Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 168. (Read 710164 times)

Is there a fairly simple way to create a redirect stratum address, perhaps one that is on an internal computer on my network, that I could point multiple AntMiners to. 

The point being to easily change the mining pool address, worker, password, and difficulty, at just one place, and all miners would then switch to the new address?

Or if there is an easier way, is there a way to mass update settings on a multiple AntMiners all at once? 

Many thanks!

Strato

Just now have both S3's back up and running with their original boards.  The fast fan good board from the good S3, I should note the hashing boards had QC Passed stickers the later S3 from Florida didn't.  The good board with a fast fan from the good unit which brought its fast fan rate to the questionable unit when moved yesterday, I took apart and reapplied new thermal compound.  I found the temperature sensing IC to be in the center between the two rows of ASICs, an LM75A.  So running lines of compound along the top ASICs and again along the bottom but not the center wold tend to prevent the heatsink from cooling the device and result in faster fan rates.  The surface mount device below the fan connection and above the upper left ASIC is a 25.000 crystal.  This good board had excellent compound.  Only worked on one of the two as I've run out of compound.  Of the board I put back in the questionable unit, I cleaned the ASIC pins but ran out of cleaning fluid so reassembled with new paste.  The fan to the questionable board still remains relatively slow.  I'd like to see that higher.  I'll wait to see how these settle out then upgrade the firmware.

The good board from the good S3 not only had a QC sticker but also had handwriting on the right side of the board between the ASICs, an "A" and another "A" or perhaps one was an A1.  The questionable board had what looked like an "S" and a lower case "o".  These letters were vertical after the fashion of oriental script.

The power supply (corsair rm850) I bought to run the 2 s3+ I ordered comes with 3x 8 pin to 6+2 pin pci-e cables and I obviously need 4. I do have an 6 pin to 6+2 pin pci-e cable from an old psu, can I use that as the 4th cable? As far as I can tell from the pinouts below it should work but i'm not sure.



edit: I mean connect the 6+2 pin on the psu side and the 6 pin on the s3 side?

The Corsair SP120 is a good fan for the inlet, but there's no way I would remove the outlet fan entirely.  I think that's just pushing things too much, hence the high temps.  With an SP120 inlet and something like a Thermalright TR-TY143 on the outlet (only £6.99 from Amazon UK), you'll get those temps down, whilst keeping things nice and quiet at the same time.

One of my S3 got bricked during firmware update, browser just crashed randomly. How do I fix it?

Disappointment.  The problem board now in a good S3 this morning is down to 431.45GH/s after 22 hours.  Will swap boards to their originating S3's today and upgrade beyond the OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r38031 / LuCI Trunk (svn-r9909) firmware. 

The "OpenWrt Barrier ..." FW is the OE supplied version (pre-installed on most of my used S3s), not sure when the break took place.  I switched to Aug 7 as I checked them out, and most recently to Aug 26 plus the 4.6.0 CGminer.  Don't know what to say regarding green LED behavior, can't say I've taken note of it except to verify the S3s were communicating.  In my home LAN experience, a normal LAN connection displays a frequently blinking green LED.

Both S3+'s have the Aug 26 but both the S3's have OpenWrt Barrier Breaker r38031 / LuCI Trunk (svn-r9909) and although the two S3's have that identically they have different green LED functionality.

S3 GUI Status/Overview shows the firmware version.  2nd is Aug 7 and 3rd (S3+) is Aug 26.

Thanks fellows, the unexpectedly lengthy delay on my third payout (not at all predicted by the page stats) just left me wondering if something was off.  If this is typical of the pool, that's fine, this is me learning !

PS. Wow!  That KNC influence is pretty impressive -- yeesh!

FWIW -- I'm running CX750Ms using all four S3 PCI-E ports fed by two PCI-E cables (connectors closest the PSU) and two Molex cables (connectors closest the PSU) with dual Molex to PCI-E adapters.  An order for a used CX750M resulted in delivery of a CX750 (since returned).  I compared the two supplies on a single S3.  The CX750 has four individual PCI-E cables and so the comparison was between those four and my usual CX750M hookup.  The CX750M resulted in higher HASH numbers than the CX750 -- I'll stay with the Modular thanks !

 

Interesting.  The problem hashing board now in my first S3 is working fine and very stable.  I just found there is a difference between my first well running S3 and the S3 that the problem board came out of, and that's is a different firmware on each.  I haven't found a way to determine while ssh'd in, e.g. opkg list | grep antMiner comes up a blank.  But, bruno033 pointed me to the firmware page and I see there the 0721.bin has a solid green light when running.  The first S3 from the mid-west has that.    When I saw that the S3 from Florida had a flashing green light when hashing I though I probably configured it differently than the first.  But it must mean the S3 I got from Florida has the 0711.bin firmware because the other later options are the 0811.bin and the 0826.bin, both of which will have the Advanced Frequency change option on the miner configuration page.  So, the questionable board is very stable at this point in the S3 having the 0721.bin firmware.  Time will tell if it remains at 441 overnight as the humidity rises, e.g. right now the rh is 30%.

soy

lol, my package with 2x s3+ batch 9 WAS in the Netherlands but somehow went to freakin Belgium! FU DHL*



* On a positive note: since DHL wouldn't have delivered it before monday anyway i'm hoping they'll correct their mistake before then.

Better thermal paste spreading means slower fan and lower HW errors though not always fixing a declining hashrate.  Slower fan means more economical running.  If the thermal paste isn't spread well under the temperature sensing device, where ever it is, it will take a higher fan speed to lower its temperature.

You could determine if there's any responsiveness at all by putting a fan forcing air in and later put the fan to suck air out, fans outboard the installed.  Still if firing up a cold S3 shows max speed then it's not likely to change.

What does the GUI say 100% fan maxes out at?

Dude!  you have to overclock it if you want 500Ghs  At stock 450 is right where it should be.

Out of 9 unit I have about 3 that have fan problems,

One was at 100% on arrival.

One became intermittent 100%.

And now one became permanently at 100% . I heard it ramp up to 100% and now no amount of power cycling will fix the problem.

What's up with that ?

yes it works fine, no problem