Assembled H2 interest ?
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 9:20 pm
I have started a new thread for this to see what people's thoughts on this are as I think the post went unnoticed before..
Basically as I will be sending off for my boards to be assembled for me, I can of course send more boards and more parts to be assembled for other people as well..
The bulk of the parts is of course things like sockets, resistors, capacitors, headers etc, but more in particular, the H2 does have a few bits of SMT now as well.. Some items I would buy in bulk to trying get the best prices on them and each board will have these basic parts assembled as standard.
I think the cost of assembling my board was about £40, but of course there was postage on top of that both ways, and the alpha parts list ended up being about £55 IIRC.. The H2 SMT chips they will add a little bit more on that people want the SMT MMU & GLUE soldering.. but I am basically making a guess that the basic parts and assembly would be somewhere around £130-£150. It also depends if people want connectors fitting ( which would be purchased from my store along with the motherboard).. Any items ordered from my store along with the motherboard, will of course go off to be assembled, so people can choose if they want such items fitting or they can do it themselves if they want to. I'm not doing any assembly myself, everything will be sent off to be done. So the prices will be set by the assembly company not by myself.
As said before, I'm not putting together kits of parts again.. So anybody wanting to assemble themselves, will have to purchase the parts themselves as well. Likely I will post a BOM with parts from Farnell as I order parts anyway.. I will mostly try and get the best deal on parts but of course I need to know how many people are interested in this so I can get best bulk prices and start ordering parts ready.
So if anybody wants their board to be assembled for them with this many parts as possible, then let me know and I can start thinking about a plan to getting these done.
There is a image of the board so far here if anyone wants to take a look..
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 350#p24112
I may start taking preorders for the motherboard in the near future as mentioned previously. This will give plenty of time for people to place a order for the board. Though please note that the production will not happen for a few months yet as I am still working on the motherboard at the moment.
Basically as I will be sending off for my boards to be assembled for me, I can of course send more boards and more parts to be assembled for other people as well..
The bulk of the parts is of course things like sockets, resistors, capacitors, headers etc, but more in particular, the H2 does have a few bits of SMT now as well.. Some items I would buy in bulk to trying get the best prices on them and each board will have these basic parts assembled as standard.
I think the cost of assembling my board was about £40, but of course there was postage on top of that both ways, and the alpha parts list ended up being about £55 IIRC.. The H2 SMT chips they will add a little bit more on that people want the SMT MMU & GLUE soldering.. but I am basically making a guess that the basic parts and assembly would be somewhere around £130-£150. It also depends if people want connectors fitting ( which would be purchased from my store along with the motherboard).. Any items ordered from my store along with the motherboard, will of course go off to be assembled, so people can choose if they want such items fitting or they can do it themselves if they want to. I'm not doing any assembly myself, everything will be sent off to be done. So the prices will be set by the assembly company not by myself.
As said before, I'm not putting together kits of parts again.. So anybody wanting to assemble themselves, will have to purchase the parts themselves as well. Likely I will post a BOM with parts from Farnell as I order parts anyway.. I will mostly try and get the best deal on parts but of course I need to know how many people are interested in this so I can get best bulk prices and start ordering parts ready.
So if anybody wants their board to be assembled for them with this many parts as possible, then let me know and I can start thinking about a plan to getting these done.
There is a image of the board so far here if anyone wants to take a look..
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 350#p24112
I may start taking preorders for the motherboard in the near future as mentioned previously. This will give plenty of time for people to place a order for the board. Though please note that the production will not happen for a few months yet as I am still working on the motherboard at the moment.