Antminer L3 - 250mh - 400watt Scrypt miner coming soon

[ilostmyface]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

[Longsnowsm]

Should I be concerned?
Yesterday I received my L3+, it seemed to work stable at ~504MH/s. This morning I realized a reduced hashrate, looking at the "Miner Status" reveals, that one blade is not hashing, all ASICs were marked with X.
Luckily a reboot seemed to solve this issue, lets hope it will not happen again...

Could you show some picture ??

I am interesting to get 1.

Will do so next time, as I said the reboot solved it (until now).

Don't mind me asking, On real world, how many LTC can you mined with a 504mh/s per day?

i know this is a bit late but i mine about 9 ltc a day with 4 l3+'s and 1 5 cube titan at coinotron. the 5 cube titan is missing 1 cube because the pci-e connector blew out so im working on getting that fixed when i get some free time during the weekend. the titan is mining at 320mh/s for the time being so i would say in or about 1.5-2 ltc per day with the l3+ with variations depending on pps and what pool you use not to mention fees and so on.

i had to reboot one of the miners after running for almost 5 days....one of the boards showed all x's but that miner runs cool at 58 degrees c -62 degrees c per board so after a quick reboot everything was back to normal. i noticed before i rebooted it when the miner does this the hashrate listed on the main page is weird. for example it showed the AVG hasrate at 450mh/s (i underclock this one because of the noise like i said before) but the RT column showed 1.5xxxxx and the x's are random numbers. coinotron reported it mining at 370mh/s so maybe the board issue comes from some interface error after running for a long period of time? maybe an "auto reboot every few days" option  would be a good thing to have but so far i dont consider this "issue" much of an issue. if the temps were high i would but i think bitmain did it right this timeby spreading the hashrate over 4 boards instead of cramming a ton of chips onto 3 boards. there is a huge temp difference between the s9 and l3+ and that cant all be due to the difference in coin being mined. i honestly hope they implement this 4 board design into their future btc miners to give them a bit more room to breathe....it feels like it would reduce the number of failures others have had and that its way more forgiving temp wise since they run at such low temps to begin with.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention my l3+'s came with a beaglebone controller again....not the controller bitmain made to replace the beaglebone on the newer gen s9's. this is cool mainly because it means if you have your own full fledged beaglebone controller with a working usb and controller for the tx and power (bitmain uses bare bones beablebone blacks with no usb and other components to save money on making them) we should be able to use a wifi dongle again! right now im using tp-link external wifi ap's that need 5v power (the internal controller is the same as the one used on old avalon miners) which is a pain because i need a long usb cable and a pwer brick for the tp link controller but if you use the beaglebone with usb and a compatible wifi dongle you should be able to connect up to wifi networks just fine. I havent ever flashed a beaglebone black or backed up the image so if anyone has the bitmain firmware image (not the upgrade package but the full firmware image) i can flash one of mine an see if wifi works on it and report back. i dont suggest using wifi unless you need to and for 2 of the miners i would need to run wifi so i dont have long ethernet cables running accross the room.

@numnutz2009 Did you need a copy of the firmware from a running miner to test this?  I can try to backup one of mine and see if that works.  Then find a way to get it to you if I can get a backup.  

UPDATE: I just tried the backup function in the UI and it only saves the config files, and not the entire image.  So I am not sure how to get a backup of the entire running system.  Does not appear to be supported in the Bitmain UI.

[wheelz1200]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

"Testing"

[tw0rak]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

"Testing"

I dont thing they are holding anything in this case. You have ordered 5th May shipping - what do you expect days before that day? Of course they are mining on this machines.
Dont you realize you are in cryptocurrency world? When I set the price and term Im going to mine to the last minute.
In my case I was selling S1 and S2 - when somebody ordered that I unplug that machine and went to post office as late afternoon as the post office is open.

FYI: I do have DHL tracking numbers now. Its 5AM in my country and seems like after 9AM in China the packing list was printed. DHL says: Friday, May 05, 2017 at 09:49 Shipment information received

[Longsnowsm]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

"Testing"

"Quality control, burn in TESTING"... They have to make sure you don't get a miner that is DOA, or gonna fail on you in say 30-60 days with bad hash boards...  

[bearsworth]

I had Fedex and got my tracking for the May 5th miners, just wanted to let you guys know, don't believe the rumors .

[kurbeks]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

"Testing"

I dont thing they are holding anything in this case. You have ordered 5th May shipping - what do you expect days before that day? Of course they are mining on this machines.
Dont you realize you are in cryptocurrency world? When I set the price and term Im going to mine to the last minute.
In my case I was selling S1 and S2 - when somebody ordered that I unplug that machine and went to post office as late afternoon as the post office is open.

FYI: I do have DHL tracking numbers now. Its 5AM in my country and seems like after 9AM in China the packing list was printed. DHL says: Friday, May 05, 2017 at 09:49 Shipment information received

Problem is they are manufactuer and they are selling "NEW" machines not used S1,S2.

[tw0rak]

why are they holding the shipping?

They be mining, nice profits right now.

"Testing"

I dont thing they are holding anything in this case. You have ordered 5th May shipping - what do you expect days before that day? Of course they are mining on this machines.
Dont you realize you are in cryptocurrency world? When I set the price and term Im going to mine to the last minute.
In my case I was selling S1 and S2 - when somebody ordered that I unplug that machine and went to post office as late afternoon as the post office is open.

FYI: I do have DHL tracking numbers now. Its 5AM in my country and seems like after 9AM in China the packing list was printed. DHL says: Friday, May 05, 2017 at 09:49 Shipment information received

Problem is they are manufactuer and they are selling "NEW" machines not used S1,S2.

I dont know if youre new in mining but EVERY miner i got directly from Bitmain in 3Y history was full of dust.
NEW means - w/ warranty.

[FlensGold]

I dont know if youre new in mining but EVERY miner i got directly from Bitmain in 3Y history was full of dust.
NEW means - w/ warranty.

That must be some kind of very bad luck. I can not say the same, most of them seemed at least to be new (I bought hundreds of them) except those declared as being used.
Of course it is possible that they mined with them and cleaned them afterwards, but I never had dust on units sold as "new".

[tw0rak]

I dont know if youre new in mining but EVERY miner i got directly from Bitmain in 3Y history was full of dust.
NEW means - w/ warranty.

That must be some kind of very bad luck. I can not say the same, most of them seemed at least to be new (I bought hundreds of them) except those declared as being used.
Of course it is possible that they mined with them and cleaned them afterwards, but I never had dust on units sold as "new".

tbh I don't mind, cos all of the miners I've got from them works till sold. Knock knock

[naron]

I also got shipping alerts for the May 5th L3+ miners. My orders were picked up by UPS and now are in transit with scheduled delivery in Monday. A bit of a surprise from Bitmaintech.

[freehat]

https://i.imgur.com/Ed5VkcO.jpg

Pleasantly surprised.. Mine actually shipped out Wednesday afternoon China time (Fedex) and arrived without issue east coast US this morning by 10am. So far so good - works as described, no obvious signs of use/abuse.

[ilostmyface]

Pleasantly surprised.. Mine actually shipped out Wednesday afternoon China time (Fedex) and arrived without issue east coast US this morning by 10am. So far so good - works as described, no obvious signs of use/abuse.

Very good. How is the noise level? I ran a few s1s back when and was tolerable in my office. Hope the dB isn't to bad.

[lestherat]

Pleasantly surprised.. Mine actually shipped out Wednesday afternoon China time (Fedex) and arrived without issue east coast US this morning by 10am. So far so good - works as described, no obvious signs of use/abuse.

Congrats for your miner,  thanks for sharing this info and the pic, it gives me a lot of confidence now, thinking of buying 4 more   

With Ltc at this price, total ROI in 2 months, not bad  

[Searing]

Pleasantly surprised.. Mine actually shipped out Wednesday afternoon China time (Fedex) and arrived without issue east coast US this morning by 10am. So far so good - works as described, no obvious signs of use/abuse.

Ditto.....thou missed the cut..2 Friday...Last 2 on Monday

The 2 today..plug and play ..so far...running at average of 505mh....I like the fact they are NO DRAMA (so far anyway)

Now KNC Titans you needed a Voodoo for Dummies book....a black mass....and a 5-gallon bucket of Acme Chicken Entrails for them to 'think' about not bricking themselves and run

(and preferably a class 10 8gb SD card)

[usao]

Did I hear these can work wireless? Is that something you add on after the purchase or something you have to request directly from Bitmain at the time of order?
Also interested in hearing about noise level... I know these boys require decent cooling, wondering if the fans are up to the task...

[FlensGold]

Did I hear these can work wireless? Is that something you add on after the purchase or something you have to request directly from Bitmain at the time of order?
Also interested in hearing about noise level... I know these boys require decent cooling, wondering if the fans are up to the task...

The miner itself does not support wlan in the web interface, there is only eth0.

Regarding the noise, it is much louder than the L3, but not as noisy as the A4 Dominators.

[tw0rak]

Pleasantly surprised.. Mine actually shipped out Wednesday afternoon China time (Fedex) and arrived without issue east coast US this morning by 10am. So far so good - works as described, no obvious signs of use/abuse.

What is that IP report button for?

[HagssFIN]

What is that IP report button for?

See chapter 4 here: https://shop.bitmain.com/files/download/Antminer%20S7%20user%20guide.pdf

This is a S7 manual, but same thing with IP Reporter goes for the L3/L3+.

[QuintLeo]

but be aware difficulty is going up big time due to bitmain kicking out units like toasters..thus use a calc like

So anyway difficulty has gone up 100% on LTC in last month.thus any static machine in the barn you own is now making 1/2 the coin

 On the other hand, there is no miner more efficient than the L3/L3+ right now, so folks will STOP buying them when they get to be low-enough profitability.

 Also, Litecoin price has kicked up about 6 times in the same timeframe that the difficulty has doubled - and Bitmain seems to be having the same "limit of chip availability" issues with the L3/L3+ that they've shown with the various S9/T9/R4 batches limiting HOW MANY they can make, which should keep the difficulty increases somewhat in check for a while.

 For reference, my A2 farm is MORE profitable right now by a wide margin than at any other time since I bought the things except for about a 1 day period right before the last diff jump - despite the massive increase in diff since the Innosilicon A4 was first introduced. Gonna take a major Litecoin price drop and/or a LOT more of a diff jump before the A2 gets to be unprofitable, much less the Titan A4s or L3/L3+ units.