Any Texans on this website?
I am. My family has been in Texas since 1874. I can't really encourage you to go down this path. Making silver that prides Texas? Why? In particular, the "legal guides" and the whole retro-history point of view. If you do know your Texas history, you may remember that some tax evaders formed a "Republic of Texas" and formed a compound in the Davis Mountains about 15-20 years ago. The got into an armed conflict with the (State of) Texas Rangers. It was an interesting news item in the Austin American Statesman that the "Republic of Texas" surrendered to the "State of Texas." It would probably be more helpful to you to ask yourself privately why the police were at your door. In particular, if you are doing anything illegal or obnoxious, you might want to keep a much lower profile. In part, that means to avoid posting the angry or anti-establishment postings. One of the odd little secrets is, most of the people who read the law and pay attention eventually do the same sort of things. They know so much law that they can pass a test on it. They are allowed to call themselves "lawyers." They recommend to everyone else to "follow the law." The overall tone in your post is how to challenge the police, or the establishment. You simply can't get anywhere that way. You can't drive 100 miles an hour down I-35 and claim freedom. You have to conform enough to keep other people safe and not grumpy. So, sure, make your Texas shaped trinkets. Go ahead and even put a piece of petrified wood in the middle. Stamp a pecan, a mockingbird, and a bluebonnet on it. Put a star marking Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, the Alamo, and San Jacinto on it. It will sell. If your craftsmanship is really good, I would even buy one. You could put the Branch Davidians on it. Personally, I believe they were unlawfully killed. Many people believe that. I have spoken to Riordan and some of the survivors at the screening down at Dobie, and I think my opinion is pretty fact based. However, it won't buy me groceries. Your coin with the Davidian property location won't sell enough to recover your costs. So, again, I can't really encourage you to go down that path. |
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Any Texans on this website?
I am. My family has been in Texas since 1874. I can't really encourage you to go down this path. |
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I am certain it is the module, after messing around with it for a while I started to smell that infamous burning electronics smell. To further prove it's the module, I saw it spark up pretty good upon flipping the switch on... scared the crap out of me lol.
This just happened to me too.  On mine it's clearly the chip near the center of a miner with a big + sign and "680 e31" - it looks and smells burnt In my unit two modules are connected and two are not. The problem is on one of the connected modules, though it looks like I could separate it fairly easily. Still searching... is there a warranty or some way to get this fixed?  What frequency were you running? |
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... wow ...
I'll add another theory to the list of theories on what Avalon did:
1) 110 nm Chip orders opened in April.
2) April - June use 110 nm Chip orders to fund 55 nm chips / sign deal with TSMC using 110nm chip order money as a loan to get 55 nm chips.
3) Order, with whatever is leftover (as an afterthought), 110 nm chips at a later date than the order should have been done (Hence them receiving their 9/4/2013 batch of 400,000 110 nm chips - if those were received at all).
4) Act like they've had their well being threatened all the while they were busy working on 55 nm / signing contracts with TSMC.
---> 5) Expect people to fall on the 55 nm chips because, apparently, they're compatible with 110 nm chip designs? Therefore, even if people refund from 110 they still get the money on 55 ...
Does this seem like a somewhat valid theory?
*weilds his tin foil hat*
Edit: On another note --> Would it be possible to know what modifications, if any, would be needed for 55 nm chips to work on the 110 nm design presently provided on Github so that decisions can be made? As in, are the PCB designs reusable with the 55 nm design or absolutely not? Also, some hash numbers per chip? Currently the newsletter implies no serious modification (serious modifications as in re manufacturing the PCBs vs minor such as different resistors / capacitors.) necessary other than maybe a new bistream for the controller board?
I read this in the newsletter. completely backward compatible in every way |
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The units should be J/GH or W/(GH/s) |
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BTW-
Has anyone tried taking Avalon batch 3 modules apart? In the four module version, they combined modules 1 & 2 and 3 & 4. I'm not sure if there is an easy way to separate them into individual modules.
If anyone wants a fried batch 3 module let me know, maybe you could fix it. I am not sure what fried on it, but I saw sparks flying so it can't be good.
I want it. |
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FYI - and I'd not be surprised at all if he didn't want me to say this - but when has that stopped me before ...  ckolivas isn't making any more firmware releases for now. His OpenWRT thingy (whatever it is) died - he's mining over the USB connection. So I'd suggest if someone wants more firmware releases, they should band together and send him the hardware needed to replace whatever it is that has a reset switch on it that broke. Now the reason being the obvious one, that Team Avalon fucked you all over when it comes to support, ckolivas has been supporting you all very well, even though in my Kano vs GitSyncom thread, Team Avalon said I was wrongs suggesting that hardware was required to support them ... yet they pretty much didn't at all ... yeah clearly yet another thing to add the the list of crap from GitSyncom ... So, yeah, get him a replacement OpenWRT board (I think that's what needed) if you want more firmware releases BTW how much does the module cost? Is there a link to a store? If you provide me the details I may start a donation thread. I also posted this in the cgminer thread. I am usually able to get a TP-Link 703n on Amazon for about $30 in the US. They come with a Chinese only interface, but it is pretty obvious where the firmware upload page is. The stock unit can run as-is if it is outside the Avalon case, and has the micro-usb power cable connected. If it is to replace the Avalon board, two resistors and an antenna wire have to be modified. |
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FYI - and I'd not be surprised at all if he didn't want me to say this - but when has that stopped me before ... ckolivas isn't making any more firmware releases for now. His OpenWRT thingy (whatever it is) died - he's mining over the USB connection. So I'd suggest if someone wants more firmware releases, they should band together and send him the hardware needed to replace whatever it is that has a reset switch on it that broke. Now the reason being the obvious one, that Team Avalon fucked you all over when it comes to support, ckolivas has been supporting you all very well, even though in my Kano vs GitSyncom thread, Team Avalon said I was wrongs suggesting that hardware was required to support them ... yet they pretty much didn't at all ... yeah clearly yet another thing to add the the list of crap from GitSyncom ... So, yeah, get him a replacement OpenWRT board (I think that's what needed) if you want more firmware releases I have a backup TP-Link 703n. I can also drop a public SSH key into dropbear on my Avalon. |
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The "bad guys" will be first very polite and solictious and then simply rip them off when they acurately measure their weaknesses.
This is how capitalism works.
Capitalism is the gathering of resources to accomplish a common purpose. For example, people in a town may all chip in $500 to build and stock a dry goods store. It may, or may not, have a separate profit motive. Ripping people off is just psychopathic behavior, and it can occur in any economic system. |
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The problem is that I can't present bitcoin to my friends or students as something sane people would have anything to do with while there is this level of incivility in the forums.
On the whole, these postings make us all look like kooks & hotheads. If we manage to make bitcoin lose it's value by acting stupid, any damage we may think that a vendor has done simply does not matter.
Why only "look like kooks & hotheads"? We are kooks & hotheads, this is what makes the Bitcoin millieu such an interesting subject for psychology, sociology, antropology and other humanities. Who gave you a certificate that you are neither a kook nor a hothead? What was the testing protocol? Anyway, who said I passed? |
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As long as the 'ignore' button works I don't see what the problem is.
The problem is that I can't present bitcoin to my friends or students as something sane people would have anything to do with while there is this level of incivility in the forums. On the whole, these postings make us all look like kooks & hotheads. If we manage to make bitcoin lose it's value by acting stupid, any damage we may think that a vendor has done simply does not matter. |
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PPY54013232C
I think that 1323 is the date code that would mean 2013 week 23.
Is there anywhere you can look up the datecode refrence? I think it is in the .pdf file for the Avalon chip, but I can't find my copy right now. |
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I'm saying people are citing this theory as fact, when we don't actually know what is happening at all. The real problem at this moment is a lack of full information. We don't know if there was a second batch or not. What if a first batch was contracted privately before the chips were offered to group buys? We don't know. I'm just asking people not state as fact what they don't know. Some people read this and assume the crazytalk is well researched analysis. It's misleading and it isn't helpful.
Again, occam's razor. Saying you know nothing is bullshit. You should have at least the simpliest theory that explains it to go from. Sadly, there's none that make sense that account for what we are seeing AND paint avalon in a good light Why the fuck did Avalon splinter while chips were being delivered? Custom's doesn't explain that I have an Avalon chip that has A3256-Q48 designated on it. Does that tell us anything? If that is all that is printed on the chip it may have been remarked. If that is the case and you want to try an experiment use a pencil eraser to rub the top of the chip and see if more marking are reviled under the top coat. It might take a few minuets of rubbing to see a result. Funny, doubt they would remark it if the chip says it was made CW32. They'd actually want to cover that fact up. Is this a sample chip with CW32 datemark? That's pretty damning evidence right there, either they ordered them on time, and something happened to the chips, or they waited a long ass time to order. I bought one of the modules from this event: I plugged it in yesterday, had a little trouble with the USB not being connected, but after a few times taking it apart and putting it back again, I got it working. It ran great all last night and this morning. When I got back after a meeting, this is what I found:
I got my microscope out and read the numbers on one of the chips. The interpretation that the chip was manufactured during week 32, and that the module I have is from Luke's damaged Avalon, says that the Avalon was in Tennessee on Wed of the week that the chips were manufactured. This doesn't fit together tight enough for me. |
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It tells us it's an Avalon chip.
The -Q48 is the package type. 48 lead QFN package.
Usually there are additional marking for the year and week of manufacture.
The bottom line reads PPY54013232C |
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I just found this in another thread. It seems to document that one batch of Avalon chips was actually in customs for 60 days or so. Ok everybody, as promised, I have an update on the Avalon chips shipment status. I just got off the phone with Gary, the account manager for this particular case and this is exactly what he told me:
This shipment has been on hold by US Customs in New York since June 12th. He said that these are extremely extenuating circumstances because the most shipments ever get held up by Customs is about 30 days, so this is WAY past that. He also mentioned that US Customs has been non-cooperative when it comes to conveying any communication on the status of this case. So Gary and his company, they're all having a special meeting next Wednesday together with the Director of the US Customs of New York.
So we should have more information late Wednesday night. I will update you as soon as I get briefed on the matter.
Hope this helps shed a little more light on this unfortunate incident.
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I'm saying people are citing this theory as fact, when we don't actually know what is happening at all. The real problem at this moment is a lack of full information. We don't know if there was a second batch or not. What if a first batch was contracted privately before the chips were offered to group buys? We don't know. I'm just asking people not state as fact what they don't know. Some people read this and assume the crazytalk is well researched analysis. It's misleading and it isn't helpful.
Again, occam's razor. Saying you know nothing is bullshit. You should have at least the simpliest theory that explains it to go from. Sadly, there's none that make sense that account for what we are seeing AND paint avalon in a good light Why the fuck did Avalon splinter while chips were being delivered? Custom's doesn't explain that I have an Avalon chip that has A3256-Q48 designated on it. Does that tell us anything? |
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Can all the crazy people take a break for a little while so the grownups can sort shit out please?
ROTFL. Thanks. |
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What about Batch #3.... Oh yeah, that's right. They will NEVER reach break even thanks to Avalon's 3 month delay in delivery.  The only path to break even was a refund. I have a batch #2. It seemed natural for me to start a thread that focused on them. I was at the very end of batch #2, so the beginning of batch #3 is at essentially the same time. My suspicion is that the batch #3 people have received 40-50 BTC now. I suspect they will reach break even in 6 weeks. If you have a batch #3, you could post some data if you wish. |
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