ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[jonnybravo0311]

Why are you folks in the USA picking UPS over DHL? DHL is way better at handling customs. I ordered a bunch of Zeusminer stuff (half of it was free because of their crazy coupons but you still had to pay the shipping) and it always came through DHL like in less than 48 hours from China to my crib. DHL also lets you pre-sign if you are not around.

I would always pick DHL if possible when shipping from China if you are in the USA.

We weren't given an option, Bitmain just shipped them with UPS.

Actually, you are.  After you create your order, go to your account page on Bitmain and click the orders link, then click the "edit" link for your order.  You can choose your carrier there.

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[CryptoGuy]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

This is probably the easiest solution on the market right now. If you look through the last 4-5 pages you will see a lot of recommendations for power supplies. It's really easy to setup and there are plenty of write ups on how to set them up and configure them.

[denniscdunbar]

Prolimatech PK-3 Nano Aluminium Thermal

-High Thermal Conductivity
-Low Thermal Resistance
-Long-Term Stability
-Low Dry-Out
-Non-CorrosiveElectrically
-Non-Conductive
-No "burn-in" time required



Would anyone recommend this paste?  I would like to clean and replace thermal paste.  What size would I need to do 2 AntMiner s3's


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DoubleDD

[ftoole]

Got the refund this morning BEFORE the physical delivery of the B3's (American Customs and UPS are screwing me violently in the arse). Might (doubtful) show up tomorrow.

Picked my 5 Batch 3 S3's up at UPS today. My A/C went out today will be out till tomorrow. Also 1 of the 5 isn't hashing in my 30 min test.

[jimmyoh]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

I think that no matter how you go about it you're almost guaranteed to have problems. That's just how it is. But maybe your best bet would be to start by reading Doggie's Guide (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=702653.0).

[dankefoss]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

Same situation with me. If you can research, you can figure it out. I just got my first two miners today (B3) and set them up. It took me a while to figure that out. As for what power supplies and how to get them running without a motherboard, go to YouTube and search. I found everything there. I am using the EVGA SuperNOVA 650G1 650W ATX12V Power Supply 120-G1-0650-XR, two of them. Right now I plan to just use one per miner. I could do one and a half though I think. With these power supplies, they have the plug to turn on the PSUs without a motherboard, but I also ordered some female plugs and pins and will make my own simple bridge.

Frankly, just buying Bitcoin was as hard as setting these miners up and figuring out what all I needed.

[philipma1957]

Has anyone with a batch 4 had their edit option removed?

I went to the  bitmaintech site and batch 4 is gone no longer reads sold out.

I went to my order page and the little edit from my order 4 is gone.

this sometimes means the order will ship.  It is 12 noon tues in china I wonder if my  batch 4 order is shipping today?

If true I think I could get it by august 1st friday or monday the 4th. I am very hopeful that others have some news.

Once my order comes in for batch 4 I may order 2 more for batch 5

[tss]

got the end of batch 3 today.  also received my refund today.  units are hashing at 439 each. 

anyone have a coupon they DON'T plan on using?   pm me.  thanks

[CryptoGuy]

Prolimatech PK-3 Nano Aluminium Thermal

-High Thermal Conductivity
-Low Thermal Resistance
-Long-Term Stability
-Low Dry-Out
-Non-CorrosiveElectrically
-Non-Conductive
-No "burn-in" time required



Would anyone recommend this paste?  I would like to clean and replace thermal paste.  What size would I need to do 2 AntMiner s3's


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DoubleDD

I would think this should be enough for one S3

http://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Silver-5-Thermal-Compound/dp/B0002EQU6C/

Or if you have more than 2 you probably want this one

http://www.amazon.com/Arctic-Silver-Large-Size-gram/dp/B001JYVFLY/

[jpchrist]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

From what I see, I think the Antminer ISN'T USER FRIENDLY.
The fact I have to jump through numerous hoops, doing multiple steps before I ever even start to mine btc,
means I likely wouldn't make it to that point, and I just end up with a black box with some fans on it and no mining,
and wasted my money and time, without support locally to help me get the thing mining bitcoins.

Therefore, I can pay somewhat for shipping me an Antminer, so I could learn to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay for one.

So, if anyone has an Antminer they can send me, I will pay for the shipping after it arrives, and you just let me know what BTC address to pay btc to and how much.

If I can get the thing mining bitcoins for me, then I might buy one but not if I am uncertain about going through all those steps.


Basically what I am saying is, that you send me the Antminer, and then if I can get it mining bitcoins,
then I pay you for the antminer.
I think its backwards for me to have to pay for something I dont even know if it will mine bitcoins for me because its not user friendly, and I have to pay in advance for that? I wont do it.
You send me the Antminer, and I will pay you later on if it is working to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay if it isnt.



How about if I send you a black box, with a couple little fans included, and you pay me $400 in advance for it?( and it doesnt mine bitcoins, so it just sits in the corner collecting dust until the next garbage day pickup)

Dude, they are insanely easy to use.  Its not bitmains fault youre a complete idiot.

[Sitarow]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

From what I see, I think the Antminer ISN'T USER FRIENDLY.
The fact I have to jump through numerous hoops, doing multiple steps before I ever even start to mine btc,
means I likely wouldn't make it to that point, and I just end up with a black box with some fans on it and no mining,
and wasted my money and time, without support locally to help me get the thing mining bitcoins.

Therefore, I can pay somewhat for shipping me an Antminer, so I could learn to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay for one.

So, if anyone has an Antminer they can send me, I will pay for the shipping after it arrives, and you just let me know what BTC address to pay btc to and how much.

If I can get the thing mining bitcoins for me, then I might buy one but not if I am uncertain about going through all those steps.


Basically what I am saying is, that you send me the Antminer, and then if I can get it mining bitcoins,
then I pay you for the antminer.
I think its backwards for me to have to pay for something I dont even know if it will mine bitcoins for me because its not user friendly, and I have to pay in advance for that? I wont do it.
You send me the Antminer, and I will pay you later on if it is working to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay if it isnt.



How about if I send you a black box, with a couple little fans included, and you pay me $400 in advance for it?( and it doesnt mine bitcoins, so it just sits in the corner collecting dust until the next garbage day pickup)

Dude, they are insanely easy to use.  Its not bitmains fault youre a complete idiot.

In case you missed it. I have updated the speculative hardware return.



Here is a link to the shared document for you to review. I keep it updated and try to add comments to FAQ in the fields.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmeuPljmUNHCdEpqX2RmMDFwemJyLURVUWFtZ3J3aGc&usp=sharing

[9600]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

From what I see, I think the Antminer ISN'T USER FRIENDLY.
The fact I have to jump through numerous hoops, doing multiple steps before I ever even start to mine btc,
means I likely wouldn't make it to that point, and I just end up with a black box with some fans on it and no mining,
and wasted my money and time, without support locally to help me get the thing mining bitcoins.

Therefore, I can pay somewhat for shipping me an Antminer, so I could learn to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay for one.

So, if anyone has an Antminer they can send me, I will pay for the shipping after it arrives, and you just let me know what BTC address to pay btc to and how much.

If I can get the thing mining bitcoins for me, then I might buy one but not if I am uncertain about going through all those steps.


Basically what I am saying is, that you send me the Antminer, and then if I can get it mining bitcoins,
then I pay you for the antminer.
I think its backwards for me to have to pay for something I dont even know if it will mine bitcoins for me because its not user friendly, and I have to pay in advance for that? I wont do it.
You send me the Antminer, and I will pay you later on if it is working to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay if it isnt.



How about if I send you a black box, with a couple little fans included, and you pay me $400 in advance for it?( and it doesnt mine bitcoins, so it just sits in the corner collecting dust until the next garbage day pickup)

Dude, they are insanely easy to use.  Its not bitmains fault youre a complete idiot.

Go buy some Rboxes and hook them up to your laptop with Multiminer. You probably already have a windows PC and you CAN use AC adapters/wall-warts for power. You won't make any profit mind you, but you'll be mining BTC and its about as "user friendly" as this industry gets. Use it as a learning experience and buy some real hardware after you learn how to navigate the landscape.

http://www.amazon.com/RockMiner-R-BOX-SHA-256-Miner-ASICMiner/dp/B00KLQHSM6

[9600]

I have been looking at the explanations about how to get the S3 antminer mining bitcoins.


Bear in mind, I haven't mined at all yet, and I also am not really familiar with electronics and messing around
with power supply and such.(it doesn't come ready to mine, but I would have to get power supply stuff myself and do some kind of paper clip electrical trick etc..)

To be honest, the explanations seem fairly daunting, with room for errors being many possibilities because
of so many steps involved in getting the S3 mining bitcoins.


What do you think? Is buying an S3 Antminer a good idea for me,

or do you think I will encounter problems in one of the many steps involved, and never actually get to the point where I am ever mining bitcoins?

From what I see, I think the Antminer ISN'T USER FRIENDLY.
The fact I have to jump through numerous hoops, doing multiple steps before I ever even start to mine btc,
means I likely wouldn't make it to that point, and I just end up with a black box with some fans on it and no mining,
and wasted my money and time, without support locally to help me get the thing mining bitcoins.

Therefore, I can pay somewhat for shipping me an Antminer, so I could learn to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay for one.

So, if anyone has an Antminer they can send me, I will pay for the shipping after it arrives, and you just let me know what BTC address to pay btc to and how much.

If I can get the thing mining bitcoins for me, then I might buy one but not if I am uncertain about going through all those steps.


Basically what I am saying is, that you send me the Antminer, and then if I can get it mining bitcoins,
then I pay you for the antminer.
I think its backwards for me to have to pay for something I dont even know if it will mine bitcoins for me because its not user friendly, and I have to pay in advance for that? I wont do it.
You send me the Antminer, and I will pay you later on if it is working to mine bitcoins, but I wont pay if it isnt.



How about if I send you a black box, with a couple little fans included, and you pay me $400 in advance for it?( and it doesnt mine bitcoins, so it just sits in the corner collecting dust until the next garbage day pickup)

Dude, they are insanely easy to use.  Its not bitmains fault youre a complete idiot.

Go buy some Rboxes and hook them up to your laptop with Multiminer. You probably already have a windows PC and you CAN use AC adapters/wall-warts for power. You won't make any profit mind you, but you'll be mining BTC and its about as "user friendly" as this industry gets. Use it as a learning experience and buy some real hardware after you learn how to navigate the landscape.

http://www.amazon.com/RockMiner-R-BOX-SHA-256-Miner-ASICMiner/dp/B00KLQHSM6

if there isn't any profit, then i wont buy it.

but if you have these worthless miners sitting around, before you thrown them in the garbage,
I might pay for shipping if you send me one, as long as I can get it working to mine bitcoins, but if
not, then i wont pay for anything.

I think you may not realize it, but there are people involved in bitcoin who dont want other people mining bitcoin,
so they do all kinds of stuff to try and prevent other people from mining bitcoin because that is competition,
so its impossible to really mine bitcoin as far as I can tell

While I agree there is SOME subterfuge in the community. WHAT are you talking about with worthless miners and garbage nonsense? Impossible to mine BTC?
Not sure if troll... 

[Collider]

@bitbets
The S3 is one of the easiest to use products.

You can complain when you need to build cgminer from source and patch it in order for your stuff to work, but not about going into a webinterface and changing the ip of the unit.

This has to be done for any networked miner, so I am not sure why you think it is especially difficult.

[9600]

You can complain when you need to build cgminer from source and patch it in order for your stuff to work

Cough. Cough. Coincraft TH miners. Cough.

[Collider]

Have any of you ever considered teaching a course about 'how to mine bitcoins with such and such hardware' ?
not on the internet, I mean, in person teaching, and making sure that the student can actually do it, and
has replicated classroom work at home.

No, because the average miner isn´t a thick (American) person unable to read a manual and / or search this forum to find the atleast two detailed setup guides.

[9600]

@bitbets
The S3 is one of the easiest to use products.

You can complain when you need to build cgminer from source and patch it in order for your stuff to work, but not about going into a webinterface and changing the ip of the unit.

This has to be done for any networked miner, so I am not sure why you think it is especially difficult.

Have any of you ever considered teaching a course about 'how to mine bitcoins with such and such hardware' ?
not on the internet, I mean, in person teaching, and making sure that the student can actually do it, and
has replicated classroom work at home.
That would be an interesting course, I would pay for it. But I would want a teacher who would actually come right over to my house to make sure I was doing it right at home too(that would be part of the final mark perhaps? )

Thats a money making idea, i think. Hey you could even give out certificates to people,
so they could then be called CERTIFIED BITCOIN MINER.

I need a course to teach me how to become a CERTIFIED BITCOIN MINER

Your idea has some merit as it would help to improve the miner image. We're generally considered a pretty inaccessible group of curmudgeons who hoard and dump. The class would have to include the cost of hardware, time, etc, so it would certainly cut into the ROI of any student who wasn't looking to get invested with at least a few thousand USD.

Otherwise there is no way the instructor would profit from his/her services while ensuring ROI for the students. 

[Collider]

No, because the average miner isn´t a thick (American) person unable to read a manual and / or search this forum to find the atleast two detailed setup guides.

learning on the internet is only partial learning, its not complete. that is only the reading/video part of training.
There has to be hands on training, with guidance from someone who is more experienced, else the training is lacking

Are you being deliberately stupid?

You don´t need hands on training to setting up a PC, do you?
Did you take a course on how to connect your router to the internet?

Hands on training to use a washing machine? (Hint, most ppl are okay with a manual).

Setting up an Antminer is actually much easier, so quit your whining.

[ZiG]

Have any of you ever considered teaching a course about 'how to mine bitcoins with such and such hardware' ?
not on the internet, I mean, in person teaching, and making sure that the student can actually do it, and
has replicated classroom work at home.

No, because the average miner isn´t a thick (American) person unable to read a manual and / or search this forum to find the atleast two detailed setup guides.

learning on the internet is only partial learning, its not complete. that is only the reading/video part of training.
There has to be hands on training, with guidance from someone who is more experienced, else the training is lacking

...and when you poop...do you want somebody to hold your hand to wipe your ass...

You are completely retarded...Just shut up, buddy...

Cheers,

ZiG

[Sitarow]

@bitbets
The S3 is one of the easiest to use products.

You can complain when you need to build cgminer from source and patch it in order for your stuff to work, but not about going into a webinterface and changing the ip of the unit.

This has to be done for any networked miner, so I am not sure why you think it is especially difficult.

Have any of you ever considered teaching a course about 'how to mine bitcoins with such and such hardware' ?
not on the internet, I mean, in person teaching, and making sure that the student can actually do it, and
has replicated classroom work at home.
That would be an interesting course, I would pay for it. But I would want a teacher who would actually come right over to my house to make sure I was doing it right at home too(that would be part of the final mark perhaps? )

Thats a money making idea, i think. Hey you could even give out certificates to people,
so they could then be called CERTIFIED BITCOIN MINER.

I need a course to teach me how to become a CERTIFIED BITCOIN MINER

Your idea has some merit as it would help to improve the miner image. We're generally considered a pretty inaccessible group of curmudgeons who hoard and dump. The class would have to include the cost of hardware, time, etc, so it would certainly cut into the ROI of any student who wasn't looking to get invested with at least a few thousand USD.

Otherwise there is no way the instructor would profit from his/her services while ensuring ROI for the students.  

Just wanted to jump in and express that not all students want to make ROI or profit as far as mining is concerned. There are a range of reasons for people to get involved. I prefer to work with people who are sincerely interested to know what this technology is about and expose them to the existing "beneficial" and potential future usage.