Dear members,
I have started mining with Butterfly Labs 2x50GH/s miners last summer. Then I have switched to 3 S3+ miners.
Now I bought a Asicminer Tube 800 from ebay. I would like to share some experience with you guys.
Power adapter for the block erupter is 12V , 1A. It had a UK plug type power adapter which was broken during shipping.
Her in Turkey we use Franch type plugs. Luckly I had an extra 12V 1A one.
Asicminer 800 has 4 boards, 8 power sockets, 2 sockets on each board to fill. I have used one socket from each board.
Because I'm not planning to overclock. I used two 600Watt power supplies. One is 80+, one is not (a regular one).
But accidentally I have used one cable which had two connectors daisy chained at the end. Cable has burned.
Luckly again, no damage to boards. I replaced the power supply. This time I used different cables from the power supply. I took the PCI-E conector from the burned one and added to the new PSU.
After managing how to setup the pool from 192.168.0.254:8000, I had a weird problem.
I was trying to use eclipsemc.com pool. This miner did not work with it. I read everthing on the internet.
As I learned Slush, Ghash.io and some other pools work with this miner. Others not.
So I setup ghash.io and slush with no success. "with no success" means, the miner was starting to mine for some period of random time, let's say 2 hours, or 3 hours 15 minutes or more or less,
then the worker of the pool was droping to something around 50GH/s. I would nearly quit. Bu after reading this forum I decided to use a proxy (although it's not needed), I was feeling suspicious about the Block Erupter thing. Whenever I started to use Slush pools proxy everthing started to run perfect.
This requires a dedicated computer.
I was thinking how to kill the ebay seller, but now I can just thank him. May be apologise in mind.
Sorry for my shaky English.
Doggie, thank you for your efforts here.