ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Biodom]

Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically slowly purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.

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[luckypyrate]

Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.

Yep me 2.  If you don't mind me asking, who do you mine with?

[Biodom]

Why mining can be sweet when the price is right:

My six antminer S3 at home produce roughly 1BTC/mo right now, but use just $180 in electricity (after heating savings).
The bottom line is that I am basically purchasing BTC at less than half the price plus they already produced more than I bought them for initially.
Looking forward to S5.

Yep me 2.  If you don't mind me asking, who do you mine with?

you mean pool? I usually rotate among the usual suspects with the exception of ghash.

[aarons6]

why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.

[luckypyrate]

Are you cloud hashing or something? 

[Biodom]

why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.

Why is this relevant? If you are mining in a pool everything gets shared. Even if your miner hits a block, the block would not be given to you.
This is the flop side of pool mining. If you want to mine a block with a reasonable expectation -have enough hashing power and mine solo.
Still, variance can ruin your day.

[aarons6]

why do some s3s work harder then others?

so on my pool it states how big of shares peoples workers submit and when they hit a block.

on my s3s the biggest shares are usually around 30 billion and most of the times its under 10 billion.. sometimes its even in the 100s of thousands


on my pool tho, it seems there are workers that often always hit the shares in the trillions..

there are also workers that get 2 or 3 blocks a month.. while mine have never even gotten close..


is there a trick? like assigning the same worker to more then one s3?

currently my s3s all have their own worker on the pool.

i know that some workers arent all s3s, but i know most are.

Why is this relevant? If you are mining in a pool everything gets shared. Even if your miner hits a block, the block would not be given to you.
This is the flop side of pool mining. If you want to mine a block with a reasonable expectation -have enough hashing power and mine solo.
Still, variance can ruin your day.

i know i get paid the same no matter what.. i was just wondering why some users seem to have better s3s then me lol..

[IITravel01]

Well, changing frequency to default does not fix the new firmware problem.  Woke up this morning and 3 of the 6 S3+'s are running at under 50Gh/s.  Hope they fix this problem quickly.

[luckypyrate]

I day dream about going solo once and a while  but I am not sure how to go about it with my antminers.  Or more specifically, I am not clear on how to make the payout go to my multi bit wallet and not bitcoin-qt.

[davecoin]

Well, changing frequency to default does not fix the new firmware problem.  Woke up this morning and 3 of the 6 S3+'s are running at under 50Gh/s.  Hope they fix this problem quickly.

Did you try reverting to an older firmware?

[bruno033]

I day dream about going solo once and a while  but I am not sure how to go about it with my antminers.  Or more specifically, I am not clear on how to make the payout go to my multi bit wallet and not bitcoin-qt.

You can do solo mining via offered services too, such ashttp://solo.ckpool.org/

[bruno033]

Well, changing frequency to default does not fix the new firmware problem.  Woke up this morning and 3 of the 6 S3+'s are running at under 50Gh/s.  Hope they fix this problem quickly.

after several test I still had the same problem so I reinstalled the firmware antMiner_S320140811.bin and for the moment it is 4:40
NAME     Uptime          GH/s(5s)    GH/s(avg)  block   HWE%
S3.75   0d 4h 41m 38s   479,61   504,71   0   0.0012%   

[luckypyrate]

When I flashed new firmware I noticed double digit hash rates and increase in HW errors.  I alerted bitmaintech and they told me to remover clock settings and reapply the firmware.  Did you try reinstalling firmware after reverting settings?

[bruno033]

When I flashed new firmware I noticed double digit hash rates and increase in HW errors.  I alerted bitmaintech and they told me to remover clock settings and reapply the firmware.  Did you try reinstalling firmware after reverting settings?

yes I think I have tried everything and still the problem after 6 hours of work down 60GH / S, so as bitmain has not solved the beug I'll stay on the firmware antMiner_S320140811.bin

[luckypyrate]

Yes that is what I inevitably did as well.  I am sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

[bruno033]

Yes that is what I inevitably did as well.  I am sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

 

[jackbox]

Revert to 10/24 firmware until Bitmain can resolve the issues with the new firmware.

[Nite]

I'm only mining on 1 S3 so far, so only around $65 a month I am getting, but gotta start somewhere, I'm working on getting a second one soon.

the first 1 or 2 miners take a while to pay off but once you start going for 3+ its gets faster and faster.

[siampumpkin]

I'm only mining on 1 S3 so far, so only around $65 a month I am getting

If you don't mind sharing can you tell me where you are mining that makes you $65 a month?

Thanks.

[Biodom]

I'm only mining on 1 S3 so far, so only around $65 a month I am getting

If you don't mind sharing can you tell me where you are mining that makes you $65 a month?

Thanks.

he/she is getting $65, not MAKING $65, unless at a college dorm or in zero electricity cost apartment.