Topic: The Chili – 30+GH/s BFL based Bitcoin Miner Assembly - page 67. (Read 138054 times)
MrTeal just go enjoy thanks giving man. You deserve it!
I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
That's still a month away, I'm hoping these ship a lot sooner than that....
Canadian Thanksgiving silly!
Mon Oct 14 2013 Thanksgiving Day
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/thanksgiving-day
Phew. Guess I've been an abused BFL customer for too long...
I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
That's still a month away, I'm hoping these ship a lot sooner than that....
Canadian Thanksgiving silly!
Mon Oct 14 2013 Thanksgiving Day
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/thanksgiving-day
Very interested to see where project goes. Wanted to thank MrTeal and team for doing such a solid job.
TH had scared me from getting anything but ASICminer. But your professionalism to work on a solid plan to get product parts, assembly, all the way to customers is refreshing to see. I'm definitely going to be running some numbers after batch 2 info is announced. You successfully did more then TH before even announcing your product to public, again thanks for keeping being a professional alive.
TH had scared me from getting anything but ASICminer. But your professionalism to work on a solid plan to get product parts, assembly, all the way to customers is refreshing to see. I'm definitely going to be running some numbers after batch 2 info is announced. You successfully did more then TH before even announcing your product to public, again thanks for keeping being a professional alive.
I know, right?! It it's almost like there is no excuse for how badly BFL screwed up...
I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
That's still a month away, I'm hoping these ship a lot sooner than that....
Another question: What are the USB connections on the board? Regular USB? Micro? Mini? I have a ton of spare cables but I want to see if I have the right ones handy.
Asked and answered - it's Micro USB.
(not having a go, just emphasising that this is direct from MrTeal and not speculation.)
For the record: It's MINI-USB - exactly the same as the BFL cables.
FML - you are of course quite right, that is what is was what was confirmed, and I was so careful too. I am so sleep deprived at the moment, apologies to anyone who accidentally listened to me...
Very interested to see where project goes. Wanted to thank MrTeal and team for doing such a solid job.
TH had scared me from getting anything but ASICminer. But your professionalism to work on a solid plan to get product parts, assembly, all the way to customers is refreshing to see. I'm definitely going to be running some numbers after batch 2 info is announced. You successfully did more then TH before even announcing your product to public, again thanks for keeping being a professional alive.
TH had scared me from getting anything but ASICminer. But your professionalism to work on a solid plan to get product parts, assembly, all the way to customers is refreshing to see. I'm definitely going to be running some numbers after batch 2 info is announced. You successfully did more then TH before even announcing your product to public, again thanks for keeping being a professional alive.
This is madness - both of these things are in direct conflict with the BFL model!
You are supposed to be angry at the customers when you're late with shipping, be a lot later than you are, and refuse to give any reasons or apologise at all. And you're definitely not supposed to focus on the current customers, all your focus now should be on both drumming up more orders and secretly designing a second board - if you can use the preorder money that you didn't take from the first batch to fund that then that would be even better.
Honestly, can you sort it out though please - what kind of highly professional and courteous operation is this? You're gonna freak my BFL chips out, they weren't raised to be treated like this!
You are supposed to be angry at the customers when you're late with shipping, be a lot later than you are, and refuse to give any reasons or apologise at all. And you're definitely not supposed to focus on the current customers, all your focus now should be on both drumming up more orders and secretly designing a second board - if you can use the preorder money that you didn't take from the first batch to fund that then that would be even better.
Honestly, can you sort it out though please - what kind of highly professional and courteous operation is this? You're gonna freak my BFL chips out, they weren't raised to be treated like this!
Thanks for this. I needed a good laugh after way too many nights of not enough sleep. (Insert angry rant here at mmmerlin for good measure.)
Another question: What are the USB connections on the board? Regular USB? Micro? Mini? I have a ton of spare cables but I want to see if I have the right ones handy.
Asked and answered - it's Micro USB.
(not having a go, just emphasising that this is direct from MrTeal and not speculation.)
For the record: It's MINI-USB - exactly the same as the BFL cables.
Another question: What are the USB connections on the board? Regular USB? Micro? Mini? I have a ton of spare cables but I want to see if I have the right ones handy.
Asked and answered - it's Micro USB.
(not having a go, just emphasising that this is direct from MrTeal and not speculation.)
Another question: What are the USB connections on the board? Regular USB? Micro? Mini? I have a ton of spare cables but I want to see if I have the right ones handy.
A quick update. As was mentioned before, we are going to be into next week for shipping. It's absolutely not what we wanted obviously, but the way it lined up meant that a slip of a couple days pushes things from shipping at the end of one week to several real days later on the other side of the weekend.
I really do apologize for this, while getting shipping out by Friday was always the best estimate I really wanted to get it done so it's pretty disappointing that we're not there yet. I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
Also, for everyone that is anxious for information on batch two, we're still working on that and need to wait until we get a better understanding of the numbers involved and can get a date from the assembly house before we order additional PCBs. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation in that if we need to get interest before we can order PCBs since if we order too many it could kill any margin we make on this project, but if we don't get ahead and order them early they become very costly. I'm trying to get to everyone's PM in a reasonable amount of time, but some slip a little bit especially for the batch 2 stuff as we're very focused on getting our existing paid customers their product as soon as possible rather than worrying about preselling a bunch more product. That will come in time, and I'll get back to you all as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
I really do apologize for this, while getting shipping out by Friday was always the best estimate I really wanted to get it done so it's pretty disappointing that we're not there yet. I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
Also, for everyone that is anxious for information on batch two, we're still working on that and need to wait until we get a better understanding of the numbers involved and can get a date from the assembly house before we order additional PCBs. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation in that if we need to get interest before we can order PCBs since if we order too many it could kill any margin we make on this project, but if we don't get ahead and order them early they become very costly. I'm trying to get to everyone's PM in a reasonable amount of time, but some slip a little bit especially for the batch 2 stuff as we're very focused on getting our existing paid customers their product as soon as possible rather than worrying about preselling a bunch more product. That will come in time, and I'll get back to you all as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
This is madness - both of these things are in direct conflict with the BFL model!
You are supposed to be angry at the customers when you're late with shipping, be a lot later than you are, and refuse to give any reasons or apologise at all. And you're definitely not supposed to focus on the current customers, all your focus now should be on both drumming up more orders and secretly designing a second board - if you can use the preorder money that you didn't take from the first batch to fund that then that would be even better.
Honestly, can you sort it out though please - what kind of highly professional and courteous operation is this? You're gonna freak my BFL chips out, they weren't raised to be treated like this!
I'm perplexed as to what I can mount the PCI-e cards on... most PCI-e racks are angled and probably not stable when you add a fan, and I can't find a backplane with dummy slots that I can just buy one of.
I'm not sure what you mean by angled, but the idea for using PCIe was that someone who was going for high density could mount them in a 19" rack chassis for use in a datacenter. For someone that just has a few, you could just mount them on a simple system like the open air racks we used to use in the GPU days, or even forgo PCIe mounting altogether and just mount them flat on standoffs.Edit: Also, are fan power connectors built into these boards? Or will I need to connect them directly to the ATX power supply somehow?
A quick update. As was mentioned before, we are going to be into next week for shipping. It's absolutely not what we wanted obviously, but the way it lined up meant that a slip of a couple days pushes things from shipping at the end of one week to several real days later on the other side of the weekend.
I really do apologize for this, while getting shipping out by Friday was always the best estimate I really wanted to get it done so it's pretty disappointing that we're not there yet. I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
Also, for everyone that is anxious for information on batch two, we're still working on that and need to wait until we get a better understanding of the numbers involved and can get a date from the assembly house before we order additional PCBs. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation in that if we need to get interest before we can order PCBs since if we order too many it could kill any margin we make on this project, but if we don't get ahead and order them early they become very costly. I'm trying to get to everyone's PM in a reasonable amount of time, but some slip a little bit especially for the batch 2 stuff as we're very focused on getting our existing paid customers their product as soon as possible rather than worrying about preselling a bunch more product. That will come in time, and I'll get back to you all as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
I really do apologize for this, while getting shipping out by Friday was always the best estimate I really wanted to get it done so it's pretty disappointing that we're not there yet. I was looking forward to relaxing on Thanksgiving and eating turkey instead of dealing with getting shipping labels created and sent off.
Also, for everyone that is anxious for information on batch two, we're still working on that and need to wait until we get a better understanding of the numbers involved and can get a date from the assembly house before we order additional PCBs. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation in that if we need to get interest before we can order PCBs since if we order too many it could kill any margin we make on this project, but if we don't get ahead and order them early they become very costly. I'm trying to get to everyone's PM in a reasonable amount of time, but some slip a little bit especially for the batch 2 stuff as we're very focused on getting our existing paid customers their product as soon as possible rather than worrying about preselling a bunch more product. That will come in time, and I'll get back to you all as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
I'm perplexed as to what I can mount the PCI-e cards on... most PCI-e racks are angled and probably not stable when you add a fan, and I can't find a backplane with dummy slots that I can just buy one of.
I'm not sure what you mean by angled, but the idea for using PCIe was that someone who was going for high density could mount them in a 19" rack chassis for use in a datacenter. For someone that just has a few, you could just mount them on a simple system like the open air racks we used to use in the GPU days, or even forgo PCIe mounting altogether and just mount them flat on standoffs.
Anyone know how many chips were processed in batch 1. I'm wondering if this next batch will be higher volume.
I have chips ready to ship from Canary, but I haven't gotten an email response back from MrTeal.
i would like to know that as well
i have my chips
I have chips ready to ship from Canary, but I haven't gotten an email response back from MrTeal.
Just for everyone's info: I ordered the Hyper 212 EVO coolers from bitcoinstore.com and they shipped them the same day from Bloomington CA so I received them the very next day. The price was an unbeatable $27.94 each including shipping. Compare to Amazon at $33.24.
It's actually (a little bit) cheaper at Amazon when you include taxes+shipping (which are already included at Amazon)
I'm perplexed as to what I can mount the PCI-e cards on... most PCI-e racks are angled and probably not stable when you add a fan, and I can't find a backplane with dummy slots that I can just buy one of.
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