The problem is the next batch of bitmain miners will not ship for another 60 days. This isnt really a last second kind of thing you can throw together.

Bitmain is a hardware manufacturer, their goal is to sell hardware. People on this site attack them for being successful and selling a lot of hardware. THATS THE FUCKING GOAL OF THEIR COMPANY.

The L3s were not brought over here because they did not get them certified in the US in time. Contrary to popular belief they now do make sure their miners comply with the US laws.

Considering it would take months to build prototypes with the naked chips and all sorts of other things it makes no sense whatsoever since bitmains shipping time is normally under 60 days from the time of order.

Why instead of having a modicum of patience are you wanting to tank your entire business with some poorly thought out scheme to build your own stuff?

The fix is to run linux. Windows is dogshit for mining.

The answer is the same as it has always been. Buy from bitmain or nowhere at all.

While the resulting explosion may be fun to watch you really shouldnt do that. Miners run on 12 volt DC current. A power supply is just an AC/DC transformer.

I blow them out when I sell them

You should try to post this in the proper altcoin section, you will not get any information using the bitcoin subforums.

That depends on your miner. We would need a bit more info than you provided to give a solid answer. Miners *should* for the most part sit there and keep trying until it gets a connection but I know some miners after too many timeouts just go into an idle mode.

So you dont know what you are doing and that is bitmains fault? God its disgusting how everyone uses bitmain as the scapegoat for everything. How dare they become a successful company when others have failed? I mean they should just close up shop right?

Bitmain does not sell replacement hash boards. You can always buy an extra miner and use it for parts!

I would look into PiMP as a mining platform over SMOS. It gives you so many more options and is nicehash compatible.

my answer would be to not buy anymore hardware and sell what you have to some fool that doesnt realize what a waste of time, resources, and money they are.

Sell it to someone that doesnt realize what junk the D3s are

When you change pools with the bitmain antminer rollout tool you need to reboot the miners. It changes the config file when you update settings but it does not restart cgminer.

I would stay away from the bitmain power supply. There are much higher quality server PSUs available in the same price range. Ive seen upwards of 30% failure rates on bitmain PSUs in bulk orders.

Thats a lot of words you typed but they dont help sell your scam in any way.

If they are selling a brand new miner FAR under cost that should be giant red flag to start. You should never buy a miner from one of these random websites, bitmain is the only safe place to get them.

It looks like yo uar e right around the edge as far as the cooler temps go. It doesnt look like you are losing any hashrate from it yet so I wouldnt be too worried about it as long as things dont get any colder. Another thing you can do is change the fan settings and slow them down a bit if you think the cold is starting to have an effect.

There are a ton of reasons to flash the firmware. They wouldnt put it out if there were not improvements being made.

For some reason there are a bunch of people on this forum that think flashing firmware is dangerous. I have literally flashed ten thousand plus bitmain units and have never bricked a machine with a firmware update. Im betting that a lot of people flashed incorrect firmware because they are too impatient to confirm they are using the correct one and blamed bitmain instead of their own incompetence.

If you are receiving machines from the November batch they will most likely already have the most current firmware. I have even received some that had newer firmware than what is offered on the bitmain support site so the chances are you wont need to update yours.