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[jspielberg]

Its my understanding that the sockets on the m-board are spaced 20mm apart, but how far away is socket "F" from the nearest mounting hole (or from the edge of the board)?

Thanks!
Rich

Did you check the schematic?



https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=251966.msg2682852#msg2682852

Eyeballing it looks like 12mm?

[Spotswood]

Its my understanding that the sockets on the m-board are spaced 20mm apart, but how far away is socket "F" from the nearest mounting hole (or from the edge of the board)?

Thanks!
Rich

Did you check the schematic?

Eyeballing it looks like 12mm?

Yep, but I'd prefer an exact measurement.

[cscape]

Its my understanding that the sockets on the m-board are spaced 20mm apart, but how far away is socket "F" from the nearest mounting hole (or from the edge of the board)?

From center of socket "F" to mounting hole is 7.56 mm. From mounting hole to board edge is 5 mm.

[Felipeo]

cscape or Dave: how much H-Board and M-Board weight with all component on it?

[cscape]

Slightly less than 100 grams for an H-CARD. So a complete system with 16 cards and M-BOARD + Raspi would be under 2 kilograms.

[kaerf]

Is there any data/result from the full 16 board prototype? E.g. stability, power draw, hash rate?

[Felipeo]

Slightly less than 100 grams for an H-CARD. So a complete system with 16 cards and M-BOARD + Raspi would be under 2 kilograms.

Thank you csacpe

[jspielberg]

Is there any data/result from the full 16 board prototype? E.g. stability, power draw, hash rate?

I don't believe this has been shared yet... just the pics of the fully populated system.
I assume we will get some hard numbers/data when production boards are racked up this week.

[buzzdave]

Just to catch you all up:

Boards are in production - we've asked for daily expedited shipments as they come off the line.   These first boards go to 100TH mine, with August delivery kits to follow.  So I'll repeat that I expect August product to ship by Aug. 31st.  Fab says they can do the whole process start to finish in 20 days and we are on the last step here.

By "in production" I mean the pick and place machines have already been set up, solder masks made, PCBs for both board types were made two weeks ago.  "In production" means the actual assembling is happening.

Turns out we had a few remaining components stuck in customs - these were bits supplied by us and sent to the fab.  If you are following some of the other ASIC build threads, you may have heard about the global shortages for key components in this design.  We tackled this problem months ago in order to avoid running out of power regs and inductors.

The CC payment system is a bit of a kludge - you have to go to my storefront on Square to re-select the same product & quantity in order to get to the CC payment screen.  Its like making the same order twice.  We will reconcile these against the megabigpower.com store, which remains the primary store of orders.  We will ship from our order list on megabigpower.com, so don't go direct to Square.  I hope to be able to re-integrate CC payments using Authorize.net by next week...then the Square thing can go away.

I expect to have boards hitting racks in force by next week, I will keep you posted!

Cheers,
Dave

[Trongersoll]

Thanks Dave. This is customer support.

[buzzdave]

I'm closing the shipping poll, thanks for voting.  The results show that there is equal interest in all four shipping options - 1 & 2 day delivery with/without insurance.

The shipping team put together pricing for the expedited options, so I will be adding all four options to the store by next week.  This should give plenty of time for people to decide which route to go.  I'm marking up my cost no more than 30% on expedited shipping.  The goal is to get these boards to you as fast as possible, but I need to make sure not to lose money doing it.

I highly recommend shipping with insurance - just imagine if your very expensive kit were to show up on the wrong doorstep!

We will ship your kits in plain boxes - no logos to indicate what is inside. Also as a reminder, kits will be shipped with signature required.  This is both a requirement of the credit card processors, but also its in your best interest.  Follow those tracking numbers and call in sick to work - believe me its going to be worth it!

[skrazy]

Thanks for the updates Dave. Are you still planing to hold off on hosting plans until Nov?

[kaerf]

Thanks Dave. This is customer support.

+1. If you've actually followed Dave since bAsic, you know that he is on the ball and gets things done. Those that accuse him of scamming or make snide remarks about his time with Tom are full of shit.

[minternj]

I'm closing the shipping poll, thanks for voting.  The results show that there is equal interest in all four shipping options - 1 & 2 day delivery with/without insurance.

The shipping team put together pricing for the expedited options, so I will be adding all four options to the store by next week.  This should give plenty of time for people to decide which route to go.  I'm marking up my cost no more than 30% on expedited shipping.  The goal is to get these boards to you as fast as possible, but I need to make sure not to lose money doing it.

I highly recommend shipping with insurance - just imagine if your very expensive kit were to show up on the wrong doorstep!

We will ship your kits in plain boxes - no logos to indicate what is inside. Also as a reminder, kits will be shipped with signature required.  This is both a requirement of the credit card processors, but also its in your best interest.  Follow those tracking numbers and call in sick to work - believe me its going to be worth it!

Dave sorry if i missed this, but you are shipping from the US correct? If so which state? what carrier are you using in the US for non-expedited shipping? Trying to judge if its worth paying extra for expedited shipping, thanks.

[buzzdave]

Thanks for the updates Dave. Are you still planing to hold off on hosting plans until Nov?

Yes.  I'm trying to get to the point where I can offer individual hosted units, but at this time its looking like I might need to keep the offer at half-rack hosted (8 full rigs) and full rack hosted (16 rigs).  The ability to host smaller amounts makes things very complicated, but we'll get there.

On the other hand I'll give a preview of a new offer I'm pretty excited about.

Similar to purchasing a cell phone on contract, I want to give miners the opportunity to land a larger amount of hashpower with a smaller amount of up front capital.  So for example, you could put down a 30 - 40% deposit on a half rack hosted.  This would put your hardware in my datacenter, where it would mine-out the remaining amount owed on the order.  Of course you will pay more for the hardware financing it this way and it would require hosting which adds a revenue share (5% - 8%).  Once the gear is paid off you could take delivery, or leave it in hosting mode.

I'm working out the details on this, but just wanted to give people a little preview of the idea.  I'd love to get your feedback on the idea - good or bad!

[Yogafan00000]

Similar to purchasing a cell phone on contract, I want to give miners the opportunity to land a larger amount of hashpower with a smaller amount of up front capital.  So for example, you could put down a 30 - 40% deposit on a half rack hosted.  This would put your hardware in my datacenter, where it would mine-out the remaining amount owed on the order.  Of course you will pay more for the hardware financing it this way and it would require hosting which adds a revenue share (5% - 8%).  Once the gear is paid off you could take delivery, or leave it in hosting mode.

This sounds dangerous from your side.  It would leave you open to big risks of default on the hardware in the event of no ROI.

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Trouble with Square - both orders, even though the cash for them has been put on "hold" in my bank account, and they gave me a confirmation number for both of the orders:

 
Order could not be completed
 
Sorry, your recent order with MegaBigPower.com could not be processed.
 
Thanks,
Square
squareup.com

[regular]

Just to catch you all up:

Boards are in production - we've asked for daily expedited shipments as they come off the line.   These first boards go to 100TH mine, with August delivery kits to follow.  So I'll repeat that I expect August product to ship by Aug. 31st.  Fab says they can do the whole process start to finish in 20 days and we are on the last step here.

By "in production" I mean the pick and place machines have already been set up, solder masks made, PCBs for both board types were made two weeks ago.  "In production" means the actual assembling is happening.

Turns out we had a few remaining components stuck in customs - these were bits supplied by us and sent to the fab.  If you are following some of the other ASIC build threads, you may have heard about the global shortages for key components in this design.  We tackled this problem months ago in order to avoid running out of power regs and inductors.

The CC payment system is a bit of a kludge - you have to go to my storefront on Square to re-select the same product & quantity in order to get to the CC payment screen.  Its like making the same order twice.  We will reconcile these against the megabigpower.com store, which remains the primary store of orders.  We will ship from our order list on megabigpower.com, so don't go direct to Square.  I hope to be able to re-integrate CC payments using Authorize.net by next week...then the Square thing can go away.

I expect to have boards hitting racks in force by next week, I will keep you posted!

Cheers,
Dave

Hope you can give us an ETA on CC payments working again.  Waiting with mine in hand to order.

[buzzdave]

Square has seen the heat we can bring and has retracted into their shell.  They are taking me through some additional verification processes - I'll get them what they need and hopefully get it all working again soon.  I wouldn't expect today or the weekend...

[regular]

Thank you.  Looking forward to it.