SynthModules

Thanks again, Andrew!

gary

--- In SynthModules@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew D Kirch" <trelane@...> wrote:
>
> Ok, it's been an interesting day here at SynthModules Center (Brice: you
> meant hell right? Me: yeah, probably).  We found a tray with 6
boards that
> were not soldered where we thought we had them all done, and some boards
> that had been mated to faceplates without grounds soldered on them.  We
> spent a good deal of time getting the boards finished, all the
faceplates
> ready to mate to the boards, and the finished boards from last week
> tested.  The general status of the components follows:
> boards: all are now soldered (really we even mean it this time, but
don't
> hold us to it)
> face plates: all the grounds are now soldered and they are ready to be
> mated to the boards
> led panels: these were finished last week, nothing new to report here
> 
> **** The Gary Chang Update ****
> Gary,
> Someone, and I'm not mentioning names misplaced one of the standoffs to
> your board.  He spent every lunch break last week hunting down the
correct
> standoffs at the various Radio Cracks, and Fried Electronics.  This
> weekend he mated your board to the face plate, and constructed the
custom
> LED ribbon cable which is significantly different for your board
than for
> the others.  (thought you were special didn't you?)
> 
> ****
> 
> So, here's what remains (or the part you're all interested in). 
With all
> the components completed all that is left is to mate the face plates to
> the boards and wire them up, test them, box them and ship them.  We
tested
> 4 modules, 3 of which passed, and one of which developed a bad 1/8" jack
> during testing.  Brice plans to get the faulty jack replaced during the
> week and these modules should ship to the next people expected to
receive
> them.  I will note for clarity that these are the modules I
mentioned last
> week as completed, however the testing takes about 40 minutes per
> completed module and Brice simply did not have time during the week.
 The
> next four people receiving boards should be hearing from Brice sometime
> this week that their board has in fact shipped.  Anyway that's all from
> SynthModules Hell this week, next week is the Indianapolis 500 (and the
> city will come to a halt), so stay tuned for two weeks from now,
when, in
> an exciting turn of events I will manage to get myself electrocuted.
> 
> 
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