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Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 149. (Read 3049514 times)

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February 25, 2015, 04:06:26 AM
This must mean they are close or finishing their new gen chips

"Close" is a relative term. They taped-out 20nm a whole year ago, and they're still shipping backlogged miners. 16nm is going to take even longer.

Thats because they have been mining with the 20nm stuff while designing the 16nm which they just taped out.

Those ccksuckers

legendary
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February 25, 2015, 03:19:30 AM
hows this for a FUCK YOU to KnC.

take a listen.

I paid 11 BTC for a neptune when btc was relatively high

I opted in for super jupiter (frankenjupiter)

received my hunk of shit half broken with heat-syncs smashing into the boards, there was some damage

I told them to send me more boards

bought some heat-syncs

made 2 frankenjupiters getting around 5+THS

Made about 17k of selling the gear and mining bitcoins (i sold 70% of one machine before I recieved it)

and the moral of the story is:

If I ever see Sam Cole I will punch him in the dick

 
legendary
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February 25, 2015, 12:20:53 AM
This must mean they are close or finishing their new gen chips

"Close" is a relative term. They taped-out 20nm a whole year ago, and they're still shipping backlogged miners. 16nm is going to take even longer.
sr. member
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February 24, 2015, 02:59:32 PM
Neptune #2 Arrived today.

Apparently it was out for delivery yesterday, so it's a good thing UPS sent me an e-mail about it or I would of never known.
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February 24, 2015, 02:26:08 PM
This must mean they are close or finishing their new gen chips
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February 24, 2015, 02:08:53 PM
Finally got tracking number for my CA batch 2-for-1 Neptune, order  #124xx
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February 24, 2015, 10:27:39 AM
It also stands to reason that many people will buy into a pre-order of a product when a company says they're going to stick around and continue building out machines. It's reasonable in people's minds because pre-orders usually cost more, as the first batch is the R&D batch with the highest costs. Normally after this, companies will keep that gear in a production lineup, and the purchase cost goes down--while giving customers a chance at a new generation if they wish.

What happened was KNC just kept changing generations. They could've added new generations while continue to create the original Jupiter lineup, but they probably feared that people would rather buy a known-functional product than to chance money with a new design, so they forced returning customers to stick with only one choice: new generation equipment each time.

One of the main reasons a company does this is if they're not truly supporting the customer, but if they're supporting themselves--which we know to be true. They kept and mine with more hardware than they admitted to originally, using the customers' crowd-sourcing to fund their new designs to provide themselves better equipment at no cost.
legendary
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February 24, 2015, 12:04:09 AM
How can people be so easily fooled?

You have a company that does a pre sale for a hashing device that promise great income and wealth for their customers.
Customers flock in by thousands, and pay the company many thousand dollars each to be part of this gold mine rush.
Company use all these people`s money to buy their own chips from TSMC and system builders to make these hashing devices.
In time the company sits with hashing power that are able to create many million dollars.
WHY DELIVER THESE TO THE PEOPLE AND END THE MONEY RAIN?
No, they make up silly excuses to upgrade the manufacturing to 20nm node. On a ASIC chip that doesnt use much energy in 28nm, and basically giving up the hashing race where time is crucial to get most money out of a given growing difficulty.

How does this even makes any sense in your head people? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
They made money for themselves out of YOUR money. "Testing", 20nm, manufacturing difficulties, etc, were all excuses to post pone the ending of the cash train.

THINK people.

i think you mean lied to - not fooled.

its not the same.

they didnt fool me at all - yet they lied continually.

and their fangirl base of easily pleased maggots reinforced the lies.

which also fooled me not.

legendary
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@theshmadz
February 23, 2015, 06:06:07 PM
Order #121xx bonus shipping notice recd. for delivery on the 23rd.

My
Mileage 
Varies
Widely
Smiley

Just had a nice delivery guy drop off a gift today as well...

I never thought in a million years they'd actually ship the bonus miners.
legendary
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February 23, 2015, 03:35:03 AM
Yet people did...because greed was bigger than prudence and common sense.
This whole pre-order game has always reeked of scam, but well.
I had a share in one of the Jupiter's first batches, got ROI and never ordered any ASIC again.

Nice to hear, I got -12,000$ for now..
hero member
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February 22, 2015, 02:34:25 PM
Yet people did...because greed was bigger than prudence and common sense.
This whole pre-order game has always reeked of scam, but well.
I had a share in one of the Jupiter's first batches, got ROI and never ordered any ASIC again.
newbie
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February 21, 2015, 07:41:22 PM
How can people be so easily fooled?

You have a company that does a pre sale for a hashing device that promise great income and wealth for their customers.
Customers flock in by thousands, and pay the company many thousand dollars each to be part of this gold mine rush.
Company use all these people`s money to buy their own chips from TSMC and system builders to make these hashing devices.
In time the company sits with hashing power that are able to create many million dollars.
WHY DELIVER THESE TO THE PEOPLE AND END THE MONEY RAIN?
No, they make up silly excuses to upgrade the manufacturing to 20nm node. On a ASIC chip that doesnt use much energy in 28nm, and basically giving up the hashing race where time is crucial to get most money out of a given growing difficulty.

How does this even makes any sense in your head people? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....
They made money for themselves out of YOUR money. "Testing", 20nm, manufacturing difficulties, etc, were all excuses to post pone the ending of the cash train.

THINK people.
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FUN > ROI
February 21, 2015, 08:50:48 AM
I discovered that the LCD fucks things up occasionally and run without for reliability.
I read some mutterings about that when I checked to see if the LCD part number happened to be in view anywhere.  Did they ever figure out if that was a firmware issue or a hardware issue - and if hardware, whether it was just affecting the controller, or the actual downstream miner?  Seems like a peculiar thing to be causing issues.
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February 21, 2015, 03:46:46 AM
I would think someone on here with electronics skills could show us/and or how to make one etc....can't be that hard (knc did so lol Smiley)
Looks like just a character display - you'd have to check what part it is, google for that, find identical or matching ones, hit up aliexpress/ebay/digikey/mouser/them new york city weirdos, and off you go.  Unless that board it's mounted on has special magic on it - I suspect it's just a breakout board though, but pictures are lacking clarity.

Any serial LCD designed for 3-5VDC operation prolly work fine.
I have a plasma display I was going to swap out (uses same serial interface)

I discovered that the LCD fucks things up occasionally and run without for reliability.

YMMV
Smiley

This is especially true for the titans
sr. member
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February 20, 2015, 03:33:45 PM
I would think someone on here with electronics skills could show us/and or how to make one etc....can't be that hard (knc did so lol Smiley)
Looks like just a character display - you'd have to check what part it is, google for that, find identical or matching ones, hit up aliexpress/ebay/digikey/mouser/them new york city weirdos, and off you go.  Unless that board it's mounted on has special magic on it - I suspect it's just a breakout board though, but pictures are lacking clarity.

Any serial LCD designed for 3-5VDC operation prolly work fine.
I have a plasma display I was going to swap out (uses same serial interface)

I discovered that the LCD fucks things up occasionally and run without for reliability.

YMMV
Smiley
sr. member
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February 20, 2015, 02:12:19 PM
Order #121xx bonus shipping notice recd. for delivery on the 23rd.

My
Mileage 
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Widely
Smiley
hero member
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FUN > ROI
February 20, 2015, 06:34:22 AM
I would think someone on here with electronics skills could show us/and or how to make one etc....can't be that hard (knc did so lol Smiley)
Looks like just a character display - you'd have to check what part it is, google for that, find identical or matching ones, hit up aliexpress/ebay/digikey/mouser/them new york city weirdos, and off you go.  Unless that board it's mounted on has special magic on it - I suspect it's just a breakout board though, but pictures are lacking clarity.
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Clueless!
February 19, 2015, 11:48:24 PM
did KNC send out the bonus neptune devices already?

and if yes are they used ones?

 Grin

I've opened a couple of boxes of bonus Neptunes. They seem brand new but the paint job is not as good as when they first came out (smudgy). Also the controller no longer comes with a display. So far I've bothered to set up one and it runs perfectly at 3.5 TH/s.
That's a shame, the display was a handy way to find the IP address and check on the hashrate.

I would think someone on here with electronics skills could show us/and or how to make one etc....can't be that hard (knc did so lol Smiley)

not sure it is worth anyones time at this point thou..
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February 19, 2015, 06:10:53 PM
did KNC send out the bonus neptune devices already?

and if yes are they used ones?

 Grin

I've opened a couple of boxes of bonus Neptunes. They seem brand new but the paint job is not as good as when they first came out (smudgy). Also the controller no longer comes with a display. So far I've bothered to set up one and it runs perfectly at 3.5 TH/s.
That's a shame, the display was a handy way to find the IP address and check on the hashrate.
donator
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February 19, 2015, 03:10:31 AM
did KNC send out the bonus neptune devices already?

and if yes are they used ones?

 Grin

I've opened a couple of boxes of bonus Neptunes. They seem brand new but the paint job is not as good as when they first came out (smudgy). Also the controller no longer comes with a display. So far I've bothered to set up one and it runs perfectly at 3.5 TH/s.
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