Topic: ANTMINER S3+ Discussion and Support Thread - page 59. (Read 710164 times)

anyone has had any issue connecting Ant's to Comcast, wifi or directly to the router? Miner shows connected but it wont connect to the pools. If i switch to my Iphone tethered internet, the miner runs fine. I have tried using a wifi extender to increase wireless signal to the ant's but still wont kick on and run? What could be the issue and advice where to look or what to check out? thanks in advance.

Your replies have been awesome! Very helpful. Honesty, when I got the miners, I started to read about the pools and the differences between them and it was all a bit overwhelming to make a choice as to which one to go to (even with the very helpful guides I found). I landed up just using the same pools that were programmed into the miners (with my own account of course). I took a look at the pools you've suggested and decided to go with the BAN pool and I was able to figure out how to mine at 512 diff. F2Pool had no place where I could set the diff and there was no info that I could find to say how you were supposed to configure the diff in the miner.

I realize now that this has gone pretty much off topic for the thread. I didn't realize that this was a pool config issue and not a miner issue. I am a silly noob, but thanks for educating me

Also just looked closer at your image you definately need to mine somewhere else with  only 1ths your payout at discus fish (f2pool) and ghash will never amount to much you would be much better off at bitcounaffiliatenetwork or eligius if your a gambling man slushs pool pays the most if they are having good luck and steady blocks I have seen days at slushs pool where we found 8 blocks then I have seen days of only 1 block slushs is high risk high reward as were eligius is low risk normal reward same goes for BAN pool I keep a close eye when I mine at slushs and bail when I see a 8-9hr block as that typically is a signal its headed for 24+ hrs cut my losses and head over to eligius until slushs shows a cpl 3 hour or less blocks. That's my strategy on slushs if I head out of town for a few days I point them to either eligius or BAN So i don't have to monitor them and worry about spending more on electric than I mine

Check out ipominer.com and multipool.us for the alt mining there's alot to learn when it comes to mining and the forums hold alot of great info also check out the Facebook group crypto currency collectors club , that's where I heard about the release and premine of paycoin, bitbean, and ecash and made out nicely on them

Well some pools set variable diff for you, none should be setting 2048 Ina 500ghs miner that's for 2ths most pools have a option to set it on the pool worker setup page then some pools let you set it via adding ##512 after the user name depends on here your mining at now a bit of advice on selecting a pool unless your running a huge mine your payout at the larger pools like antpool ghash and such wont amount to much as your paid by your portion of the pools power if @ 1ths your not earning .01+ BTC per day then your better off mining elsewhere I like slushs pool but when he has bad luck it sucks when he as good luck its awesome. Bitcoinminingaffiliatenetwork is a good one for a steady payout then I also like eligius.st for a steady payout but it takes a cpl days to enter the payout que but once you do its steady. Then you got BTCguild but I have found the payouts low there due to the same ghash statement above. And then you can also rent your rigs at miningrigrentals and westhash nicehash and actually do pretty good making a bit ore than by mining and then you got multipools and mining alt 256 coins I made a real nice profit mining XPY and dumping it at its peak and I did the same by mining ecash/emoney yesterday welcome to the wonderful world of crypto mining good luck out there.

I am a bit of a noob to mining as these are my first miners, so would you be able to explain how I can set the difficulty? Right now the diff seems to change over time. When I reboot the miner it will go to 1k, then it dropped to 512 and after them running for some time it seems to increase. Is there any place I can read about what diff does? Is there any place I can read about what the other stats are on the miner status page? I tried to do some searching in the forums but haven't had much luck yet.

Best way would be to run it and look at asic stats see if any X's.  I know out of 6 machines i ended up with 2 with 1 x each.  They sold for less because of this.

diff 2048 is way to high for a S3 they like a diff of 512
and more than likely the temp sensor is bad or the thermal paste for that sensor, and worse case scenario been alot of reports with the earlier batches of S3's having sloppy thermal paste applied. I have seen any images of the crap all over the place, in the later batches Bitmain did a much better job applying the paste. Guess they fired or retrained that worker that was applying to much paste. So hard to find good help

well I would say
#1 test to make sure power is coming down those cables. Use a meter or if you dont have a meter switch the cables and see if the working board fails to start

#2 Open it up and check all connections to the malfunctioning board, does the board indicator lights come on? Its odd for a board to completely fail unless theres a bad connection

#3 unplug and replug all connections sometimes there may be come oxidation preventing a good connection I recently purchased a used S4 that would not boot, i removed the SD card and reinserted and it booted, my theory is oxidation or loose SD connector? Not sure but it worked. Over time contacts in electronic devices can oxidize and cause connection to fail, thats why they make contact cleaner more prevelant with brass connections but anytime you have dissimilar materials in contact with one another there is the chance to build oxidation. In the S4 scenario the SD card pins are silver and the card pins are gold plated by unplugging them and repluggin them it scrapes that crap away and makes contact again. Just a theory I am not a electronics expert just stating my observations.

Re-seating the ribbon cables, blowing any dust accumulation out....

Any words of repair wisdom when one blade just stops working? It's been down for 2 days.
Already tried the obvious, rebooting through web interface and hard reboot from turning power supply off and on.

I'll probably grab one more S3 or I'll wait and see the next miner from Bitmain... Decisions, decisions...

  Go to "Miner Configuration" and click "Save&Apply" button directly, cgminer will restart.

PMed, please check

I just bought 2 s3s a few days ago and one of the temp readings is very off. It reads 1-2 degrees and is obviously not possible for the amount that it's hashing. Is there any fix to this? I already tried to update firmware from stock to latest and it made no difference. I'm concerned because its off on the hotter side, so if temps go up, it may not shut down correctly once it reaches a critical temp and also could be a fire hazard.

Also, the fans in one are spinning much faster than the other, even though they are right beside each other and running off the same PSU (1000w Dell server PSU running at 800w since it's 120v). I do notice that the temps are slightly higher in the one where the fans run faster, but only by 2-3 degrees, so I don't see why the fans should be spinning 50%+ faster than the other. Maybe ripping it apart and reapplying some better thermal paste would help? Not sure if it's worth doing.

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I guess I should have added, prior to buying one is there a way to test the unit.  I purchased one last week and it is working great, but got nervous because people were saying to purchase from a reputable source.  I would like to purchase another one soon and just looking for ideas about a used one.

Thanks

Hook it up and try mining with it?

Is there any way to test a used S3+?

My impressions from the S3+ after running for almost a full 24 hours... I love how quiet the miner is! The beep itself even is subtle which is nice since there's others besides myself in the house.

I've seen that my cgminer Elapsed time needs to be reset if the miner is down for a period or else the downtime is averaged into the hashrate.  I usually have an ssh session open to each miner and run a short shell script with /etc/init.d/cgminer stop && sleep 2 && /etc/init.d/cgminer start which resets the Elapsed time to zero.  Is there a Run command accessible from the GUI such that I don't need to do the restart from an ssh session?