My mistake both on idle and math, I have corrected my post.

The stock Fury at idle draws 1.8a or 22w, hashing draws: 3.8a or 46w per measurements.

Thanks!

I'm running a few GAW Fury miners from this: supply, 12vdc, 30A, $26.
Below was corrected per posts by others:
The stock Fury at idle draws 22w or 1.8a, hashing twice that: 46w or 3.8a.

For power connectors I used these, cut off the PCIE connector. They are long and a nice gage of wire, I bought some others that were really trashy and tossed them. I crimped lugs on them but the power supply had a nice retention piece on the screw that should work well without lugs.

I have been mining fine with MacMiner 1.5.18e, ASIC Block Erupter Cube and BFL Jalapeño. Just updated to MacMiner 1.5.21b1 and it does mine, takes about 3 minutes to get started, if it starts, but there is no display of hash rate Accepted to Rejected. I am using the BTC Guild pool.

I don't see any advantage to update. What am I missing?

What can I do to help get this resolved.

Is there a way to see the actual BFGMiner, CGMiner and CPUMiner command string sent so I can verify direct operation?

I think the important part is: "disassembled it to take the new HD pictures and put it back together". That means that the fuse probably did not have a good connection when it was replaced and overheated due to a poor fuse/connector connection. By replacing the fuse the next fuse had a better connection and survived.

A key part: "the other option would be that the socket for the fuse is loose and causing high resistance."

Another key part: "I had trouble pulling the fuse out and had to use pliers".
Best bet is that there was a bad connection between the fuse and the fuse connector causing heat. The heat "welded"the fuse to the fuse connector. When a fuse gets hot the fuse link melts--at a low temperature, that is how they work. If there is heat it is the fuse connection.

In my case I noticed that the fuse was to hot to hold my finger on. That was caused by a bad connection between the fuse and fuse connector. Later the fuse was cool but the fuse was "welded: to the fuse connector--could not bee removed with my fingers.

Insure that the fuse has a good/tight mechanical connection to the fuse connector and is not hot.

Don't blame the fuse, it is your friend protecting your equipment.

Some of the new ASIC scrypt miners now available are very low power so should be profitable for a reasonably long time. A Gridseed 5-chip ($80) can mine 300+kHs at 7W of power, 4W with the fan removed (scrypt only mode). With a HW mod they can go to 500kHs.

Just from the traffic on the thread it seems clear interest in the Cube is over.

Sadly the Cube had a short life, mine started mining at the beginning of Jan 2014. It is no longer paying for the electricity and cooling costs most weeks, it is a better deal to buy BTC than pay the electric bill at the moment.

At this point I am about -$100 not considering the PSU cost. But all is not lost, if BTC gains substantially the Cube's efforts will make it profitable overall, I think that will happen.

I really liked the Cube and will miss him. RIP

Dogie, thanks for the great thread and all the help you provided!

I tried 1.5.20gm and it does not work with a BFJ Jalapeño and a ASCI Block Erupted cube. Just moving back to 10.5.18e does work.

No need to fix for me.

Probably not but more importantly calculate the power cost. Some days I am underwater and other days it's making money all depending on the "luck". But it probably will not be long until on average it is loosing money, that it is cheaper to but BTC than mine it with a Cube. My break even is about 24 Hour Earnings of 0.0017 BTC at $470/BTC everything considered, direct electricity and cost of AC.

1 Cube,       300w,  35 GH/s, profit: $0.39/day
3 Gridseeds,  24w, 950 kH/s, profit: $1.44/day

Just to provide some perspective Cubes are going for $105 on ebay, I have seen then as low as $75 (both including shipping).

Sorry about the confusion, I was not familiar with that king of PSU--I learned something too. ;-)

Kill it from what perspective? The _real_ reason for "mining" is to verify transactions. ASIC scrypt is really good for this because it is very low power, efficient, green.

Coin was not created in order to make money mining. Mining rewards were created to solve the chicken-egg problem of getting people to run verification servers, uh, that is miners to bootstrap BTC.

So, yeah, LTC was naive in trying to make GPU mining easier than ASIC, if they had been smart they would have realized that ASICs would come to scrypt. Or maybe they knew and purposely sought a more efficient process but had to mis-direct the mining community in order to get the miners involved in scrypt.

I have run a Cube with a CX500 just fine.

Persoanlly I use this power supply available from: Amazon

See this post: 5444724

And this post: 5545751

You wrote earlier: "A crappy gateway. there are no open molex connectors to jump off and the PSU in the comp is a sealed unit no way to connect to it." What does your computer have to do with the PSU?

Do you have two PCI-E cables between the PSU and the Cube? And a 110vac power cord to the PSU? A 30A fuse installed in the Cube?

Backing up, what are you trying to accomplish? Power an ASIC Cube or something else?

When you connect the PSU do any lights come on on the cube?

That your computer will not connect (whatever that means) does not mean that there is a power supply problem.

What makes you think that anything needs to be jumpered to make it work. It just looks like it just has power output connectors and a connector for 110vac. It seems to be designed to supply additional power, not power a computer motherboard.  Have you tried it?

Scrypt looks good, the tradeoff of processing power for memory gives lower power requirements providing possibly a long life against the cost of power.

It is close, yesterday was un-profitable, today marginally profitable. I also see where waldohover shut down Jupiter miners.