That "KXG" text on the res cap is not the brand, it's the series. The brand is the shield mark to the left of the KXG (it's United Chemi-Con). United Chemi-Con KXG series are rated 10000 hrs @ 105degC. Datasheet: www.straschu.de/ie-shop/out/pictures/0/BPKE_ELKO/NCC-KXG.pdf

Surprising amount of hardware for $100

Got a chuckle out of Geoff Capes doing the screws up at Black Arrow

The brown cap is actually Nippon Chemicals 105°C rated.

Thanks for link lcd web page! This page work on prospero x1 - it support web iterface for desktop and web iterface for mobile devices.

Seems like that company scammed you, essentially getting people to prefund the production of products that they can then use the miners to make additional money, and then sell the items when they are no longer generating much money. With devices like that, if kept in a clean room, there can be pretty much no signs of use. Keep in mind that from a business standpoint if these devices could really generate enough money to cover their own cost, then it would not be in the best interest of a business to sell them as 1, it will not pay as much as them using it them self, and 2, selling it would increase the mining speed of many others, thus leading to an even quicker increase in difficulty. Thus the main reasons why these will be sold, is make additional money after that have run their most of their useful life, or they never could generate enough bitcoin to offset their cost, and they are just being sold to people who they were able to trick, kinda like those people who are rich and sell get rich quick guides (which turned out to be the reason why they are rich (from selling the guides).

Still waiting for mine. I feel like it's the Boxers Revenge.

7 month's you should be so lucky, mine just shipped today about a year from purchase. The modular design is pretty cool, great review, i appreciate all the details. Hopefully we can get some of our investment back one way or another. maybe bitcoin will have a resurgence lol

The power supply is not too bad (I've seen much worse ones), the "rubber washer" is a heat conductive fiber glass reinforced film that provides electrical insulation (and they don't have to use thermal paste in combination with it), the capacitor is a United Chemi-Con capacitor with higher ripple current capability, a lifetime of 10,000 hours, and a temperature rating of +105°C Thumbs up :) Alex

That's a Nippon Chemi-con KXG capacitor (105 degree) and designed for high ripple. Pretty good if it is genuine

I finally got my two miners and I had to vent at minersource for the delay. I was batch one and it took at least a year to get mine. I don't blame minersource, but I blame BlackArrow.

Hi AintBigAintClever: Would you mind if I PMd/emailed you as I am looking into bit mining and you have obviously got some experience of the type I am after and therefore would like to talk with you. Thanks Graham

Let us know how it goes and whether you make more 'money' than the electricity cost.

How much did you buy this for? Im new to bitmining and I'm choosing this as my first mining machine because it seems quite easy to setup. The one I'm looking at cost $150 USD. Is this a good idea?

So, I'm wondering, have you had any success with this? It always seemed like it might be neat to set something up to run in the background if I had the spare cash for it, but I'd think you probably would have to go in not expecting to get anything. Seems like it's fairly late in the game to do this unless you have a massive network of miners to try and make a profit. It is a neat little bit of hardware, might be more worthwhile if you could hack it into a web server or NAS of some sort. I really like the removable power supply, reminds me of the redundant ones on my server.

I bought 10, they arrived in August 2014, no way i can make my money back, not the way the market is at the moment anyway. Majorly regret buying them.

Thanks for the teardown and setup. Interesting stuff. That's like 1 bitcoin per year'ish. It could be run from solar to offset running costs. If you happen to have such a system.. *** Update:- there's 2 X1's in Wales!!. Could u comment on this, at 800Mhz (runs @ 40oC) I get a 0.0007% error rate over 60 mins (6 errors), at 1000Mhz (default / runs at 60oC), error shoots up to 5081 errors, still only 0.088%, hash gain is 59% - is that bad?? ***

I finally setup my X1 for the lols tonight, says its running at 105GHz, the pool says its running at 6GHz lol, what a joke. I'm working on why its only 6GHz, see how I go.

21:40 If you get a fake make sure it's a genuine fake :)

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