Re: Antminer U3 Discussion and Support Thread

Made a simple Bitmain Antminer U3 User Guide. Thank you ckolivas for cgminer that supports U3.
U3 Miners: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131352927860?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
Molex to U3 Cable: http://www.ebay.com/itm/131367677323?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Download and Install Drivers http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/CP210x_VCP_Windows.zip
Plug power brick into AntMiner U3 before plugging power brick into wall.
Plug power brick into wall
Connect USB cable from AntMiner U3 to Computer
Download Zadig: http://zadig.akeo.ie/
Open Zadig and click "Options > List All Devices" Select CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller, and then click "Install Driver". After install is complete, please unplug USB cable and re plug it in after few seconds.
Download Latest CGminer: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/
CGminer 4.8.0 will automatically detect U3 miner. Please set pool Username and Password to start mining. Default frequency will be 225Mhz and voltage 0.750v
To Overclock please run CGminer with the following parameters:
cgminer -o stratum+tcp://POOL:PORT -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --au3-freq 225 --au3-volt 750
To overclock please change the values in --au3-freq 225 and --au3-volt 750
BITMAIN U3 MANUAL: https://www.bitmaintech.com/files/download/AntMiner-U3%20user%20guide.pdf

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Let your U3 Miner be part of your computer. U3 mines Bitcoin while you use the computer. I will make detailed guide one of these days on how to set up CGwatcher to automatically start CGminer and start mining when you turn on your computer.

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