Topic: March 30th BFL ASIC update - page 3. (Read 7739 times)

No way dude

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1676215

If I knew the fixed cores would be in within a week then I would hold off. 

I have pre orders from July of last year, If I was bumped to the front of the "fixed" line I would wait. 

If they would be delayed only a week or 2 from the other "broken" chips then I would be ok with that.

Hopefully we will get answers really soon!  Like before even the first pre-orders ship!!!

Situation with Jalapeno makes me wonder as well. Another thing that makes me wonder is how come new orders would need to wait 2 months
if BFL makes 400 units per day, it makes no sense. They haven't got that many orders to start with and a lot of people cancelled their orders,
especially in last few months, since problems with delivery date and other issues started.

Main concern for me right now is will those who ordered recently or even today will get the new, improved SC, or will be getting "old", flawed ones?

If would would prefer to wait for a unit after we've made some changes to the systems that need a bit of tweaking, we will be happy to put your shipment on hold. However, if you'd rather have the units right now at an increased power usage, we will ship you as many units as required to get you to the hashrate your purchased, if we end up having to scale back any given class of unit to fit within the power envelope of the current board design.

Im fine with them shipping whatever Ghz I ordered.

However they should give more Ghz due to them failing on their power targets.

I hope they will give us rework instructions if the power issue is with their board or the VRs.

Their board is nothing but VR and ASIC!  The current leakage can only be in one of 2 places!!!!

Yes, that is indeed what a real company would do.

See where the problem is?

Have you actualy inspected the size and complexity of Avalon vs SC?

Typically a company would do a major redesign like whole new PCB layout and/or whole new chip design, change the product name then announce end of life of the old product ahead of time.

Finally! Now the various units can be sent out for UL and FCC approval. I'm pretty sure that's only a 24 hour process, 48 hours at the most, being that a holiday weekend is at hand. Meanwhile, a wave of emails, like a swarm of locust, is going to be sent out for customers to send in their FPGAs, otherwise no ASICs. All should go smoothly from this point forward since enough time has past to make sure all the information on file is up to date and the 1/3:1/3:1/3 shipping arrangement has been all ironed out.

Happy Days!

This is an extremely important and usually overlooked detail. If they stop selling the version you have then it breaks down you get nothing, the product lifetime is over. If they start making a new version immediately after shipping then the warranty will last until they finish shipping the first batch then it's over, which could be a very short time.

28 March 2013 - Mini-Update

I had wanted to post a video tonight, but wasn't able to make that happen, so let me apologize for that in advance. As some of you may know from the chatbox, we have been working diligently to get these ASICs out the door. We've been tracking down a power issue these last few days and have it isolated to a few key systems. In the interest of time, we are planning on potentially scaling back units hashing speed as required to accommodate the extra power and shipping multiple units to those that want their units right now. If would would prefer to wait for a unit after we've made some changes to the systems that need a bit of tweaking, we will be happy to put your shipment on hold. However, if you'd rather have the units right now at an increased power usage, we will ship you as many units as required to get you to the hashrate your purchased, if we end up having to scale back any given class of unit to fit within the power envelope of the current board design.

We have the current design hashing, and as I said, I had hoped to have a video of a unit hashing here in KC, but I wasn't able to bring that all together tonight, but hopefully I can get it posted up tomorrow or by this weekend. I will update as soon as I have more news to share, with a video.

If you absolutely do not want a unit that is consuming more power than expected, you can let us know you'd like to wait for a revised unit or you are welcome to request a refund. If you'd rather have your units shipped regardless of increased power usage, we will still guarantee your hashrate by shipping you however many units are required to achieve your purchased hashrate. There is no need to contact us right now if you are not concerned about the power usage and just want your units shipped ASAP. Even with the increased power demand on these first units, they will still out perform any competing products by a very wide margin in terms of power and megahash/J.

Again, we apologize for the delay, but we are almost there.

I think if they really have something can work, no matter how much power drain it is or how hot it is, they can provide a short mining video. But except words, we see nothing.

Lifetime of the product.

Does the lifetime warranty also cover the cost to replace a house after they burn it down?

Well, at least BFL offer a Lifetime warranty