ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread

[Agaguk24]

S7 is pretty expensive though; are the s5 still available?

[notlist3d]

S7 is pretty expensive though; are the s5 still available?

Not new they would all be used and secondary markets I believe.   The S7 and S5 are quite different miners I would agree with that.

And pricing shows this.  Just depends on your electricity price on what I would buy.

[Agaguk24]

Electricity is pretty affordabe where I live, but will an S5 still be efficient at 8 cents a kilowatt? I really lik the efficiency of the S7 but I'm not ready to commit such a large amount towars an S7

[Sweminer777]

Electricity is pretty affordabe where I live, but will an S5 still be efficient at 8 cents a kilowatt? I really lik the efficiency of the S7 but I'm not ready to commit such a large amount towars an S7

i don't know, s5 might be more suitable, s7 is still very very expensive .

[rkinnin]

folks,

help me to recall what a "stock" s3+ will, on average, generate for pooled btc per day and per month for that matter?

thanks.

[kano]

folks,

help me to recall what a "stock" s3+ will, on average, generate for pooled btc per day and per month for that matter?

thanks.

Well, it changes (almost always goes down) every 2 weeks ...
Also the pool you mine at will affect what you get paid ...
Most pools should be around 99.x% - fee
Though Eligius is lower than a lot of them.

[grn]

folks,

help me to recall what a "stock" s3+ will, on average, generate for pooled btc per day and per month for that matter?

thanks.

at 100% luck and 453ghs = .004 BTC/Day

[aarons6]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

[VirosaGITS]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Good, i guess i can get my hand on some dirt cheap S3's just about now, then.

[aarons6]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Good, i guess i can get my hand on some dirt cheap S3's just about now, then.

ive already bought one for 40$.

im sure they will get cheaper.

[VirosaGITS]

That price is pretty tasty. I'd be inclined to even buy from the US at that price and have it shipped to Canada. But i see S3 kits being sold for 0.3 btc so it's probably worth still 60-80$ at this moment.

[kano]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Hmm that's good
I pay 9c but that's is Aus$ so with the $ exchange rate that's 6.3c (at the current exchange rate)
(I also only mine 9hrs a day, the rest of the day it's a LOT more than 9c - it's 29c and 50c)

[VirosaGITS]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Hmm that's good
I pay 9c but that's is Aus$ so with the $ exchange rate that's 6.3c (at the current exchange rate)
(I also only mine 9hrs a day, the rest of the day it's a LOT more than 9c - it's 29c and 50c)

Wow that's some crazy varying rate. No wonder you keep it small. I guess running a pool is your best bet at decent income. First time i see such crazy rates.

[kano]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Hmm that's good
I pay 9c but that's is Aus$ so with the $ exchange rate that's 6.3c (at the current exchange rate)
(I also only mine 9hrs a day, the rest of the day it's a LOT more than 9c - it's 29c and 50c)

Wow that's some crazy varying rate. No wonder you keep it small. I guess running a pool is your best bet at decent income. First time i see such crazy rates.

Decent?

[VirosaGITS]

it looks like we are just a couple of diff increases from the s3s being useless with anyone over .08 cents /KWH power cost.

Hmm that's good
I pay 9c but that's is Aus$ so with the $ exchange rate that's 6.3c (at the current exchange rate)
(I also only mine 9hrs a day, the rest of the day it's a LOT more than 9c - it's 29c and 50c)

Wow that's some crazy varying rate. No wonder you keep it small. I guess running a pool is your best bet at decent income. First time i see such crazy rates.

Decent?

Yeah, sure, decent. Your personal time consumption aside, it must be an efficient hardware cost/electricity cost to revenue ratio.
13.5Th/s is not a whole lot but its not negligible either.

[kano]

No.

[VirosaGITS]

No.

No? As in "No i lose money over this and i do it only out of good will." Kind of no? How come? This should easily run on a server hosted in a affordable datacenter. The monthly cost would be be minimal compared to 14THs commission.

[kano]

No.

No? As in "No i lose money over this and i do it only out of good will." Kind of no? How come? This should easily run on a server hosted in a affordable datacenter. The monthly cost would be be minimal compared to 14THs commission.

Minimal?
Currently it's about half my fee ... which is also very low

In the future it could be better, but over the past few months ... no.

Look in the blockchain - Aug I got ... 3.65BTC in pool fees (yes -ck gets some of the fee also - that's my part of it - but I pay for everything)
This month the fee total will be lower.

Not sure what some might consider a good datacenter and a good powered server to run a pool, but monthly server fees are not small unless you are running crap or someone else is paying for it.

A miner is now pretty much a set and forget item.
I know, I've had many different miners over the years, and I write and test the software that runs on lots of them
-ck and I wrote a lot of the software in most of the miners running on the planet ...

A pool is more than a full time job.
Some may think my time is worth nothing ... I don't ... but I don't expect a lot (and don't get a lot) for the very large amount of time I spend on Bitcoin.

[VirosaGITS]

No.

No? As in "No i lose money over this and i do it only out of good will." Kind of no? How come? This should easily run on a server hosted in a affordable datacenter. The monthly cost would be be minimal compared to 14THs commission.

Minimal?
Currently it's about half my fee ... which is also very low

In the future it could be better, but over the past few months ... no.

Look in the blockchain - Aug I got ... 3.65BTC in pool fees (yes -ck gets some of the fee also - that's my part of it - but I pay for everything)
This month the fee total will be lower.

Not sure what some might consider a good datacenter and a good powered server to run a pool, but monthly server fees are not small unless you are running crap or someone else is paying for it.

A miner is now pretty much a set and forget item.
I know, I've had many different miners over the years, and I write and test the software that runs on lots of them
-ck and I wrote a lot of the software in most of the miners running on the planet ...

A pool is more than a full time job.
Some may think my time is worth nothing ... I don't ... but I don't expect a lot (and don't get a lot) for the very large amount of time I spend on Bitcoin.

Not sure what specs you need but my friend pays 40$ per month to host his industrial grade server in the US. He has /27, 10tb band, 1gb ethernet. He pays the same for his Supermicro E3-1230v2 server. I wonder where your 400$ premium goes. Do you need 10 of those?

[rymar]

Hello everyone!

Have a problem with S3! 8 miners knocked out of mining. All eight are connected to the Internet (yellow LED lights, blinking green); at 6 6 have two diodes constant light (red and green) at the same time, one S3 has a blinking connection diodes ONLY, and one is blinking green LED (+ connection).

Miners were overloaded (in the menu/OS adjust) then reinstalled on defult and then again regained their settings - nothing helped. Does not give any sign, only blinking ethernet connection.

Here are screens - work schedule (I dont understand what they show, maybe someone can!) and the status of the miners.

Can anyone tell what is the problem ?!

http://www.fotolink.su/v.php?id=1f7b0763eb2de17bc75dc043815606ce
http://www.fotolink.su/v.php?id=9e5eb7b6c15282de30ca83fd12f1dfd5