There have been reports of defective Pinecil batches, this was after I bought mine and before the newer ones were introduced. There are also reports about fakes

There have been reports of defective Pinecil batches, this was after I bought mine and before the newer ones were introduced. There are also reports about fakes sold around, which is not a good thing in this case since the original is already very cheap and 100% Open Source, bot hardware and firmware, and fakes are of inferior quality. The defective batches were among the originals though, but it seems they already solved all problems.