Topic: [Closed]Avalon Chips - 0.081 BTC (Global+Escrow)-BATCH2 SECURED - page 61. (Read 100458 times)

Furthermore, I have this factory in my town - http://www.set.bg/index.php?lang=en

They offer PCB production and providing and soldering the smaller elements over the PCB, I can contact them and ask for a price. But for me to contact them, I have to have the PCB design along with the list of the smaller elements, which will be on the board.

Do we have such schematics?

hacko.bg; 1000; 79; 1L1yVgod8mAhBqQNY1t6mjz9F1RyufDiMd

How many chips do you have left?  If I read this right you will be able to make K16 PCB?  If you fall short of group buy purchase do you plan to buy large quantity for yourself to shorten wait time?

Sure, no problem.

No problem, I thought you missed my PM.
So I'm in with 1000 chips, will arrange payment as my coins are at mtgox... will send payment tomorrow, I guess.

Sorry for not answering your PM (In time). I have a daytime job and a family..
The PCBs will be ready by the time the chips arrive. All we're going to do, by that time, is drop them into the boards test them, pack them and ship them. I have discussions with 3 romanian suppliers already and will continue to search for 2 more, at least! So i'm pretty sure we'll have boards. Unfortunately i can't guesstimate the price for the bigger boards, because we're talking about thousands of chips. A small error could lead to a big sum of money. I'm doing my best to pester the suppliers, though, to have the quotations ready ASAP.

How sure and guaranteed is the board production and will you be able to offer them when the chips come in? Do you have an estimate for the price for the biggest boards (boards for 40 and 80 or more chips)

My plan is for buying 1000 chips (or some round number, depending on the count of chips per board). Furhthermore, I can order up to 500 over those 1000, depending on the answer I get. (mostly friends and family)

The other reason, asking for bigger boards, is because I plan to make waterblocks for the boards, which can give me possibility to overclock the chips further.

Ok, I'm waiting for expected price for 80 chips PCB

75 eur for a 16 chip design. This is not a final price, it may be lower or higher.

"The Klondike design will cost approximately 75 Eur" - that means 75 euro for 32 chips PCB? What about 80 chips design?

Updates!!!
2013-05-15:
- Quotation received! We have decided to make the Klondike design. The official Avalon has way too many parts and the fabrication of it can go wrong in many ways. However! We're still researching for manufacurers, i haven't given up on the 80/160/240/320 chip designs yet! The Klondike design will cost approximately 75 90 (edit: better safe than sorry) Eur / board (remember, price is not final yet!). I will have a non-functioning prototype next week just to be able to touch it and see the cost of all the parts when populating the empty PCB. Will make a video too! After that, we can offer bulk orders or discounts for larger quantities. It it also possible to include everything in a nice (or not, we'll see) box! That will definitely help with the airflow through the heatsinks, but that is a bit far away for now.
- Our website is under development. A beta will be done by the end of this week. One major problem with it is: i have NO IDEA how to name it suggestions?
- I'm in a discussion about offering hosting for the devices. You live in the U.S./Canada? No problem, you can have a RaspberryPi mining away from Romania for you. Full SSH access and maybe even remote desktop via Ubuntu can make everything easier. The electricity here is dirt-cheap compared to western europe / the states. Will have updates on this too later.

I'm trying to finish this group-buy by the end of the month, 31st of May. Thus, the estimated arrival of the chips would be the beginning (first week) of August. The PCBs should take 2 weeks tops to be assempled, so my guesstimate is the middle of August to have ready devices.
The price does not include shipping to the U.S.! Each person will be charged for he's own shipping fee, being geographically situated in diffent parts of the World. You will be given the option to ship via DHL, FedEx, Postal Forwarding, TNT, etc.etc.

Regards,
Steve

So 10 - BTC0.79 or BTC1.58 for 20. Does that include shipping to the US. 

Also when will you quit taking orders and suspected ship date. Asking so I can get my numbers right and step my hustle up.

Hi, i3lome,
Unfortunately the minimum order quantity is 10 chips.

Updated, thanks.
Also, PM sent about your address.

Thanks for the Clarification, you  are right Im mining litecoin a ~23kh/s I  Cpu mine Btc ~2m/hs. I would love to get in on a order but right now my funding options may only allow 1-2 chips. Im broke as shit after rent, wife and kids so I mine as hobby since my hash rate is tiny, Im just trying to gradually advance with using my LTC earnings and multiplying them on BTC-E. I have a huge task in front of me before ever making a dollar.

Electric is included on my rent so the cost for that is not a problem.

I used Btc-E to turn 0.02ltc in 4.3 as of yesterday, It took a month to do that, and I plan on mining and trading until I can afford a Gpu or possible a few low cost chips.

Everyone tells me Im wasting my time, I can see that but Im not going to stop Im determined to make something work. If it takes me 6 months to be able to get faster equipment, I will keep trading and mining. Also have received a .02 Btc as a donation which has helped me, I know  0.02 btc is small potatoes for most but it takes me a month or 2 to mine that. I am forever grateful to those that given me any amount of donations. I keep track of them, and Plan repay whatever donation double or triple fold when I get to that point.

Im just  a tiny fish in the Ocean of crypto, Im willing to do whatever I have to Play with The Big Boys

i3lome first I just want to make sure you know we are talking about mining Bitcoin not Litecoin (hopefully you meant 23MH/s, unless you are mining on an embedded platform/SoC like a Raspberry Pi).  I personally don't think it would be a good idea to order any less than 16 chips, and at 0.079 these would be crazy inexpensive.  If you would like some help or to team up for a buy, I'm in the Washington D.C. area.  I would like to personally buy 42 chips (it's a compulsion brought on by Douglas Adams/"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" but I've found whenever I order products in quantities of 42 it always worked out well for me) or as close to that number as possible.  Would you like to team up and submit an order for 60 chips?  I would eat the cost of shipping since most of the weight would come from my chips and shipping via USPS within the states would only be a few dollars so that's no big deal.

I'm not trying to force more chips on you than you could use (although 16 would allow for use in an existing design) but I thought I would help a fellow statesman as well as the group buy in general (I know 60 isn't going to rock the boat, but I will talk to some  local Hackerspaces and Peter [the CEO] from iStrategyLabs).  Both organizations do group buys worth several thousand USD when they come across something technologically useful, but I don't know what the interest will be so that is just an example, not a promise.  Regardless of what happens with them i3lhome, my offer still stands to do a combo order with just the two of us.

Will you ship to Tn, Usa. Im interested  if  I can be aloud to order 1 or 2 chips. Im mining a ~23khs and would love to get a better miner

hello,
i'm in with 500 chips. private message sent.
regards

I'm in, sent payment for chips and another for escrow fee.