[NTLK] Followup on EM300 and SER-001 boards: What a disappointment!

Sun Aug 26 16:26:43 EDT 2018

Hi Frank,

Maybe I will be a little helpful.

Lats year I’ve made Jake’s internal WiFi board for Newton. I ordered board from here: https://www.itead.cc/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping/2layer-green-pcb-5cm-x-5cm-max.html <https://www.itead.cc/open-pcb/pcb-prototyping/2layer-green-pcb-5cm-x-5cm-max.html>

Board was very good and high quality. And everything was so cheap.

Cheers,
Pawel

> On 26 Aug 2018, at 19:42, NewtonTalk <newtontalk at pda-soft.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> bad news: The boards I just got from Beta Layout are more than twice as
> thick as the original boards (1.7mm instead of 0.8mm). This means that the
> EM300 boards will not fit into the eMate's board holder, and the SER-001
> boards will prevent the back part of the 2x00's case from being properly
> reattached. 
> 
> No idea how this happened. I sent them David's layout files without any
> change. The boards are perfect except for their thickness. I'd expect if
> Beta can figure out board width and height, drill positions, soldering pad
> positions and all that other stuff from the Gerber files, surely they should
> find board thickness info there, too! And if they didn't, they should've
> asked!
> 
> I sent them an E-Mail asking how we can solve this problem. Let's hope they
> either waive the invoiced amount or furnish me with boards that we can use.
> Otherwise I will have just flushed almost 250 Euros down the drain. That
> money should have better gone towards the reflow soldering equipment I'm
> currently saving for and intended to buy next.
> 
> Then again: If I do not have usable boards, I do not need reflow soldering
> equipment in the first place. Always look on the bright side of life.
> 
> Sorry for grumbling. I had to blow off some steam. 
> 
> Grr...
> 
> :-((
> 
> Frank
> 
> -- Newton software and hardware at http://www.pda-soft.de
> 
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