Bitmain L3+ 504mh Scrypt miner - Owners Review

They Arrived!
Well to be completely honest the arrived early may but I wanted to keep back my review until i had some time with them so i could do a decent review.

The beast has arrived! wo0ho0 :)

Any home miner will know this feeling :) Toys!! new Toys haha

Ok so first we unwrap the Bitmain 1600w APW3+ PSU.

As i wanted to have these up and running as quick as possible i went with the Bitmain PSU.

It comes ready to go with all the 6 pins you need to hook these miners up. You need 8 for the blades and 1 for the Pi which controls it (pretty sure its a pi but please correct me if not). There is 1 6 pin left over which you could find a use. :)

Ok now for the good part!

Ok so a quick bit of blerb about the miner...

Enough reading haha, show me the beast!

It's always reassuring to see something well packed. just makes you feel better after the tentative wait to know that everything 'should' be ok.

Almost there.. haha come to papa.

Tada! There she is, nice and shiny and most importantly... NO DAMAGE!

ok quick check all the connectors etc are all ok and no lose wires anywhere.

Always double check before plugging anything in! There is no turning back if you mess up here.

Everything looks perfect so lets do a wiring test run, looking great :)

Now to get her plugged in and earning! :)

Ok so these things are a little chaotic with hash rates... I am using awesome miner here, great program check it out here

They average out at the right speed but you will see a lot of fluctuations. I have two rigs running and i see a range from 750mh to 1500mh...

As for power Bitmain state they use 800w each. I am running 2 of these and also 2 1600w PSUS.. lets check the power draw.

Wow ok, thats decent :) its always good to see there are no 'test environment' lies when it comes to power draw. Its make or break on miners. Well done Bitmain!

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Ok so that's the good part... now for the bad THE NOISE! :(

Man these things sound like a jet taking off!! I tested them at 80db wow... that's a Vacuum cleaning a house!!

Would not recommend these for home mining... just too loud! Ok lets see what we can do...

It's no surprise they are loud! look at these bad boys!

So i ordered some Corsair CO-9050008-WW Air Series SP120 Performance Edition 120mm High Pressure Fans to help ease some of the noise...

Look at the difference! wow.... i hope they help. Ok so the corsairs are 3 pin so we need to 'mod' the connector.

Please be careful!! Check the wires and triple check before doing this. Things can go bad fast if you get this wrong!

I tried the fans on the front as the above pics shows. They were not powerful enough so i swapped the to the output side on the rear of the miner. It works there and bought the miners down to about 65db... still loud.. trust me..

So there we have it my review of the Bitmain L3+ 504mh Scrypt miners. LOUD! but fun machines.

I will post a follow up in a few weeks :)

Thanks steemers and happy mining!!