I received my PCBs for this project from Sunstone yesterday at about 10:10. I quickly dropped them into my box of parts and delivered it to the receiving pile-of-boxes in our shipping.receiving department. At 11:40 a.m. yesterday, I received an email from our auditing department informing me of a BoM mismatch.
Yes. I had made a mistake in my bill of materials. The board has a bunch of yellow LEDs and one red LED. I had mistakenly only packed up yellows. Our audit department caught my mistake and sent me a quick email. If I hadn’t have responded yesterday, I would have received another email at midnight. I could have just told the
manufacturing folks to put a yellow LED in that spot, but the yellows are for a display and the red is a power-on indicator so I got my red LEDs and delivered them to receiving.
This morning I got my assembled boards all nicely wrapped in anti-static bags along with all my leftover parts in their original packaging. Next step, get some batteries and power them up.
Duane Benson
Thor, Dog of Thunder, is not allowed
Funny you should mention – late emails. One of our high-volume PCB manufacturers consistantly quotes quick-turn boards for us. Say, like a 5-day spin. So I submit data on day 1 – consistantly get an email at 6:00pm or later (off work hours for me) with some little annoying issue. Puts the job on HOLD. That eats up Day 1. Now it’s a 6-day spin even though we’ve paid for the 5-day spin. Funny how that works.