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Joined: 15/06/2011
Location: AustraliaPosts: 205
| Posted: 02:32am 03 May 2019 |
Hi.
I recently ordered 10 PCBs and the components to populate them.
I can probably sell 5 of them... I have 5 of the nucleo H7 boards so will keep 5 backpacks. I can also vouch for JLCPCB - extremely quick turnaround, very cheap and they did not charge me the postage for my first order!
I assembled the first one last night - that is a hell of a lot of soldering!! There must be something like 500 solder joints to make (including the connector on the nucleo board - I did install all of the available connectors on the backpack board).
It worked after I fixed the one solder joint that did not take correctly (the +5V pin on the micro USB connector - they are a bugger to solder!).
Uploaded the latest 5.05.06 firmware with ST-Link with no issues.
I attached a 5" SSD1963 display and a console connection via a USB-serial converter and now I have to port some of my programs to it. But it is all working well (well done Peter). I also put an extra long 3 pin connector on the console port so that I could connect to it from both sides of the PCB - very handy when the display is attached.
Regards
Gerard (vk3cg/vk3grs)