FYI...my contact at Octavo informed me today that the industrial version of the cSIP currently has a lead time of 6 weeks. They are flying off the shelves.
On Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 4:40:14 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2021, at 10:36 PM, Richard Sewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Daniel, (cool site btw!) I have headers exactly the same on my > prototype board set up. Do you have any automation for soldering the female > headers or do you hand solder them? Someone has made an automatic header > soldering machine which is interesting, but quite a project > https://hackaday.com/2015/05/05/open-source-diy-soldering-robot/ . I have > also heard of 'pin in paste' headers, which would require some kind of > reflow process only on the edge of the board. I'm trying to avoid as many > manual assembly processes as possible. > > > I’ve gone two different directions with this.. > > When volume was lower, I actually paid my 13yo son to solder them. He > wanted to save up for a new composite Baseball Bat so I paid him $3 for > each one that he soldered. At one point, he got good enough to do about 8 > an hour (I can do about 9/10) so he made out pretty well. However, you > could use this idea and maybe find a couple enterprising high school > students or something that would like a socially distant work from home job > that could be just a couple hours a day. Give them $3 or $4 each and > they’d make out really well once they got good at it. (Assuming they have > the soldering station or you could loan them one or something) > > With higher volume, I’m just having the cape manufacturer do it. They > are more than happy to solder headers on and mount them onto the capes. > The trick here is getting them to the board manufacturer since the PB’s > aren’t available everywhere or is very expensive in some locations. Thus, > it kind of depends on where you have your boards made. I’ve had bunches > of PB’s shipped to me, I’ve ripped them out of the retail packaging (to > save weight/space) and then shipped them off to manufacture. Anyway, talk > to your board manufacturer. > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/4c08436a-c177-413f-85e8-57ab7181f180n%40googlegroups.com.
