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So about two days ago I got an email from BFL saying my Jalapeno was on the way.  I was a first day order and I only ordered one for fun since I was more focused on the singles, who knew.  So today my Jalapeno showed up and so I took some video and pictures of the device before I opened it, what came in the box and then it running on my system.  The video is at Youtube at the links below.  I am not going to take it apart because I want to see how it runs and I would like to see how it holds up compared to the FPGA as in how well it operates from BFL without my interfering with it.  In the second video you notice that the fan noise is really bad that is not from the Jala it is from all the other gear.  The Jala sounds really quite and I am really impressed on how cool it runs as is.  Also I made a mistake and the Jala is mining at 5.1 and not 5.5 but I am happy.  This unit just runs great out of the box so far but I will say that the bottom is very warm.

Open the box

http://youtu.be/resTnZa3erg (http://youtu.be/resTnZa3erg)

Run the dam thing
http://youtu.be/RiCmZ9kjYek
 (http://youtu.be/RiCmZ9kjYek)

Can’t wait for the singles because it is great to have an ASIC running!

And so it begins..
Well it is a relief to see a non-developer running one finally.
I ordered early march so ... it'll be a while i guess  :-[

Hope not, I think BFL is going to really start cranking so hope you see yours soon.  These seem a whole lot better then the FPGA singles.

Did you recieve yours just because you are a reviewer (are you one?)?  Seems like BFL only ships out to those who give them free PR...  ::)

jealous!!

Neat!  Do you have a kill-a-watt or some other way to measure the wattage draw?

I find it suspicious, that every person (almost) who has received a unit then creates a YouTube video.. Nice signature as well: 60 GH/s BFL Single SC - Pre-Order Yours Today!
`````` Only $1299.99 - butterflylabs.com ``````

Here, have a tinfoil hat.

I'd find it fair to give you affiliate BTC in case of an order :D

I just ordered a jalapeno this past week. I may literally be the LAST GUY to get a Jalapeno at this rate. But you bet your sweet ass I'm makin' a video when it comes! Even though difficulty will be 400,000,000 by then!  :D :D

I totally agree with you. I think this guy is the first one to measure the temperature with an IR meter too.
I think they are shipping out only to reviewers to suck more people in to buy their devices. I bet there are many who don`t even know that its useless to buy anything from BFL now.

It seems suspicious to me.

I'm really happy for you.

Nope I am not a reviewer, I do like BFL but I am a customer.  Most people from what I have seen would need a video to back up any claims that I got one.  I figured I would show people what I got and since I was one of the first that is why I did what I did. 

No, I really should have one and where I live I am not sure where to get one quickly.  Sorry I know a lot of people are asking how much power is it taking and I really should double check that.

He has a point about the signature, though.  It not 'tin-foil hat' realm to wonder about that.

What voltage and amps does the external PSU provide if I might ask?

Ok well to be 100%, that signature was for the BFL contest they had a while back and I have not removed it and don't really care to.  I don't even post here much anymore because its not worth the time.  I figured I would spread the word that someone got an ASIC item from BFL.  Take it for what you want but I know I am hashing now and hope to be hashing more later on.

Appreciate the up thanks  :)

Exactly. Except absolutely NOTHING like a ponzi scheme. But other than that, sure...

It amazes me how many haters there are on this forum, who cannot be bothered to pick up a dictionary.

If you want to know what a ponzi scheme is, think about how social security works.

By that definition, all facets of all governments are ponzi schemes. If no more people enter the workforce, then eventually no more taxes and no more spending.

I agree with the definition issue.

But BFL is a failure lol. 10 months? 6 months late?

Just because they delivered does not mean they did not cost their customers opportunity in the process of their incompetent "development" process.

Ah, no tinfoil hat necessary. It's been mention before on BFL forums that they shipped to reviewers, magazines, developers and hardcore supporters. Everyone else was left out in the cold.... (as far as I know)

If it doesn't benefit BFL in more sales you won't see a unit shipped there.

Well so far...lol

Preorder 10 months ago and the first people to get units are people to give BFL good PR. Fuck the customers right?

LOL

smoothie, how many customers need a working product before you'll admit BFL has a working prototype? Just curious.

The orange ignore button beneath his name suggests to me that the answer may not be finite.

As an aside, ignoring users with large red signatures appears to be an excellent policy.

Hey that's interesting. Is the darker the background color on the ignore button, the more people have ignored someone? Never noticed that.

HDSolar would you be willing to disclose your order number?

Whist you are at it, can you let us know how much CPU and RAM the running process on your computer takes up, so we can gauge the minimum PC hardware required to run the unit?

Highly suspicious indeed...  The only non-BFL videos of BFL devices we see are made by people who take videos of the BFL devices they've received...  It must be a conspiracy!

We demand to see videos of BFL devices from people who are really pissed off with BFL and cancelled their orders.. oh no, wait...

I know.... we demand to see videos of BFL devices from people who are really pissed off with BFL but who didn't cancel their orders who won't post a video because they don't want to promote BFL.  Yes, that's the one...  er...  ::)

So we could wait for someone who ordered a mini rig.

He will probably be pissed enough to be still pissed, even if the device arrives :D

I would not doubt it.

I am wondering how gigavps ended up with a Jalapeno considering I don't think he ever ordered one.  It must be a placeholder for the 4 mini-rigs that may never come.

Think about it. Let us say the Single works... and they deliver 30 singles :D:D:D:D:D

I know of a mining service that ordered three mini rigs. Now thinking about setting up 90 Singles, that sounds like a pain in the ass :D

http://imgur.com/o8qUpLf.jpg


this is just too much stupid in one small space for me.

Name:   mojod
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Youtube video, promoting BFL in signature.. seems legit

For the record, I ordered 2 minirigs and would have no problem receiving 50 of the 60 GH/s singles or 60 of the 50 GH/s singles in lieu of them.
Quite to the contrary, this would make it easier for me to plug the devices into different power lines and strategically put them underneath separate A/C vents.

Your only option right now would be 600 of the 5 GH/s units. I'd like to see that. :)

Where you would probably have trouble is the USB wiring, and I am not sure how many simultaneous BFL devices an instance of cgminer can handle. It would be worth finding out.

One USB host itselfs limits number of devices to 127 hubs included ;)

Limited only by the operating system. It may not be able to display them all on the screen, but it will work with them, and you're better off using separate monitoring tools that talk to the cgminer API if you have that many devices anyway.