1) Ate the Batch-3 miners still dropping boards and do the still require a power cycle to get back online?
2) Timing/scheduling for the Jig in the US?
I don't know on the Batch 3 miners. I have to assume that no news is good news.
On the jig scheduling we are still open to ideas. It has been mentioned that Prohashing would be willing to flash miners as a service for the community in exchange for a small fee to just cover their time. We would only have to pay the shipping. If everyone is open to that idea I can talk to Chris at Prohashing and we can begin to work out the details. The jig still hasn't arrived yet at my location.
The concern is how fragile the jig is and the shipping it all over the place. After looking at the pictures that were posted of one of the jigs I have to agree this thing looks to be very fragile. So the idea of possibly having this done at one location has some merit.
On a side note I had a scare this morning with the A4's. I woke up at 3am and went and checked on the miners. The A4's were completely down! So I power cycled the miners then I couldn't get 1 of the hashing boards in either of my 2 A4's to come up. I power cycled them more times than I care to count and nothing was working. Finally on one restart one of the miners picked up 4 boards, but one of them was limping pretty bad and only showing 1608 cores. I restarted it a few more times and no improvement. The other miner would not bring up the 4th board no matter what I tried. So after a couple of hours of battling with it I sent an email to Inno about my problem and gave them some screen shots...
I SWEAR, I no more than hit the send button on that email and went back out and power cycled the miners and BOOM the 4 boards started hashing again on both miners!
So the moral of this story is that the A4's are scared of Inno, and all you have to do is send an email to them and the A4's straighten right up! LOL I have no idea what the problem is, but I hope that the firmware update fixes this mess! That was the worst I have seen it so far where the miners were down and the hashing boards refused to come up. Hopefully it was a "one off" situation.