflow reversed from stock (not necessarily a bad thing) and the aluminum case is enough thicker than the plastic fans that you must be really careful in placement to get it to go in. The cube came right up, though, so I'm happy. Dogie has posted that reversing the fan is good, that it will increase the mining speed slightly. |
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One of my cubes has shut down - I happened to be sitting right by it and heard the relay click. Red light and bottom pwr light are dark, fan twitches but does not spin. I've swapped in a power supply that has been running two other cubes, and I get the same symtpoms.
I opened it up and checked the board - I see no evidence of overheat. I shorted the two power relay leads and all the lights come one, but with no fan I'm not inclined to run it for more than a few seconds that way.
Is it possible that the fan is just bad? I don't have a similar one to swap in tonight.
While preparing to order a fan, does anyone know what RPM the stock fans run at? I see another post about a 2900 rpm 90mm fan, but I'd rather not have that noise level. I guess more importantly, does anyone know what RPM the device wants to see?
Other thoughts about what could cause this?
Try swapping fans between the two Cubes to determine if it is the fan. I think I saw in a previous post that the fans were variable speed, search back in this thread (I have no idea how to do that, help anyone?). They have there conductors, one is a tachometer (speed) signal so the Cube can control the speed with the feedback. My guess is that the fan failed, the controller no longer saw a speed signal and shut down the mining power relay. You would want to get a fan with a tachometer (three wire connector) and either a ball bearings or fluid (rifle) bearing for lower noise and longer life. The fan size is 120mm by 25mm. |
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The reason they said automotive, is because the fuses are the blade type typically used for automotive electrical systems. They are not specifically automotive, but that is where they are used the most.... Okay, that makes sense to me. Of course it does, I have them in my car. I was under the impression that there was some little twist or a special kind of them. Maybe ones that go to 11? Fuses: Actually they kind of do go to 11. Consider the fuses/circuit breakers in a typical US house are 15a, the Cube fuse is 30a, twice that. Automotive fuses are designed for high currents at low voltages, exactly what the cube needs. Additionally the connector the fuse plugs into is small, cheap and well tested in automotive usage. Well, 11 is one more. Though it is difficult to easily tell ones that go to 11 from ones that only go to 9. Part of the issue is that I can't fathom that they cost more than a few cents to make, and every manufacturer or reseller is going to claim high quality. The sell at retail for < 10 cents each in small quanties. Buy automotive fuses. Consider how many cars have them, how many per car, the low failure rate of cars due to fuse failures. Buy Bussmann or Littlefuse brands. See my post above concerning the fuse connector. |
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5 Possibly mining power (relay is engaged)?
not, the relay is not triggered, do not listen to their noise
information:
My PSU is CX750
Thanks again
Check the fuse. Check that all six pins of each PCI-E connector is either +12 or neutral. One pin on each connector is used as a signal pin. I say this from examining the PC board. See the PCI-E pins in the blue rectangles in the photo below:  If the power relay is defective see this post for information on bypassing it. |
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Interesting fuse info:
A couple of days ago I noticed that the fuse was to hot to hold my finger on for more than a few seconds. I should have looked into that at the time—my bad.
Just now I tried to remove the fuse and noticed two things: 1-It was not hot at all. 2-I could not pull it out.
My guess: The fuse "welded" itself to the fuse connector resulting in a better connection and eliminated the heating from a previous poor connection.
The take-away: The fuse problems many have been having may really be a poor fuse connection. If the fuse is very hot (or even midly hot) check the connection, possibly re-seating or possibly trying to make the connector provide a better/tighter connection. A previous poster mentioned making the fuse connector "tighter".
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fedeeback:
5 Possibly mining power (relay is engaged)?
not relevant is not fired.
Why do you say "not relevant"? The word "fired" is not a good translation, can you explain in more words? |
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when i connect the psu turns on only the red one and a green LED remains off ethernet
My cube linking all this correctly, but only green light illuminates uam (SB) and coller. How to solve? What do these LEDs mean? It might help to establish what they all mean in one spot, please help.  My guesses: 1 Mining status (Proxy is running, etc) Blinking - Cube is mining Solid On or Off - Cube is not mining 2 Ethernet Speed indicator (not completely sure): Green on – Operating as a 1000-Mbps or possibly slower connection Off – ? 3 Ethernet Link/Activity indicator: Blinking – There is activity on this port Off – No link is established 4 Possibly "System Board" power? 5 Possibly mining power (relay is engaged)? Please correct and/or provide more information and I will update. |
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Well, I just got the messed up Android issue.
By simply not sharing the same subnet (no multicast I'm assuming), my cubes are fine again.
Yes, all that is needed is a separate subnet, it can even be on the same ethernet cable. Thus the `Droids don't reuse expired IP addresses that conflict with the IP addresses used by the miners. Full information can be found on the Android Open Source Project: Issue Tracker “DHCP client ignores lease time”. |
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