RE: LV2000 Order Form

G'day Anders (and Clay),

Well, I could be wrong since I've never seen Clay's handiwork, but your
LV2000 sounds simpler. If you really are concerned about people
assembling your boards properly, then put any extra time (yes, I'm
referring to yours/mine/all of our's copious "spare time") into the
instructions. Including a trouble shooting section with symptoms and
likely mistakes that people made (and perhaps you found yourself doing
while assembling PCBs) would save you many people calling you for help,
too.

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

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>From: Anders Knudsen[SMTP:Anders_Knudsen@btc.adaptec.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 7:31 AM
>To: vectorlist@spies.com
>Cc: Anders Knudsen
>Subject: Re: LV2000 Order Form
>
>At 04:58 PM 1/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>>Uhm, like, cold solder joints suck.
>>
>>Ahhh, I was thinking more along the lines of:
>>
>>"Well, I didn't have any LM317's so I just used a couple of TIP32s which
>>fit. And I didn't have any caps left so I used some extra resistors-- they
>>fit too so they must be OK. And I got tired of soldering all the little
>>induhvidual pins so I just soldered them all together. For some reason it
>>doesn't work. You must have screwed up and sent me a bad product."
>>
>
>You're giving me nightmares!!! Yea, I thought about this, however, when I
>decided to offer the kit to the folks here on the vector list, the response
>I got was "well can you just sell me a bare pcb? I can put it together
>myself."
>To be honest, I'de rather sell the kits pre-assembled. Then I can test them
>and know that I'm sending a functioning unit. However, I can't do that for
>as cheap of a price as people want the kit for.
>The other caveat is that even if a sold a pre-assembled kit, the buyer
>still has to install the PCB onto the deflection board. This still involves
>removing parts, and soldering the new PCB down...
>So, in the instructions I will have a *disclaimer*...if you screw up
>soldering the parts on, well as they say "ce la vie!"
>
>>and...
>>
>>"I used a 100W wood burner tool with some pipe-solder, so some of those
>>little copper lines came off the board-- but I replaced 'em with some 12ga
>>copper core wire left over from wiring my house."
>>
>>(Wait, maybe those were just RGVAC people... Variations on the above were
>>part of the reason I decided to only sell ESB and Sega kits
>>pre-assembled... :-)
>>
>>-Clay
>
>Yea, anyone who gets the kit better not use those black five pound
>soldering *guns* that look like 44 magnum!
>On RGVAC, or rather RGVAM, the kit is only being offered pre-assembled.
>Also I am offering an installation option, that is, you send in your
>deflection PCB, I (or Jeff H) will install and test it with the new LV2000.
>Any other deflection fix will get fixed on a per problem basis.
>
>Since this is a simple kit (not as many solder points as your ESB or Sega
>retros), I am hoping that I won't get too many f#?& ups. If it does get too
>bad, I'll just cease the build-it-yourself kit, and only sell pre-assemble
>ones.
>I am going on the notion that most people here on vectorlist are competent
>enough to build this kit. At least anyone who has installed parts from a
>Zanen kit should have no problem.
>
>-Anders.
> -----------------------------------------
>| Anders Knudsen
>| ASIC Design Engineer
>| Adaptec, Inc., Boulder Technology Center
>| anders_knudsen@btc.adaptec.com
>| http://www.adaptec.com
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>
Received on Tue Jan 20 08:30:20 1998