Quote from: Scorpyy on July 04, 2020, 04:50:36 PM

My brand new units:
2 T17+ died within 2 months.
1 T17e died within 6 months.

While I don't personally own many of those T17 series but you are not alone, EVERY single person I know that has those gears have had a very high failure rate, the only exception so far is S17pro, there is something special about those gears, maybe they are way underclocked and that's the reason why the solder paste is still holding well.

Quote from: The_binary_Observer on July 04, 2020, 07:18:58 PM

my parts supplier for bitmain miners just sent me a message last night related to the Universal Test Fixture software... They are working on an update to attend the new S19. So, what this tells me is that S19's are about to be the same story of the deceiving S17 series.

Let me guess, was it Kevin from www.zeusbtc.com? if he tells you that the S19 are as terrible as the 17 series I would believe him without a single doubt, but the fact that they are developing a tool/firmware to fix those gears doesn't really indicate anything bad about them, the proof is, the first fixture tool they made was for S9 and we all know how robust those gears were. I hope that nobody is expecting Japanese or German standards from Bitmain whereby nothing will go wrong at all, I will be happy with something that is as good as S9, although I highly doubt I will ever touch Bitmain gears ever again.