dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
August 24, 2014, 05:37:29 AM |
|
I plan on overclocking soon, but I have a question first. I'm powering my ant with one 8 to 6+2 pin and one 8 to 6+2 + 6+2 "L" cable (8 pin goes to 6+2, and that goes to another 6+2). Should I use this to overclock? Or is the the L cable essentially the same thing as the regular cable? And if you are going to overclock, don't you need 4, since the miner has 2 boards (two per board, even power distribution?) Thanks.
The L cable will nearly be as good as 2x 6 pins, but the 8 to 6 pin will be worse than a normal 6 pin due to the increased cable length and additional connectors. Its not about even power distribution when overclocking, its about keeping cable temperatures low and safe.
|
|
|
|
00pmac00
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 59
Merit: 0
|
|
August 25, 2014, 02:51:20 PM |
|
Hi. A couple of questions for the S3 and difficulty...
What is the difference from using a lower difficulty 64 or a higher difficulty 256 or 512 in earnings or whatever?
Where do you adjust/see what the difficulty is? Or does it do it automatically?
Thanks in advance. I have been wondering this for a while, figured this would be a good place to ask since I am using an S3
|
|
|
|
mdiggy
Member
Offline
Activity: 102
Merit: 10
|
|
August 26, 2014, 12:41:10 AM |
|
Hi Dogie, Got my SP30 today and cant connect to the web interface. I'm using 10.0.1.X and have tried plugging the miner directly into my computer as well. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
|
|
|
|
dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
August 26, 2014, 03:03:48 AM |
|
Hi Dogie, Got my SP30 today and cant connect to the web interface. I'm using 10.0.1.X and have tried plugging the miner directly into my computer as well. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
This is the S3 thread If you can hear the machine revving fans to max every few minutes then at least we know its 'waiting' for you somewhere, as it will restart after a few minutes of not mining. If not then something may be wrong. It should have shipped on DHCP, so you may have to contact Zvisha otherwise. I'm not sure what could have gone wrong because they don't really go wrong.
|
|
|
|
dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
August 26, 2014, 03:05:41 AM |
|
Hi. A couple of questions for the S3 and difficulty...
What is the difference from using a lower difficulty 64 or a higher difficulty 256 or 512 in earnings or whatever?
Where do you adjust/see what the difficulty is? Or does it do it automatically?
Thanks in advance. I have been wondering this for a while, figured this would be a good place to ask since I am using an S3
Lower difficulty = slightly more stable earnings but more network bandwidth and more work for the pool to do. Difficulty is set pool side and a lot of pools now are moving to auto difficulty so you don't get an option.
|
|
|
|
00pmac00
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 59
Merit: 0
|
|
August 26, 2014, 03:54:21 AM |
|
Thank you for the reply.
|
|
|
|
|
dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
August 27, 2014, 10:24:57 AM |
|
Difficulty will make very little difference, I generally whack it up a bit higher than required. Its a bit small for 2 OC'ed but would do it on stock. You'd have no headroom.
|
|
|
|
|
Count_Frackula
|
|
August 29, 2014, 08:02:26 PM |
|
Has anyone tried sticking Kano's S1 CGminer on an S3 yet? If so, does it work? I'm debating about trying it tonight...
|
|
|
|
dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
August 29, 2014, 08:13:04 PM |
|
I recommend CX750s on everything.
|
|
|
|
|D0C|
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 10
Merit: 0
|
|
August 30, 2014, 08:03:10 AM |
|
Do you guys have a link where you buy the wifi antenna? or the name of the plug? its coaxial but way smaller???
Thank you!
|
|
|
|
Beastlymac
|
|
August 30, 2014, 08:33:17 AM |
|
Do you guys have a link where you buy the wifi antenna? or the name of the plug? its coaxial but way smaller???
Thank you!
It is possible if you have some extra hardware. It has the software for wifi already and just needs one of the below to work. I was getting a wireless connection during testing without a pigtail. Signal strength was ~50% with the case on and right beside my WAP. You can also do what laptops and other devices do and use an INTERNAL antenna, too. Like this one: There are many different kinds, just do a search for internal antenna. Does anyone know what the enclosure is made of? It looks like steel, so that could be a problem. If you have a strong signal, it might just be enough to use for mining though. Having the antenna glued/taped to the enclosure will probably help a lot (partially use the enclosure as an antenna?). Otherwise you could always route that cable to the outside and tape the antenna to the side or something. Someone has to try and let us know if that's even necessary. I think an internal antenna would be easier than drilling holes, installing the connector and then a protruding antenna. Btw, I use WiFi on all my S1's just to save on cables and switches/access points, and never had an issue with network connectivity. They are pigtail adapters http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-WIFI-Antenna-with-Pigtail/dp/B005TX3GE0
|
Message me if you have any problems
|
|
|
|
dogie (OP)
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1666
Merit: 1185
dogiecoin.com
|
|
September 08, 2014, 06:00:19 PM |
|
Hello all.... new to this forum though I've been active in bitcoin for about 6 months.
I'm contemplating the purchase of a few of these S3 miners, and I'm just wondering if anyone has tried using this power supply to run them:
I do realize that it probably won't be sufficient to OC but seems like it should work fine at stock speed.
Any thoughts?
I haven't personally, but the real cost is finding the cabling.
|
|
|
|
|
Count_Frackula
|
|
September 08, 2014, 08:02:31 PM |
|
Looks like it's been revised to this: 1. SSH into the S3 and login 2. Issue the following commands sequentially. cd /usr/bin mv cgminer cgminer.bak wget http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/antminer/s3/4.6.0-140908/cgminer chmod +x cgminer reboot Thanks for the info.
|
|
|
|
|
rpandassociates
|
|
September 10, 2014, 05:07:13 PM |
|
Anyone have any info on how to solomine via a qt wallet with the antminer s3? I want to mine NEOS through the neos qt wallet I have tried connecting to http://127.0.0.1:18000/ and http://localhost:18000/ and direct ip of computer wallet is on i.e. http://192.168.1.2:18000 and all show as dead, however when i connect with my butterfly 50 which is on the usb of the comp with the wallet it conects. so if anyone can point me in the direction of how to get the antminer s3 to connect that would be awesome.
|
|
|
|
Count_Frackula
|
|
September 10, 2014, 05:10:04 PM |
|
Anyone have any info on how to solomine via a qt wallet with the antminer s3? I want to mine NEOS through the neos qt wallet I have tried connecting to http://127.0.0.1:18000/ and http://localhost:18000/ and direct ip of computer wallet is on i.e. http://192.168.1.2:18000 and all show as dead, however when i connect with my butterfly 50 which is on the usb of the comp with the wallet it conects. so if anyone can point me in the direction of how to get the antminer s3 to connect that would be awesome. Well, firstly, localhost and 127.0.0.1 is the unit itself, so if you use that on a S3, you're telling a S3 to mine to itself. If 192.168.1.2 is indeed your machine's actual IP (which doesn't sound right), then it's quite possibly a firewall issue.
|
|
|
|
|