The "chips" have been said to be, "at expected powers", based on the "modified spec-sheets".

However, AMT still has not indicated the quantity of chips they are using to produce the 1.2THs, at a "nominal" unit rate. (Not nominal chip rate.)

But they have adjusted the power-use since original release. I assume they recalculated, but still need to do an actual measurement once the units they build, are built. (As opposed to using estimations from the sum of all parts.)

The estimated 600w-900w seems "correct" by my chip/psu estimates too. (Was something like 300-600w before.) With the mentioned +/-10%, that would put it on a low and high of 540w-990w... (Which is leaning towards the upper side of reality.)

AMT... There is still a "needs to be fixed", issue on the website. (Not major to me, but to some, it could look "suspicious".)

The 1.2THs model description reads as follows...


NOTE: The mention of +/-10% twice is redundant, and seems "stackable"... (10% running variance on whole machine, + 10% additionally on the hashing performance.) Though, I am sure mention of just 10% +/- as a whole is generous enough.

NOTE: On the "Additional information" tab... it says the following.


NOTE: Weight??? 18 lbs or 8 lbs
NOTE: Dimensions??? 18x7x18 or 22x10x22 cm (18 cm/in/mm/mi/yd/km/?high?)

NOTE: Missing 10% +/- here on "additional information", not to mention redundant information that is not "additional"... slight conflict... that "detail" indicates an absolute value. Can't mention it once being more-or-less, and then bluntly state that it absolutely does more-than-less, potentially. Well, not as a business.

Since you are selling as a US distributor... You should stick with US standards... "Inches/Feet" for measurements. Though, I doubt the unit is 22cm x 10cm x 22cm, that is (8.66" x 3.94" x 8.66") That is smaller than a toaster. If I had to plan storage for these units, I would be upset when I buy a 100' by 100' by 100' storage unit, and find that I can only fit 1/4 as many as estimated, by that size.

I love the chart at the bottom...

This is a screen-capture... (No, I didn't alter it in any way, except to crop it.)


Not sure... Should I sell ARG, or wait until the value lands, after it stops flying around the screen?

By estimate of it's flight pattern, I think it should crash after an altitude of 6,000 feet... That is the numbers on the side, right... altitude in feet?

(Can never figure out if that is USD value, BTC value, or Coin-Value... Now, apparently altitude.)

LOL...

Looks at pot of gold sitting in front of his face... Photographs of it... And even hears the person next to him saying, "Looks like you finally got what you came for."

Then you walk away... saying, "Must not be real. You take it! I don't even want to know if it is real. I am going home empty-handed, this was a long walk to the end of the street!"

Please, give me 6.3 BTC for the machine that will ultimately produce about 20-30 BTC worth of value ($400,000+ in two years, by the worst estimates*), before it dies. I'll catch it next time, when it only produces one quarter of that volume, at the same price.

* Estimates in the "realistic" range of alt-mining for BTC value. (Not mining BTC directly.) Only about 18.47 BTC mining BTC directly, in the machines life-time. But BTC alone is a useless value unless you know the price it will be at the time you earn the last one. (Or the time you cash it out.)

Wish I still had the money to give you a refund myself, for your order. Should have taken me up on that offer a few weeks ago, when the opportunity arose. I am sure someone will gladly take it off your hands. Sending the money to AMT, so they can forward it to you, and change the address for the order. (I would not suggest dealing with anyone directly. Especially with a high negative trade-rate.)

You do realize you can use coinbase.com to instantly trade-out BTC for cash... Right... (Not that it is a wise choice since BTC will ultimately be way up above $20,000/BTC by the next drop/halving in reward.)

Nice!

Could you do us a favor, and, for the time... Let us know which order#'s are shipped, once you ship them. (So we can get an idea of when our individual orders will be coming.) No specifics, but saying something like, "Orders #1-300: 1.2THs Shipped", "Orders #301-423: 1.2THs Shipped". Since I assume that not every order has a 1.2THs miner in it, and some may have many. Still, for us with high order-numbers, it is comforting to know, at this early stage. Until you "get in a system of production", and can simply say... "Batch #140 1.2THs Shipped" (With our order#'s simply indicating that we purchased "Batch #140 1.2THs".)

Also, from a production stand-point... Might want to indicate batch# on the machine itself. Just because things change, and that will give you a better idea of potential future issues. (Like if you got a bad batch of chips, or batch of PSU's. You can prepare for the issues ahead of time. Not to mention, standard quality control, if design changes per batch, until things are "ideal".) Just put a simple sticker with a batch# in the unit itself, on the case, inside. (As well as indicating it on our purchase page.)

My goal with the thermal imager and kill-a-watt is to ensure "100%+ Constant-duty", can be achieved with minimal consumption. Using only the kill-a-watt, you can gague the efficiency of an efficient or inefficient system, but with the addition of the thermal-imager, to isolate thermal-runoff, you can tune that efficiency or inefficiency into pure efficiency.

I plan to run my machines at about 80% "suggested limits", on a constant-duty. However, I plan to do a full comparison of tuned results, with the thermals as only part of the comparison. If a voltage regulator or capacitor or transformer is being "stressed" I will know it before it pops. (In the end, 600-Watts = 600-Watts, no matter where it is generated. However, inability to remove 600-Watts will impact production. Having the ability to remove 800-Watts gives you more head-room for expansion or "production variance reduction". EG, constant hash-rates not being thwarted by heat build-up throttling. More heat = more resistance = slower speeds or burn-out.)

Not that I believe the design or layout will not be sufficient for "normal operation". However, there is always something that can be done to make things better. Always...

Even if it is something as lame as flipping the fan upside-down to suck air evenly through the fins, as opposed to attempting to push it through unevenly with dead-spots, using an open-air fan improperly, trying to use it to deliver static-pressure or volume through a setup that creates static-volume-resistance. (That is the standard CPU cooling trick for better instant cooling. That is what happens when you let programmers design physical things. They just don't understand real-world physics. But they may have a great understanding of CG-Physics. lol.) Hell, they still design all aluminum cooling-fins parallel to one another... Aluminum reflects heat... If you reflect it at another reflective surface, that just creates a cascade of heat reabsorption. Eg, face one heater to another heater, both get twice as hot. It is almost as redundant as liquid cooling with water, on a constant duty cycle operation. It only stores heat and makes it take longer to get rid-of, consuming more power (generating more heat), to exhaust it through an even more horrible radiator design. But that is beyond this topic. lol. (Water cooling is only good if you get intermediate bursts of heat, acting like a buffer, keeping a constant warmth and "in time" allowing the heat to be cooled until the next burst of heat comes. In a constant-duty cycle, it is just an added source of heat generation to exhaust and more power to consume/waste.)

In the end, I am sure this will only provide an interesting read for the many, and be of great importance to those wanting to "push the system to near limits", as safe as possible. Or, for the frugal... This will give them a nice baseline to reduce costs and pull a few extra months from the end-of-life of the machine, when the operating costs begin to dip into operating costs.

BTW, for the "calculators"... Best way to calculate is by the "expected value at the time you intend to cash-in", not at the "prices now". If you believe it will get up to $6000/BTC by next year, calculate with that as the "price". Since you will be holding all coins until they reach that price. That is the "value" you will get when you cash-in. That is like making $6000/BTC the whole time. You only calculate with "now prices" if you plan to cash-out immediately after making every BTC. (Only idiots do that.) That is why diff matters more than value, for "now".

Yes, $6000 is not only realistic for next year, but it is also an honestly low realistic estimate. If you go by the trend, estimates are in the high $16,000/BTC and linear averages are around $12,000/BTC respectively. (Just wait until the "income-tax returns" start getting used to buy BTC again this year. Another 2-months, we could see $6000 hit, but chances are, it will only go up to about $2800 for a final season peak. With lows in the $600's to $800's for the summer-time drought, before the next seasons investment spikes.)

It will also be a bonus if AMT can use any of this information to "make the units better", before they are delivered.

Don't forget, I can also see the heat generated and dissipated through all the circuit-boards internal hidden PCB traces too. One bad trace being beefed-up in a next generation design could aid everyone. For the electronically inclined, it would just require adding an extra wire. (Again, that is not for normal operators, that would be for those wanting to push these near limits.)

All miners are delayed. Not just AMT's. The only ones that are not delayed, are the ones that are sitting on shelves, that are not worth the purchase. (Not at AMT, most miners anywhere.)

BFL delayed (Well, not delayed, they just haven't started any actual production.)
KNC delayed (Delayed so much that they stopped taking orders. Pending regulations.)
Coincraft/AMT (Delayed, actually delayed. Chips are made, units are being made, and rolling-out.)
Avalon (Delayed indeffinitely)
Block Erupter (Delayed) *The new ones... Too much old-stock that didn't sell, needs to be sold first.

This isn't a prefab world you are entering. The only prefabs were worthless the second they became prefabs. (In most cases, they were worthless before they became prefabs. EG, usb-stick miners. They were a toy/novelty. Now there are millions of those worthless things all over the net, that no-one can get rid-of.)

P.S. I was freaking, because my thermal imager couldn't get anything in focus up-close... (Was a field-imager designed for hunting. Had a focal point of 300'+. Resolved, made a tool to adjust the lens to get nice close-up macro-shots. Panic over. Also got a video-capture toy and a nice portable 10" or 7" monitor for it. I forgot which one I settled-for. Now I only have to make the adapter to steal the video-out from the dock-contacts. Only piss-off thing about the imager is that it auto-balances. Can't get "true temps", but it will indicate heat-sources and intensity. The rest I have to calculate, but that is not important.)

Yes, that is sort-of the sad point...

"... have some strategy against this..."

However, I feel that this will come to kick them in the ass. They are scammers and frauds, still in my eyes, and thinking like scammers and fraudsters. They will soon get a strong taste of "Consumer rights", that comes heavily enforced with large-scale marketing. (Right now they are still back-yard developers, no matter how many items they produce.)

They offer no financial advantage or value to the market-place, and will thus, "do little FOR bitcoin". Again, doing everything for themselves. With that in mind, they will now become the AOL of BTC-Miners. Overpriced, no actual value, no actual service, and no actual reward... but it will get a lot of people online, looking for a way to cancel service they are unsatisfied with. (Like how AOL hid links and numbers for actually canceling service, including blocking links to websites that provided instructions for canceling service. Then offering some useless free token for sticking around for another month. Oh, I get a free $200 Jalipino if I don't return my $8,000 miner! Ok, gimme that energy sucker that no-one wants to pay for off your dusty shelves!) People used AOL for years, and never even realized that they had never actually been "online"... They were stuck in AOL's ad-version of the internet, which was just on AOL's computers, not on the actual internet itself. They paid $30 a month for going to paid-advertisers internal sites, paying more for items than those who actually found the items on the real internet. It was a great scam, while it lasted.

Soooo many rejects on this network... >50% rejects.

Either there is someone with miners purposely rejecting coins, or this is the worst block-speed ever. lol.

Is this wallets network that slow to update "new blocks". Might be why there are so many rejects. BLocks are found but the wallet is taking forever to tell the rest of the world, once one is found.

Even with a 2500ms ping (2.5sec) the blocks should be traversing the net a lot faster. Oh wait, then there is IIRC crap that adds delays. Time to copy a more updated coin with these same settings and upgrade the wallet, or double block times and reward, to compensate. (Half the daily blocks, so the block-time is 40-sec target not 20-sec which is obviously 50% longer than it takes for the blocks to propagate the network after being confirmed.)

Just saying... if you want this coin to live...

Otherwise you should all be doubling your value, since you are only making half as much as you think you are making, based on estimates from 20-sec calculations and 0%-rejects.

Tiger direct is not going to put a single item on a shelf. They are simply going to take a cut of the sale, for taking an order and forwarding it to BFL. This will be an online-only sale, like what amazon does. Amazon does not stock everything you see on the website in a warehouse. Many listings, most, are just forwarded sales.

For BFL, this is the only chance they have to "step up and deliver". Tiger direct doesn't care. They will just stop payment and remove the item from the online store. The big kick in the teeth for BFL will be people saying (30 days later), "This item didn't work, I want a refund"... Just because the miner became a money-sucker device as difficulty rose and is no longer a good coin-producer. And BFL will have to honor the return/refund... every return/refund...

Why would Tiger Direct do this... Simply because of this...

"Users who purchased this, also purchased this..."
- USB cables
- Power Supply
- WiFi Router
- Network cables

and...
"Users who looked at this, purchased this instead..."
- Bitmine miner
- USB miner
- Erupter block miner
- KNC Neptue

Will this be good for BFL... Sure, if they handle it correctly.
Will this be good for Bitcoin... Depends... As a miner, no... it places more miners in others hands, faster. As a value holder, yes... Miners will have to demand more and price will rise. As a user, no... value will rise, making it harder to purchase than before, later-on. (But it is doing that anyways... now it will do it faster.)

Well... obviously on the other exchanges, they do not find BTC worth paying that much for. That, or no new money is going into the other exchanges. That, or obviously there are more people cashing-out on the other exchanges.

My belief, as I usually am correct... is that huobi is pumping GOX, because they know that if GOX says $1000, that makes coins on huobi look like a great deal at $800 USD value. They only have to spend $1,000,000 USD to make $200,000,000 USD value on huobi, by pumping GOX. (Also I believe the other exchanges do the same thing too.)

Problem is...
BTC-e has fewer and fewer "new dollars" rolling in. (Due to deceptive practices and thieves being busted.)
BTC-e also has lots of people cashing-out on alt-coins that trade against BTC and LTC.
Bitstamp, well... I am not too sure about them. I think the volumes they have are all double-fake tween listings.

Not to mention, local-buying is becoming "better" and "faster" and a better "deal" than the slow and complex exchanges. They all take money fast, and give it out slow. (Because they spend it once you give it to them. You just play with "credit", until you withdraw. You get paid from someone depositing, or from them cashing-out your actual BTC on another exchange, or locally. Your BTC is credit too, I am sure. Funded by those depositing now, when you withdraw BTC.)

Now you know why govts want to "regulate" them. They want to make sure YOU get YOUR money, and THEY do not spend YOUR money, without telling you. Leaving you with useless credit for coins and money that no longer exists. (Just like a bank does... but banks have to keep a large portion of actual funds available, and have means to obtain your money, if they don't have it.)

Love your efforts. I stopped using wallets, except for mining, so this is great.

You can't "lose" coins... They either send, or expire.

If your wallet does not see them after they expire, it needs to be "repaired".

However, unless blocks become "full", there should not be any discrimination for "free tx's", ever. That defeats the purpose of the whole network. There is no excuse for discrimination like that. Saying it is for security is like saying you won't allow large transactions, to stop theft. It is not a solution, it is not the purpose of the "transaction processor". Bitcoin is not a business, it is a service. The ones doing the processing should be rejected for blocks, if they fail to "fill a block", when there is ample transactions waiting to fill the block. Free or paid.

If the point comes, at the end of the cycle, when TX-fees MAY be required... Then they should ultimately be enforced. However, difficulty could be zero, so any open wallet could use CPU power for a transaction, and miners would not actually be needed. Why would they do it for free... Because if they want to be able to spend what they earned, they will do it at a cost. Miners are NOT needed for the future of bitcoins and processing.

Fees are already essentially worthless, unless you have a full block full of thousands of $10 fees.

They should have simply made the minimum fee 0.00000001 for all transactions, and then just made bigger blocks as needed. That would have simply solved everything. Well, that and faster block-times.

Ok, I got my thermal-imager all ready for some good photo-shoots... My Kill-a-watt ready for use... and a decent 1080p web-cam for some video and photos...

Now all I need is my miner! (No rush, just had to mention that I added a thermal-imager to my toys for inspection/review.)

Was that one of the 1.2THs miners that was just delivered? If you guys could mention the order#, and the miner you get, as you get them, that would be a great help. Saying that "I got mine", but not saying which one you got, or the order# it originated from, is of little use to us. That is like posting here, saying you didn't get one yet...

Any follow-up to your final setup and operation? Even a simple "waiting for help", would be a great personal update, if you can find the time to post it. We are all on edge as these things begin to spread into the visible wild. (Forum members homes)

Also, posted to note that the "expected" difficulty calculations have taken a turn. Exponential growth of difficulty was not reached at the expected 30% growth. Thus, all of us just got a nice shift back in virtual time. Our miners ROI, based on previous calculations, have all just been given a few weeks of grace.

Seems the "cloud" is not as strong on BTC as before. (Less people willing to pre-pay for hashing-power.) That, and some "issues" with other existing miners updated drivers... has caused a decent stall in diff-hikes. Not to mention the additional older hardware being pulled from mining.

Final result, ROI and ROI+Bonus is back for almost every miner that AMT offers for sale. (If you actually mine BTC directly, and not a higher rewarding alt-coin.)

lol... 400THs, causes massive brain tumors and turns-on microwaves across state borders... FCC night not like anything over 1THs, without lead shielding and pace-maker warnings!

FCC: This device must not cause interference with other devices, and must accept all interference from other electronic devices. (EG, It can't cause an electronic device jammer to fail, and must fail if a jammer device is used to stop it.)

Such useless regulations. Defeated by simple shielding. Aiding to EMF exposure, just so that if the govt wants to "disable you", they can... Why is that cold-war law still even enforced?

The thing with voltage-regulators is that they operate on a "frequency" themselves, and unless you actually "test" each output, the on-board voltage settings and measurements are "ballpark".

When the frequency is better matched to the draw-load, in combination with the capacitors and draining resistors, you operate with better "consistency", as there is no "drop-outs" of voltage/amps... Well, less drop-outs or brown-outs. (Voids which don't stop the attached components from operating, just from operating at "peak" performance.)

FYI: The mini ultra-caps or super-caps make the perfect post-regulation voltage stabilizers, in addition to a mini joule-thief circuit or torrid-filter. (That allows adequate amperage and nearly perfect frequency-irrelevant power to be sent to the post-components. just as if it were a battery DC solid voltage supply going to the components.)

Video-cards are the same way. You can bump voltage by one decimal up, and the card will run almost 2x better. Bump it up one more decimal, and you are now in the "odd notches" of the cap/resistor/regulator and the card runs 1/2 as good. Bump it up another decimal, and you are back in normal operation... bump again, and you are back to 2x performance. Not to mention, the program may "detect" something like 0.88v but when you actually measure it with a real meter, you see it is more like 0.85-0.92v. Usually way off, and non-linear from one voltage setting to the next. Those detector circuits are cheap and uncalibrated, or only calibrated and accurate at room temperature, for a moment in time. However, they do as they were intended... let you control "higher and lower". They were not designed for accurate measurements. More like, differential from what should be "factory-calibrated" unique values. Not just "accepted for face value" by an external program that has no idea what the actual value is. (Normally, a calibration profile is set in a bios-like chip, read by an external program, and THAT is the adjusted display. Which usually also takes operating temperature into consideration, in the profile adjustments. But that involves a lot more work on the MFG of the board. It is easier to just accept the value the chip spits-out, as "ballpark". I have 48 video-cards, all have a different temperature value, at room temperature, all doing nothing. I can plug-in one voltage profile for one card, and it will fail in another card, and result in crazy temperature readings. My thermal imager and voltage testers show that nothing is absolute in any uncalibrated devices.)

However, it is nice to know the "ballpark" limits.

Throw an oscilloscope on the line, and see if that voltage, and the prior ones, had drop-outs and notches that the caps and resistors were not "keeping up with". I suspect you will see erroneous voids and cap-drain issues, with amperage pulses.

The best and worst thing of this coin, is the limits of the coin itself...

300 Billion...
- The bad/neutral (Essentially it is unlimited, in our lifetime.)
- The good/neutral (Fixed production per year, makes it easy to judge value based off network hashing.)

Sha256...
- The bad/neutral (Value based on potential "short-term" hyper-miners, big-dogs with big-toys.)
- The good/neutral (Not limited by a death-trend of scrypt-miners, adding to global pollution/waste.)

Block-adjusts at 4-blocks...
- The bad/neutral (Instant high-value triggers mining-vampires, causing auto-dump of mined coins, lowering value.)
- The good/neutral (Instant diff-up triggers mining-garlic, and encourages better rewards for steady miners.)

In my eyes, like bottle-caps and hobo-nickles, in scrypt, this coin is where my dedicated ASIC's will be, in the future.

You have to ignore the "lows" you see now. There is no real volume traded there. This is from the instant-cash-outs from the vampire miners. Buy those low valued coins while you can. I guarantee you won't regret it come income-tax time, and on next-years spikes. But don't let the price get too high, too fast... or you just encourage more vampire-miners, and end-up paying more for their cheap unsupportive asses.

Instead, throw more miners at it, hold (as most are doing), and keep the apparent "now-value" low, to keep the vampires away.

Services are coming, and will come, and the community IS supporting the coin. Just don't expect explosive growth over-night. There is a lot going on in with a lot of coins. Once one coin gets setup, it only takes them a minute to add another through the exchanges API. You just have to remember... The more people USE the coin, the more the value seems to DROP, as USE = CASHING-OUT, which moves the charts down, not up. (Someone is buying those coins, and they will have to accept that price, or higher to get gains. If you are smart, you buy those low ones, which makes the instant cash-outs pay more.)

Just like I did with bottle-caps, I will be doing the same with this coin. However, like bottle-caps, few, if any, will see what work I do. (My bots do all the work for me, on the exchanges. Usually just buying coins, but they sell too, if someone attempts to unnaturally pump the market. Fast rises only hurt.)

I will be posting some ideas, beyond my actions, for anyone to consume. As long as it helps Firefly Coin.

Also wanted to note...

On the website, the telephone number on the top-leftright, overlaps the "contact" link in the menu. It can't be read, at least on chrome...

Might be missing some HTML/CSS there...

Save them, and yourself the trouble... ask them if they would allow you to get one locally, and they refund you some coins for the trouble/purchase. (I believe it is cheaper to do it that way anyways. As opposed to re-shipping another one. PSU's are heavy-ish.)

I am sure you can find one with ample wattage, possibly at a great price now that new stuff is rolling onto shelves for income-tax time. Get one with 200 more watts available on the 12v rails. Though, I am sure it was just a faulty coin in the main transformer. Unless you see something actually seared in the PSU. (Loud pops are usually the thin-coated coil windings of the primary transformer shorting-out. Caps are more of a pfffffssst sound, and transistors and resistors are usually silent but smell horribly putrid.)

Seems to be a common thing happening with PSU's lately. Common = 1 in 1,000. Unlike the past, where it was less than 1 in 1,000,000 back when they actually tested products before shipping. Now they just ship, and "if" it pops, they replace without questioning it. Cheaper than testing millions, just to find the 1 in 1,000 that will pop. (I see a lot of that on reviews, and many "popped" PSU's end-up at my door for repair. Actually easy to fix, if it didn't take-out anything-else. But not worth the effort, unless it was a $400 PSU to begin with.)

I am sure it was a "used" one...

Well, then you hate all the places you purchased from, because they all did the same thing. It is sort of a standard to "send a unit for review", to an unbiased reviewer. KNC, BFL, X-BOX, Sony... You name it, someone got a review unit while customers waited on "Pre-orders".

For the record... KNC stopped taking orders... You got lucky. The rest... well, that was just wasted money.

Sucks that the "power consumption" they used for a reference, was the "minimum draw"... not relative to the "maximum speed". (But you can blame the MFG for some of that. The rest is on them, for not "testing" the actual output themselves. BTW, you don't need a kill-a-watt to measure wattage. All electricians usually have an open-ring amp-meter. You clamp that onto the power-cord, and measure the voltage on that line, and do some math. Amps * Volts = Watts. Your electrician friend should be fired! Unless you just explicitly asked for a kill-a-watt, and didn't explain what you wanted it for.)

They will be in a tough spot if the 1.2THs machines end-up needing 1200W to run, and they only got 600W PSU's (Which only have about 400W available on 12v. SO they would need to use 3x 600W to provide the needed 1200W power. But the specs for the chips should work-out better than the other chips. Since they actually quoted the watts@speeds of the MFG chip, which is said to run now with less power@speed.)

Well, you should see my GPU-Miners... I don't mount anything! (Unless you count wire-ties through screw-holes, hanging off a file-cabinet-rack, a mount.)

As for those $500-$1000 "x-frames"... Sure, if they spent even more money...
As for those $200-$500 "laser-cut frames"... Sure, if they spent even more money...
As for that $25-$45 "mini-box"... It would house one 40Ghs board... 2x would be the same price as the over-priced PSU case... and the mini-box has no PSU-mount.

But I digress... lol. A $20 case would have been fine. For me, no case would be even better. (I have plenty more file-cabinet-racks and wire-ties left.)

A custom case doesn't make the miner work any faster, if anything, it would be slower. (Eg, KNC's design just wastes power by demanding more fans for the horrible design and lack of PSU-mounting.)

Love that pile of electronics. Looks like my garage, and my bedroom, and my work-room!

First thing I am doing with my 1.2THs machine is freeing it from that restrictive ez-bake aluminum oven, called a computer-case. (Worst design idea ever. All these years of "computer technology", and we still use such primitive designs that only impede operation, to save a few bucks. Even the expensive ez-bake ovens are just expensive ez-bake ovens!)

P.S. Aluminum "reflects" heat... Copper "absorbs" heat... Steel/plastic "insulates" heat... Air "reflects" heat... Humidity "absorbs" heat... Space/Vacuum "insulates" heat... Conclusion... Cases should be inner-lined with copper, structured with aluminum, restricted short-path exhaust, positive-pressure designs, with a humidity-booster... exhausting out into space! (Ok, the last two are luxury items!) Or be open-air designs, living outside, without a case. lol.