On 08/04/14 16:36, Bas Laarhoven wrote: > Regarding the connector solder quality: Hopefully they are still tuning > their production process, circuitco obviously has had more time (and > > 100k boards) to do that!
e14/Embest have been building these for quite some time, but only selling to China The creation date on this article is Apr 18, 2013: http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-54131/l/embest-bb-black-development-platform-based-on-ti-sitara-am3358-processor-exclusively-for-china Now it may be that they're tuning a process on a new production line that's been spun up to meet demand, but that's no reason to think they don't know what they're doing. It is obviously a different process to CircuitCo as some of your earlier observations show. We also don't know how many of these boards embest have already sold in China in the last year. Received one today, given that it has an AM3358 and the R8/R9 change then it appears to be a RevB equivalent. Older version of Angstrom, but that'll be getting wiped in the next few mins anyway. Different pre-installed image could certainly be a confusing problem for some people though. With 25 years in the electronics subcontract manufacturing business behind me, I personally have no concerns about the quality. I suspect e14 don't either or they're unlikely to have engaged in wide distribution of a board that they'll be directly responsible for. Not like they can RMA these back to CircuitCo after all. -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
