Black Arrow Update 5/15/2014
We have stocked all required parts, except the LCDs and cases for X1 which are due to be delivered next week.
The miners are in production including the X1 boards. Several software issues have hold the shipment for few days but we expect to start shipping any day now.
http://ecointalk.net/gallery/album/22-15-may-production-update/any new info thomas?
Clearly not, DZ communication is piss poor. I was also disappointed to note thomas is now part of minersource, so any DZ neutrality that was there is definately out of the window now.
DZ himself has not been online/involved for months due to his personal issues- so what would you like us to have done, dropped all support for this GB?
If the DZ coop organisers were unable or unwilling to discharge their duties that they undertook freely, then yes, organising a proper withdrawal with a refund to us all and apology would have been far more honest and preferable to this serepticious, unvoted for transfer of control to a for profit corporation!
All refund requests were accepted and approved, from R17 this was after DZ stopped being active in the thread, 1 month before BA was officially late and well after I joined with minersource.
If we weren't "with" minersource then the entire GB would be waiting for a refund to be approved by BA.
I'm sorry you don't see it Thomas, but there is a massive difference between what I just said should have happened and what you just decribed actually happened.
I don't want to get into an argument with minersource, it's counter productive and largely academic at this stage, but I would point out that even now, nobody has answered phillipma's original question!
I was waiting for an update btw here it is
22 May 2014 Prospero X3
We experienced a few serious technical issues with the backplane PCB which unfortunately delayed the completion of the Prospero X3. Our engineers spent the whole week debugging the problem without finding yet a working solution. We solicited expertise from 3rd parties and we are now having 3 different teams working on the issue around the clock. Please note that we are not in the position to estimate a completion time. It is possible that the fix could be solved as early as tomorrow or as late as next week. We decided as a safety measure to start redesigning 2 extra versions of the backplane PCB. The first complete bug free version will be used in production.
Deadline delays are never welcome news therefore we decided to offer the following optional packages available immediately which might be suitable for a minority of anxious customers who are able to build their own miner based on the Minion chip:
Option 1: Replace each Prospero (2 Thash) including the compensation package (1Thash) with 50 Minion ASICs (up to 7 Thash)
or
Option 2: Replace each Prospero (2 Thash) including the compensation package (1Thash) with 20 Hashboards (each PCB includes 2 x Minion ASIC, heatsinks, power chips, inductors, capacitors) – 4.5 Thash. Note that due to the lack of a backplane these boards have not been intensively tested therefore further rework might be required (e.g: add some capacitors); should this work be required we will only provide documents on what needs to be done. The customer will be responsible of executing it and purchasing the parts.
Note: Opting for any of these options will not cancel your 25% discount for your next Minion orders.
We would also like to ask from help from the technical community to help speed up solving the issues that we have encountered or to design a new backplane. The solicited work will be rewarded accordingly (money, products, etc.)
Prospero X1
Prospero X1 miners are not affected by the issue mentioned above and we should start shipping next week once the cases will be delivered.
Note: To avoid any further delay we have the option to deliver the case-less X1 if any of the customers will choose so.
Please contact out customer support should you choose any of the options above.
