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Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 140. (Read 710164 times)

sr. member
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Is it me or does the USD shipping price continue to increase as the bitcoin price drops?  I figure the shipping price is now excluded from the entire cost and will continue to be so to adjust for the difference in cost of the equipment as the BTC price fluctuates.
legendary
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sr. member
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perfect thank you.

  try using freq 212.5  see if you get the hw to drop.  you are correct those numbers suck.  I have had my hand s on 20 s-3's  I have had 3 dog's so to speak nothing made them better above 212.5,  but all 3 of them ran  decently with freq 212.50 or freq 206.25


Seems like the HW errors are directly related to the 'x' on one of the chips in Miner Status. Once the chip gets X-ed the HW errors stop increasing. This is at 212. I will also try a bit lower and a bit higher and wait for that chip to be thrown out of the pool.
legendary
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A humble Siberian miner
S3 firmware containing cgminer 4.6.1 has a issue with one of the config pages (preventing you from modifying the "Miner Configuration" page) in certain browsers (due to XML error)

Bitmain may simply fix this in the firmware so it may be worth the wait.

Donations: 19UCaVUvJ7kamCU2zdBioTgjFSUxmaqp3H
Bitmain can fix it (and apologize for any inconvenience), but it looks that they will not. For example, they definetly can provide us with new S2 firmware, but they have no intension to do that, as we can see...

To clarify:

1) Download the updated firmware from: https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633
2) SSH/Putty into S3
...

Do you mean "Download and flash..."?  Wink
legendary
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A humble Siberian miner
what is the recommended PSU for a S3 ?

can i buy 1 PSU 1000 watts and connect 2 S3 together?

Sure. But it depends on what exactly will you buy.  Wink
newbie
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what is the recommended PSU for a S3 ?

can i buy 1 PSU 1000 watts and connect 2 S3 together?

I just started S3 mining and went though similar PSU choice issues, in the end i went with 1:1      1 psu per 1 S3.

To give me some flexibility I went with a FSP Raider 750 Watt 80 plus Silver PSU, it has 4 6/8 pin pcie connectors so I can fill all the S3 power connectors,
apparently this allows you to overclock and keeps the unit slightly cooler per given freq.

Secondly, it has a common 12 V rail giving 60 amps which is more than enough for an S3 and allows the PSU to run at around 50% capacity which has an efficiency over 90%.

One thing I have noticed with some Gold modular psu's is they have multiple 12 V rails and may add up to 700-800 watts but only deliver 18 amps (per rail),
 if you power you S3 with one connector per side from a rail like this you are going to have trouble as an S3 needs 24-30 amps depending on who you read.

With lots of PSU's it does chew up more space and power points but you don't have a single point of failure and your not running your PSU at 90-100 % capacity.

Good luck with your PSU hunting.
sr. member
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To clarify:

1) Download the updated firmware from: https://bitmaintech.com/support.htm?pid=007201407180243004432lBQW28O0633
2) SSH/Putty into S3
3) Paste the code in below.. Will replace Save&Apply with Save&Apply.

Code:
sed -i 's/Save\&Apply/Save\&Apply/g' /usr/lib/lua/luci/model/cbi/cgminer/cgminer.lua
4) Execute the following code
Code:
/etc/init.d/cgminer restart




Much Appreciated!!
legendary
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what is the recommended PSU for a S3 ?

can i buy 1 PSU 1000 watts and connect 2 S3 together?

It will be fine as long as you don't overclock.

Why not overclock?  Please explain.

newbie
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what is the recommended PSU for a S3 ?

can i buy 1 PSU 1000 watts and connect 2 S3 together?

It will be fine as long as you don't overclock.
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
So you mean something like this:

This is before the Firmware update ... Now it's not that different

perfect thank you.

  try using freq 212.5  see if you get the hw to drop.  you are correct those numbers suck.  I have had my hand s on 20 s-3's  I have had 3 dog's so to speak nothing made them better above 212.5,  but all 3 of them ran  decently with freq 212.50 or freq 206.25
newbie
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what is the recommended PSU for a S3 ?

can i buy 1 PSU 1000 watts and connect 2 S3 together?
sr. member
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So you mean something like this:

This is before the Firmware update ... Now it's not that different
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
@aclass

Reduce frequency or possibly change PSU.

How high is too high?

S3 with latest FW
High as in the ballpark of accepted high.(currently 101 HW and 206 Accepted) Not an OC issue as its high at that level as well. Tried to UC with the same result. Temps are at 35 and 39.

I'll try with another PSU tomorrow but this one is a 1200W gold with all 4 sockets full on the S3


 You wasting time as your description is not adequate please show a screen shot like this.  If you can't do a screen shot. list all this info

Elapsed :   Please wait more then 3 hours
GH/s(5s) :
GH/S(avg):
Accepted:
HW:
DiffA:
DiffR:

Frequency:
Frequency:
Fan:
Fan:
Temp:
Temp:

We can then tell if you have a lot of hw .  3 hours min for a reading is needed.

legendary
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@aclass

What is your temps and frequency?


temp 35 and 40. Frequency is 237 right now but just for a test. On the default the HW are even more.


I  had the same issue till i started using http:whatever + this firmware seemed to help a lot i was getting lot of  HW error more at defaults then i  updated CGminer and the firmware it help a lot, to day lone on the closed cover S3 after the 7 hours at defaults I  hit 10 HW errors with no rejects but i all so used some of the above stuff  it helped on top of the new update.
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@aclass

What is your temps and frequency?


temp 35 and 40. Frequency is 237 right now but just for a test. On the default the HW are even more.
legendary
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@aclass

Reduce frequency or possibly change PSU.

How high is too high?

S3 with latest FW
High as in the ballpark of accepted high. Not an OC issue as its high at that level as well. Tried to UC with the same result. Temps are at 35 and 39.

I'll try with another PSU tomorrow but this one is a 1200W gold with all 4 sockets full on the S3


try this to it might help mine with  http:whatever not with stratum+tcp just to see if that helps any
 set D=1024 as your pw no x or PW it should let you mine  and set /#xnsub after the url port #

and /#xnsub  seems to work with CGminer now lets me use CGMiner with that in the  URL after the port number.
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@aclass

What is your temps and frequency?
sr. member
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@aclass

Reduce frequency or possibly change PSU.

How high is too high?

S3 with latest FW
High as in the ballpark of accepted high.(currently 101 HW and 206 Accepted) Not an OC issue as its high at that level as well. Tried to UC with the same result. Temps are at 35 and 39.

I'll try with another PSU tomorrow but this one is a 1200W gold with all 4 sockets full on the S3
legendary
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Anyone know if you can get the fans to sync?

Doesn't make sense in a push/pull config to have one fan running at a different speed than the other.



wish i could figure out how to make both show up with the upgrade and sync them as well .
legendary
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@toptek

Unless you have fan pointing on S3, removing the cover may do more harm than good. Point of cover is to force air through heatsink fins.


OK,  i removed it once it seemed ok . but then again i also push pull the fans. then why does the upgrade run better in open air over the closed one . well any way some thing he can try to see .


so ILL reword it take off the cover and run some fans on the  S3 blades .I can give all  kinds of advice you can try but the main one lower the OC  to start, to see. then go with a new  PSU . I won't give much advice on OCing other then don't unless you know what your doing .
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