Once I have samples of the new PCB in hand and they're tested to work, I may do a "limited first run" sale of them, maybe a dozen or so, to put toward a full batch.
Good thing about the Terminus design is, about 80% of the components transfer over from the 2Pac. It's basically if you wired 4 2Pacs together, the only thing you'd need to replace is the main Vcore regulator. So I already have enough of most things to get started at least. The biggest hindrance, as always, is chips, but people have turned out with S5 boards lately that put me well over the top for the 2Pac batch and, if the really big one finally works out, I'd have enough chips for several hundred Terminus already. Since 2Pac manufacture delays were traced pretty much directly to ASIC availability and reliability of installation, both of which are now solved, Terminus manufacture should go much much faster overall.
Once Bitfury 16nm stuff starts talking enough for a Compac, it'll be almost trivial to port over to a Terminus as well. The most complex things will be communication and power; power is being solved right now, and communication will be a direct copy from the stickminer.
If the Terminus prototype can be made to run 300MHz (132GH) stable and reliable off VH's new freq-step code, I'm calling it good. Though I should probably run it in a quiet environment and see if the fans are annoying. That's something people care about, right?
It sounds like you are making good progress. If you are still accepting the same payment methods as you did for the stick miners, I would love to purchase and test two of your "limited first run" sale units, or only one unit if you want to be able to spread them among more folks.
