De Pandora Handheld #3

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Op donderdag 24 juni 2010 22:46 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:

http://www.gp32x.com/boar(...)-us-your-order-date/

Diegene die hem al binnen hebben, graag even aangeven wanneer je hem hebt besteld

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were moving production to Hexham, UK as soon as we can.

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Op vrijdag 25 juni 2010 13:59 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Shit man, ik wist echt niet dat het in elkaar zetten + checken van de Pandora's zelfs zo lang zou duren

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Op vrijdag 25 juni 2010 14:36 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
plus het feit dat het niet bij craigix zijn winkel was (volgens mij heb ik dan helemaal geen leidraad).

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It's scattered in various posts... check the Stalker

Just a short summary so far:

About 650 - 700 should've been shipped (alltogether) - or will be shipped these days (as I'm shipping some more today).

There were a couple of things that slowed things down in the beginning:

* Lots of failed LCD Cables in the beginning after we assembled the lid. As we had all 4000 cables here, it didn't prevent us to build the units... but it took a lot more time. As we now know what the problem was, this will be no slowdown anymore (last 200 lids we built only had one failed LCD cable )

* Quite a few boards from the first few hundred units failed and had to go back for repairment to Texas. The quota for the last 200 was WAY better (only a couple ones broken), so the company is working on it. As testing these boards and having quite a few failures was time consuming... yeah, another one of those issues solved.

* The case was fine, but the L/R Buttons were painted, so they didn't fit. We needed to manually drill and file them to make them work (you can't drill exactly in the center, so you need to manually file and test them...) This was REALLY time consuming - took up to 1 - 8 minutes (varying) per unit! As the next 3000 buttons will not be painted, this issue is also solved.

* As you could see on the "one-nub"-Thread, a lot of nubs had problems. We shipped them back to the company that produced them and they found the problem (it was a tolerance problem). As it was their fault, they apologized a dozen times and are now testing each one of them and repair the broken ones for free. Since most nubs are fine and only a few need to be fixed, this should work out pretty fast. Another issue solved.


Two persons could build 50 units a day - even with doing all these manual labour and quality check.
But until we figured out what went wrong, this took a lot of testing and time.

As all these issues are solved, production should go way faster in the future.

There are a couple hundred boards already produced, just waiting for the nubs to be soldered to them (which doesn't take long).
There are about 250 cases left to build the units - the next 3000 are either in production or already finished.
So once the first batch of checked nubs arrive at the company in Texas (hopefully, this week), production should start and continue way faster.

Welcome to a first run - where lots of problems can occur. Thankfully, none of them were serious and all of them have already been taken care of.

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Geeez, I just got over the 239x numbers today, and I just missed DHL (which picks up the packages shipping to outside of Germany).
UPS picks up later, so the orders within Germany got delivered, the others will go out tomorrow.

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Op dinsdag 29 juni 2010 11:43 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Ik kom dan wel vanuit Delft, dus ik hoop dan wel dat er nog wat meer mensen komen dan alleen jij en ik haha

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Op dinsdag 29 juni 2010 07:42 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Even een berichtje van EvilDragon:
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Aangezien mijn ordernummer 2673 is bij zijn shop, duurt het wel even denk ik haha

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evildragon: Geeez, I just got over the 239x numbers today, and I just missed DHL (which picks up the packages shipping to outside of Germany).
UPS picks up later, so the orders within Germany got delivered, the others will go out tomorrow.

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Op dinsdag 29 juni 2010 12:51 schreef The_Tankgirl het volgende:
Ja.. en dan zijn de mensen die hun bestelling hebben geannuleerd niet meegerekend
Plus mensen die iets anders hebben besteld (hoewel ik daar niet vanuit ga )
Nog 274 Pandora's te gaan voordat de mijne aan de beurt is