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Old 13 February 2017, 18:14   #301
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Old 13 February 2017, 19:06   #302
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Thank you for your effort!
The board looks very nice !!!
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Old 14 February 2017, 19:25   #303
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Hmmmm ... an experiment


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Old 14 February 2017, 21:59   #304
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Old 14 February 2017, 23:34   #305
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Finally! After PCI busboards, what we now need is an MCA busboard.
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Old 15 February 2017, 03:50   #306
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I know people have their own method of soldering, and with their own choice of Soldering iron.

When i did my Minimig, I had someone do the QFP208 (FPGA) for me and even then someone who supposedly knew what he was doing he fucked up and stuck all the legs of the FPGA together and couldnt fix it.

I did the ram myself, as well as the 68000 on the board using the big no no of soldering to use the non temperature cheap crap $20 soldering iron (I can hear the gasps now), pre tin all the pads of the chip, place the chip visually, and then do the one corner, other corner (to hold it in place), then do a left right action of the iron tip (instead of up and down the length of the pin row) with PLENTY of flux.

This only worked because Dennis (designer of Minimig) used longer pads for the flat pack chips, but from the looks of this, the pads are only JUST bigger than the profile of the chips legs because of the size of the boards, so a REAL fine chisel tip can only get to them.
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Old 15 February 2017, 10:20   #307
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How do you find the quality of those dirty pcb's? I suppose it's hard to assess in general due to the fact that they pool at several different fabs?

Looking at the photo above, it seems like some of the silk screen is missing; also when watching part 2 of your soldering video yesterday, I thought it looked like some pads were tinned and some not?
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Old 15 February 2017, 14:45   #308
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finally! After pci busboards, what we now need is an mca busboard.
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Old 15 February 2017, 17:49   #309
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How do you find the quality of those dirty pcb's? I suppose it's hard to assess in general due to the fact that they pool at several different fabs?

Looking at the photo above, it seems like some of the silk screen is missing; also when watching part 2 of your soldering video yesterday, I thought it looked like some pads were tinned and some not?


Perfectly fine. The silkscreen is sometimes shit but who cares.


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Old 15 February 2017, 17:52   #310
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This only worked because Dennis (designer of Minimig) used longer pads for the flat pack chips, but from the looks of this, the pads are only JUST bigger than the profile of the chips legs because of the size of the boards, so a REAL fine chisel tip can only get to them.

The pads have 5mil either side. That's plenty




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Old 19 February 2017, 01:53   #311
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So, if you added the 68000 re-locating to your board, the cost goes up too much?
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Old 19 February 2017, 16:15   #312
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Yes. And it's cheaper to make them as dedicated shunts like kipper did.


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Old 19 February 2017, 18:52   #313
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I'll publish this when I'm done. I really don't want to get distracted by this sort of thing


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Old 19 February 2017, 20:11   #314
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A pleasure to follow your progress.. Keep it up!!!
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Old 19 February 2017, 22:46   #315
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I am encountering unknown stability issues with the TF530 Rev 2. I'm very perplexed. I'd hold off getting boards until i understand whats happening.
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Old 20 February 2017, 21:38   #316
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I am sorry to hear that! I hope you get it sussed soon chin up! Great vids as always!
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Old 20 February 2017, 21:42   #317
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Hope it's nothing funny with a voltage regulator.
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Seems to exhibit the issue when powered by a completely clean source (6632B)


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Old 21 February 2017, 15:45   #319
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Hi I've not seen the under side of the board or looked on git hub so please forgive me with this! With the ram do you have bypass cap's on the ram side.
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Of course. 10uF per chip. 2 x 10uF on the 030


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