if you are interested in adding hashing power to the network regardless of how much money you stand to lose, then stick with it.

I apologize. I didn't know steamboat was selling the chips as well.  As indicated in the OP:
{Please note this is for assembly only. Chips must be purchased and supplied in order to use this service

Currently accepted chip suppliers:
Zefir}

I would rather buy from a 1 stop shop.
Thanks

How do I order chips from Zefir?

Are the "Fusion 16" available for purchase at this point?  I see in stock on the website.  If so,  Are they fully working or do chips need to be purchased as well?  If not,  does anyone have DIY board/chips ready to sell/ship?  Thanks

Originally I had disabled the USB interrupts during result capture (32 bits, 4 bytes, 8uS/byte) as I wanted to ensure that nothing disturbed that. That was unacceptable to the USB stack as presumably it has to react to bus hardware conditions. After I removed that code the disconnects stopped but I feared the results would overrun if the USB stack took too much time. That doesn't appear to be an issue. I had the UART interrupt handling one byte but now have modified it to handle both bytes the PIC could have in it's FIFO before letting go. So as long as the USB doesn't take >16uS right in the middle of a result nonce it won't overrun, and if it does then it gets detected and counted. So far I've not seen any counted overruns so it seems to not be the reason for HW errors, which do occur still sometimes.

Looking at a screen shot on the forums for a USB Erupter running under cgminer it indicated around 10% HW errors, so I wonder if higher HW errors is normal compared to GPU mining where I can go for weeks with no HW errors. If Avalons typically run with HW errors then I'm maybe wasting my time trying to get it down to GPU levels? Any input from Avalon owners about typical HW error counts?

I just sent BTC for 32 chips.

Thanks!

Chad

steamboat, i see that the latest batch is almost full. however, looking at your address https://blockchain.info/address/1JFYtJKcfqXPKijyo3DceT5en5RnswpAwC tells that this address did not receive all that payment. can you explain this?

in case i join your group buy, is there a refunding possibility before the batch was ordered from avalon?

It's gonna go through, someone just purchased 172 BTC worth.  There's really only a few more BTC needed before the chips will be purchased.  Historically, when steamboat receives half the BTC needed to purchase the batch -- he purchases it.

So is the process to order the chips and then wait for an email with the link to the server?  Kind of confused on how to purchase.  I've read over the first page, and I understand how to order the ASICs.  Just trying to figure out the super-secret website part of the equation! LOL!