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Offline wbuehler

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #150 on: September 09, 2010, »
Parts are on order.  The LED's are still under a 12 week lead time, but many members have said they can hold off, I need to see if there will be enough to send at least one set out to all the remaining members.

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #151 on: September 09, 2010, »
Bill, pleae put me on the can wait list.
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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #152 on: September 10, 2010, »
I too can wait...   

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #153 on: September 10, 2010, »
Bill,

I only need 2 of 4, thanks,

Bill

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #154 on: September 10, 2010, »
Bill;

I'll wait on my kits till everything is in.

I thank you!

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #155 on: September 11, 2010, »
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Parts are on order.  The LED's are still under a 12 week lead time, but many members have said they can hold off, I need to see if there will be enough to send at least one set out to all the remaining members.

Bill

As much as I'd love to get all my kits at once, getting one early would be helpful so we can become familar with how to assemble the rest if we receive them in early December. Hopefully I can slap the last ones together in a few hours apiece so this year's Christmas light display can be saved (yay!)--or at least for my post-Christmas pre-New Years display. My first Lynx Express took about 6-8 hours from start to finish with all soldering, second-guessing, mounting, paranoia about doing something wrong, wiring up plugs, etc... while the others took about 3 or 4 hours. I figure that an Aether can be done in less time than that?

Would separate shipments mean different costs, though?
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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #156 on: September 11, 2010, »
I was wondering... the Aether has PIC chips, right? If so, will the ones that come as part of the co-op come pre-programmed? From what I understand, it's a surface-mounted chip? Can you even pre-program them if they're SMT?
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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #157 on: September 12, 2010, »
No Idea, but I guess the Aether will have the standard 6 pin connector, so after it is soldered you can program it connecting the Pickit to the Aether itself.

I bet RJ has a SMT socket to pre-program them, or the old school method to keep it push with the finger over the PCB while is been programmed  ;D

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #158 on: September 12, 2010, »
Check the wiki under Aether.  In the 4th video of the Aether Video Manual that RJ put together he states that the PICs will not be preprogrammed as he has no way to program surface mount PICs.  That is done on the board via the 6 pin ICSP header.  His comments about this are at the end of video 4 at around the 31:00 min mark.

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #159 on: September 12, 2010, »
Alan is correct the coop manager would have a hard time programming them for you thats why I made sure to talk about it as we have always programmed the pics for every other coop.

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #160 on: September 12, 2010, »
All parts orders have been placed.  Currently waiting to see what items will fall to BackOrder.
The parts to make the MSD kits will be ordered next.

Bill


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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #161 on: September 12, 2010, »
Per request a Mouser BOM link has been added to the bottom of the first post.

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #162 on: September 17, 2010, »
I know that everyone has been waiting for an update, so here is a list of Back Ordered items and the expected ship dates to me.

286 3Watt RGB LED's ETA November 08 2010
286 3Watt RGB LED's ETA November 08 2010
286 3Watt RGB LED's ETA October 15  2010
50 Ecoplungers for the SMD kits 1 week

********BO's that have shipped to Me**************

93 Transformers
63 Transformers
57 Fuses
24 Transformers

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Bill

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #163 on: September 17, 2010, »
Thanks for the update Bill. 

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Re: *******CLOSED****Lynx Aether Co-Op*************
« Reply #164 on: September 17, 2010, »
Thanks for the update Bill.