I received my order and have had them running a couple of days now so thought I'd do a very quick review.
Firstly I receive the order on Monday 11th, so that made it about 9 days from order to having them in my hand, which is obviously so much better than ordering things from Bitmain. Order process was super easy and I could pay with paypal so it really was a pleasant change from using Bitmain (who now insist on BCH only and make you wait months while they use the machines themselves).
Set up was
relatively simple, but I did have to google something. These were the first Avalon products I've used though so that's not that surprising and setting up a second lot would be pretty simple now I know the process.
The machines themselves have been running non stop for a couple of days now and I can see on the pool that the hashrate is very stable and exactly in the range advertised so everything good on that front. One thing to note is they are quite loud (as expected) and in particular the power supplies seem to be louder than bitmain ones (based on my L3's). I would possibly look into some alternative power supplies to keep noise to a minimum but not a huge issue for now and I'll be putting them in the loft soon anyway.
Luckily I read this thread before they arrived and someone pointed out that you needed power cables for both the power supplies and importantly for the raspberry pi controller. This wasn't clear originally but they've now put a note about this on the product listing, so that's fixed.
It' too early to make any comments about long term reliability of the machines, but in terms of dealing with Crypto Universe I'm very happy with the order and so will definitely be using them again in future. I'm looking forward to the A8's so I'll hopefully get an order in the coming pre order
