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Board Hardware
Re: Announcement: Bitmain launches AntMiner solution, 0.68 J/GH on chip
by
noise23
on 14/03/2014, 21:20:22 UTC
I just received another S1 today and this one was used big time. Lots of Chinese dust all over the PCB boards and fan blades. Should I contact them and have them replace it?

Also might be a sign of things running out and new model coming out.

You are lucky that your S1 works.

I received heavily used and semi-dead S1 from them.

All covered in dust, heavy smell of burnt electronics, a lot of dead chips - one blade shows 8 ASICs instead of 32.
It hashes only at around 120 GH/s and sometimes just stops hashing with beeping sound, needs power cycle to start again.

I paid 130 euros customs tax for this unit, and it would cost around 200 euros to ship it back to Bitmain and then I have to pay another 130 euros to customs for the replacement unit.
Just does not worth it.

So Bitmain sold me a dead unit and now just stopped responding to my messages.
you don't pay nothing to send it back, they will pay, and they will ship you a new one, if what you told is true, u make a photo and a screenshot.
else i don't belive you at all.
they have 10000 of customers, and no one point that(one blade shows 8 ASICs instead of 32), you are the first one.
or, you didn't buy from https://www.bitmaintech.com , and you got scamed.

you don't pay nothing to send it back, they will pay, and they will ship you a new one, if what you told is true, u make a photo and a screenshot.
Bitmain told me that I have to ship it back by myself.
I've sent them a photo / screenshot.

else i don't belive you at all.
I don't care if you believe me or not.

they have 10000 of customers, and no one point that(one blade shows 8 ASICs instead of 32), you are the first one.
I'm not the first one, if you read Antiminer topics at this forum you will find people with similar problem - dead chips.

or, you didn't buy from https://www.bitmaintech.com , and you got scamed.
I bought 5 units directly from them. 3 were new and good, one was used but good and another one used and defective.