Quote from: freddyfarnsworth on January 09, 2014, 10:53:33 AM

I wanted to know if you have made any progress on finding replacement chips at 80-100a or so (what ever would still have some headroom for what is on it and adding 8 chips.
But hell, if the boards are to thin....

Maybe they can sell you fresh PCB's ? or evenmake better ones ? They would not be interested - they must be tired of fixin em by now tho .
Or make you and friends a official repair center

Lots to ponder, thank you

freddy

To be honest, Mr. Teal did all this and more with the Chili design. That is without a doubt an amazing board, the BFL singles really aren't built for this kind of stuff.

Which is the whole point why BFL was late: Their chips used more power than they were expecting, forcing a complete redesign. Remember that the initial jalapeno design was to not use the big on-board 1 volt supply, but to use a little supply that was left on the board. It was all supposed to be powered from the USB port or somesuch. That... didn't... work... :-) Likewise the board simply wasn't built to handle the extra 30 or so amps the chips needed for a full 30gh single. They could have made 24 without blowing up the moon but that was it, we all "paid" for 30, and we had to wait months for it.

I wonder how many people would have been happy with 24gh in march as opposed to 30gh in October. But they would have all bitched about being "ripped off", so in the end they came out worse and BFL did the "right" thing. Interesting how that happens...

Anyway, at this point the next system to look at will be the monarch class systems. I could open a repair center for jallies and singles, but would the cost of doing it (let's say $100 an hour) be worth it? Perhaps it would, thoughts?

C