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Well, yesterday was a red letter day ... now to see if it was a good one or a bad one!!
I started shipping the ECG-DMXRen8. I've setup an aggressive shipping schedule to ship 5 units every other day for the next week. Thanx to most of the order placers who have sent their payments so fast.
I had delayed getting these shipped to be sure I had the ECG-M24H tested VERY well. We also wanted to be sure we had everything included and packaged well. Please let us know how the box arrives and unpacks.
I also had done some critical path time juggling and devoted a LOT of time to finishing the DR4 PC board design so I could get it in the manufacturing pipeline ASAP. I hope to have the first prototype boards back this Saturday and after a quick hand build and test should place a pre-production order. I want to have these ready to demonstrate on the 28th and to ship in EARLY September.
These boards took a little longer to design because after almost finishing them I discovered those production problems on the ECG-M24H. So I reworked almost EVERY component footprint and trace on the DR4 design (one at a time) to take into account the new footprints that should improve our manufacturing yield.
For those people receiving the units in the next few days: I've installed the basic 1.1.0 version of the software on the ECG-M24H that I and the beta testers have been working with for months. You will need to download and install the 1.1.0 version on your slave processors after assembly. It will be up on our website later today. I expect to have many revisions (1.1.1, 1.1.2 ...) over the next 30 days as we improve the software. I did not include any assembly instructions or programming or setup instructions in the package. The very preliminary assembly instructions are available on-line and I will be finishing those and all other documentation as rapidly as possible and placing it on our web site. Watch it almost daily for new information. I wanted to get the hardware in your hands so you can start the assembly process as soon as possible. Plus for my Aussie friends their shipments will take a week or so in transit so I figured ship it first and then finish the documentation while it is in transit.
-Ed
I started shipping the ECG-DMXRen8. I've setup an aggressive shipping schedule to ship 5 units every other day for the next week. Thanx to most of the order placers who have sent their payments so fast.
I had delayed getting these shipped to be sure I had the ECG-M24H tested VERY well. We also wanted to be sure we had everything included and packaged well. Please let us know how the box arrives and unpacks.
I also had done some critical path time juggling and devoted a LOT of time to finishing the DR4 PC board design so I could get it in the manufacturing pipeline ASAP. I hope to have the first prototype boards back this Saturday and after a quick hand build and test should place a pre-production order. I want to have these ready to demonstrate on the 28th and to ship in EARLY September.
These boards took a little longer to design because after almost finishing them I discovered those production problems on the ECG-M24H. So I reworked almost EVERY component footprint and trace on the DR4 design (one at a time) to take into account the new footprints that should improve our manufacturing yield.
For those people receiving the units in the next few days: I've installed the basic 1.1.0 version of the software on the ECG-M24H that I and the beta testers have been working with for months. You will need to download and install the 1.1.0 version on your slave processors after assembly. It will be up on our website later today. I expect to have many revisions (1.1.1, 1.1.2 ...) over the next 30 days as we improve the software. I did not include any assembly instructions or programming or setup instructions in the package. The very preliminary assembly instructions are available on-line and I will be finishing those and all other documentation as rapidly as possible and placing it on our web site. Watch it almost daily for new information. I wanted to get the hardware in your hands so you can start the assembly process as soon as possible. Plus for my Aussie friends their shipments will take a week or so in transit so I figured ship it first and then finish the documentation while it is in transit.
-Ed
Thanks Ed.. John has got his mits on it right now, we will stick it in the next shipment down here.
