Topic: Bitmain's Released Antminer S9, World's First 16nm Miner Ready to Order - page 294. (Read 531178 times)

Status update:

Over 13 days now and no end in sight.

On the plus side, one miner seemed to have a short in the control board due to it not being seated in the chassis properly, it is now up and running.  But the original problem miner has a bad control board and I have been waiting 3 days for a reply about replacing it.  Anyone else have problems with customer service from Quentin?  Since I told them it was the control board, don't you think that 13 days is a bit long to figure that out on Bitmain's end?  It really makes me reconsider doing any further business with them.  I was even willing to PAY for parts instead of going thru this warranty bull, because I knew it would get me up faster and not cost me lost income from having a paperweight on my bench. 

I had nothing but trouble with the new firmware 24th June 2016, so I reverted back to the original firmware 8th June 2016
Board 1 ran with a low hash rate, ~2-3Th/s.
Back to the original firmware and everything is normal.

I have S9 batch 2.
I'm mining at Kano CKPool.

here is my last order that I was charged on:


HOWELL, NJ, US   06/23/2016   3:43 P.M.   Delivered
Lakewood, NJ, United States   06/23/2016   8:16 A.M.   Out For Delivery
06/23/2016   8:10 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Newark, NJ, United States   06/23/2016   6:48 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/23/2016   6:19 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States   06/23/2016   4:27 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/23/2016   3:00 A.M.   Import Scan
06/23/2016   1:51 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Anchorage, AK, United States   06/22/2016   3:59 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   12:59 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/22/2016   10:39 A.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / Your package was released by the clearing agency.
Osaka, Japan   06/22/2016   10:17 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   10:38 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Narita, Japan   06/22/2016   9:26 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   8:33 A.M.   Arrival Scan
Shenzhen, China   06/22/2016   3:33 A.M.   Departure Scan
06/22/2016   1:00 A.M.   Export Scan
Shenzhen, China   06/21/2016   10:15 P.M.   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery. / The package will be forwarded to a UPS facility in the destination city.
Lakewood, NJ, United States   06/21/2016   7:08 A.M.   The receiver must pay the duties or taxes due on the package.
Shenzhen, China   06/21/2016   3:07 P.M.   Your package is in transit. We're updating plans to schedule your delivery.



06/20/2016   12:44 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/20/2016   11:15 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/20/2016   10:59 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/20/2016   7:38 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/20/2016   5:06 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/20/2016   1:10 A.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS








The bold is normal  after that it went sideways

Here is this new order  so back to the norm or sideways?  I will know soon enough.

   06/29/2016   2:57 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.
Shenzhen, China   06/29/2016   10:55 P.M.   Arrival Scan
06/29/2016   10:52 P.M.   Departure Scan
06/29/2016   7:53 P.M.   Origin Scan
06/29/2016   4:21 P.M.   Pickup Scan
China   06/29/2016   10:54 P.M.   Order Processed: Ready for UPS

This is SOP for UPS. It arrives and departs Shenzhen at least twice, often more.  Probably just being transferred back and forth to customs within the same facility.  We should know more in the AM.  But Friday is starting to look doubtful.

Well that much was inevitable.  What happens next could still go either way.  I haven't even gotten that far which suprises me since they probably went out from bitmain at the same time.  All I have is this so far:

Shenzhen, China    06/29/2016    10:55 P.M.    Arrival Scan
                   06/29/2016    10:52 P.M.    Departure Scan
                   06/29/2016    7:52 P.M.    Origin Scan
                   06/29/2016    4:21 P.M.    Pickup Scan
China            06/29/2016    10:54 P.M.    Order Processed: Ready for UPS

Same message for me. Damn I really was hoping for a Friday delivery.

 Or prices may rise if btc jumps up strong.

As long as Bitmain sells every one of the miners they make they can charge as much as they want. Free market capitalism at it's best. Think about how fast each batch of the S9 miners has "sold out." Would you lower your prices if you were selling everything you made? Probably not, and you might even raise your prices to see how much more you could make. Oh, sure, some of the people buying the miners will complain about the price, but at the end of the day they still sent the BTC or used a credit card to buy them.

If/when another company selling equivalently powerful miners arrives on the scene is likely when you will see prices moderate.

Cheers,

- zed

I used ups and I am stuck on this:

06/29/2016   2:57 P.M.   The package is awaiting clearing agency review. / The package is at the clearing agency awaiting final release.


MY guess is I will be reading a f u very soon.

My expectations after halving -- are that they'll try for $1,800 -- and if demand is still there, it will stay close to there for a long while.

On an other unfortunate note -- I got the dreaded email from DHL...


I guess that I was forewarned -- probably won't know until tomorrow...

 

It makes sense for them, there's no other big company that makes miners this efficient nowadays, so they can let prices stagnate for a while. You're kind of forced to buy these, so bitmain's simply racking up those dollars. They've adjusted their prices a lot recently, so as not to be in competition with avalon, but now that they've not released anything, along with Bitfury, they can let these prices stay. I'm assuming they're going to drop the price after halving.

Yes I am really hoping that they adjust their prices after the halving.  They haven't adjusted the prices for their older S7 and S7-LN in a while which really surprises me.

I'm in a high power cost area.  After halving (less than 10 days and counting) my S7 goes from profitable to money loser.  So easy decision.

Few days after the fact but switch the connection that low preformance board plugs into the controller.  You should have an open slot.  I had the same problem fixed it for me.

Man them thangs sold out

IMHO I am waiting for the halving before shelling out for a rack of these machines, It seems a waste spending 3btc on a item that is immediately going to half in productivity in less than 2 weeks.

After the halving tho, I will be interested in selling off the 12+ S7's and upgrading to all S9's. I would keep buying S7's but I am going to soon run out of power lol

regs alex

Does anyone have the link to the HP PSU that can be used for the S9?

I'm liking the new firmware update. HW errors are down, boards are more consistent with one another.

$1935.00

The prize was 3.05 BTC