So my Antminer A3 arrived today! Exciting right? Well it is if you have a power supply.... I managed to get my hands on two smaller PSU's so I have 2 of the 3 boards running right now. I will try and get my hands on a third PSU in the morning because I feel like this weekend is going to be all the profit I'm going to get out of this purchase.
I'm a bit choked about the PSU not arriving, the mining rig travelled from China in two days while the PSU took a full week from an hour and a half drive away. Pretty frustrating but I'm doing my best to get the most out of this situation.
I'm hashing between 550-600 GH/s with just the two boards and I'm earning a little more than 1 Siacoin per minute. I'm hopeful the difficulty remains fairly stable over the weekend since fewer people should be receiving new units but I expect a big drop in profits on Monday.
The mining rig is amazingly loud but I can't hear it from the bedroom so that's a huge plus.
Since profits are dropping so quickly I think I'm probably just going to resell the miner. As much as I want a second mining rig, I just can't say no to the crazy resale right now.