ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Azmodeus]

All my S1's and S3's reconnect automatically, they always ping and look for connection by themselves.
You have something wrong, bad internet maybe ?

I'm not sure what's going on. I have a S1 still and I don't have to unplug it or anything. Just the S3's. As soon as i unplug the ethernet and plug back in they are fine again for awhile. What gives?

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[Biodom]

Found out why one of my units was not hashing and having X's on the chips. Paste was everywhere on the inside. Even the screws holding the heat sink on had thermal paste on them.
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Messy paste wont effect anything but poor cooling, unless your units are overheating, that's not the problem

His look far better than mine did... lol.  I had paste on the chips, on the pcb, on the connectors... everywhere.

correct me if i am wrong, but if others suggest that paste is there to provide a thermal connection between a chip and a heat sink, then with heat sink sitting on the top of the chips in s3, I don't see how it could be done by anything other than having paste on the top of the chips (but not necessarily on connectors, I get that).

not sure what you are asking there...

are there other ways to have a thermal connection between chip and heat sink? sure, you can buy thermal pads. search ebay. youll see in the specs that they are massively electrically resistant. need 1000's of volts to make them conduct. Same goes for thermal paste. Its very unlikely that swimming in thermal paste (even on connectors) would cause any problem at all...

yep, but the OP said that cleaning paste improved his machine. If what you are saying is 100% correct about swimming in thermal paste not causing any problems, then why his S3 was improved by removing excess and reapplying some? I just want to understand and from what I heard here, it seems that paste should be on the top of the chip in S3.

[bobsav2121]

Do you have in on a static IP with DHCP enabled ?

[Lowell904]

Need some setup help with networking.

My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1

I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?

[Lowell904]

While I'm waiting fora truly to help me out.

I received my 2 S3s from batch 1 today.  I had ups hold it until I came to pick them up so I wouldn't have to worry about them being left by the door. It was no extra charge.

They did get held up a while in China,  and I also had 3 different customs notifications.

The boxes did not say "bitcoin miner" on them but we also don't pay an import tax here.

[jamesc760]

Need some setup help with networking.

My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1

I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?

Easy thing would be to set your laptop ip address to 192.168.1.222 and then connect it directly to the S3.

[jamesc760]

So, I had the brilliant idea to re-flash the firmware on my low hashing S3. After re-flash, my S3 is now hashing at 442.54 GHs, stock frequecy of 218.75. What the hell?

[bjalbert]

Looks like 1 of 3 is a winner:


Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out. My other 2 can either hit 440 - 450

[jamesc760]

If your S3 is not performing at 440 GHs, may be worth a shot to re-flash it.

Download the firmware here:

https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/antMiner_S320140711.bin

[Biodom]

Looks like 1 of 3 is a winner:


Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out.

you have 25 times more discarded shares than accepted. I am not sure that it means anything, though.

[Lowell904]

Need some setup help with networking.

My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1

I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?

Easy thing would be to set your laptop ip address to 192.168.1.222 and then connect it directly to the S3.

Thanks for the reply.  Did that and I'm connected now.  How do I set it up so I can connect it to the modem and mine?

I'm connect via laptop right now but it isn't mining.  What else needs to be set?

[contactlight]

Looks like 1 of 3 is a winner:


Just play with each setting and leave it for a few hours these S3s take a while to even out.

you have 25 times more discarded shares than accepted. I am not sure that it means anything, though.

Can someone clarify if that means anything? That's the case for me as well and I'm not even running it overclocked.

[bobsav2121]

Need some setup help with networking.

My router is on 192.168.0 instead of the .1

I have an s1 setup on the wifi running fine, but when I try to connect the s3 to the router then try to connect to it with my laptop it won't connect. What should I do?

Easy thing would be to set your laptop ip address to 192.168.1.222 and then connect it directly to the S3.

Agree that will do it 

[halcy0n3]

yep, but the OP said that cleaning paste improved his machine. If what you are saying is 100% correct about swimming in thermal paste not causing any problems, then why his S3 was improved by removing excess and reapplying some? I just want to understand and from what I heard here, it seems that paste should be on the top of the chip in S3.

should be on top of any chip

I just cleaned the excess off one board on a massively under performing s3 to see if it made a difference. nope

[sjc1490]

If your S3 is not performing at 440 GHs, may be worth a shot to re-flash it.

Download the firmware here:

https://bitmaintech.com/files/download/antMiner_S320140711.bin

Dude way to go, so simple I should have thought of that instead of playing around with the different freq's. I had one struggling to keep 420 re-flashed and it is pulling between 450 and 460 on the 218 freq. Somebody buy this man a beer.

[whonesta]

Time to do my happy dance!!

My S3's from Batch 1 just arrived....now to go to work and get them up and running

Congrats now you will make 8usd per s3,money well spent huh?

That's $7.83 btw - .50 for electric = $7.33/Day (for now). I spent $430.55 (0.69225BTC after 7.7% refund, not received yet) for 1 S3 miner. Raw math puts ROI @ < 60Days, BUT.. we all know difficulty will have an affect. Averaging difficulty increases @ 10% stretches ROI (including electricity) to 83-85 Days, with a NET profit of .10BTC within 100 Days. .1 / .69225 = 14% PROFIT in 100 Days, anything out there doing that legit? Outside of cash cropping in a few states I think NOT!!

I will grant you too many more 20% jumps and that whole theory goes out the door, but even if it went 365 to make 14% that is better than ANYWHERE for a < $500 in.

[Biodom]

Time to do my happy dance!!

My S3's from Batch 1 just arrived....now to go to work and get them up and running

Congrats now you will make 8usd per s3,money well spent huh?

That's $7.83 btw - .50 for electric = $7.33/Day (for now). I spent $430.55 (0.69225BTC after 7.7% refund, not received yet) for 1 S3 miner. Raw math puts ROI @ < 60Days, BUT.. we all know difficulty will have an affect. Averaging difficulty increases @ 10% stretches ROI (including electricity) to 83-85 Days, with a NET profit of .10BTC within 100 Days. .1 / .69225 = 14% PROFIT in 100 Days, anything out there doing that legit? Outside of cash cropping in a few states I think NOT!!

wow, interesting, this is exactly what I hit in 100d on S1 (on average). they must have some formula to predict this.
14% in 100 days is 60% a year. Don't tell me you get this on the stock market or pretty much anything else.

[allcoinminer]

I placed order in the first 5 minutes of S3 B1 release.
But still waiting for delivery. Look at the below image.
Its not a customs issue but due to the invoice/label/declaration from bitmaintech.

[Lowell904]

Having trouble setting up a static connection. My gateway is 192.168.0.1 but antminer is on 192.168.1.131 now that I changed it but it won't connect when I connect it to the router.  

I see that I needed to have router ip in the wan settings on the miner. I changed that bit is still not connecting.  

What am I missing?  Should I change the miner ip to 192.168.0.131 to being it on board with the router?

[whonesta]

Time to do my happy dance!!

My S3's from Batch 1 just arrived....now to go to work and get them up and running

Congrats now you will make 8usd per s3,money well spent huh?

That's $7.83 btw - .50 for electric = $7.33/Day (for now). I spent $430.55 (0.69225BTC after 7.7% refund, not received yet) for 1 S3 miner. Raw math puts ROI @ < 60Days, BUT.. we all know difficulty will have an affect. Averaging difficulty increases @ 10% stretches ROI (including electricity) to 83-85 Days, with a NET profit of .10BTC within 100 Days. .1 / .69225 = 14% PROFIT in 100 Days, anything out there doing that legit? Outside of cash cropping in a few states I think NOT!!

wow, interesting, this is exactly what I hit in 100d on S1 (on average). they must have some formula to predict this.
14% in 100 days is 60% a year. Don't tell me you hit this on the stock market on anything else.

I would say BitMain is well aware of our margins, I am tracking everything in a spreadsheet (IRS) for S1, S2, S3..  they all seem to be on that mark, S1's early appearance really gave it the edge. My first S1 I paid 1.9BTC ($1554.96) ran it for 180 days and then sold it on ebay, net was $634.61 / $1554.96 = 41% Net profit. My first S2 is @ day 129 and is currently $1012.95 in the black, other 2- S2's are 64 days in and @ 49% ROI. SP10's are 63 days in and @ 37% ROI ;(

Just like the market you have to hedge your bets, keep your eye on the future offerings, and get IT while you can! Basically I have watched this grow from a $1500 hobby into a 30K small business. Bitmain is helping me keep that going by NOT raping every nickel of value out of their offerings.