Hey Aus/NZ fedi folks, do you want one of these fantastic USB cable testers?
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I’ve also had a think about what I’ll do if the ordering reaches the 130 board limit before the ordering window closes: 130 will definitely be the limit for this manufacturing run. I’ll leave the ordering form up, but remove the deposit payment information, and if anyone happens to pay a deposit after orders reach the limit I’ll refund. The reason I’ll keep the form open is because there may be fewer than 20 manufacturing faults, and I’ll offer whatever remains beyond the 130 for sale on a first-come first-serve basis by the timestamp on the form submission. I won’t know exactly how many can be sold until all the boards are delivered and tested. If you happen to place an order for multiple boards that kicks over the limit, I’ll supply the entire order, subject to enough boards working.
The other possibility is that there are more than 20 boards with manufacturing faults that can’t be manually fixed. If that happens I’ll refund the last deposits until the number of working boards is reached.
In either case, if you don’t get a board this time around after placing an order, I’ll do another manufacturing run and you’ll get first dibs!
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Order is now submitted and paid for! Total of 160 boards being manufactured - 20 panels in 2x4 layout. Will update as it progresses through manufacturing.
Eeeeeeeee exciting!
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(oh, that $365 cost is in US dollars)
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… that’s a lot of bubble wrap!
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Boxes of boxes
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3 rounds of questions so far from JLCPCB, but I think it's at the point where they will actually make the things now.
1. What do you mean, don't put PTH components on X out boards in the panel? (if any boards in the panel fail manufacturing tests, they get crossed out as not usable. The PTH parts need to be manually placed, so just don't place PTH parts on any board that's X-out) Oh, ok
2. We need to add extra space between the boards in the panel because the PTH parts over-hang the board edges and will bump into each other (sure, I made the edge rails larger in case you needed to do this, shrink the edge rails and put in a mid-rail)
3. We are confirming your components are supposed to go <here>, which is different to the original positions you uploaded (uh, yes, because the original positions are only for a single board, and there's 8 boards in the panel, so of course the positions are different)
Anyway, this is what the entire panel of boards will probably look like:
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Hooray in production! Estimated PCB finish time this evening.
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PCB production finished, pending component assembly.
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Manufacturing is finished! Now pending shipping, and everything should arrive to me next week.
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One single board out of 160 has failed assembly quality checks - not too shabby at all! This probably something I can manually fix.
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Still in the factory, waiting to be picked up though. But now UPS is Aware
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Soon…
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Where you going?!
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:pakidge: TODAY?! It’s more likely than you think
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If you refresh the tracking every few minutes it makes the delivery van go faster right?
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Where :pakidge: ?!
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So, you just CBF delivering all the packages in the van today and tried to claim I wasn’t home all day looking after The Toddler. Good to know.
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HOOOOOOLLLLYYYYYYYYY SSSHHHHHIIIIIIITTTTTTTT
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That’s a lot of padding!
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First one works! Now to test the other 159…
