Arg, for the THIRD TIME... lol... My date was estimated, originally, to be (Mid Fed to Late Feb)... Which was before the chip-MFG, (Bitmine) announced they had delayed shipping chips to everyone. (Which included AMT's order of chips.)


The 1.0THs miners run at 1065W at the wall, running at 1.0THs, at chip-voltage... That would only be about 1278W for a 1.2THs, which a 1200W PSU can deliver. 1200W @ 80% efficiency will draw 1440W at the wall. It still delivers 1200W, but it consumes 20% additional power, to provide that 1200W. (Eg, my 750W PSU pulls up to 900W continuous power at the wall. Though, that is right at the PSU's maximum ability. Borderline operation at that point.)

However, that being said...

The 1.0THs miner from Bitmine.ch pulled 1065W at the wall, but the PSU was only delivering 852W to the boards, even less to the chips themselves. So, I would assume they were using a 1000W PSU or 1200W PSU. Are you still confusing chip-consumption with unit-consumption?

The 1500W PSU should be able to handle the 1.5THs worth of boards. Just not in high turbo mode. It should be able to handle 1.5THs in normal power, whatever they set as the default normal power for the unit. Running the 1.5THs unit at 1.2THs would be getting into the low-power mode, and the PSU should handle that without stress. Might be able to do 1.2THs under 900W at the wall, with the 1.5THs unit.

Better have a cot to spare... Save me some driving time... More time to work... Tell Josh to hurry-up and accept my employment already. lol. I can be there in a week!

P.S. I don't actually sleep much... (Insomniac) Only need like 4 hours tops... Then I am good to go back to work.

I told you... The middle of Feb to the end of Feb, is when they originally said the "shipping" for my order number would have been expected. I was never given a solid "shipping date" or "delivery date". Only a batch-date (Which was the first estimate on the website, where you placed an order.)

I imagine they will be using two PSU's, if they cram 6 modules into there. Assuming 2x 800w or 2x 900w... Since that would not be the standard setup for 1.2THs, those would be "special" setups for those who had to wait through the delays. Not sure what the full plan is, but I would strip-out those cross-braces on the cage, to open the miner up for better placement. Just got to pop-out a few rivets, and that horrible hard-drive section is out of the way.

P.S. If I do go there, to work... My thermal imager is coming with me... and my solowheel!

No need to apologize to me, for you being yourself...

No, My machine was expected (in a perfect world, without the delays), around the middle of Feb to the end of Feb. That is when they said shipping would be expected to "start", for the order-number I was located at. The follow-up places the next expected delivery-date for my order around the end of this month, I think... (Before they posted the issue update about the 1.5THs and the addition of trying to cram a 6th board in the units, via a back-plane extension or redesign.)

I'll mine later... Not like my coins are going up in difficulty any time soon. (I will not be mining high-diff BTC.)

The offer was extended here for assistance, I extended my desire to assist. They instantly replied with an offer to see about possibly to make arrangements...

I am sure more information will be required from me, before any final decision is made. However, the outlook seems promising that they will accept my honest assistance. (For assembly, at the least.)

As for Ioshia's comment... I am not "giving-up my $6k". I would be "deferring that payment". (Essentially getting a refund, then claiming it in full, at later date. To ease my relocation, being temporary or permanent, at their discretion.)

Opportunity knocked... I answered... I just hope there is someone on the other side of the door, not just the wind knocking. I take risks... Because I can. Because others can't. Because people tell me I shouldn't. Hasn't failed me yet.

I expect nothing and accept anything offered to me. That way, I am never disappointed.

As long as that Philly cheese-steak is real... that is all that matters to me. I will work for food!

That is why I posted it... because you posted you wrestling a bear... (100 pages back)

It's a Kilt, damn-it!

A fluffy pink kilt... He stole if from the bear!



P.S. Should be hearing from AMT sometime today, about my possibility of joining the assembly-team. Crossing my fingers, crossing my legs, crossing my eyes and dotting my Tee's.

P.P.S. If I go there, I am going to work, not play investigator or be the messenger. However, I will see what I can do, within allowable limits, to ensure the members here are kept better up-to-date. They need hands, and I have hands... So this should work-out well for all of us. (Most of us.)

Next year...

Oh wait... That was four years ago... I say that every year...

JK

I always took it seriously. I just never "took it", seriously. Until last year.
("Acquired it", for the slow people. P.S. ISAWHIM is I SAW HIM and also IS A WHIM.)

Thanks RM

P.S. Get your low-valued coins before the next big market-hike coming-up. My bot is drinking-up coins slowly still. Don't settle for less then USD$0.05/EMD, at the moment, they are USD$0.004/EMD. In BTC that is roughly 0.00008100BTC/EMD as opposed to the super-low 0.00000670BTC/EMD... Just don't pump it... buy slow. They will keep listing and selling at a loss. Apparently, they are all mining with free power on free hardware. lol.

The LTC/BTC spikes are coming.

For starters, we can stop calling it version 1.3, when the version is v0.6.3.0-unk-beta.



There is nothing indicating version 1.3, why it was ever called that, is unknown. (Personal dev version, just calling it whatever? Could be version cow-frog-delta-2... Or, like it actually says inside the wallet, v0.6.3.0-unk-beta.)
MENU
[HELP]->[ABOUT EMERALD]->{Emerald Version: v0.6.3.0-unk-beta}

That is confusing people, I am sure. Stumped me until I finally just ran it, v0.6.3.0-unk-beta, and it worked. Then realized there is no actual 1.3 version. )

Website, any luck with a shell website?

Block-Chain, any luck with that?

A formal take-over for a dead-dev that is unresponsive, would normally require a new official actively moderated post, with an appropriate title. Deemed once there were no strong objections. (Then subsequently, this thread would direct to that, in the last post, before having a moderator lock-it-up.)

Also, might want to check the other major alt-coin forum. Since that is a more friendly alt-coin forum. (This place seems to have a hatred for anything not BTC. Even though the alt-coins being alive, is what is making all those people more BTC, by us not mining BTC, and using BTC as a conversion-rate. But, whatever. )

Use a standard clamp-on amp-meter. Home depot.

Already got an instant reply, before your generous offer. However, arrangements are still being discussed with AMT. Should hear a more definite answer by the end of the weekend. (I would forward the e-mail, but it does contain personal information about myself, which I would like to keep personal.)

As for an NDA, that would actually be expected. I would have no issues with an NDA. However, I would still be pestering them for better communications, with the outside world. If I go this far, I am going to be in this for the long-haul, not the short-term Cheese-steak rewards. Though I do love my Cheese-steaks! I would rather see everyone-else get their miners as fast and as complete, as possible. (I have even offered to defer my order to the end of the list. So, that is already one miner that may be coming earlier down the line.)

P.S. If any assistance were additionally provided, getting me in there... It would be considered a loan, with repayment. I could not honestly accept it otherwise. (I have the money for the plain-ticket. Just not the arrangements for the short-term move to bunk. They are working on that.)

Your generosity is noted though, as such.

Ok, I'll come help... It will be worth the flight... (I have one of those jobs I can just walk away from. )

However, I will need a place to stay. Anyone there I can bunk with?

Hotels would cost me an arm and a leg.

Sending you an e-mail.

Don't forget, a few purchases are from guys working for the government.

This will not go good for AMT if those guys get burned. (Not that I think they will.)

I, myself, do not work for the government. However, both my parents do. One for the Navy, one for the IRS. Both have also worked for the US-Postal service at times. (Ok, the postal-service is not a horribly strong entity, but it is protected/run by the federal government.)

This will be an interesting few weeks ahead.

Remember, they have been operating for years from the same location. I am sure that if something was honestly askew, they would have been busted by now. Scammers usually don't operate from the same location for years. They move around, to avoid capture. They usually don't dig down and root themselves to one location, for easy capture.

Bitmine.ch (Coincraft) is having similar design issues. That too, is also curbing my advancement on moving forward for a refund. I made a purchase to get a machine. If I wanted to just hold my coins, I would have just held them. We all would have.

If I were them, I would give the refunds, just because the people buying machines now, are buying 1.2THs machines, without the bonus-boards. They would be saving themselves from having to throw bonus-boards into your orders, and buying more time to build that machine. Since the new-order that would be your actual refund, would be a lot-higher number in the list.

Not only that, but it gets our orders bumped-up on the list.

That's my business-outlook.

P.S. No need to figure-out how to make the extra 6th bonus board work in that one case... Just send us two cases with 3 modules each... Works for me! (Rather than 6 inside one case.) Also gets rid of your smaller PSU's that you have laying around. I'll still wait for the other design, if you have that coming. I'll take a 2.4THs unit with less modules, so it matches the 1.5THs bonus.

P.P.S. Sell upgrade modules separately. I'll Fill the missing spaces if you do that. Instant future sales!

P.P.P.S. Are you making sure there is an adequate +5v load on the PSUs? Without that, some PSUs can't regulate the +12v rail correctly. Might be the source of some of your power issues. (A 5W wire-wound resistor or just try using an old CD-Drive for a load on +5v. That will put a load on the +5v rail for the PSU. To test it.) If that is the issue, buy some 5v fans for cooling. 1A worth, instead of 12v fans. That or a 5v light for inside the case.

No it wore-off...

I seen the light...
Then I accidentally pissed on it, and put it out...

JK. No I am just an optimistic realist... Not an overly fantasizing over-optimistic extremist religious nut.

Funny how we always hear the phrase, "What is this world coming to. It was never this bad before!"

Wrong, it was always this bad, you were just oblivious to the reality of the world. Honestly, it has actually gotten better since you were born. I swear! (Not directed at you. That was to the people who say stupid crap like the quote above.)

Everything is right where it needs to be, except for the things that I don't want there...

If everyone just does as I say, I'll be in utopia...

Economy is people-based, not resource based. Resources are just one of the few assets some people use.

Popular assets:
Art
Ideas
Words
Light
Air
Songs
Churches
Love
Sex
Feelings
Listening
Speaking
Programming
Fighting
Death
Birth
Transportation
Stupidity
Education
Inspection
Law
Enforcement
Youtube
Google
Blood
Urine
Sperm
Bone-marrow
Water
Labor
Time
etc... (Not all are resources, while some are, but we all have them, yet it has nothing to do with inflation, yet everything to do with inflation. Want to know more... Give me a dollar and I will tell you. )

I'll admit that I am satisfied with my findings. (One stranger to another, in public.)

Not sure, but these might be 3/4-layer boards. I would have to see them through a light-source to tell. (or at-least see the other side of the board, looking at the through-hole positions, to see if they connect to something in another layer that is not the top or bottom.)

It is not that they are difficult, I imagine, but volume and limitations to the machines needed to do all the additional work... Is expensive... Silk-screening, solder-bath, SMT-screening, SMT-reflowing, then QC and QA...

Still seems they have some manual soldering to do, after the reflow-process... Connectors, Leds, Wires... Those are all missing on the photo they show, of the boards they have "in hand".

Not to mention the PSU change and shortages.

Ok, off to work now... Going to try and locate some other stuff I saw of interest in the photo's. (I trust photo's over statements. )

P.S. I am not the only one doing this research. I have two minions by my side, who are not members here. lol. They are not that brave.

I did, and I have... The number is on the website, but they don't need hundreds of calls. You can just look at the logo on the boards they stamped on. But if you must, then call. (Gotta be a little deceitful about how you "obtain that information." That is all I will say about that. )

I posted the information you need to know, two or three posts back. Last night.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304605.msg5540857#msg5540857

That was my contribution to the detective-work.

Nice solid company by the way... "PNC INC." (Not sure if they are doing just the PCB design or all the actual SMT assembly for them. But they do have that extra ability. Wasn't going to blow my cover. I got what I wanted to hear, and ran.)

P.S. They are not in Bulgaria.

There is a video a few posts back, a visit to the office used for orders and contact stage area. However, it ended at the door to the office.

Apparently, the entire staff, except one individual, is all working on assembly, at an undisclosed assembly plant. (Apparently, the one guy not working, who should be answering knocks at that door, is not where they think he is.)

You can represent yourselves, without a lawyer...

There is also settlements "out of court", which usually have a "hush order" or "choke/gag order" stipulation along with it. (Breaking that would violate the terms, and put you back on the defense.)

But, you better have all your "evidence" collected and in order, before presenting it to a judge, for potential prosecution. (Posts, emails, dates, locations, claims, invoices.)

I'll just wait. I have a few more weeks of grace. The only thing keeping me holding-on is the release of bitmine.ch miners themselves, and the production I have confirmed with PNC. That, and they said my order isn't due to be shipped until the end of this month. (I believe that was my expected ship-estimate.)

I'd rather have that MPP/CPP adjusted miner, than have a return at this point. But... The money would be nice to get BTC directly... I am in the air on that one... (Knowing that all these 1.2THs miners are about to be unleashed, driving up the value of BTC again... It is a tight choice. Then I could sell my new thermal imager too! I'll live with my old one. lol.)

P.S. There is also the "local sheriff" you could call... For starting a "concerned complaint", with all the other members who could add to that list. (It all starts local. That would also give you the peace of mind or further information you need for going forward.)

P.P.S. You guys should have joined our skype session...