jacquelines ๐a true mark of quality is when the manufacturer has opted not to depanel their boards before assembly.
these are even v-scored already!!!
the internal mains bits look okay, but i donโt really know what iโm doing in that area. will check the gun next.
a through hole reed switch hot glued to the inside. a tiny blower like on a 3d printer. otherwise looks chill i guess?
aaaaand the breaker tripped again. hmm.
Angelica@jacqueline reed switch mentioned, here come the nerds
Thea@jacqueline Not looking good for passing a UL cert and probably makes more RFI than it should, but its not the worst I've seen either. The kind of thing I would use but also not leave plugged in when I left the room.
emily, blinkenlight witch@jacqueline those are the component-pokin' sticks
if you find yourself in here you will probably need to tentatively poke something at some point, so they conveniently provide sticks to poke with so you don't shock yourself
that's why they don't have copper on them
Stumpy The Mutt@jacqueline Never mind the "remove seal after washing." Don't need to do that if you don't clean the flux off the board!
Andrew Zonenberg@jacqueline I love the sticker over the buzzer too.
I love this, so I@azonenberg @jacqueline previous manufacturing run had too many complaints that the buzzer was too loud
Jose Romero@jacqueline they paid for the FR4, by golly they gotta use it
rawe@jacqueline if you remove the ground screw you'll find that there is solder mask below it, making a really great protective earth connection to a handle with tiny wires carrying mains voltage (at least it was like this on my unit).
The exposed metal part gets hot, so you would never touch it so this makes it safe-ish I guess?
Edit3: oh they soldered the ground connection to the board - thats an interesting way to solve the issue
Edit: your unit seems to have the detachable handle... mains voltage is exposed there, so thats another safety-feature
Edit2: on my unit the crimp connection for protective earth was crimped on a wire with insulation still in place. On your unit it looks like they removed more than enough insulation.
Szymon Bฤczkowski@jacqueline this happens when you use eg. JLC assembly services. They will add the side handles to your board so they can place fiducials there. After assembly they don't remove the sides because it is an additional production step and they are not paid to do more than minimum.
@owiecc i know more than you about this topic