* * *UK Customs charge = £145 * * * (Cheaper than expected)
1. Unpacked my S2, removed cover, reseated all cards most of which had disengaged from there ports.
2. Using my own power cable plugged unit in.
3. Connected unit to router.
4. Powered unit on.
5. No display showing.
6. Checked ribbon cable, main control card loose still. Reseated.
7. Switched unit back on.
8. Display now shows current IP address e.c.t
9. Configured miner pools as required.
10. All Ok.
11. 4 days later, temp never exceeded 51 degrees.
4 day average @ 1030GH/S
Total setup time: 30 minutes.
Downtime in 96 hours: 0 minutes.
So all good in my S2 experience so far!
My PSU is pulling around 920Watts from the wall.
Topic: ANTMINER S2 Discussion and Support Thread - page 140. (Read 355842 times)
labeled for shipping on the 10th but didnt actually begin shipping until the 13th, arrived on the 17th & took just over a day to sort out the few issues.
over-priced & poor logistics & dying/dead PSU & dodgy internal ether 'pigtail' all add up to yet another sub-par delivery that could easily have shipped from stock and there was NO NEED for claiming it would ship by the 10th other than to justify the price tag.
Especially when there is already a 3rd incarnation of the rig (with the PSU inlet facing the outside with a nice big hole in the side) unlike mine which has the PSU hanging out the arse like a grotty hemorrhoid.
Still wondering why i can only access certain areas of the GUI while mining.... Miner Config & Miner Status remain unattainable.
over-priced & poor logistics & dying/dead PSU & dodgy internal ether 'pigtail' all add up to yet another sub-par delivery that could easily have shipped from stock and there was NO NEED for claiming it would ship by the 10th other than to justify the price tag.
Especially when there is already a 3rd incarnation of the rig (with the PSU inlet facing the outside with a nice big hole in the side) unlike mine which has the PSU hanging out the arse like a grotty hemorrhoid.
Still wondering why i can only access certain areas of the GUI while mining.... Miner Config & Miner Status remain unattainable.
Hi,
Is anyone having issues accessing S2 units through a VPN?
I have two installations behind two different VPNs and cannot access any S2. Other machines behind the VPN are accessible and the machines are accessible when I am directly connected to the network. These are batch 1 and batch 2 machines.
Cheers
Is anyone having issues accessing S2 units through a VPN?
I have two installations behind two different VPNs and cannot access any S2. Other machines behind the VPN are accessible and the machines are accessible when I am directly connected to the network. These are batch 1 and batch 2 machines.
Cheers
Both good posts, and i appreciate the info regarding other suppliers/manufacturers.
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
i'm shifting everything from the office room into my old man's garage today, i guess part of the fun is drilling holes in walls, setting up rig space and configuring stuff, but we all know that mining has moved to a different fork (see what I did there?) altogether now but I don't mind staying part of the game... i rant on about it being just a hobby but when these rigs are draining way to much power than is feasible in a short term environment, i know it's time to switch off. i've a box-full of 130nm that i intend to keep, just to heat different parts of my home in the winter-time - gets bloody cold here. good thing is my mum has now caught the bug and wants to start mining (we did a 3-way split on a babyjet+upgrade last year - still to be delivered/refunded/acknowledgement that we even exist), so while i'm moving stuff today, i'll probably get her to click my referral links and bump up the TH/s's
what the heck - i'll pay her my referral fees to cover her first few month electric. If i can get my dad interested, we could just fill the garage with rigging (ahem- from a range of hardware manufacturers)
Skoda, lada...?
Are you in Balkans somewhere?
Both good posts, and i appreciate the info regarding other suppliers/manufacturers.
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
i'm shifting everything from the office room into my old man's garage today, i guess part of the fun is drilling holes in walls, setting up rig space and configuring stuff, but we all know that mining has moved to a different fork (see what I did there?) altogether now but I don't mind staying part of the game... i rant on about it being just a hobby but when these rigs are draining way to much power than is feasible in a short term environment, i know it's time to switch off. i've a box-full of 130nm that i intend to keep, just to heat different parts of my home in the winter-time - gets bloody cold here. good thing is my mum has now caught the bug and wants to start mining (we did a 3-way split on a babyjet+upgrade last year - still to be delivered/refunded/acknowledgement that we even exist), so while i'm moving stuff today, i'll probably get her to click my referral links and bump up the TH/s's
what the heck - i'll pay her my referral fees to cover her first few month electric. If i can get my dad interested, we could just fill the garage with rigging (ahem- from a range of hardware manufacturers) 
For what it´s worth, you can get 1th bitmine clones delivered within 3 days for 2400 to 2500, same power efficiency as S2.
Did you guys receive them just now? "shipping before 10th April...."?
If so, the pricetag wasn´t justified at all....
Did you guys receive them just now? "shipping before 10th April...."?
If so, the pricetag wasn´t justified at all....
Mine sort-of "shipped" on the 10th and I received it on the 15th. It was hashing within an hour.
BTW, the pricetag in BTC depended a lot on when you ordered it, because the BTC exchange rate was dropping pretty fast during the sales period and the sales price was fixed in dollars. I ordered early and paid 5.6 BTC. Later orders paid a lot more.
For what it´s worth, you can get 1th bitmine clones delivered within 3 days for 2400 to 2500, same power efficiency as S2.
Did you guys receive them just now? "shipping before 10th April...."?
If so, the pricetag wasn´t justified at all....
Did you guys receive them just now? "shipping before 10th April...."?
If so, the pricetag wasn´t justified at all....
Both good posts, and i appreciate the info regarding other suppliers/manufacturers.
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
S1's are ok, if a bit variable - i have 3-4 different modles and they all behave ever so slightly differently.
now my S2 is running i really like it. Bitmain has claimed he will send a replacement PSU tomorrow 'powerful enough for an S2'
but in all frankness, NONE of these rigs are going to make anyone 'much' of a profit, even if they DO ship from stock immediately.
those days are gone, and the very few who did well back then must be in hysterics watching us muppets chasing chump change.
let us not all devour each other & hope for the best.
I remain on the fence wrt spondoolies, with much interest - but who wouldn't love 5TH right now??
10TH today are needed for 'just' 1BTC per day...
August is a couple of lifetimes away wrt looming difficulty & my breakers are almost fkn glowing!
as I said before (without any ulterior motive) i was pleased when you managed to get hashing with your S2.
I got hashing (right at 1.0 TH) with the complex and time consuming process of plugging it and and entering the pool configuration.
There are definitely some design problems here, and I've said so on this thread, but at the same time, I think you have a lot of squeaky wheels, and some unknown, but I suspect quite large, number of people who perfectly satisfied with the product and therefore relatively silent.
raskul bruv, i think your mixing up posts.
quite obviously they havent gone 'tits up' just yet.
like i said, i am genuinely interested in spondoolie rigs but you must be aware of peoples concerns especially wrt company accountability and the immense amount of difficulty increases already upon us.
and i really enjoyed my lada back in the day.
it was bought from stock with no pre-order bullshit , no excuses and legal immunity for the seller if it arrived late/never or blew up etc.
you seem a sensible chap, how about a bit of balance?
quite obviously they havent gone 'tits up' just yet.
like i said, i am genuinely interested in spondoolie rigs but you must be aware of peoples concerns especially wrt company accountability and the immense amount of difficulty increases already upon us.
and i really enjoyed my lada back in the day.
it was bought from stock with no pre-order bullshit , no excuses and legal immunity for the seller if it arrived late/never or blew up etc.
you seem a sensible chap, how about a bit of balance?
sorry, i'll do my best mate, but... aye you are probably right, thing is, i do get concerned about folks getting 3rd rate equipment and as I said before (without any ulterior motive) i was pleased when you managed to get hashing with your S2. I admit, perhaps i've been a bit gung ho in showing off my new rig and i'll stop now. I do, for assurance sake, however, buy my mining gear from as much of a spread of manufacturers as I can, although my old 130nm stuff is now switched off and in a box, i still run my BFL pair and my Block Erupter cubes... so i'm not exclusive to one company. I like to look at my rig and see a mix-mash of different bits, it's all part of the fun, right?
And I bought Skoda, so i suppose i've got no place to take the piss.
sorry if my post seemed untoward, i'll chill. peace.
ADD: to keep on topic, i still rate the S1's - although i don't have one, i have a mate who does and from what i seen, was quite impressed.
have this company gone tits-up yet?
You're better than this! Trying to get more people into your group buy perhaps?
I'm somewhat stunned by this also.
while i am genuinely interested in the spondoolie rigs, the marketing strategies are quite unsettling.
it was a legitimate question!!!???
and since when was I on the payroll for spondoolies? fuck sake you lot really are hard at it with the conspiracy theories.
here's what I see,,, a shit load of rigs that don't work properly. I remember a company called Lada that used to make cars...
nevermind.
Lada is still tthe best to have fun on gravel.
have this company gone tits-up yet?
You're better than this! Trying to get more people into your group buy perhaps?
I'm somewhat stunned by this also.
while i am genuinely interested in the spondoolie rigs, the marketing strategies are quite unsettling.
it was a legitimate question!!!???
and since when was I on the payroll for spondoolies? fuck sake you lot really are hard at it with the conspiracy theories.
here's what I see,,, a shit load of rigs that don't work properly. I remember a company called Lada that used to make cars...
ADD: I think you'll find I run enough businesses to be bothered about marketing ASICS;
www.rgspix.com
www.stockpix.org
www.stockpix.eu
www.thescribe.eu
and I also work in a local care home as activities co-ordinator.
i'm just a forum member like the rest of you!
ADD2: the link in my sig is not for the GB being ran by roadstress, it's just an affiliate link that any customer of theirs can request.
have this company gone tits-up yet?
You're better than this! Trying to get more people into your group buy perhaps?
have this company gone tits-up yet?
I'm just getting tired of refreshing their website whenever I can several times a day. I know B3 will last 5 minutes and I will miss out.
Unless they price it well below $3/GHs, they're not sold out ever
I had a similar issue with S2 power supply just shutting down at will every few hours or so. After replacing the *power cord* with a thicker heavier duty one, it has not yet shutdown after running for 24+ hours.
I would guess this is a common problem. Since they don't ship with correct power cords for the US (and ?), people will use whatever they have around, which often will not be a 1+ KW power cord.
Exactly my thought, and exactly what I did. I just picked up the nearest power cord without thinking too much about it (until I started having power supply issues that is). I'd encourage S2 owners to try the cheaper solution first before replacing the entire power supply. After all, you can get a heavy duty power cord for almost nothing.
Let me explain to the noobs.
Bitmain S2's PSU are for Chinese market.... which mean its supposed to run on 240v. So the power cable gauge is higher (thinner wires).
For 110-120v, you need at least 14awg.... , 16awg is pushing it. And i believe 1000w on 240v only needs 18awg (which seems like the included cable).
Do they have any plans for batch3 at all?
I love that Bitmain actually ships their products... you know... when they say they are going to. I just wish they interacted with the community a bit more... its a shame
.They used to be more involved with the forum. It seems to be the pattern for every hardware developer... post a lot on the forum and then slowly disappear when things get complicated... KNC, the Bitfury guys, HF, etc. Heck, even going back to Avalon, BFL and ASICMiner. Spondoolies are still in their honeymoon phase and post almost every day. Let's watch and see if that changes too.
i noticed that too..
I wonder who's next to have their "honeymoon" phase as you say lol..
I'm putting my money on Nonce-tech
Do they have any plans for batch3 at all?
I love that Bitmain actually ships their products... you know... when they say they are going to. I just wish they interacted with the community a bit more... its a shame
.They used to be more involved with the forum. It seems to be the pattern for every hardware developer... post a lot on the forum and then slowly disappear when things get complicated... KNC, the Bitfury guys, HF, etc. Heck, even going back to Avalon, BFL and ASICMiner. Spondoolies are still in their honeymoon phase and post almost every day. Let's watch and see if that changes too.
I'm just getting tired of refreshing their website whenever I can several times a day. I know B3 will last 5 minutes and I will miss out.
Do they have any plans for batch3 at all?
I love that Bitmain actually ships their products... you know... when they say they are going to. I just wish they interacted with the community a bit more... its a shame
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