Is it possible to use this miner to mine eth clones eg expanse on suprnova?
Yes. Ethereum uses the Dagger algo, those all use Dagger as well.
Having trouble connecting to suprnova expanse, probably i have missed something simple in batfile any help appreciated.
ethminer -U -S exp.suprnova.cc:4000 -o mercuryminer.1:x
i 23:32:11|main Connecting to stratum server exp.suprnova.cc:4000
X 23:32:13|stratum Could not connect to stratum server exp.suprnova.cc : 400
0 , No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it