1. You have it the wrong way round, the $13K price is the retail price it was always going to be.
2. The $10K price was a discounted price for previous customers, any previous customer of Batch 1 or Batch 2 devices.

Perhaps they are concerned about how close their competition are to launch, and want to be ready to blow them away ASAP. Better to stop what you are doing now and focus your energy on the next evolution.

I don't know, I don't work for them, however they aren't Samsung or someone that has enormous amounts of production capacity, heck they don't have the buying power or manufacturing power to make the components they need by themselves. They actually  bought the entire worlds supply of the VRM modules for Batch1 and had to switch (luckily to something more efficient) for Batch2.

I'm not saying that its not impossible for them to keep on selling Jupiter level hardware and continuing to make money, anything is possible if there is a will. Its not even that they don't have the manpower or resources to both sell, build and ship more of the 28nm designs, although tbh their ordering and back end systems and resources are at breaking point as it is from what I have seen/experienced etc.

I think its deeper than that, I think that there are multiple factors, some of which might be listed above, I think its a bit of a balancing act. I think its also about making a 3TH feel affordable while difficulty levels aren't stratospheric. Theres probably even a little bit of techy geekness in there about being the first to 20nm, about creating something better than and before the competition does. It may even be possible that they want to control the hash rate of the network to a certain degree, again making it more attractive for future buyers to be offered something that stands half a chance of making money.

But to be fair I don't think the OP gives a monkeys about KnCs business practice, all they want is a 600Gh/s miner because they missed out and are kicking themselves because of it.

We were talking about ASICMiner blades, keep up 

No, but I did find with my 4 VRM one that putting the volts up too much turned the core off like your Die 2 is showing.

Is that what your trying to do? Get Die 2 up and running?

I agree that being circumspect is a prerequisite in dealing with ASIC hardware, I was so careful about it I waited until my supplier started manufacturing before jumping in! 

Now I don't have any stake or money sunk into blackarrow, and don't know more of them other than that they have some track record of building and designing Lancelot FPGAs in the past.

However, registering your domain name at a different address isn't a big deal. And the contact numbers as described on the site are local contact numbers provided as a courtesy to customers so they can make local calls, which are then routed back to the China helpdesk.

So as usual caveat-emptor but I think BA have better credentials than some in the game.

Apparently they pull around 375W so a good single rail 600-650W Gold PSU would be my choice.

Something like EVGA SuperNova NEX 650W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

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Because its evolve or die, if KnC don't move to 20nm and more powerful rigs then they will be left in the dust.

Basic business sense.

Apparently ASICminer V1 and V2 blades are EOL and will no longer be made, the last batches are being done now the next ones will be v3 on a new tech. The only way to get new V2 tech at the moment is if you buy a cube.

And you can't compare something like mobile phones where they make millions of the things, Samsung did stop making the Galaxy 3 once they launched the Galaxy 4. They just had so many G3's made and in the distribution channel that it "appears" like they kept on making it.

Jeez here we go, fubly you realise there is a Marketplace in these forums right?

Works with mine, but I am perplexed by the lack of remedial maths skills, I must have been asked about a dozen times WRT to this.

Just so everyone is clear, if the starting voltage is a negative number, moving it closer to zero INCREASES the voltage.

Bad wording on my part. I meant the same amount of PH dumped of course it would have less of an effect as the network is bigger since the first batch

Looks like a screenprint stencil? Is it?

I dont think anyone except KnC knows. They have said they have done over $30,000,000 in orders, so say that the average price between Batch #1 Jupiters, Saturns & Mercuries is $4500 roughly & the Batch#2 Jupiters and Saturns is $4000 so go high and say $5000 is the average price of all the hardware sold (predominantly Jupiters with quite a few Saturns and not many Mercury devices) so 30m / 5k is 6000 units.

I get my emails answered within 4-6 hours. Even during the "emergency" yesterday.

Why do you think anyone would be a better guess than you? I think Batch 2 will have the same effect on the network as Batch 1

History has proven its a fruitless excercise.

Seeing as the distinction used to be gpu vs other. Why not split it like that, make a gpu mining sub forum and make custom the main forum for hardware

Keep up 

Yeah my November was "In progress" now its showing just "Paid" at least its not showing "Cancelled" anymore

I like the concept of using a mITX case and slotting them into the HDD bays. Very creative.