Following Text was written before the... erm... lockdown of the forum (I still could write it, but when I wanted to post, the board was nuked
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Hi All,
I'm a bit late to the party, had some other things occupying me (and had parts on back-order).
Today I managed to do the assembly of my EEZBox with the cards I had so far.
I'm missing both DCP405s. On them, I will start tomorrow.
So far, no real Issues. Except procuring the parts was a bit of a nightmare.
With the DCP220, I noticed, there is a reading <250mA if the current is low, is that a usual behaviour?
I calibrated it, and voltage and current are otherwise of acceptable precision. Had both channels (separately) run on ~60W for some minutes and it did not burst into flames.
In my package, I noticed today, one of the DC-Cables (MW PSU to card) is missing and I only have one of these green "push-in"-connectors.
Could you provide me the mouser-number for the exact connectors used, that would save me quite some searching as there's a ton of variants?
Other than that, it's a really nice kit. A lot of work, sure, but thanks to good documentation not really difficult.
Since there were some comments regarding soldering before:
I soldered all PCBs by hand and used 40Sn60Pb (0.5 mm wire). The ICs with a unreachable heatsink underneath were done on a hotplate with some hot air. Here, I pretinned the board before as I had no solder-paste on hand in that moment.