garyopa
03-11-2012, 02:26 PM
Manufacturing hiccup stopped production for a while
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The card-sized Raspberry Pi microcomputer has hit another bump in the road since LAN ports mounted were defective.
Oh man, this is not good. Raspberry Pi (http://portal.maxconsole.net/cgi-bin/maxconsole/rknewz.pl?function=rate&rate=negative&id=RKLS0000003471&cat=GENERAL) units that were already ready to sell are being reclaimed due to a wrong type of non-magnetic LAN ports mounted that prevents the computer to get any network connectivity. The issue is easily fixable but will delay the production for a time.
Here is the full text at the official website:
It’s inevitable, isn’t it – you’re freewheeling along perfectly happily and then you get a puncture.
As you’ll have noticed, there’s been a bit of a delay in shipping the first batch of Raspberry Pis out to people. This is because of a hardware parts substitution that was made in the factory by accident: specifically, where we’d specified jacks with integrated magnetics in the BOM and schematics, the factory soldered in non-magnetic jacks. No magnetics means no network connection. We’ve known about this for four days now, but we haven’t been able to tell you about it because it meant we had to do some further tests to make sure that nothing else was affected.
Happily, it’s a very minor problem to fix (desolder the dud jack/solder on a new one), and the factory is nearly done working on replacing them on the first set of boards. This means that the first tranche of boards should still go out to customers as we were expecting. There may now be a slight delay in later batches if there’s a problem sourcing enough magnetic jacks (we’ve got teams hunting them down already); all the stock of jacks we believed we had in place and ready to turn into the ethernet ports on your Raspberry Pis turn out not to be the correct part, so we’re having to start again and move through the negotiating/ordering/delivery cycle as fast as we can. Our partners at Element 14/Premier Farnell and RS Components are working hard to help us cater for this, and to expedite supply of the Raspberry Pi.
We are very, very sorry. We know you want your Raspberry Pi as soon as possible (and many of you are being inhumanly patient, having followed us since we launched this website eight months ago). We’ll keep you updated with how manufacture is moving; this is, in the scheme of things, a minor problem, but it’s still a bump in the road and we know that we rely on your goodwill to keep things moving forward.
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this Pi update!
http://www.maxconsole.com/maxconsole/contents/RKLS0000004294/icon_xl.jpg
The card-sized Raspberry Pi microcomputer has hit another bump in the road since LAN ports mounted were defective.
Oh man, this is not good. Raspberry Pi (http://portal.maxconsole.net/cgi-bin/maxconsole/rknewz.pl?function=rate&rate=negative&id=RKLS0000003471&cat=GENERAL) units that were already ready to sell are being reclaimed due to a wrong type of non-magnetic LAN ports mounted that prevents the computer to get any network connectivity. The issue is easily fixable but will delay the production for a time.
Here is the full text at the official website:
It’s inevitable, isn’t it – you’re freewheeling along perfectly happily and then you get a puncture.
As you’ll have noticed, there’s been a bit of a delay in shipping the first batch of Raspberry Pis out to people. This is because of a hardware parts substitution that was made in the factory by accident: specifically, where we’d specified jacks with integrated magnetics in the BOM and schematics, the factory soldered in non-magnetic jacks. No magnetics means no network connection. We’ve known about this for four days now, but we haven’t been able to tell you about it because it meant we had to do some further tests to make sure that nothing else was affected.
Happily, it’s a very minor problem to fix (desolder the dud jack/solder on a new one), and the factory is nearly done working on replacing them on the first set of boards. This means that the first tranche of boards should still go out to customers as we were expecting. There may now be a slight delay in later batches if there’s a problem sourcing enough magnetic jacks (we’ve got teams hunting them down already); all the stock of jacks we believed we had in place and ready to turn into the ethernet ports on your Raspberry Pis turn out not to be the correct part, so we’re having to start again and move through the negotiating/ordering/delivery cycle as fast as we can. Our partners at Element 14/Premier Farnell and RS Components are working hard to help us cater for this, and to expedite supply of the Raspberry Pi.
We are very, very sorry. We know you want your Raspberry Pi as soon as possible (and many of you are being inhumanly patient, having followed us since we launched this website eight months ago). We’ll keep you updated with how manufacture is moving; this is, in the scheme of things, a minor problem, but it’s still a bump in the road and we know that we rely on your goodwill to keep things moving forward.
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this Pi update!