Topic: Launching the Antminer L3+, World's Most Powerful and Efficient Litecoin Miner - page 63. (Read 284882 times)

Yeah because of the exchange rate of BTC and LTC.  But the real time payment amount of BTC is pretty much the same no?

Well, the daily income of L3+ slightly increased. 

Well. You can manually set the fan speed to 90% or so. Your miner will run cooler ;-)

Guys, stop asking about temperatures.

One of my machines worked for days at over 80c... and guess what?
It still does.

You're fine. He must be mining outside in the cold. LOL.

What is there to improve?

Just leave it blank, it auto-adjusts fine.

Are these numbers normal? Both l3+:
Machine 1
Accepted: 450
Rejected: 9
Hw errors: 31
Temp 48c

Machine 2:
Accepted : 642
Rejected : 16
Hw error: 18
Temp 46c


How can I improve this numbers?  I'm using nicehash (European), I'm in Europe

So here is what the data center wanted to host my L3+'s:


Lets see here, $3000 per month for them to host, or $1800 per month for me to rent a nice home including hosting for my miners by doing it myself.

Tough decision

Yup, no doubt. Let's face it. We all got very spoiled in the last 6 months. Just got to get back to reality now.

Well yeah, technically you are correct and obsolete is a strong word. However I meant that L3s, when I got them were doing $50+ per day,
now they are at $17-19, and by Xmas it will probably be around $10, IF.

Don't get me wrong, even 3 years old A2 can earn some money today, BUT the pure number of devices being put in use will dramatically rise the diff,
we ain't seen the plugging in of October, November and December batches, and they were almost all sold out within a few mins.

But the tech part, maybe 16 nm to 10 nm isn't as dramatic, but cant they cram up more processors and call it a day?
Give us 2-3x the performance at the same price? Who knows...

When you say "socket" does that mean each "socket" is on it's own Breaker? Also, how many Amps are the breakers? 20, 30, 40??

Each breaker on 220v can be calculated;
20amps X 220 or 4400 watt capacity. Subtract 20% for safety margin. ( only run at 80% of breaker capacity ) or 3520 watts available per BREAKER.

S9 draws 1370 watts +/- 10% and 6.29 amps on a 220v feed
L3+ 800 watts and 3.63 amps.

Ethernet no worries.

Hello everyone !

I will receive 2 Antminer L3+ and 2 Antminer S9 very soon. I'm planning to put them all in the underground of my house, one per socket (220V).
2 of the Miners will be very near to a socket, but 2 others will have to be on a extension cable (4-5 meters).

What is better , putting the 4 Antminers on the 2 sockets that are near, with 2 strips ? Or better put the 2 extension cables and have 1 Antminer per socket and no strip?
Or are both options bad ideas , and I should rethink everything, and better put all the Miners with short cable and 1 per socket ?

Also, I'm thinking of a 1 to 4 Ethernet splitter to put all the ethernet in one, I guess there will be no problem with that.

If there is anything else I should be aware of , let me know please !

Thank you

The S7 is 30% of the hashing rate and efficiency of the S9 and they are not "obsolete". The move from 16nm to 10nm will not be near as dramatic as the leap from the S7 to the S9. None of these miners will be "obsolete" in the next 2-3 years. Unless you pay too much for a Kw.

Excellent observations. In addition, the technology leaps are bumping against a wall. The improvement from 16nm to 10 nm is nowhere near as impactful as 28nm to 16nm. Then 10nm to 7 nm even lesser still. Not to mention that there are many other major "chip players" ( eg; mobile phones) who will be in line for new inventory LONG before Bitmain's ASIC production. The pending demise of these miners may be greatly overstated.

My guessing on calcs with electric and a guess on difficulty at my winter rate of 12c kWh

Imho, you need a least $90 LTC or more, using that scrypt coin as an example to break even....and that may be low.

I'm including all electric use for 12 months and the bitmain PSU and shipping etc at the current $2040 rate.

Again, this is off the cuff and I used the www.litecoinpool/calc for ease of use at 101% and no fee.

Likely, you would do 10-15% better on a multipool like Nicehash or Prohashing

So LTC needs to pump to $90 to $100 bucks or my KNC Titans may finally be 'doorstops' with the L3's soon after.

Feel free to correct me, if I'm being too optimistic or pessimistic on this. This is a 'seat of the pants' calc and guess.




Bitmain could release an L5+ or whatever. But again, imho, it would be to get better equip to their data hall first (3 months to us say) and
also for their hashnet of pow/scrypt and of course their bet that this would make sense also on a $90 to $100 buck LTC or equiv scrypt pow price.

But as a consumer product as the only consideration, they can just continue to run these out like toasters (S9 Bitmain BTC miner) and adjust price

up/down/sideways as prudent. Myself, I expect them to sell L3+'s into middle of 2018, at reduced prices sure....but they now control 80% or more, of all

ASIC manufacturing for sha-256 (BTC) scrypt-pow (LTC and majority of altcoins) and now x11 (dash)

so the question becomes, they have a 'captive audience' for mining equipment ..so why push new equipment, when the only alternative is the market

the share of 'old designs' you control?

anyway, I know zip.....just saying....

I can't even imagine Bitmain releasing an L5 with even more hashing power than the L3+. It would be a bloodbath, lol. They'll need to upgrade their servers again

curious to see what bitmain, canaan and hopefully some new entrants will have available early '18! maybe they can squeeze 25TH/s from an S11, and a few GHz of scrypt from an L5...

Not to burst your bubble, but ROI on those machines will be way longer than 200 days, so yeah, I believe that is a bit too much...

+ new ASIC tech should come in the spring 2018, it might mean all today's tech would be obsolete...

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