The first test PCBs were supposed to arrive Thursday before I left for holidays. I'll get them when I return this week, and have a few test units dispatched to resellers and reviewers within a few days. That's the plan anyways.

And of course there'll be pictures posted.

I officially approve the name "Biggie" for the BM1384 pod. The pod product line already has an official name (like Compac for the stickminers) but since the BM1384 stuff is a bit different right now, kind of a parallel track, it doesn't have to fall in line. 2Pac for the stick, Biggie for the pod, it's too good to pass up.

Pods will have 80mm heatsinks and fans.

From the first post of this thread:

Due to the Christmas, my availability will be sketchy the next couple days. If you want to order a 2Pac, either be prepared to wait a bit for me to get back to you.

Based on tracking, I very much expected to see the 2Pac test PCBs arrive today, but for some reason they didn't. Just as well because I ended up not having time to mess with 'em anyway, but it would have been nice to know they were in my custody. I'll make sure to grab 'em next week and get some assembled post-haste so I have some pictures for y'all.

I'll shoot for a stock setpoint of 0.1J/GH chip-level, which means about 0.11J/GH machine-level. The chips are supposed to go down to 0.07J/GH, and if you can keep them cool they'll probably hit 0.14J/GH at the top (assuming the regulators hold out).

I would check the original compac threads for various efficiency charts posted by me and TheRealSteve.

Also, more BF16 samples just arrived from Punin. I now have enough to make about 8-10 sticks and 5 pods after going through some in initial testing.

One of these days I'll get back around to my powered USB hub project.

Also, all orders paid as of now have been entered on the queue.

With the compartively low power density of these boards (compared to S7/S9/Avalon6 etc) they could be made pretty quiet. 6 boards in a 4U would run a bit hotter than an S2 at stock, but since it's adjustable that wouldn't have to be the case.

Probably not, given that the boards are flush with the heatsink on 3 edges and the 4th has all the connectors. But the heatsinks do have tapped holes on all 4 edges, so mounting like that is an option for sure. Unless you had custom heatsinks, but then you probably couldn't use all the screw holes if the heatsinks were smaller than the boards and you could get overheating chips from poor contact around the perimeter.

If you took a flat-bottom case you should be able to mount 6 board/heatsinks in there; a bit of drilling will get you holes through which to solidly mount the heatsinks. It wouldn't hurt to put a beam across the top that's notched to stabilize the boards further. You'd probably need to tie into USB headers same as inside an S3 case, and to fit power cords you might need a board built with straight PCIe instead of right-angle, but otherwise there'd be no issue. Tuck a small hub in the corner and call it good.

If you have C1 waterblocks (and there were independent manufacturers building similar things, if I'm remembering right) these would mount right up.

The group buy must be talking about per pair. I didn't pay attention to details, as soon as I saw it was advertising stuff I hadn't made yet I figured the whole thing was unnecessary.

I'm basing the 2TH/board estimate off 33 chips per board at about 65GH per chip. Of course that can go up or down, 65GH would just be the nominal setting for the power consumption I'm looking for.

Only the mechanical parts of the S-miners will be reused. Heatsinks, fans, et cetera. The only other parts are the hashboards (obviously not reused) and the controller (obviously not reused) and those won't be reused.

Pretty sure this question has been answered several times (at least once recently), and when you asked a similar question earlier in a GB thread I responded there too.

But since everything I make is adjustable, it should be able to run on a standard USB port. The test setup VH uses is hooked into a computer port.

If an S3 can fit in a 4U server case then these can also. There was talk about a year, year and a half ago about trying to standardize something like that for more industrial-scale mining with swappable boards. Probably be more fitting discussion for the dev thread than a sales thread though. If I remember, I'll get some measures when I'm at the shop later.

That'd probably be easier, since it'd only require one person to keep track of everything instead of both of us.

How do we want to keep this straight? Should your GB guys PM me with their payments, or do you want to collect everything in a CGB-specific address and send it on in a couple weeks? I mean unless the Canadian market really takes off, I probably won't have an issue with the  "cashflow" of this group's quantity of sticks.

My Christmas chips from Bitfury have entered the US. Expected delivery Tuesday.

I don't think I'll have time this week with a lot of manufacturing going on, but I hope to have a BM1384 pod PCB sent off for by month's end. And then I'll be for the most part in a holding pattern with manufacturing, which will get me a lot of dev and test time in January on BF16 stuff before 2Pac manufacture kicks in.

Yeah, people who haven't paid yet. Buncha freeloaders. Buncha polite and hardworking freeloaders.

Luke-Jr was given a 1-chip Compac to develop around. I don't know if the 2Pac will be supported by default (under S5 compatibility) or not.

I don't really know anymore what they charge, but 3% is what I estimate when people ask. I don't require folks to cover the fee.