Hi John

It should be fairly easy to recover the chips off a bad board with a SMD 
rework station.  If you want I can try to help you recover some of the 
chips if you want.

Dave

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:27:24 PM UTC-5, monahanz wrote:
>
> Agree will have to tighten things up Dave.  Fortunately Andrew/N8VEM is a 
> second source for most of this stuff, schematics etc.  but the actual 
> builds/bugs etc. are critical I agree.  Not helping is the fact that when 
> Andrew and I started off we did not really thing about different 
> versions/updates etc. so the past version numbering is not too good.  To 
> this day, I have problems here with these darn mezzanine boards. I actually 
> had 4 versions made before we got to V06C.  Never want to go back to them, 
>  what a nightmare – many wasted chips.
>
>  
>
> John
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto:
> [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *yoda
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:25 PM
> *To:* [email protected] <javascript:>
> *Cc:* [email protected] <javascript:>; [email protected] <javascript:>
> *Subject:* Re: [N8VEM-S100:4682] Re: S-100-16M-SRAM-MEZZ-V6c Board - 
> Status --- OK
>
>  
>
> John
>
>  
>
> Thanks for the update - probably should come up with a strategy to keep a 
> history on each board as over time we are going to have different versions 
> of some boards with different build configurations and not everyone is 
> going to get their boards built before it might be superseded by a new 
> board.  But if someone wants to go back and look at thing  say for V1 of 
> SMB board your site doesn't have the old schematics and board layout so you 
> have to go to the PBworks site and hope someone created a folder for older 
> board and archived things.  I think this is going to be a problem over time 
> that we probably need to think about.
>
>  
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:54:04 PM UTC-5, monahanz wrote:
>
> Opp’s sorry about that Dave.    I have redone the “build notes” to include 
> both mezzanine boards.   See:-
>
>
> http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/16M%20RAM%20Board/16MG%20RAM%20Board.htm
>
>  
>
> John
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* yoda [mailto:[email protected]] 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:52 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [N8VEM-S100:4675] Re: S-100-16M-SRAM-MEZZ-V6c Board - 
> Status --- OK
>
>  
>
> Hi John
>
>  
>
> Can you put back on your web site both versions of the mezzanine board - 
> so that people can see the original with the patch. I am not sure I am 
> going to move up to the new mezzanine boards (probably will) but now there 
> is no reference to the original board and the patches required to make it 
> work.  I think when you update web site you need to leave what was 
> originally there and then add new sections (probably with revision number 
> and/or date for new section) - not delete and replace - the same has 
> happened with other boards.
>
>  
>
> Dave
>
> On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:29:45 AM UTC-5, monahanz wrote:
>
> Yes Todd from Arrow.  They are specked as 5V but the seem to work OK at 
> 3.3V.
>
> John
>
>  
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On 
> Behalf Of *[email protected]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 23, 2014 6:26 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [N8VEM-S100:4675] Re: S-100-16M-SRAM-MEZZ-V6c Board - Status 
> --- OK
>
>  
>
> John -
>
> I assume this was with the CY62167ELL-45ZXI ram?
>
> Todd -
>
> Let the group know when you're ready to ship out a few!
>
> -  Gary
>
> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:09:44 PM UTC-4, monahanz wrote:
>
> Todd just a quick note to let you know the  V06c version of the mezzanine 
> boards checked out fine on the 16MG S100 RAM board.   I hammered them 
> fairly good with the 80386 board, they did fine. 
>
>  
>
> Soldering the chips on to the board is quite tricky.  I found it best to 
> aligen one corner, then orientate the chip and do the diagonally opposite 
> corner, then run the salder tip along the pins. With a wet tip there is 
> enough solder on the pins and the board for contact.  However I had one 
> chip where the pin did not make contact, took me a while to locate it.  
> These boards are definatly not for anybody with shakey hands
>
>  
>
> Will next do the 32MB 80386 board, but for now I feel confident sending 
> them out to all 16MB board users.
>
>  
>
> Thanks Andrew and Dave for all your help on these.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> John
>
>  
>
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