Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 327. (Read 710164 times)

@Planetcrypto that "Fan Door" is faking hilarious. Does it exhaust straight outside?

Thanks for the reply I have sent you a PM so not to clog up this thread.

I just noticed that and deleted my post.

They are supplied with / included with the EVGA 1300's.

Tried /etc/init.d/uhttpd restart
It might give the process a kick to get it running again... The error you're seeing is to do with the web interface on the S3 screwing up when trying to handle the authentication, according to one bug report, when one process is writing to the session data at the same time another is reading it out. Does the error happen every single time, or just every so often?

I am still looking to see if anybody else here has seen this when they try to log into their S3?

/usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:448: Failed to execute function dispatcher target for entry '/'.
The called action terminated with an exception:
/usr/lib/lua/luci/sauth.lua:87: Session data invalid!
stack traceback:
   [C]: in function 'assert'
   /usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:448: in function 'dispatch'
   /usr/lib/lua/luci/dispatcher.lua:195: in function

I had logged  on the miner a few times with no problem and this is what comes up when I try and log on now. The miner is still mining and if I log into it thru Putty I can still get into the frequency, so it seems the password is still working  but i'm afraid of rebooting or using the reset button until I know I will not brick the miner. Bitmain has PM me that he turned it over to his engineer and I hope to hear something soon but was wondering if anybody else has seen this problem.

Great analysis, everything you wrote is right on the spot.

Keep in mind there has been a few weeks already that many KnC Jupiters were shut down, they produce less BTC than their power consumption in areas with expensive electricity, look for other threads that report this. Don't let yourself get caught in this situation, do your homework carefully. That being said S3's look like best offer on the market right now.

I disagree.

If you can still ROI with your S1 then run them as long as they ROI, once they do no longer ROI to to less GH/s per watt compare to the S3, you have to do the math if the S3 is a good purchase or not.

Right now if you get free electric energy it takes 84 days to ROI using this data as input
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator
9% difficulty increase
2% pool fee
440 GH/s hash rate
at 0.68BTC is $395 dollars
340 watts at the wall
0 electric cost

This is a best case scenario,
now with 0.1 Dollars per kwatt
it takes 97 days to ROI

at 0.2 dollar per kwatt
164 days to ROI

at 0.25 dollars per kwatt it does not ROI.

once it is time to buy a miner do the math, if it ROI in 30 days or less, then it is a great buy, up to 60 days it is a good purchase, beyond that it is high risk, specially if the calculator tells you there is no ROI.

Right now Bitmain is priced the best in regards that all the other miners do not ROI, but Bitmain really needs to lower the price for us to make money, the calculator does not lie, the problem if see if the same problem I see with other hardware vendors if the miners where priced to ROI less say in 45 days then they would prefer to mine themselves, and they do, so that is why it takes so long to ROI, and any miner that ROIs in more than 60 days it is very high risk.

We need decentralizacion we have that on the software en p2pool, however we do not have that in the hardware, and time goes by bitcoin mining has become more and more centralized, I believe this will not last forever at some time in near future it will begin to decentralized again.

The mining problem is a big one, here is why, Bitcoin is a great financial revolucion, and to support that revolucion one of the best ways it is mining because it secures the network by having mining decentralized, and the very large mining pools are not to be trusted, some of the very guys that run very large mining pools are taking about implementing the idea of clean coin for their own profit furthermore they sell all the coins they mine that is a very clear indication that they do not believe in the bitcoin revolution, only on bitcoin profits. therefore it is important for us to mine, it is very important that the average person supporting this revolution mines, however mining at a loss is no fun, or if ROI takes 200 days then there is absolutely no way be will  get bitcoin decentralized in the short term.

One thing for sure stay away from pre-orders that are longer than a week, and only pre-order something that is already in production.

Bitmains model of selling within 48 hours was great, I do not know why they changed to preorders like the rest.

my advice, before ordering any miner use the calculator above, and stay away from all calculators that do not take into consideration  the difficulty increase, your profit is not liner, it is logarithmic.

The profit of a miner is the summation of a convergent geometric series, most people on these forum do not know what that is, and you do not need to know either, it is something the guys that wrote these calculators had to know, just use the calculator and you will be fine, most do not even use the calculators, otherwise how do you explain Neptunes selling a $4 per GH/s, or BFL even at much higher prices.

The only reason the SP30 does not look good, it is a preorder months in advance, and it is very hard to predict anything with accuracy that much in advance.

At some point in time once enough S3 are sold, the S3 will have to drop down in price severely do to market reasons, there are many miners including myself waiting to make a large purchase on a miner that can ROI in 30 to 45 days, and all the ones that have purchased at higher prices will not have any more rooms on their houses due to limits on electric energy available and due to the heat generated by the miners.

If Bitmain sold the S3 so it would ROI in 30 days, they would make a huge profic for themselves and for the miners and also help to decentralized the hardware mining distribution, but I do not see that happening, as of now if you have free energy it would take 3 monts to ROI, and if paying 25 cents or more per kilowatt there is no ROI.

Otherwise it is a matter of time before someone  new steps in the hardware game.
 

Your idea of average sized and decently insulated must be significantly different than mine.

Just curious, where do you get your power cables?

This is amazing , good job  8.0 Th/s  .

Good morning everyone,

I've been following this thread for a few days now.  I do have a couple questions. Today or tomorrow I will be purchasing around 30 antminer s3's B5 from bitmain. My only concern are power supplies. I was thinking of using a bunch of lepa 1600w to power 4 at a time, but I'm not sure if it having so many different rails would matter or not.

I had a rather large gpu farm not to long ago (~100 r9 290s ) so I have the power for it. I have a 400 amp dedicated sub panel for my setup - around 36 20amp circuits as well.

Some of you may know me from reddit (blitzstix) -I made this account before my reddit account- I've recently sold everything. Including my 45 cx750m psus

So my question is- for such a large setup; what power supplies would you guys suggest I use?

(Lepa 1600 is gold rated with peak at 1700w


Knoxx-blitzstix

This isn't a DNS error. The error messages are related to the USB bus, and something dropping and not resetting correctly. Network settings are fine!

Whats your RPM for fans in Batch 4 S3 miners?
Mine is at 4500-5500 RPM.

Any chance you can share your experiences on UPS vs DHL shipping with the antminer s3?
When will they stop accepting the orders for batch 5?


Really batch 5 or batch 4? 5 says it ships on the 7th!
I'm a tad bit confused on how your shipment made it from China to Ohio in one day

Thanks Man
Have prettied up the wiring since I took that pic.
"Why Waltz when you can Rock'N'Roll."

Pics of how we dissipate ~24K BTU (what we affectionately call the "Wall-O-Fans") and other pics of our mining rig may be found here:
http://xmpp.planetcrypto.net/images/

Currently pushing a little over 8TH/s

Hot Damn! Nice setup!

DHL is the way to go if you are in the USA. My Batch 5 shipped yesterday and its already in Cincinnati OH, and has passed customs I should have it Monday.

Go DHL if you are in the USA!

typo there
should be DNS (noobs: domain name service)