Guys, commons sense dictates that for this matter we should be using tickets. There's still time till the units will be shipped, just let's try to use appropiate channels for communications.
why not both?
Because it is not an urgent matter, and you're writing to the direct email of one of the very few people that are running this operation, making him to loose time reading/processing a silly and non-urgent request that can be solved using the appropiate channel: tickets.
First - I think Yifu Gao seems like a standup guy, and has done a remarkable job. My guess is he needs to catch up on like 3 weeks of sleep and rightfully so. There has been quite a bit of nonsense chatter that I think is the result of some ambiguity on small number of points:
1) What are the countries that has issues with the PSU and customs?
2) If so... how do we go about requesting the PSU delete?
3) What are the vendor supported specs for locally procured PSUs for the different models?
Regarding item 1 - I don't think the US is in the list. Jeff Garzik received his miner a day earlier than was expected (1/31) --- so I don't think it was hung up in some bureaucratic black hole in customs. My guess is this is not for the U.S. and Russia, but South America, Europe ,Asia and the Middle East that have the customs issues... but again... pure speculation until we hear from the horses mouth.
Regarding item 2 - Anecdotally, we have heard that the ticket system isn't a responsive communication channel, but direct email is... doesn't make one want to do the right thing and use the ticket system.
Regarding item 3 - The website says 620W max draw for the 65GHa model, but doesn't have any statements on the 80GHa model. One can assume that it is the 620 + 150W of the extra module... but again... deduction and speculation but not authoritative until it comes from the authority.
Maybe I am deluding myself in thinking that if these questions were answered publicly (preferably on their faq page) a lot of the nonsense traffic surrounding B3 would go away... most likely we are going to need something to do while we wait for our units, and like a bunch of mother hens, we will feel the urge to peck at something.
