Friday, 23 February 2018

New arrival - Centroid Acorn

It arrived this morning. Small package.

Well packed:



Bubble wrapped PCBA:



PSU wiring (except mains), Ethernet cable and PSU in brown box:



It's a MeanWell PSU, which is pleasing - they are a good Taiwanese brand. 24V / 0.6A (that's about 15W):



Underside of the PCBA, showing single-sided component placement:



It's all SMT components apart from the connectors. I don't think much of the through-hole soldering. I'm guessing the PCBAs were assembled (in China?) and the connectors (including the header sockets for the daughterboard) hand soldered in the US by untrained grunts. I'd hope / expect to see the flux removed with IPA and a brush at the very least. However, I've seen worse and it's not a serious issue here.



Doesn't look bad from the top. The Beagle Board Green plugs onto headers in the middle of the board:



That's it for now!

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