Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 440. (Read 710164 times)

You just have to wait a little longer for batch 4 to be released for sale.

Bitmain is behind on shipping the first 3 batches out.

wow, very cool.
friends, I want to ask when I could order ANTMiner S3?
I saw on the website can not be in order.
how do I book at bitmaintech?

batch 1 Date    2014-06-30 19:42:21


Shenzhen, China    07/19/2014    11:55 P.M.    Departure Scan
   07/19/2014    11:15 P.M.    Origin Scan
   07/19/2014    6:10 P.M.    Pickup Scan
China    07/19/2014    2:16 A.M.    Order Processed: Ready for UPS

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Why all the discarded shares??

Set up 3 of 6 miners last night. Let them run overnight.

Hrmph...





EDIT: Was running Diff 256. Changed to Diff 512 today and will see if they improve.

i just got my batch 1 miners and i modded each of them slightly. I added the wireless antenna and the hole so it can be attached to the case near the ethernet plug since i will mostly be using wifi…..but your issue is one i noticed and it scared the shit outta me so i took the cover back off and remove the internal speaker from the controller board. It isnt hard to do at all and even a cheap $10 soldering iron will work just do the following:

1. remove the main cover by unscrewing the 5 screws on either sode of the cover.

2. remove the 2 cabled attached to the controller from the hashing board end…..dont remove the cables from the controller because if left attached to the hashing boards it would be in the way when trying to remove the controller so this way you dont have to fully unhook the 2 cables all together.

3. remove the 4 screws holding the controller down and lift it out.

4. near the ethernet connection you will see a black cylindar with a silver looking hole right in the center. That is the speaker. flip it over and locate the 2 pins needing to be hit with the soldering iron and while holding the board apply slight preasure to the side with the pin your hitting first with the soldering iron….not alot just enough to lift that side slightly then do the same to the other side then go back to the first side then back to the second side and follow that "rocking chair" type motion until one of the pins comes out and then you can heat the other pin while lifting straight op and ultimately removing the speaker.


i have a metcal system and it only takes 10-15 seconds to be heated up and it literally took me less time to remove the speaker then it did to heat up the iron lol but if your not used to soldering then dont be afraid to take your time…..its not a race and you want to be as gentle as posible and you want everything to be done neatly so it can be reattached later on if you choose to sell it. I do this to all my antminers because the beeping gets on my effin nerves!! but if you want to stop the annoying beeping this is the way to go!

Unless we get an update from bitmain, I guess we will find out Tuesday. Tuesday night for me as I have to work late that day.

Ya I got a feeling they didn't do anything to the units, we just overpaid for our batch 1 giving us same batch 2 shipping timeframe

S3 delivered yesterday, UPS FFFFFFFFAILED and left my other S3 at the warehouse... gonna get it Monday..  Ne ways S3 up and running in like 10 minutes lmao if not less, running as advertised.

Me too. A bunch of us for that matter. Lets hope they fixed some of the bugs on this latest shipment. Otherwise we paid more than the batch 2 people for the same delivery time frame.

If it's the same as the S1, you can't go by the raw numbers alone.  They use this convoluted formula for some reason.  I remember having an S1 that had ridiculous numbers for HW errors, I was sure it was faulty.  When I plugged everything into this formula and did the math, turns out I was getting like 0.003% HW errors.  I found a handy calculator.  http://www.coincadence.com/antminer-s1-hardware-error/

On another topic, am I also to assume the overclocking procedures are the same as the S1?  My S3's seem to be stabilizing around 440GHs which is a bit of an improvement but still low.  Wanna see what happens when I crank them up a bit.

A piece of felt like this


http://www.amazon.com/Waxman-Self-Stick-Home-Helper-Combo-Brown/dp/B000SL4GEM/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1405790000&sr=8-9&keywords=felt+pad

!!! The techie within me cries out in alarm... This is like removing the engine warning light to fix an engine problem!

If anyone wants to sort the beeping noise in a more appropriate way, I'd recommend the tape method. It will not stop the sound completely, but it will definitely deaden it. The intermittent beeps are purely a software issue, and will almost certainly be fixed in a future firmware release. I suspect its whatever is mixed in with CGMiner.

Seriously hoping that future firmware will improve CGMiner efficiency too, it bothers me seeing it load out the controller board as high as it does, and I reckon it would probably reduce reject rates too...

Yeah once when changing settings it started up and did load of hw errors like that.  A simple reboot sorted that out.

Its defo not a beep per hw error lol

Can't wait my ANTMINER S3  hope it will arrive my home soon 

I got in on the B2 batch of Antminer S3,  below is info from Bitmain website.  Below that, is the info from UPS order tracking w/ time stamps.

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Info from Bitmain Website

Order Placed
DATE:
2014-07-01 20:31:24

Payment Confirmed:
Date   2014-07-01 21:15:06

Shipped:
Date   2014-07-19 10:08:26

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Info from UPS Tracking:

Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 07/22/2014, By End of Day -- Minnesota USA Local time which is CDT

Location   Date   Local Time   Activity
Shenzhen, China    07/19/2014    11:22 P.M.   Origin Scan
                          07/19/2014    5:02 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China                    07/19/2014    4:08 A.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

The plot thickens.  

One of my S3s reports 14,478 HW (I don't think I believe it) while another beside it reports 66 HW (might match the total number of beeps heard). They report 31,614 and 32,399 Accepted respectively, which I'm inclined to believe from the pool stats.

I haven't opened a case yet - gotta do unrelated things for a few hours.

Edit: detail I forgot to mention - both have "Beeper ringing" set to False and I'm not sure whether one or both actually make(s) the sounds.

Edit: more detail - both of mine have been running at 256 difficulty. They can go well over 3 hours without a beep though, then might have a few beeps in quick succession. I'll try 512 in any case.

I have 1 machine that prefers 212.5 freq

I have 1 machine that does well at 212.5 and 225 freq.

So there is a variance.  I will run one at each.



 It does appear that a good plat psu like a 1000 watt seasonic gives .75 watts a hash at the wall.

I was doing 846-850 gh and 630-640 watts with both at   212.5

The beeping occurs much less when set to  false.  I think a few things do it.

1) ssh in change the freq does 1 beep

2) gui boot does 1 beep

3) hw may do a beep not sure.

4) pool switchover does a beep

My HW errors are almost non-existent no matter what freq I pick but all 3 miners appear to max out in the low 440's. I tried 250mhz and it appeared to be running at 470 but then overnight the avg came down to like 450 so I went back to 218. This is with all 4 PCI-E plugged in so maybe firmware update or some more tinkering can push the numbers up a bit