Posted by Graham Dyer on January 4, 2010 at 3:50am
I bought some extra boards and thermopiles recently here on the forum and couldn't understand why the one board wouldn't work properly, then I noticed that one of the chips is not correctly lined up on its pads. Would it have come out of the factory like this?
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Unfortunately the board now falls outside of Sparkfun's Returns Policy as it's been powered up and code loaded and thereby is "affected", postage to and from South Africa also will not really be worth it.
I have asked for a replacement board at cost or reduced cost from Sparkfun, but as I didn't buy the board new from them it complicates matters.
How does this happen? Is this human error or machine? Now we don't want want FAA or any blaming it as a human error for issues arising from likes of this :))) now where is my board !?!
maybe sparkfun would send you (for free, or discount) the nice desoldering paste stuff, and solder wick. or could probably remove it with a heat gun. not too hard, and fun to fix.
ehh....its not that big of a deal...Fly it anyway..... its only two pins?....Just kidding. Man that sucks dude. Bet you wish you had an iron to move that sucker yourself!
The answer is yes, it came from the factory like that. There were several instances documented on DIY Drones concerning misplacement of that IC on the Ardupilot board. Fortunately it was not a rampant mistake.
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I have asked for a replacement board at cost or reduced cost from Sparkfun, but as I didn't buy the board new from them it complicates matters.
The answer is yes, it came from the factory like that. There were several instances documented on DIY Drones concerning misplacement of that IC on the Ardupilot board. Fortunately it was not a rampant mistake.
Regards,
TCIII