Skill Discussions

You would really need to link a specific ship, and fit, for anyone to help.

That said:
Many ships are tight, unless you have an implant or rig fitted to compensate.
There are 2 generic fitting skills in your engineering category that should be trained to V
CPU Management
Power Grid management
There are also skills that specifically target the power grid or CPU requirements of certain modules. Those are more often found in weaponry skilling.
Mining Upgrades is a skill that helps with CPU for mining applications.

I'd get rid of the MWD. It's not going to help alot and will chew up powergrid. When you warp to a belt, bookmark 1or 2 asteroids. You can then warp out and back to your BMs. This will negate the need for a mwd.

Also what level do you have mining upgrades trained to as this skill will reduce the cpu penalty the 3 upgrades cost you.

My indy alt never uses a prop mod in his mackinaw. If he goes to an ice belt, I BM a chunk of ice, warp out, then warp to the ice.

I'd replace the mwd with an asteroid analyzer. This will save you some time as you will know how much of an ore or ice is left in any roid after you've been hitting it with your strips. When it's close to depleted, you can figure the % of your next cycle which will be required to deplete it, and shut dff your strips early. This will also allow you to sometimes get the last remaining bit of ore if another miner is mining that same roid and isn't paying attention to his analyzer, or doesn't have one.

[Mackinaw, cruncher]

Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II
Mining Laser Upgrade II

Survey Scanner II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

Modulated Strip Miner II
Modulated Strip Miner II

Medium Semiconductor Memory Cell I
Medium Semiconductor Memory Cell I

This is how you fit mack for max yield. Cap rechargers and SMC rigs are there so you could stop lasers mid-cycle when there is no enough ore for full cycle and start them right away on new rock.

Of course this is paper thin, 10k ehp but if you want tank use skiff.

If you have CPU and PG skills at V, MU IV and Jury Rigging IV it should fit without problems (EveHQ shows 319 CPU and 31 PG is needed).

What part of "max yield" didn't you understand? Did you even see what fit OP presented?

I've been using he fit, on the same token it hinders movement between destroyed Sasha ships and takes a substantial amount of time to collect cargo from the left over containers.

Is there an optional fit that will assist in more speed?

Because everybody mines in 0.5 mission hubs with local maxed out...

As for OP's question, if you cannot use fit I posted you have something seriously frakked up with your fitting skills. Get EFT/EveHQ/pyfa and find out what skill you are missing. Fitting mining barge/exhumer is really not brain surgery, after lazors, upgrades and surface scanner there is little you really need and can put there. MWD is really sh!tty choice for med slot and chasing after hisec belt rats' wrecks? C'mon, have some dignity :)

My reason for salvaging the NPC Sasha ships was based on items received for my BPO's. I guess it's better to buy them?

Thanks, I will follow your advice.

I appreciate the information, I'll test each theory out and see which is more beneficial.

The problem with the 1st year is you simply do not know the "basic core skills" to have as well as the nuances of this game. It leads to a tremendous loss of time and inadequate skill training.

I originally marveled in a separate forum string when people would say they could have a ship up and ready for fighting in 4 to 6 weeks, no problem. Of course a player with 4-5-6 years experience can do that, they know the in's and out's of the game. They've forgotten what it's like to have to figure these thing out as a beginner.