prerunnerseth wrote:OK folks,
Just an update. This is the first time I have ordered the Hard gold plating for gold fingers. There have been some issues with manufacturing. This morning I received an email from the manufacturer. They had an issue with the way my ground fingers were done. Basically I made all the extra pins not used by the SD card to be ground. In my software this made all those pins one solid piece with solder mask between them to make them fingers again. The manufacturer doesnt want any solder mask on that edge surface. This means i had to separate all those pins and connect them each with their own trace to the ground plane. I have sent new manufacturing files to them. Hopefully they use my new files instead of just fixing it themselves, because I was able to add some solder pads for 10 of the extra pins to allow you to use them for other purposes, like maybe an activity LED. There are still plenty of ground connections.
Also, I wanted to thank all of you for your support and patience. You will be rewarded, because I am losing money on these. I will not be making any more. Once 20 are sold there will be no more. The Hard gold plating for the fingers makes the manufacturing too expensive. Anyone who is selling boards with this kind of fingers on them for much lower prices are either ordering massive quantities to make them cheaper or they are not using hard gold plating. As previously mentioned in this post, these fingers make repeated mechanical contact with the connector on the game boy. this mechanical stress means that you must have hard gold otherwise the contacts will wear down with very few insertions.
I hope to have these boards in by the end of the week.
Thanks,
PRS
Just purchased! Thanks for all the effort I am stoked
