Ok I'll bite. Here's my mining rig:
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Wow! What are all those?

As I understand it individual K16s only work with NOR gates from particular manufacturers.

I though i could donate the chip to someone in the community.

Go with the Hakko. Get a decent magnifier too, you'll need it.

0603 size has a somewhat higher inductance, so it may not perform as well as 0402. Whether that's significant, I don't know.

Soldering 0402 has one advantage though: after you pick and place 10000 of them, suddenly 0603 seem as huge as bricks.

Here's a couple of photo's I took while assembling an S-HASH board.

Reboot the rPi:  sudo shutdown -r now

[…] I would like to know why steamboat is unwilling to do a 100% refund.

The situation as it stands is far from optimal, and while we realize a 100% refund is desired by most of those who have purchased chips through us, we have invested considerable resources in order to  facilitate our offer of Avalon ASIC chips to the community, and cannot offer a full refund. We have done everything in our power to educate potential customers of the risks involved when considering placing an order, and have stated explicitly we assume no responsibility for any issues that may arise due to circumstances outside our control; including but not limited to Avalon failing to ship, shipment being seized by customs, shipment arriving late, etc.

While we are not bound in any way to do so, we know it is unethical to retain the profits made from chip purchases, and have chosen to refund all profits which remain after administrative, logistical, and material expenses have been taken into consideration.

OSX: use 'FD_FULLSYNC' with LevelDB, which will (hopefully!)
prevent the database corruption issues many people have
experienced on OSX.

They are rather expensive, so we decided to remove
them. But the power supply is now behaving a bit odd,
so in rev 3 some of the caps will be back:)

If you look closely you see a stack of caps just
behind the DC/DC converter. They were added
to add some more stability to the output voltage.

intron

Mounted S-HASH on a heatsink and got it hashing:

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Vcore = 0V8

Some bitfury ASIC stats:

stats
1  min: 2.97  3.13  3.21  3.21  2.47  2.55  2.31  3.05  3.71  2.64  2.88  2.06  3.30  2.72  2.55  3.13
5  min: 3.33  2.98  2.90  2.57  2.72  2.64  2.57  3.03  3.16  2.52  2.84  2.55  2.88  2.79  2.72  3.07
15 min: 3.23  3.14  2.91  2.51  2.82  2.60  2.71  2.79  3.02  2.68  2.71  2.58  2.93  2.96  2.96  3.03

intron

PS: I'm hashing with 41.2 GH/s FYI.

Now that I'm on chainminer, I just repopulated that chip on the board, and this seems to confirm it's marginal: