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I will agree to a refund in BTC, at the price of BTC now, equal to cover the price I payed of $6060.00 USD for the single unit I ordered.

$6060.00 / ($440/BTC) = 13.77272727 BTC.

If I accepted #1, it needs a PSU to come with it... or it needs to be split into 2-units with 2-backplanes, 2-RasPi's and daughterboard, 2-LCDs, with the 6-cards total (3x and 3x), 2-cages and no towers. This, so I can buy two separate 750W-800W PSU's, as I would not pay additional $350-$580 for a 1500W-1600W PSU, which may not even have enough power.

Same if I accepted the technobit solution. I would still expect the same 1.2THs, 6-card setup, with the provisions to operate them as two separate units. This, again because of the power supply issue.

If no PSU is being provided (as you stated), and no tower-case (requested in my case)... I would think that the extra backplane, RasPi and daughterboard, and LCD screen, would be a fair replacement for the missing PSU and Case. (Oh, and all associated wires.)

As for the BTC or a cash "refund", if accepted... I could not wait another 6 months for that. That would have to be immediate.

Josh, I know you are in a tight spot, but that is the minimum I can personally spare to take as a loss myself. I tried to help, and did a little to those who asked in PM's. (As limited as my help was.) Wish I could have done more, but it seems that there is nothing I can do now. I am having to haggle for my property, which is actually disturbing me at this point. My compassion for you, and your situation, is still sincere. However, It is just a matter of business now.

Just for kicks and giggles, if accepted... Here is my BTC deposit address.
BTC refund: 1Ap9RcRb4qtTV5icioqfeT86Qj1eXFQ3Ez

Also likely the thermal grease on the other side was not very well applied either. Again real cut rate work to keep costs down. This is usually how some houses operate, AMT already made that much clear in this situation. But in either case we are paying the price. Seeing as they are now providing us with options...lets hope these options dont take us months of waiting again. I dont think I want to deal with that hassle. I still have the question....What is the timeline for the technobit solution?

The big sinks on the other side were drawing lots of heat, but obviously the design was inadequate.

The thermal tape was just inadequate for the job.  Nevertheless,  it is interesting that the heat sink on the otherside could not absorb the heat. 

So even if option #1 was working,  it would still be a fire hazard.   

The miner was running fine for hours just doing it's thing. I went to bed and when I woke up it it looked like that with the copper sink hanging on for dear life off the bottom of the tape.

I bought some extra fans , has one blowing cool air in and and another exhausting the hot air out.

So I ran to my computer and check the putty log and it was just popping up with an error over and over. SoI killed it and switched off the device and haven't mined since,even with the now one good card I have. I'm not looking for a fire, but at least I have renters insurance if it went up. Hell probably would have had my money back from the mier now if it would have gone up.

How did this happen?  I thought the heat sink on the other side was big enough to absorb all the heat?

I will agree to a refund in BTC, at the price of BTC now, equal to cover the price I payed of $6060.00 USD for the single unit I ordered.

$6060.00 / ($440/BTC) = 13.77272727 BTC.

If I accepted #1, it needs a PSU to come with it... or it needs to be split into 2-units with 2-backplanes, 2-RasPi's and daughterboard, 2-LCDs, with the 6-cards total (3x and 3x), 2-cages and no towers. This, so I can buy two separate 750W-800W PSU's, as I would not pay additional $350-$580 for a 1500W-1600W PSU, which may not even have enough power.

Same if I accepted the technobit solution. I would still expect the same 1.2THs, 6-card setup, with the provisions to operate them as two separate units. This, again because of the power supply issue.

If no PSU is being provided (as you stated), and no tower-case (requested in my case)... I would think that the extra backplane, RasPi and daughterboard, and LCD screen, would be a fair replacement for the missing PSU and Case. (Oh, and all associated wires.)

As for the BTC or a cash "refund", if accepted... I could not wait another 6 months for that. That would have to be immediate.

Josh, I know you are in a tight spot, but that is the minimum I can personally spare to take as a loss myself. I tried to help, and did a little to those who asked in PM's. (As limited as my help was.) Wish I could have done more, but it seems that there is nothing I can do now. I am having to haggle for my property, which is actually disturbing me at this point. My compassion for you, and your situation, is still sincere. However, It is just a matter of business now.

Just for kicks and giggles, if accepted... Here is my BTC deposit address.
BTC refund: 1Ap9RcRb4qtTV5icioqfeT86Qj1eXFQ3Ez

If no PSU is being provided (as you stated), and no tower-case (requested in my case)... I would think that the extra backplane, RasPi and daughterboard, and LCD screen, would be a fair replacement for the missing PSU and Case. (Oh, and all associated wires.)

This is indeed problematic for a couple of reasons:

(1) There is no screw that ensures that the heat sink has some pressure against the chip.
(2) The orientation of the boards are such that the boards are vertical and therefore gravity isn't even going to work to keep the heat sinks in place.  

Also, I've been saying for a while now.  These heatsinks are too small.

Look at the designs of both Technobit and Dragon.  They've got massive heat sinks on the chip side and it's okay even if the chips are all bunched together.   Even the AMT system has a much larger heat sink than what we see here at AMT.

I can't understand the design.  These are 28nm chips running on full throttle, AMT however decides to put the smallest heat sink one can imagine!  

Probably the thermal tape was poorly applied, creating an air pocket that led to that. Usually the case from what I have seen. Considering the assembly quality in general and overall leakage of the thermal grease this is not a shock. It looked like a rushed job.

If we are playing show and tell

AMT_miners,

Please refund my 2 miners, already May 7,2014 now,over half of year waiting, still nothing.  Thank you.

At this point we would expect they will take back the obviously flawed miners we all have and exchange them for properly working hardware. I presume that is the whole point of the options they are offering. Which also means receiving hardware that is shipped back. Can AMT clarify a plan for that as well? Considering mrpark's experience it puts everyone else on a bit of worry and with good reason.

Hard to prove that the damage was deliberate.

However, very easy to prove negligence.  The padding on my box was completely inadequate.  Anyone from FEDEX will attest to this.