{"id":440,"date":"2011-02-06T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2011-02-06T22:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:19:51","slug":"update-on-friday-4-febs-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Update on Friday 4 Feb&#8217;s sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-440 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=441'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000228-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=442'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000234-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=443'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000225-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=444'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000227-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=445'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000230-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/?attachment_id=446'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.funcubedongle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P1000231-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Folks.<\/p>\n<p>I placed 120 units in the Paypal inventory for the 10pm sale, although Paypal oversold again so a total of 135 units were sold, although one was cancelled, so it&#8217;s 134 really.<\/p>\n<p>The oversold inventory expired at 22:00:49.<\/p>\n<p>We had a total of 140 available, of which 60 were built by yours truly and 80 by my new manufacturer. Those 80 units arrived from the manufacturer on Friday at 2pm. I had tested all of them by 6pm. 25 had faults, and I&#8217;d fixed 12 of those on the fly during the testing as they were simple faults. The remaining 13 faults were fixed on Saturday morning. I then set to on the HPF rework on all those 80 units on Saturday afternoon. This was completed by Saturday night, however they were not tested until this morning (Sunday). Complete testing and checkout of all 140 units was completed today (Sunday) at 2pm. There were no write offs.<\/p>\n<p>From Saturday morning until Sunday evening, I had one relative full time performing dispatch, and on Saturday afternoon I had another passing relative preparing the enclosures (labelling, drilling etc). They&#8217;re young, and are not easily offended by the offer of cold hard cash. Normally over the weekend sales I do the labelling with graciously accepted help from the OH, and help out with dispatch, but the later arrival of the units from the manufacturer meant I was busy getting the hardware itself ready.<\/p>\n<p>Each unit is system tested three times. Firstly immediately after construction (when the bootloader is also installed), secondly after the HPF rework and thirdly after placement in the enclosure. When rework is done in large batches such as in this last batch, the second and third tests are performed at the same time by testing the unit out side of the enclosure and if it tests well it is immediately placed in the enclosure and tested in situ there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found in tests after the HPF rework has been installed often results in having to replace the LNA as its sensitivity seems to be impaired by a dB or two. This appears to be due to the thermal cycling. This occurs in abut 10% of boards.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the tuner chips need replacement about 5% of the time due to I\/Q imbalance being out of spec.<\/p>\n<p>I found an exceptional number of PCB faults too on these latest boards which is very disappointing. About half a dozen breaks in tracks that must have been caused by faulty photographics when looked at under the microcscope. Unless you&#8217;ve seen them before, debugging these is a very lengthy process often with numerous blind alleys.<\/p>\n<p>There also seems to be a problem with some 1nF caps I am using that seem to frequently suffer cracks. I will change the manufacturer for the next runs.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the feedback to the manufacturer on the 25 or so units that failed. <\/p>\n<p>xx1 Crystal 1000ppm HF, also may be coincidence, looks like may not have been soldered properly on one lug, fixed<br \/>\nxx2 USB connector plastic deformed, I assume something happened during reflow, it would not physically mate, replaced connector, fixed<br \/>\nxx0 IC8 pin 6 lifted, fixed<br \/>\nxx3 high phase noise, intermittent, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx8 Clock low p-p swing, replaced IC2, fixed<br \/>\nxx9 deaf, replaced C1 (cracked), fixed<br \/>\nxx6.1 I\/Q imbalance 20dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx6.2 deaf, replaced IC4 and C1 (cracked), fixed<br \/>\nxx7.1 stuck in bootloader, replaced IC10 3.3A reg, fixed<br \/>\nxx7.2 deaf, replaced IC4, fixed<br \/>\nxx0 codec data track broken (PCB fault), fixed<br \/>\nxx2 stuck in bootloader, track broken pin 32 IC3 (PCB fault), fixed<br \/>\nxx3 codec data track broken (PCB fault), fixed<br \/>\nxx3 I\/Q imbalance 10dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx4 USB connector D- line connection lifted, fixed<br \/>\nxx3 I\/Q imbalance 20dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx4 I\/Q imbalance 20dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx6 I\/Q imbalance 20dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx8 deaf, replaced IC3 and C1 (cracked), fixed<br \/>\nxx4 codec data track broken (PCB fault), fixed<br \/>\nxx5 stuck in bootloader, IC2 solder bridge pins 7 &#038; 8, fixed<br \/>\nxx8 I\/Q imbalance 20dB, replaced IC3, fixed<br \/>\nxx2 stuck in bootloader, solder bridge on IC2 pins 17 &#038; 18, fixed<br \/>\nxx7 totally deaf, lifted PCB track IC3 pin 8, fixed<br \/>\nxx9 stuck in bootloader, IC2 incorrectly oriented, fixed<\/p>\n<p>Howard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks. I placed 120 units in the Paypal inventory for the 10pm sale, although Paypal oversold again so a total of 135 units were sold, although one was cancelled, so it&#8217;s 134 really. The oversold inventory expired at 22:00:49. 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