I guess if you're going to build over 60 of them it starts to matter. I
just figured if I'm going to go to this much effort it took just to build
one at all, that $1 wasn't even visible, but a built and in-use rex that
fails some day when it might have lived, is visible. So I went for the
better-ish versions of all parts. The factors for this are not the same as
for mass producing a clock that will sell in dollar stores.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Commercial is fine....
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, Josh Malone <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Also, meant to ask:
>>
>> Brian's BOM includes the  Industrial variant of the CPLD. The
>> commercial variant is almost $1 cheaper and seems well within
>> tolerance
>>
>> (voltage min is 3 instead of 2.7, temp is 0 - 70 C instead of 40 - 85 °C)
>>
>>
>> Any reason not to sub this part in?
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Josh Malone <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks. I'm going to just order new parts and try again.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Brian Brindle <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> 11.7k on 2 of mine.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Oct 18, 2017 4:25 PM, "Stephen Adolph" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I can try to measure it later today for you.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]
>> >
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> either the chip is a dud, or you have soldered it down in the wrong
>> >>>> orientation (which is kinda easy to do)...  Do you have more CPLDs?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Josh Malone <[email protected]>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Thanks for the leads.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I removed the CPLD and the resistance from 3v3 to gnd went to open;
>> >>>>> repopulated it and it went to 3-ohms. Dunno what to try next. Maybe
>> >>>>> put the same CPLD back on an original REX board (non-castellated)
>> and
>> >>>>> see what happens. But, I'd *really* love for someone to measure the
>> >>>>> resistance on a known-good REX board and let me know what it should
>> >>>>> be. Assuming the CPLD draws <= 1ma (datasheet says 17uA standby), R
>> >>>>> should be over ~3k.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> -Josh
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>>
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