[CLOSED]Minion Chip Assembly GB

[marto74]

ok,2 weeks more then promised and we still dont know when we will get boards..where is marto?can someone tell us when shipping starts?as I see some of us already get their boards and I am still not even contacted about shipping :/ how is that possible? :/

I'm here.
We have some minor HW problem and fixing it.
WE do not want to have endless RMA's later.
Just be patient, please.
You'll be contacted for shipping 24 hours in adance
I know it is frustrating , but  do not forget we have to assemble and dissemble cooling on a lot of boards just to make sure it is working ok

Thank you for the understanding

[Qeu]

Thomas never sent me a fucking email.

I triple checked every email from Minersource I received, never had an email regarding this chip conversion from Minersource, Thomas asked for the Technobit order number much later by PM here when my conversion seemed to be going nowhere and I started asking what was next.

ps had to make an exception in my browser because  the Minersource site brings up a security warning.

[btmtb]

ps had to make an exception in my browser because  the Minersource site brings up a security warning.

Further to this, http is fine.
Using https gives you:
minersource.net uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.myshopify.com, myshopify.com, *.shopifyadmin.com, shopifyadmin.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

[sorehammer]

I must say I did get a email of Thomas regarding the conversion, And my single board is running so finally i'm a happy miner cheers once again Bobsag3 and Marto74

[y_boonstra]

I must say I did get a email of Thomas regarding the conversion, And my single board is running so finally i'm a happy miner cheers once again Bobsag3 and Marto74

can you post some pictures of that board, i would like to know how the final product looks like.
- mouting holes for the cooler.
- mounting holes for spacing bracket etc..

[sorehammer]

will try

[sorehammer]

[y_boonstra]

ok,2 weeks more then promised and we still dont know when we will get boards..where is marto?can someone tell us when shipping starts?as I see some of us already get their boards and I am still not even contacted about shipping :/ how is that possible? :/

I'm here.
We have some minor HW problem and fixing it.
WE do not want to have endless RMA's later.
Just be patient, please.
You'll be contacted for shipping 24 hours in adance
I know it is frustrating , but  do not forget we have to assemble and dissemble cooling on a lot of boards just to make sure it is working ok

Thank you for the understanding

Marto,  can you be a little more specific about HW problem.. what is excatly the problem?

[sorehammer]

Any need some Arctic freezer rev2 coolers I have 4 for sale £10 each or all 4 for £30 plus p&p

[btmtb]

Relevant (just for interest, not claiming anything is wrong, Martin appears to be completely transparent about this):
https://btcjam.com/listings/19219

Description

Hi,
I'm Martin from technobit.eu.
Recently we are producing big assembly service vs chips deal with BA minion chips. Each customer pay us with chips in order to get a mining board. So we are building about 150-200 THs mining power that will left for us from the customer payments.
We have industrial high sealing premises with more than 1.5 MW power available.
As far for all this orders Assembly service with chip payment we are not taking any payment from customers we expect to build mining farm for return.
Here we are offering all of you investment in this venture.
Our decision to use btcjam is based on our understanding that BTC economy have to be supported by doing everything in BTC.
So here we have the opportunity to do it only in BTC.

Who we are?
Technobit started an year ago with own design of Avalon 1 based mining board. Since then we made successful projects for mining boards for almost every ASIC chip that was available on the market. We had made Avalon1, Avalon2, Avalon3 , Bitfury, Bitfury rev.2, Coincraft A1, Inno A2 scrypt, BA minion based miners.
With 2 of them (Avalon2 and Coincraft A1) we were first to deliver mining boards to customers.At the moment we are working on RockerBox 28nm chip based design, that hopefully will be the base for expanding this venture.

Timline for this project :
First hash of the farm 1-Sept-2014
At the moment we are already building electrical and ventilation infrastructure in the our own industrial premises.

if you have any question or need more detail feel free to contact us @
mine@technobit.eu

Hope to see you on board
Best Martin

It's an interesting proposition, and I'm tempted. Might be a better return than we'd expect from our investment in BA's equipment.

[btmtb]

Any need some Arctic freezer rev2 coolers I have 4 for sale £10 each or all 4 for £30 plus p&p

Did you sell your board(s)?

[sorehammer]

no seems someone made a mistake and sent mine with the cooler attached

[marto74]

ok,2 weeks more then promised and we still dont know when we will get boards..where is marto?can someone tell us when shipping starts?as I see some of us already get their boards and I am still not even contacted about shipping :/ how is that possible? :/

I'm here.
We have some minor HW problem and fixing it.
WE do not want to have endless RMA's later.
Just be patient, please.
You'll be contacted for shipping 24 hours in adance
I know it is frustrating , but  do not forget we have to assemble and dissemble cooling on a lot of boards just to make sure it is working ok

Thank you for the understanding

Marto,  can you be a little more specific about HW problem.. what is excatly the problem?

Again sorry for the delay
It is simple problem bad batch of components.
All production is checked and bad components exchanged.
The problem persist only @ full load , so assembly then test , then disassemble ,exchange the component , assembly then test.
At the end disassemble of the test coolers and stacking for shipment.
Again I do not want to make a saga out of this problem and not going to make update posts with :" new "xxxxx" on the way, ETA tommorow "
Just a bad batch of MCU's, that is all.
The bad part is it took us a week to find out what it is , then we have to  get MCU's from different batch and check every single board.
I will not make statements like "next week" or similar.
We are working and as soon we are ready the boards will go out.
I understand that 2 weeks delay in BTC world means a lot and not happy with the situation and with the 20 hour work day lately.
Again remember that with a few exception most of these orders are paid with chips and we take all the costs for production including all this aditional labor for test and exchange . Minesr source are covering all the transport costs for the most of North american orders
Supplier  just delivers us new MCU's, but tons of additional work is on us.
I'm not complaining.
This is part of the business bit it  takes time

[y_boonstra]

Thx for the headsup Marto,

i appriciate it, i was nearly getting a BA feeling and those are bad.. :D

i dont think you would need to test all boards again but a couple of selective ones?
you now know if all the asics chips are good or bad ?

[marto74]

Thx for the headsup Marto,

i appriciate it, i was nearly getting a BA feeling and those are bad.. :D

i dont think you would need to test all boards again but a couple of selective ones?
you now know if all the asics chips are good or bad ?

Very small percentage are failing.
We have more common bad soldered chips, that are removed, re-balled and soldered again on specialized repair station

[Scrappy Do]

Thx for the headsup Marto,

i appriciate it, i was nearly getting a BA feeling and those are bad.. :D

i dont think you would need to test all boards again but a couple of selective ones?
you now know if all the asics chips are good or bad ?

Very small percentage are failing.
We have more common bad soldered chips, that are removed, re-balled and soldered again on specialized repair station

I know your busy Marto.. But a daily update would not hurt. In fact it would help you. I for one could care less if you say we had a step back as we ran into... blah blah blah. Fact is I am of the few who paid in full no conversion chips, and would like to know the status.

 My 12k venture hit 26k+ and I rely on you. Update please....

[kea808]

My technobit order still says Awaiting bank wire payment!

Finally! My Technobit order says "Payment accepted"..  Thanks to all that help get this done.

[HardwareReviewer]

So how many received their order so far? More than one?

[btmtb]

So how many received their order so far? More than one?

I'm still waiting on my order (dated 2014-07-18) for two boards, payment marked as accepted, no sign of delivery yet though. Martin has mentioned the problems he's had though.

[sorehammer]

Well it went straight thru customs not even has customs declaration, first time ever loved living in europe .

Have to report been running now since Wednesday and not  missed a beat i'm loving this board, suck eggs BA with your faulty X series crap