I don't know about the production, but you can bet the sales are slowing down. Counting current diff increase trend 0.66 BTC per miner may very likely never been mined out of them. Probably expect serious BTC miner price reduction for Batch #7.

Is anyone really earning Bitcoin? How successful are you guys with these ant miners S3s? Are you getting $200 per mouth like the mining calculator states. I would like to invest in a ant miner S3. Do you guy recommend it? Any advice?

if you:

 A) have a suitable psu
 B) have low cost power  11 cents or 12 cents
 C) have the internet hookup
 D) don't pay tax on it  EU  pays  USA does not


I believe you can make money.    

A breakdown on 2 at .66 or 1.32 btc with current usd price per coin of 582  and diff jumps of 15%

this shows a profit  I used 15% diff jumps I am predicting 10-12% .

 If you buy psu's buy cat 5 cables buy ethernet switches  profit is tough.

I did exactly all you told!
Inspected everything and no problem found FYI the unit was mining for several days normally but start to act like that from last night.
I also changed the control unit with a new one but same thing happen.


Last thing that I did was removing one blade and now the unit is working half load with one blade.

So seems that one blade had problem.

While I like and agree that  https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty has the likely info as it bases the information it shows on the actual hash rate over 504 blocks like the block chain does.

But

http://www.coinwarz.com/network-hashrate-charts/bitcoin-network-hashrate-chart at least shows you the actual current hash rate of the network.  Until we get farther along let us hope that whoever is "testing" hardware for shipment turns it off before we reach the last 504 blocks so it can drop the difficulty rates back to 4-6%.

But if that is the case then we need to realize that there is at least that much potential in the network to bring it up again. Also some of the older boxes out there are becoming not profitable as the diff increases so some of those boxes that are higher power consumers might be getting turned off.  But winter will be here soon enough in NA and those who use them as house heaters will likely leave them on.

Just my perspective.

If I was seeing the difficulty doing what it is today I don't think I would buy the 12 ants that I did and have hashing again.  ROI for me is gonna be tough as it is and I already have them hashing.  Nevermind ordering today and only getting them by the next difficulty level.  If the difficulty stays @ 12% I will break even with ants/PSU's/switches/cables.  I need to find some of that free power stuff that was mentioned above. 

Fahlcor

Hi reactor77, I sent an email and they confirmed they take USD bank wire. I can tell u from past it does take time with a bank wire to go through fully. I'm sure yours will get processed and miner will ship soon.

^He was thinking he got scammed, but it looks legit. It's just going to take longer to process since he used USD bank transfer.

maybe wait longer than 12s...sometimes it starts slow (but not THAT slow, though).
check if you pcie connectors are connected well (latched on), they are a little tight to get in properly in some cases.
maybe go to <system> and reboot

Noooooo (re prerequisite), I say that it is more likely that you mess something up rather than help yourself (on average).
Buy paste (just in case if you have a real problem)-it's $7.8/4g (MX-4 at amazon), or GC-extreme-$10