On Friday, March 9, 2012 8:08:55 AM UTC, Quixotic Nixotic wrote: > > On 6 Mar 2012, at 05:06, Nick wrote: > > > Just been told that I probably won't get mine until May : > > ( presumably from batch #2 > > All 10,000 of the original batch of Raspberry Pis have been found to > have 'non-magnetic' ethernet sockets, due to substitution of the > wrong part in China > For the record, "magnetics" refers to galvanic isolation for the data pairs between the Ethernet cable and the host device - essentially a pair of small 1:1 transformers which used to be in an external little module but nowadays tends to be inside the RJ45 socket itself. See http://www.amphenolcanada.com/ProductSearch/pdf/RJmag_CAT.pdf for an example.
Its a very bad bit of quality control if this really happened as stated... regrettably, the problem would only manifest itself with the destruction of the RP... Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/JT2PSyJpVKUJ. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
