[Arm-netbook] SHIPPING!: EOMA-68 Micro Engineering Boards

[luke.leighton]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Christopher Thomas
<christopher at firemothindustries.com> wrote:
> Another QC/QA issue. Just snapped off the micro USB connector while trying
> to plug it in,

 ooo, ouch.  are the tracks ok (so you can at least get access to
uUSB)?  wait... this is a mid-mount part.

> and noticed that while there is solder on the pads below the
> board, it never wicked up to the top of the board to hold the connector in
> place, only a single bead of solder on the top right corner was holding it
> onto the traces (plus the solder on the traces themselves).

 hang on... there's 4 mounting points, one in each corner.  the uUSB
should have been soldered in all 4 of the mounting points: if it came
out you would have been using one hell of a lot of force...

 ... unless they rushed that one and didn't bother to solder it down
at the mounting points.

> And there's a
> big glob of solder from the "pin-56 capacitor"  to the TP/Ground pad next to
> it. Waiting for my Nikon D3100 to charge then I'll get you those hi-res
> photos.

 ok, good idea.  i'll get them back to the ODM - it sounds like they
did a really poor job on the board that you got.

 i wonder if they did all those connectors by hand?

l.