Daniel’s Stuff

I now have the replacement PCBs from circuits.io and they look great.  They also included some free PCBs, so hopefully they will work.  :)

I’ll post some pics when I have some

I took a few more pictures of the failed boards and sent them to the fantastic people at circuits.io.  They have very generously offered to send me new ones at no charge  Hopefully these new boards will work out.

I also had a quick go at getting one of the boards working.  After soldering lots of wires on the bottom of the board I powered it up and let the magic smoke out of my voltage regulator, so it looks like I may have a crook connection somewhere.  It could also be because I didn’t have the right regulator available so tried another with a slightly different pinout.  I put some heat shrink over the input lead and bent it into the right position. Maybe I didn’t get it quite right.  The interesting thing is that the Mac I had it plugged in to didn’t complain about the device drawing too much current, so I don’t quite know what went wrong.  Time to head out to Jaycar and get the part I actually need I guess

After a small hint from one of the Drobo tech support staff I was able to fix my DroboPro

It turns out that there is a little CR2032 coin cell on the main board that had gone flat.  I replaced that and the machine came good

YAY!

I just got an email that seems to suggest that I may have one on the way via DHL Express

YAY!