From the klondike k16 thread , 350Mhz
For each K16, the components including the heat sink, board, power cables, etc. cost us around $45. And we were prepared to assemble around 5,000 K16s (for 80,000 chips). There goes $250,000.
Why ?
The Fear/doubt spread by a few members (along with the delay from Yifu) lead to a lot of refund requests. The result of which was that, if we continued with the project, we would have been left with inventory worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in our hands. And it would have been almost impossible to sell it at a price where we could even break even. Even if nobody asked for a refund, we would still have been left with about $125,000 worth of useless components (read point 4 above). But with about half of our customers asking for a refund, we would be stuck with another $350,000 worth of inventory that we couldn't have sold for more than $150,000, putting us under red for over $300,000.
-->> Point 4. The Power Inductor 38L361C was not available anywhere, so we instead bought SPM10040T-R36M170. But the latter was not pin compatible with the former. So we ended up changing the circuit board. I will publish the updated KiCad files.
If pushed into a corner, I will defend myself.
Theres 2 Power Inducator
http://www.oemstrade.com/search/SPM10040T-R36M170/ that go on a k16 board, and there 1.16$ each.
thats 10,260$ on these for 5k k16's,then they claim to have changed the circuit board, no word on the updated kicad files for a month.
One picture Th posted of k16 x4 shows these power indicators.
And don't tell me you went on to reprint 5k circuit boards because of a power indicator.
Everyone else assembling the k16s seemed to have found the original Power indicator....
Where is this 125k of "useless components" coming from?
Avalon even had the 10k chips for 100BTC for over 2 weeks on their website. Could have bought those and put together the boards.
They even posted a code on Bkk thread with the dam firmware for the k16 to work 100%.
All this shit and then you add the 50% refund crap, then you go off posting shit like the corner dog bullshit.
Quote from: Bitcoinorama on May 07, 2013, 10:57:01 PM
Could we poss have the names and faces behind the venture please? And any relevant backgrounds. It's kinda nice to know who's who, increase confidence, etc...
Sure, we'll create a "Our Team" page on the website. By the way, my name is Amir.
Heres another person with the k16 assembled, on AUG 15TH.
http://placedroid.com/blogs/news/8625479-place-droid-assembles-first-of-many-klondike-k16-bitcoin-mining-engineshttp://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0222/4886/files/IMG_9938_grande.JPG?104Mitten k16
https://i.imgur.com/T4BjST6.jpgBkk thread 333 100%
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[2013-10-24 21:51:48] Accepted fd785d9f Diff 1/1 KLN 0
[2013-10-24 21:51:48] Accepted bd4757bf Diff 1/1 KLN 1
[2013-10-24 21:51:49] Accepted d1596286 Diff 1/1 KLN 1
[2013-10-24 21:51:49] Accepted dde792b4 Diff 1/1 KLN 1
Congrats to all concerned!
