After some but never enough reading, pencil modding an S3 is way less effective than was modding an S1, neither of which I've done.
Adding resistors would mean my finding someone competent to do it for me.

I'm now considering, just considering I say, buying begging or stealing a 9 volt power supply.
Much more reading to do, but it has popped up as a possible option when running some of the higher 'S' boxes.

'lol @ medicare part a & b'

I may have need to talk to you about that in 4 or 5 years.

May be confused, may be not.
I want one (or more?) sticks at .peptostick.
I don't yet recognize the benefit of having more than one stick pointed there.
I have two sticks so I expect to point one at Part A, and put the 2nd one on a donation name (Part B).
This is beginning to sound like Medicare. I hope there's no Part C.
I also have ~100GH that I might play with and would put on Part B, unless of course I defect for a while to see if I can put a few penny's in my wallet.

Phil, kindly create a .peptodonation user. I'll start mining to it shortly.

OK, I call it success.

S3
freq. 100
temp.38 and very quiet
87 watts
101 GH avg. after 14 hrs.

Compared it to the stats of a Rockminer R-box (32GH @45 watts) so I'm doing much better than that.

I'm happy today!

I've actually done that phil to a large part, and it worked. You lose one fan but that's easily overcome if needed.
I got down to around 190 watts, but I don't think I tried the lowest limit frequencies. I'll give it another shot.

In edonkeys minera-cgminer,

Manual options
You have chosen to add all options manually, I will only add for you the pools list, you have to take care of the rest.


--compac-freq 225


Did I read somewhere that I can add a 'suggested difficulty' after the frequency?

I ask because when I decide to change something and get mining again, it seems I have to wait (up to 1/2 hour)  till I hit a 1K share for cksolo to down regulate my share difficulty.

Is there some line I can type in there to start out at diff 21 or so. A cut and paste line would be good as I don't understand the dashes and overall syntax. TX.

Thanks, I didn't understand this. Can you point me to where it is explained?

I made a post today and when I came back to see if any replies, someone added a sig ad.
Poking around, I found that a number of original posts had a sig ad. Like mine, I bet that
many of these are not placed by the poster.  Any thought's on how this is happening and how to stop it?
(lets see if this post gets an ad)

I'm sure this would be ridiculous even to me if I half knew what I was asking but..
Suppose I simply plugged an S3 into a variable transformer, started it out at full line voltage, and slowly tweaked the voltage down.
I'm guessing it would work to a point because many homes have less than 'advertised' line voltage.
I'm sure it would just shut down at some point but would I burn anything out or ruin my miner by trying this?
Essentially I'm wanting to run at around 100 watts on my kill-O-watt meter and I only expect around 80/100 Gh.

I love reading stuff when I don't have a clue about what I'm reading.
Are you guys seriously concerned about this or are you just bantering because you're getting paid to do so? You all do it well, whatever it is you're doing, and I really do enjoy reading things I don't understand. So Tally- ho, or whatever I mean. Maybe you've got some ideas that would support the price of a bitcoin.

I need to do more scraping myself. Right after I figure out what that means.
NRN. that's my way of saying 'no reply needed' 

Will pm you. Now get back to work.

Yea, it's public knowledge about what nostradums pridicked.
You can though have no appreciation for my powers of precognition.

We are are going to hit a block soon. I say this from experience. I don't just talk the talk.

I'm not an ebayer, well never a seller I mean. Without even looking at current prices, my mind works like this... You've got to box the thing, pack it well, at least better than bitmain did with the s2's,  wrap it up in tape, pay a 'ups store' a marked up price and hope the receiver doesn't have any complaints.  I just can't justify it.  Beany baby's maybe, but not miners.
If you send me a prepaid shipping box, a roll of tape, and a bunch of bubble wrap, I'll pretty much put anything you ask for into it.
Provided of course that it leads to progress and that maybe I'd get some consideration down the road.

Fine print.. this is not a giveaway to the general public.

Bring some added value to s1's, s2's, and s3's and the world will come knocking on your door.
I can't be the only one thinking of putting them in the trash.

I just slipped in 2 or so Gh/s to my stickname  (maybe a high estimate) because i wanted to run my drillbit thumb for a while.
Ha, how many of you know what a drillbit thumb is.
I trust you understand I'm not asking how many of you don't give a darn, I can figure that for myself.
 

I don't know that this addresses what you're saying. I recently had a 20 minute whole house power failure. When it came back on, I deliberately did nothing just to see what my RPI Cgminer-Gekko setup would do. The pi restarted, the sticks restarted, minera restarted (or never went away ). It may have taken another twenty minutes for things to get back to where they were, but they did. And probably would have done it faster if I put a suggested share difficulty in there instead of waiting for that first 1K to get things moving.

From someone who has never used a RPI, I am immensely impressed with it's ability to free me from my pc while mining 24/7. Of course we do the same thing with antminers and such when our blood is running hot, but for sticks this cannot be beat. And you edonkey are going to remain a hero to me for some time for your iteration of Minera/Cgminer-Gekko.  It's absolutely sweet.