Topic: Antminer L3 - 250mh - 400watt Scrypt miner coming soon - page 19. (Read 137420 times)

Be still my heart...then of course you know if LTC pumps to $25 bucks in the next 2 days...bitmain will find a 'firmware problem' again and 'safely'
mine your unit for 4-6 weeks till corrected (prays for ltc pump AFTER unit arrives and is up)

Shipping labels for May batch have been created, I can already see my order in UPS. Most probably they will be shipped within the next 24-48h.

I purchased a l3 waaay back on april 3rd, since that got pushed back i supposedly got switched to an l3+ but other than that its still been, "ill keep you updated", may 5th has been the day of reckoning and its been slowly coming along. Im just waiting for the promise i was given that "customers who ordered l3's and got shafted get priority orders for extra l3+ orders cause i want at least one more ive been waiting so damn long.
(edit) So I bought from Eastshore and apparently they didnt get any april/may batch of L3+ or i just didnt order 100 so i got put into the july batch for an L3 i ordered beginning of april, Im out 1700$ for like a month now and will continue till july just to get shipped, buying asic is as tricky as this forum preaches about.

April batch has already been delivered. I received mine last week.

But wasn't there a late April batch also, before the May 5th batch? Those should have been delivered by now.
Did anyone get one?

To make things even more confusing it looks like there are like 3 batches in July.  I know there was a July 15th, and like 2 batches of July 20-30th ship dates.  Or something like that.  Too many July batches to keep straight.  I think we are on like batch 3 of July batches based on when they were posted on Bitmain.

You get those mails about package picking short time after your order. It does not say anything about the shipment. I already got mine for July shipment

I'm waiting for the tracking number. May batch.
I do just have email about package picking.

The proper questions are:

Did anyone who purchased from April batch not get a tracking number yet?
Did anyone who purchased from May 5 batch get a tracking number yet?

Did anyone get the L3+ rigs or is Bitmain holding on to them and not shipping?
I heard there was a batch in April, then May 10th, then July 20th.
Wondering if they are actually shipping or not.

The ability to reimage one of these controllers is the problem I have right now.  I pinged Bitmain to find out if I can remimage the card from the SD card on the board and they told me that is not supported.  So I have to send the controller back to them.  Please let me know if you know how to reimage one of these.  I suspect my controller is probably fine, but the image has somehow gotten corrupted.  Otherwise it will have to go out to Bitmain.  Let us know what you come up with. 

The Wifi thing is interesting.  I would like to know how this is done also.  Would provide a lot more flexibility in my miner placement.   

That's an interesting tidbit about L3+ on Wifi, curious to know what kind of success you have.

i know this is a bit late but i mine about 9 ltc a day with 4 l3+'s and 1 5 cube titan at coinotron. the 5 cube titan is missing 1 cube because the pci-e connector blew out so im working on getting that fixed when i get some free time during the weekend. the titan is mining at 320mh/s for the time being so i would say in or about 1.5-2 ltc per day with the l3+ with variations depending on pps and what pool you use not to mention fees and so on.

i had to reboot one of the miners after running for almost 5 days....one of the boards showed all x's but that miner runs cool at 58 degrees c -62 degrees c per board so after a quick reboot everything was back to normal. i noticed before i rebooted it when the miner does this the hashrate listed on the main page is weird. for example it showed the AVG hasrate at 450mh/s (i underclock this one because of the noise like i said before) but the RT column showed 1.5xxxxx and the x's are random numbers. coinotron reported it mining at 370mh/s so maybe the board issue comes from some interface error after running for a long period of time? maybe an "auto reboot every few days" option  would be a good thing to have but so far i dont consider this "issue" much of an issue. if the temps were high i would but i think bitmain did it right this timeby spreading the hashrate over 4 boards instead of cramming a ton of chips onto 3 boards. there is a huge temp difference between the s9 and l3+ and that cant all be due to the difference in coin being mined. i honestly hope they implement this 4 board design into their future btc miners to give them a bit more room to breathe....it feels like it would reduce the number of failures others have had and that its way more forgiving temp wise since they run at such low temps to begin with.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention my l3+'s came with a beaglebone controller again....not the controller bitmain made to replace the beaglebone on the newer gen s9's. this is cool mainly because it means if you have your own full fledged beaglebone controller with a working usb and controller for the tx and power (bitmain uses bare bones beablebone blacks with no usb and other components to save money on making them) we should be able to use a wifi dongle again! right now im using tp-link external wifi ap's that need 5v power (the internal controller is the same as the one used on old avalon miners) which is a pain because i need a long usb cable and a pwer brick for the tp link controller but if you use the beaglebone with usb and a compatible wifi dongle you should be able to connect up to wifi networks just fine. I havent ever flashed a beaglebone black or backed up the image so if anyone has the bitmain firmware image (not the upgrade package but the full firmware image) i can flash one of mine an see if wifi works on it and report back. i dont suggest using wifi unless you need to and for 2 of the miners i would need to run wifi so i dont have long ethernet cables running accross the room.

@naron

I would say most likely The IP address of the miner has changed or is not what you think it is.
Do a ipscan of your network and find the miners ip address and then log into that.
Or log into your router and look in the device table and try to find it.

Good Luck 
 

My faulty hashboard came a week ago from repair and the whole process took 3 weeks from the time I send it and cost me $90 at all (Thank's for the help with shipping for Deep In The Mines LLC). However, the next problem was appeared with my L3. For a few days I can not log in to the miner ( ip address doesn't answer ), so I can not change the settings and monitor it through my local network. I tried the power cycle of the miner and the router. I disconnected power from controller and hashboards but it didn't help. Miner still hashing but the only way to monitor it is from the pool site. I did not try hard reset because I'm afraid if it is a problem with the controller then I wont have the ability to change the default settings later. Any suggestions, if it's either software or hardware problem.

Most likely just faking it, that they fixed antbleed.

Only appears to correct Antbleed, so I have not tried to update my L3's.  I made the hostname change to address the issue and declared it fixed.  

Looks like the antbleed patch:

Has anyone tried a new firmware for L3?

https://shop.bitmain.com/support.htm?pid=00720170427061423393MzhoyF8d06F6

***  Foxminers LLC If someone buys this miner without a well-known and trusted Forum User 1st getting one for doing a review and posting it here then well, you have been warned ***

Is well documented as a scam in the BTC hardware section and very-on going to say the least.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/scam-foxminers-1879542

You want real damning? They plagiarized the data sheet for SFARADS old dual miner chip released in Feb-March of 2014. Side-by-side comp of the SFARAD data sheet and the fake one from Foxminers
https://draftable.com/compare/hYFmXGvTJdxh

'nuff said