We were able to get revised delivery dates for all of our components this past week. We will have everything we’ll need for the mass-production run by the first week in May, so mass production is likely to be done in the later half of May. Pre-production is also on schedule. We’re working with the contract manufacturer to verify that the boards have properly manufactured controlled impedances but otherwise everything seems to be on schedule!

So we have received most of the components needed for the pre-production run (scroll down to see)! There were a few issues with some of the components not arriving in tubes or on reels, so we are working on getting them replaced in the next few days. The custom RF shields and factory programmed Si5338s will be the last components to arrive, which should hopefully happen within the next week or so. Once they arrive, the PCBs should have also arrived and allowing our contract manufacturer to give us an exact delivery date! Once we have those units in our hands we will spend a bit of time verifying and calibrating each unit, and ultimately ship them to pre-production backers in a timely manner!

Hundreds of DC barrel jacks weigh close to 7 pounds!

Discrete components on reels.

Mini-Circuits RF transformers on massive reels.

Thousands of SMA connectors weighing close to 16 pounds.

Pre-production FPGAs and FX3s arrived with specially dehumidified boxes.

Line up of everything that has arrive so far.

This week was rather exciting, we finished sourcing all of the components and it seems like everything is in stock and its way for our pre-production run! There is one caveat, we will only receive some components in the quantities needed for mass production in a few weeks, however this will not affect the manufacturing dates for the pre-production or mass production runs at all. The last pieces to arrive will be the RF shields and the factory programmed Si5338s, it is likely we will have these in our hands within two or so weeks. By that time the bare PCBs should be fabricated allowing for assembly to take place within the following week or so. We are working on expediting these dates, we will let you know if there are any updates.

Lastly, here is our test rig for the boards we have been packing up for our beta customers!