It's not fair, I shouldn't reply in your thread.
Can't resist it though. All statements are untrue.
I suggest that you'll do legendaries reviews party for the S5 to prove.  

Chips are not much more than the cost of sand if you own the manufacturing and intellectual property.. clearly a growth path to sell miners with more and more chips per unit with low power requirements one the tech is proven to be stable to the community I would think.   It seems like it would be easy to double the hashing output with similar cooling and power consumption when the timing is right for bitmain to do so.

I'm not an EE genius.. but I don't understand why they wouldnt eventually just use different DC-DC modules internally to provide 9v or 12v w/ standard PSU.  Possibly saving that for the next miner with the BM1384?  I also don't fully understand the string vs chain discussions going on..  I guess stringing the chips make other chips dependant on one another for hashing output.. My mind draws analogies to a string of christmas lights where the rest go out when a bulb blows, or running a bunch of hard drives in raid 0 (other drives in the array have useless data with the missing member).  Of course I haven't scoured the discussions on these matters, and have only gleaned over the facts... but there sure is a lot of crazy heated discussion going on.  Anyone have any link backs to messages in this thread or other threads which may help to learn me up.   When I get a minute I'll try to read over the BM1384 whitepaper, I assume it might be the source of a lot of this conjecture.

So far MOST of the bitmain stuff I have purchased has been pretty on point and meets the specs which they claim their miners should meet*, and have publicly and quickly adjusted those specs when they were not accurate..  Ie. Antminer S3 launch 480GH/s -> 441GH/s and even gave refunds for the hashing difference if you purchased when they claimed it would be 480GH/s

(*Its important to note that honesty is good business, but bitmain isn't in the business of charity, you would be lucky to mine back the BTC you spend buying any miner.. so do this for the fun of it.. Don't buy miners to profit.. companies which make miners certainly aren't selling them so you can make a profit.. you WON'T make a profit mining.. Expect 60% of your BTC to come back that you spend AFTER you pay the electric bill. the shrewd miners who do still mine do it for the love of mining and they will sell their equip to recoup and break even, and buy back in on the next most efficient equipment.. even though they know even that isnt the sane investment to make.. The smartest miners probably rebuy their BTC so they are spending fiat not crypto, so at the end of the day they can see some justifiable profit.. even though buying BTC would have been much smarter.. but not nearly as tangible, or fun.)

As far as spondoolies goes.  I love my Sp20's.... great miners.  However the Spondoolie guys clearly overstated its hashing power at 1.7TH.  Honest marketing here would have been 1.333TH/s @ .55J/Gh at the wall...  with overclocking to 1.55TH/s (1.7TH/s being possible but not guaranteed)..  This is the real specs of the Sp20 miner...  And what about those refunds they said they would be sending for slipped delivery dates.. I never got one?  Did anyone?

Anyway.. I can understand concerns with chip failures.. they happen.. and if it takes out a whole string permanantly if a chip dies permanantly.. thats bad bad bad.. but so far every other antminer I have owned (well over 30 so far) have had exceedingly resilient asics... if one did overheat it has always come back after a reboot if it dropped off because of an overclock, and always behaved well when it was clocked at the advertised frequencies... When deployed sanely the built in safeties seem to do their job.. and allow an adjustment to consistently stable operation.

I'm just sharing some thoughts.  

Rich

i got mine bundle 3 units (633 each) and 16 units from GB(500 each) today.
Delivery really fast.

i got mine bundle 3 units (633 each) and 16 units from GB(500 each) today.
Delivery really fast.

DHL needs Power of Attorney and tax id in order to be able to release on customers’ behalf. Sometimes they request more documents (e.g. as proof of Tax ID)

Spondoolies folks,

I got a couple upset emails from the folks at DHL I thought I would pass along.

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This is an import shipment.
 
Can you confirm who told you to fill and an export POA?
 
I am getting a lot of these requests the same as yours and just trying to figure it out.
 
I will forward your IMPORT request to the import team for process.
 

Last 48 hours for RoadStress's GB:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903286.msg9924866#msg9924866

Shipping directly from Israel.

A new record: Ambient temp 5c degree, 0.6/0.605 setting, 897GH, consumes 345W at wall, means 0.385W/GH efficiency

At very low temp, the normal 0.59/0.6V setting can not start all the loops, must raise it to 0.6/0.605V to get all the loops running, but the result is quite respectable

http://photo.mystisland.org/sp20/sp20_lowest.png

Yes it is.  I have 7 running and 2 on the way. = 9 units  I have 1 s-5 coming it total of 10 pieces and just about 12th in hash.

I want to keep all of them but it is just a little over my power envelope.

Here in New Jersey it reached 62F on tues and the house got really warm 80f .

 This is with 7 x 600 = 4200 watts.

 Even though I can provide the 6000 watts to run 10 pieces I am thinking it is just a little more then I should shoot for.

 So I offered 1 sp20 for sale on ebay.

 I am hoping to run 7 sp20's and 2 s-5's = 9 pieces