Topic: Swedish ASIC miner company kncminer.com - page 464. (Read 3050075 times)

If you are waiting for a refund please add your details here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/kncminer-neptunes-refund-list-601855

Wrong. It will be 3TH in June and 3TH in August!

Neptune B1 and B2 units are supposed to be shipping June and will be 6TH/s. Since the markets are starting to show signs that 2008 is fast and approaching I would rather have my miner in hand before the markets take a major dump than to be the one waiting for anything to be shipped because you'll be waiting until the sheep come home before your miner ships!

Asked for BTC refund on 28 April for a very early CA batch order. Emailed them every 2 days. This Monday they said, we will process your refund early week. Yesterday i wrote them, only answer. Sry you get your coins in afew days <----i mean WTF??

Wrote back that i cant take this serious, thats no answer! Respond was, sry cant tell you more, ask the manager but he will tell you the same.

I wrote now sam directly, i dont hope anything Still no refund or answer incoming!

I don't believe they get goxed or insolvent or anything like that. Just think they'll need some longer for the Neptunes or they don't bring many more then 3TH.
Why not accepting a BTC refund and sell it then for your CASH?

Personally, I would just take the BTC and be done with it. There is always the risk (although very small) that this could get "goxed"

Cheers

Think i was one of the first CA orders (#115XX) and one of the last that requested a refund. It hurts my tiny miner heart a little bit but it was to much mess here and no possibility to ROI the amount of refunded BTC with my electricity price.
We'll see us again in the next winter - when KnC is still here (i hope so) and learned from the mistakes.

Is anyone still holding CA Batch Neptune? If so, why?

Haven't been here for awhile and seems like KNC has gone to shit

Yeah, was just an example... If it were me, I'd have been to Radio shack getting supplies to try the moment I found out they didn't want them back for RMA...   I actually have a "magic" cold heat pen that would be perfect for this job like this...
I highly recommend it for beginners.   http://science.howstuffworks.com/cold-heat.htm
Hell, I bet I could just lay one of those caps back in its place, wet with flux and use a crude butane iron to touch that solder with and be done.
But the cold heat pen is really quick and easy, clean, and way safer.
Hope I inspired someone is all...    

its also easy to test a capacitor or resistor for viability.    http://www.ehow.com/how_7800310_check-defective-resistor-capacitor.html
you can get equivalent parts cheap right at radio shack for the bad ones.

Vrms....  good luck. I'd trash those pcb's probably, but you may find a source and the skill... that's where I'd "draw the line" personally


*On a different note tho...   the way those came loose so easily, even wrapped tightly in bubble-wrap leads me to logically deduct two distinct Possible causes...
1. The soldering points were not done properly... like a shortage of flux or not enough heat.
   ---OR ---
2. The component connections became brittle after being used at high temperature for an extended period of time.

But... then we have the hostname reports saturn-NNN  posted in the forum, which pretty much puts it into possibility fact 2, with the added possibility of #1 still.
Which could only mean one thing in my mind...  they pulled all that equipment off the shelf at Boden to make SuperJupiters. The facts just say so.

I live about 40 miles away from this place. Never seen the place, but I'm pretty sure they're using a lot of temp agency for rework jobs. In this area, some businesses would spend 10 cents to save a nickel. I did some solder work recently near here. I'm not saying that you don't have a good idea, I just wouldn't send it to SW Michigan.

The 'fixing the boards' might be the easy part.

I claim to posess the skills to repair them also.
There are people who like to solder everywhere.

The issue is trust, hand carry local and trust is high.
Ship them anywhere and shit could get out of hand easily.

I'd want a working board for my efforts, but I know what the potential is, where a local lab rat may not.

Even though I'd love to even get a few hours hands on on a Nov board I recommend a local 'while you wait' repair if possible.
I suggest avoiding dudes making claims on threads!
(yes that includes me)

YMMV

I have a local guy who did just that for me. He works out of his house but dude is totally awesome and fixed 5 boards for me (re soldered the knocked off pieces) all in an hours time. 4 out of the 5 cards worked and hashed just fine, Don't know what happened to the last one. Just never powered up. I can see if I can work out a deal with him if anyone wants to have their boards fixed. Price seemed fair @ $40.00 per board...

the only way it would make sense is to set up a mineral oil vat so you can you ditch the cost of heatsink/fans and dealing with heat and then make octofrankenjupiter where you have 48 boards in a vat and stash it in an old barn next to a powertower that you tap into for free

and of course set up a hotspot wireless zone there too

Those caps look as if they didn't get much flux, and knocked-off fairly easy, and clean. Most of The caps in the pics look like they would solder right back on. Most of the components which came loose look re-usable even, although some look like garbage. The boards are pretty beefy, and the solder points are large. I bet a good portion of the PCB's could be fixed with minimal effort, while others are not.
Someone should head up a group buy effort, and hire a bulk repair shop to whip them out. once they see how simple the repairs actually are, it may be worth the effort... just sayin'.
some place like this....      http://sybesmas.com/site/   could make easy work of a stack of those boards

knc are fucking idiot cunts

Maybe we have to look back. As a Bitcoin-enthusiast, I sometimes was not as critical against other people as I should have been. But when I look at KnC today, at Robocoin, at the Bitcoin Foundation: I see a lot of faces which I saw years ago in the press because of some huge scams and frauds. Big money has come into the former Bitcoin community. Big - grey - money. And the community didn't care. It is time to start to care. Then - and only then - we can avoid that we will have huge companies like banks which take over everything.

That was a a very good point.

Bitcoin is in need of serious escrow service. We laugh at PayPal, and forget that people love them because of 45-days refund system. I've been burned heavily buying BTC hardware and have no doubts that will get burned again in the future.

i get this too, half of my boards dont display a temperature

also sometimes my machine starts showing 0ghs on the knc interface but at my pool it repoerts hashing

faulty used gear...yum... i got baned from knc for calling sam cole a dirty criminal lel

If you know me you know I am not a BFL fan by any means, but can you possibly imagine what a reputation they would have had they delivered orders within 60 days of people placing an order!??!?!  Holy Shit could you imagine having a Mini-Rig in June of 2013??

They would have created a lot of rich people. They had the entire market to themselves and they could have done great for their customers but they chose the dark side.