Awful pcb quality and documentation #5
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Hi,
Please provide me your nick name to see what you written on the
pimodules forum. We are receiving so many sex oriented spam messages so
may be it has been deleted by mistake. There are also rules than must be
followed in the forum.
Now about your opinion.
1. The cost of these board is low, I think if you compare it with other
boards doing less than this one. Regarding the compassion of this board
price with the Raspberry Pi is wrong on my opinion. Especially as
Raspberry Pi is manufactured in millions of units. Therefore it is not
possible by nobody to manufacture such qty of any (our or other pcb for
the Raspberry Pi). BTW there are many other boards with much higher
price than Raspberry Pi, there are also bad ?
The quality of this PCB is on my opinion very good, it is 4 layers PCB,
gold plated, with thermal pipes. Designed and simulated with very high
tech CAD/CAM tools (www.pads.com)
Regarding these 2 resistors we added to the PCB, it is a functionality
that has been invented after we manufactured the PCB (not planned at the
beginning), however decided to add it, as we think that is very usefully
for the users. These two resistors (by the way soldered very
professionally under microscope to each boards separately) allows user
to startup the system from EXP, even if battery is completely
discharged. We called it cold wake-up, and it is very useful for
industrial applications, and is requested by many industrial customers.
Regarding your "bad opinion about our product at all" you called it it
would be nice to know point by point what you not like on it, so we will
have opportunity to improved it.
We are receiving so many very positive comments on our product(s) so
your bad opinion is very important to use, to see what we need to
improve in order to make you also satisfied as all other users/customers.
Awaiting for your more detailed answer,
With my Warmest Regards
Ioannis
…On 5/4/2017 8:24 μμ, glorusso wrote:
I'm writing this issue because my message on pimodules forum has not
been published yet.
I have a UPS-PIco HV3.0A Plus and I'm not satisfied with this product
at all.
First, given that this boards cost almost twice a raspberry PI3 I
don't like to see smd resistors soldered like in the pictures below:
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Hi,
Our product is very dynamically updated and new documentation and
firmware is released every 3-4 weeks. We are releasing it on our forum,
and when stable pass it to the GitHub.
The latest part of documentation is here
http://www.forum.pimodules.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2898
There are thousands of various ideas, posts, questions and scripts that
could be usefully for anybody.
Also it is supported on the ModMyPi on their forum
You can follow the installation guides from the GitHub
https://github.com/modmypi/PiModules/wiki/UPS-PIco-Installation
Therefore the simplest way to have support is to search the forum(s),
GitHub or just ask for it
My Warmest Regards
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Ioannis
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In my case, this kind of board is supposed to be used in remote locations where you need to trust both hardware and software against the odds of failure. Now... seeing such resistors soldered like that, however good the rework was, doesn't help. |
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Hi,
Exactly for customers like you, we added these resistors. The cold wake
up it very important on remote locations, so we decided after we
manufactured this version of PCB, as many times battery can be
completely discharged, and on such cases the cold wake up is necessary.
Why do you think that these 2 resistors soldered very professionally are
not so good as all others soldered by SMD machine ? As you can see on
your photos they are soldered much better that the "original" ones and
tested many many times before we released product to customers.
Please provide what are the points you called our product "not like at
all" I would be very happy to improve it on each point you will mention
about.
Please follow the installations guides in the GiHub, as also below links
and you will have our product installed very easy.
There is a cumulative manual, but due to rapid release of new
firmware/features it has been not updated yet, so easier for you is to
follow links I proposed to you
1. You can follow the installation guide from the GitHub
https://github.com/modmypi/PiModules/wiki/UPS-PIco-Installation
2. For the RTC on Jessie use the following info
http://www.forum.pimodules.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3259
3. For the simple daemons installation use the following info
http://www.forum.pimodules.com/viewforum.php?f=26
4. Also this script
http://www.forum.pimodules.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4870
I would kindly ask you to move this discussion to one of our technical
forums
Warmest Regards
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Ioannis
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I'm writing this issue because my message on pimodules forum has not been published yet.
I have a UPS-PIco HV3.0A Plus and I'm not satisfied with this product at all.
First, given that this board costs almost twice as much as the raspberry PI3, I don't like to see smd resistors soldered like in the pictures below.
Also, the documentation is scattered in many different pieces... Where can I find the official product manual (with things like product features, first setup, etc?)
Pictures of the board:
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