[OLPC-devel] Production issue (one datapoint)

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Tue Jul 18 15:03:59 EDT 2006


I'm not very concerned about this, given it is small lot manufacturing,
but for completeness sake, please enter this into the Trac system.
                    Regards,
                        - Jim


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:16 -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> CN21 on my board is incorrectly placed - the pins that are supposed to
> come up then turn at a right angle so they're parallel to the board
> are actually leaning a bit, such that the ends of the pins aren't
> centered on the connector shroud.  Instead, they are nearly touching
> the bottom.  This is the style of connector often used for e.g.
> cordless phone battery packs, and if I needed to plug anything into
> this one it would be impossible without either bending the pins quite
> far upward or resoldering them correctly.  (The pins should go through
> the PCB perpendicularly; instead they're at a 15 degree angle or so
> from perpendicular at the board top.)
> 
> At first I thought they'd gotten bent somehow, but the pin profile is
> fine, just "slouching".
> 
> --DTVZ
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