Yeah, I saw that! Looks like everything's coming together.

On another note, we've gone a little over budget on parts due to only 203 of the 256 available K16s being ordered. This means we have some excess inventory on some of the components that went out of stock early at some of the suppliers. This is relevant because it means a smaller refund for everyone. I'm working to increase our margins a bit again. If you know of anyone considering using Stumptown Miners, please have them PM me as soon as possible. We should be making our final component purchases in the next couple days. I was planning on making them today, but I've decided to follow BkkCoins' lead and let the final design sit in peer review for a couple days first.

We may also go over budget on heatsinks due to the supplier I was talking with becoming unresponsive. If anyone knows of a place where I could get some cheap heatsinks to fit the K16s, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Any word on testing the chaining capabilities? I'm hesitant to start producing boards if I can't be sure they'll be chainable.

Thanks for all your hard work, BkkCoins. Wouldn't be doing any of this if it weren't for you! :-)

Any news on this yet? I need to get heatsinks ordered for my assembly service ASAP.

That's odd. According to the current exchange rate, evilscoop's service is more expensive than mine, and yet he gets better ROI. 

Yeah, that's the other problem. I don't have the transaction ID because I'm pretty sure I paid directly from an exchange.  

But again, I'm having second thoughts regarding the refund now. Strange how comforting a solid shipping date can be. I'm just hoping this date, being as late as it is, is solid.

I have a ticket open for a refund. Reconsidering now that we have a solid shipping date, though. Probably won't be receiving a refund anyway since I didn't keep my BitPay invoice URL. I figured the receipt I got from Avalon would contain whatever information I needed to do business with them in the future. Silly me. :-/

+1. I'll be tipping you quite heavily once I get miners in the hands of my customers. (My margins are, unfortunately, still too fluid to allow me to give you what you deserve until then.)

Fair enough. I'll delete my other posts.

I may be interested.

No, these are not ASICs. They are parts on the bill of materials for the Klondike that have gone out of stock in all the online stores.

Down to 52 now.

Ah, BkkCoins found more. I'm still donating the parts he needs, but it looks like I can still offer 256 K16s total.

Okay, so BkkCoins needs some of the components I bought for Stumptown Miners. I managed to snap up the last few 360nH power inductors before he could get any, so I'm lowering the number of K16s I'm producing from 256 to 250. That means there are now only 56 K16s left.

If anyone has any objections, speak up now. I personally feel like this is fair, though, since without BkkCoins none of this would be happening.

I'm still getting requests for orders via PM, and that's fine by me. I would rather have these PICs on Stumptown miners than have to sell them. I am a little amused, though: it seems like a good number of people waited until after the deadline to make their decision, since we've gone from 71 K16s ordered from before the deadline to 167. I have capacity for 256 K16s, and once we reach that, or once I sell the remainder of my PICs (whichever comes first), we are closed. Full stop.

If anyone still wants to get in on this, feel free to PM me. All orders taken through the order form earlier are covered, but any requests for orders I receive via PM will be contingent on component availability. I also reserve the right to suddenly snap shut the "extended ordering window" if it looks like component suppliers are running low on one of the components on the current BOM.

Down to 89 now.

In anticipation of there being shortages, I bought a mix of 256 PIC16LF1459-I/SS and PIC16LF1459-E/SS to put into miners. At present, I have only had 99 K16s ordered from my assembly service. I'm now looking to offload the remainder of my PICs.

At present, I have 157 of the PICs available, with 90 in hand and ready for immediate shipping. I'm looking to sell them for $2 apiece, to be transferred via Bitcoin. JohnK has my personal information and is doing identity escrow for my assembly service. I'm willing to extend that escrow protection out to this, since it's an extension of what I'm doing with Stumptown Miners.

Let me know if you're interested, or if you have any questions.

Okay, I'm about to start emailing everyone who ordered a K1 and asking them to confirm the refund addresses I have on file. After I receive confirmation of the refund addresses, I will be sending refunds.

Also, I've had a couple PMs come in asking to buy more K16s. I've decided that *if* these people can pay for the K16s before the PICs I need to make the K16s they want get sold, then they can have them. I figure this will help us by potentially getting us to a bigger batch size. They will, of course, be behind everyone else who has already paid. And I'm not re-opening the order form, since any orders that come in at this point are contingent on my excess PICs not all getting sold off.

Finally, regarding burn-in: at present I think it would be best to have Colin, if he's willing, mine for a while against a Bitcoin address under my control (address TBA), and then disperse the funds at that address to everyone's refund addresses according to the percentage of Gh/s they contributed. I figure that will get everyone recouping their investments faster and will keep Colin from having to juggle a bunch of config files.

I haven't talked with Colin about this plan yet, because I wanted to see what you guys thought first. Does this burn-in plan sound good to you?

Edit:
Alright, I just finished emailing everyone who ordered and paid for a K1 regarding their refund addresses. Please check your spam and trash folders if you ordered and paid for a K1 and don't see an email in your inbox. If you don't see the email anywhere, please let me know.

Yes, I'll be sending $40 worth of BTC to everyone's refund addresses for each K1 ordered, assuming we don't get a huge number of K1s ordered in the next couple of hours.

Nope, no price change. I'll be happy to send you your extra chips along with your K16s. :-)

If anyone with chips from a group buy is looking to jump ship, you have about 7.5 hours to get in on my assembly service. It looks like only the K16s will be getting produced, though, unless we get a bunch of last minute K1 orders.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203388.0