You're right.
I never really clarified that the reason I started updating this thread is due to a conversation I had with Tytus. He was/is so busy, I suggested that I would keep you all informed. So I guess I'm the spokesperson for now on this forum anyway. Tytus still posts the picostocks reports.
Status of boards - as I noted before, final design bugs are ironed out and boards are in production. Due to delays, we've increased the hashpower we will commit to this mine to 200TH. I'm waiting to get a shipping notice from the factory - the first boards should be headed my way in 24 - 48 hours by my estimate, but I can only wait for them to ship. Well, that and send multiple emails per day to the US VP sales. First boards will be run for 24 hours or so in order to weed out underperforming or non-performing boards - this will all be sent to the mine. After the August retail units are shipped, remaining boards will begin to accumulate hashpower for the mine. I think we can put up 200TH in 30 days, but it remains to be seen what challenges there are.
The delays gave me an opportunity to jump on something for the datacenter without introducing future downtime to the mine. I went ahead with the plan to double the power service to the building, which completed last week. This provides quite a lot of power - 2400 amps of 208v (theoretically supporting about 500kW). I have about 1500 amps routed out onto the floor now. This extra power will give me some room to push the AC systems (25 tons) to the limit and see where we can max out temps. I can add AC once I get a better sense of where the operational temperature ceiling is.
No October shipping till either the 200TH mine is up, or it is nearly the end-of-October deadline (as will occur for the August deliveries),
or the end of October because it is not in their interest to ship to their customers who will compete with the 200TH mine any earlierEdit >>>>
Update
I've added option for UPS Express Saver shipping, and dropped the prices a bit as further october orders will most likely ship in very late october. Those who picked first october orders are likely to receive theirs in very early october, if not september.