Got three people saying they have faulty rigs here, so "functional" is yet to be proved:
http://forum.kncminer.com/forum/main-category/hardware/47688-neptune-here-but-not-working

But for the best laugh of the day:
http://www.coindesk.com/kncminer-responds-customer-backlash-deceptive-compensation-scheme/


Yeah, giving away free money you literally stole from people with your datorhall.

It seems the self-delusion isn't just reserved for those buying rigs  

And also 220v is slightly very slightly more effective at carrying the power through the wiring as there is less resistence with higher voltage.

The main reason the US has 120 ac is because the voltage cant kill someone as 220 can if they get shocked.

This isn't about if people can change their choice for cloud hashing.  This is about having to make the choice at all.
 
I read the KnC Plan B and 2 for one as being inclusive with each other when KnC brought them out a few months ago.  They only told people they were exclusive once it was too late to refund.  Did you realize that customers were going to have to choose one or the other?  There are people on the KnC boards complaining that they would have refunded if they were going to be forced to choose.

People were also expecting HWYW to go online at the beginning of the month,  as batch 1 was supposed to go out a month before batch 2. Thus,  many people (myself included)  view KNC as being late for batch 0/1.  People were withholding refunds because they felt KNC had good intentions towards their customers.

At the very least, there was incredibly bad communication.  I don't think it is proveable that they were lieing,  but I think if they were a US company and a customer sued them for a refund,  the customer would win.  

You really think I am a troll?  You don't think that is a valid complaint?  

 Line losses due to joule heating are proportional to I²R so if you double the current (which you would with 110V as opposed to using 220V) you quadruple your line losses.  So let's say you have a run of seventy feet of 14 awg copper wire and you run an 1800 watt miner on a 120V circuit.  Your losses would be about 2.5% or about 45 watts.   Run the same miner on the same circuit @ 240V and your losses are about 0.6% or 11 watts.

The link you posted seems to indicate an issue with power supplies not ASIC's.
Your statement that they claim 'faulty rigs' is not supported by your link.
Although the issues are related.

YMMV

huh?

I hope it never leaves the realm of hobbyists. Ambitious hobbyists? perhaps, but hobbyists nonetheless.

too bad it feels like that ship has already sailed....  

if you want bitcoin I fear you will have to buy it from now on.

not completely a bad thing as it (commercial mining farms) could keep the price down for a long enough time frame that a larger percentage of the public can get on the train.

the more people that are aboard, the further the train can go.

gasping in the heat! yeah, I turned off all my miners today just to take a bitcoin vacation and enjoy a nice, quiet, cool apartment...

it lasted about an hour.

There's always room for hobbyists for sure, but this industry needs some solid, reliable manufacturers and services for it to survive and prosper. Anyway, sorry, this is getting OT from the main KnC trolling and shilling. Please continue

depends what province.

Alberta should pay 5% GST only.

*edit* plus probably some kind of brokerage fee

The "promise" is still being made, even today.

https://www.kncminer.com/pages/faq