What I do know, is for larger orders, I'll get an extra unit that I send to you, just in case ... All of them will be tested (by BPMC) before shipping.
Well, I hope that everyone who ordered their Blue Furies will soon have their full allocation and then we can look to rectifying the small number of under-performing units that might need replacing. I can quite understand that due to limited numbers being available initially, it was impractical to send additional units to cover under-performing units however from what I can tell reading across the threads on this forum, BPMC have done a great job of getting the units out to purchasers in the last week and have commenced the compensation discussions and the replacement of sub-par units.
It took me a while to get my Blue Furies running alongside my Block Erupters, but that's how it goes with new tech and as I commented on the Blue Fury Support Thread, I think most people would prefer to have teething problems with the units in-hand, rather than slick instructions but no units delivered:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3514708(there's also a pic of my rig there
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At this stage I'm running two instances of BFGMiner, the one on the left in the picture below is for Block Erupters, the one on the right is for the Blue Furies and if you can take a look at BFM 4 you'll see that its hashing performance hasn't smoothed out over time and remains anchored at 0.5 GH/s:
Some of the other Furies which were hashing at 1.8 - 1.9 GH/s but seem to have edged above 2 GH/s after being run in for 36 hours. Although the rough average of 2.1 GH/s is lower than the anticipated 2.2 - 2.7 GH/s that the Furies were advertised to perform at, there's a realistic possibility that future firmware updates will be able to increase their performance, however it's clear that BFM 4 with 75% hardware errors operating at 0.5 GH/s is a faulty unit and a replacement will be required please.
I hope everyone else who has received their Furies now has them hashing away and they are bringing a smile to your face. With a bit of luck we'll be able to tweak them further to increase their performance but even running at 2.1 GH/s, they are still far superior to the Block Erupters running at 333 MH/s, so I'd like to thank Dabs and all at BPMC for their excellent work. It's great to have the units in hand flashing away
Thanks again!