Why are these so expensive?
There is only one competitor on the market currently. I think the prices are right in line to be honest... it would always be nice to get them cheaper but I don't think there are any market forces that would push the mfg to get the price down at this point.
So, less hashrate, less efficiency, need to provide your own controller, AND more expensive than the other competitor? Who's lining up to buy these?
I wouldn't count the cost of the Pi in there. It can be resold and should be suitable for all current and future Avalon miners you stock. Like a PSU, its not consumed or proprietary, unlike an SP20 or S7 control board.
thats a good point dogie thanks for bringing it up.
oh a few have asked about that 1500 watt psu.
this one goes from 10 to 13.5 volts 87% efficient
https://www.trcelectronics.com/ecomm/pdf/rsp1500.pdfI have been using it here and there. A guy on ebay was selling them at a good price
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MeanWell-Power-Supply-Rsp-1500-12-/191732204742?I got one on ebay for a good price.
So a PSU that can be adjusted is required to undervolt/underclock the avalon6?
underclock is software any psu allows underclock.
but and we are not sure since testing has not been done under volting may be via a psu option not via software.
if undervolting works and you under volt via psu there are a few . we are working on unknown as of now.
Hopefully in 10 - 12 days when I get one I can answer it.
If I work with kilo17 and help sell to the forum members on this site they will be in hand and not preorders. He is getting a big batch and I would help him distribute them.
This would be no MOQ as he will order big enough batches to satisfy MOQ.
Markup will be very low. More to cover shipping and handling then to buy a few hundred at 1500 and sell them at 2200.
Did BlockC raise the price? -
http://www.blockc.co/collections/blockc-co-shop/products/avalon-6-3-65-th-s-bitcoin-mining-server . I could have sworn they had less then that a week or two ago.
So on resell is that 2200 number you mention look like what they are planned on being sold for through Kilo?
I said he is not buying a few hundred of them at 1500 looking to do a markup to 2200.
He told me the markup would be for shipping and handling . So he won't be looking for 2200 to a USA based buyer.
Now two weeks ago these opened at 1300 moq of 10. I would think that coins going ups so high has cause MOQ to stay at 10 but price to go to 1500.
The new s-7 is 4 btc that is 1530 it won't ship for about 1 month.
The ones kilo17 has purchased should arrive at his place in 10 days.
So if I get one and test it in 12 -14 days and it is good the rest that he want to sell would ship in under 18 days so maybe a 2 week head start on the s-7 batch 6.
We all know asic shipping is slow. Kilo17 has told me he did a purchase it is paid for so no funds are needed at this moment.
I think kilo17 wants to sell off 4-6 of his shipment.
we all know the game so if they come on time he sends 2 to me I send 1 to valkir. we hope they work as promised. I test and demo as does valkir.
we move a few more out for a total of 4 to 6.
If it all works well first time kilo17 wants to do a new buy and we do it a second time say 20 to him 6 to 10 for others.
First 2 are here:
1)philipma1957
2)valkir
put in a name no obligation or coins for now.
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