Quote from: xraid on Today at 08:51:20 PM

hi,

regarding recycling BM1397 chips, there is a "lot" for sale of "need repair" s17+ (65 chips per hashboard * 3 hashboards per machine) in Dallas.

If somebody is local and can inspect corrosion of the hashboards maybe we could do a group buy . i can take 10 machines myself (600 in lot).

when sourcing BM1397 AD AG AH AI now they are on offer for 15-27$ each as new and around 6.5$ each as used, need ship from China.

the chips are sorted in production into bin numbers, a hashboard has a label of version(AG AH AI) and bin of chip + a Line number of hashboard, bin numbers are allocated on errors in frequency testing and Line number after assembly testing of hashboard.

so it is best have matching "bin" of chips in a assembled Bitaxe, (bin is not labeled on chip but after in sorting, but can in case of recycle from hashboards be deducted from label.)

i am thinking bid 20USD per machine for all with pickup on site in Dallas, today's price for a s17+ would be around 150-250usd depending connection for a working machine, these are in need of repair and for them its scrap and if somebody take all We could probably bid at 20 ok say 21.

guesstimate 33% of chips not working, would leave about 130 chips to be saved per machine.

if we can not buy the lot of 600 maybe we could give an offer of x machines at price y, count me in for 10.

but first need understand if dampness in farm has corroded the machines so we need a inspection, and after sort out logistics.

Wow, $20 for a S17+ is a great deal considering a single BM1397 is almost $20.
$12k is pretty reasonable if they're not totally trashed. So, anyone live near Dallas want to go check this out?