No. Each pair of yellow wires is only able to provide about 75W before it becomes dodgy. You're asking 360W from ~110W of cables.

See the OP again, the recommendations is NOT to use a molex connector. Plenty of links and information there.

Facing the screws, the two left screws are GND, the two right screws are +12V

You don't need to connect all 4 terminals, you can use only one of each (as long as you have enough wires for 10A per Blade)


This PSU should be enough for up to 4 Blades


Yes. I don't know what's wrong if not the PSU. All the doc I've seen mentions either a faulty PSU or something awful when you only get x's instead of O's and it persists over cold restarts. Are you sure that they were OK in the first place?

It looks like your chips aren't getting enough power. Status should be like:


And you have


It seems that your PSU is providing enough power for the Ethernet / control logic to work, but not the chips. The fact that the PSU fan is not spinning is probably because your PSU is at very low load (since the Blades aren't hashing).

How did you power the Blades, i.e. how many +12V and GND lines for each Blades, how many Blades and wattage of your PSU?

Could be better, but I think the general advice is to blow along the direction of the heatsink fins.  You might need something with denser airflow.


That is where you would put your worker details.  sample_1:pass,sample_1:pass, use your worker info.  You may need to set up a stratum proxy though, not sure if slush has getwork ports open still.

Definitely check local stores and places like Newegg for Black Friday specials. Each blade will pull about 80-90W and about ~7A. For 5 blades you will probably have roughly 450W and 40A draw. The trouble with this though, is even though a power supply is rated for 450W and 40A, if you have it under this load constantly you will run into heat issues and fry the thing. Leave a decent amount of overhead between the load you expect and the power supply rating. So for a constant 450W load I would recommend probably no less than a 600W power supply, and going higher wouldn't hurt. Even a 600 will probably still run pretty warm at that load.

The next issue is making sure that the 12V rails can handle the current draw that 5 blades will create. Each blade will theoretically draw around 7A, but the same issue I mentioned before still applies, if you keep the rail under the full load that it is rated for constantly, you will melt wires and capacitors for sure. I would try to find a power supply that has around 50A total rated current on the 12V rails. The ones I have laying around look to be around 30-40A total but none of them are high-end by any means. You certainly may find a mid-to-high grade power supply that meets these requirements. It may also be worth considering that you could split the blades between two power supplies if you happen to find some that are cheap in the 300-400W range and have maybe 20-30A rated 12V rails, as these would be considerably cheaper, would just be up to you to do the math.

Sorry I can't provide specific models that would be good. I didn't go shopping for power supplies when I got started with mining as I only had one blade and was able to power it off what I already had at home.