Re: Time to sue ButterflyLabs - Big Single-SC owner let's league for class action
red wolf,
Any manufacturer who can't come up with $10k to certify that their product is compliant with the law is not a manufacturer, they are a hobbiest. BFL has 10k, but I suspect I'll get certified before them because I am a law abiding citizen of the USA. (BFL is suspected of being a criminal organization).
And so they MUST be alerted to ALL mining hardware. When my design is complete I'll be submitting it for review and anyone who does not is a criminal; read BFL.
Hope you've got a spare 10k+ available for the testing, it needs to be done in a proper lab with some very expensive gear
Any manufacturer who can't come up with $10k to certify that their product is compliant with the law is not a manufacturer, they are a hobbiest. BFL has 10k, but I suspect I'll get certified before them because I am a law abiding citizen of the USA. (BFL is suspected of being a criminal organization).
Basically the FCC is there to stop dodgy, crap quality equipment like cordless phones that splatter interference across the band in the wrong frequencies and GPS disruptors/jammers. Things that affect the airwaves.
And so they MUST be alerted to ALL mining hardware. When my design is complete I'll be submitting it for review and anyone who does not is a criminal; read BFL.
Hope you've got a spare 10k+ available for the testing, it needs to be done in a proper lab with some very expensive gear
Mining equipment shouldn't need to be certified in my opinion. The BFL fanbois (who were not around for the early seasons of the BFL drama) don't realize that Josh ridiculed the other ASIC manufacturers for not getting FCC certs and then claimed that BFL was in the process of getting theirs:
When is the Jalapeno getting FCC approval?
Maybe two weeks? We are waiting for the test lab to issue the test report.
With the bump in power requirements on the MR and the new screen, we had to make changes, although the new screen is already certified. We are doing all the devices at once, since they all share the same board.
Of course, that "Jalapeno" could not have existed (nor the other devices) because as we found out later the chips had not reached BFL from the fab until Feb 2013. When they did, there were major issues with heat and power and their first board design did not work. The issues were so serious in fact that they could not use the original Jalapeno form factor. They had to put them in the singles cases.
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/announcements/692-bfl-asic-status.html
Feb 8th 2013 - Chips have shipped from the fab and are on their way to the US. They are expected to arrive early next week (Monday or Tuesday), but since the bumping facility won't be ready until the 14th as the earliest, it isn't quite as critical.
The chips were still in wafer form 3 months after Josh said they had completed units sent to a lab for FCC certification. So there was no way they could have sent devices to a lab for testing, there were no chips to put in them. That is the material misstatement that BFL made about the status of their product. Anyone who wants to demonstrate civil fraud charges can add that statement to their evidence list
