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Anyone one received raspberry pi rev B 512MB  Made in China and how about its Production Quality?

zidane1980

I received raspberry pi rev B 512MB Made in China last week,unlike the neat board made in the UK and I feel quite disappoint about it,

this is mine

and below is how it looks

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the pcb was remarked as Made In China

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And this! the p5 pin holes was filled with solder, which will make me a lot of trouble soldering pins

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And so as the jtag pins...

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Look this,a big tin ball on pin...I cannot imagine how they made it...

 

 

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the same solder work on the usb ports

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Just some complain,  I will not be pleasure to receive such a junk.

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  • I got mine in the purple box from RS

     

    Ordered in August. Look exactly like zidane ma's (first pictures) with the soldered holes image

     

    Are the soldered holes normal?

  • in reply to Former Member

    Soldered holes is normal (or acceptable) if it is the long set of holes labelled P2/P3.

    As far as I am aware, hardly anyone will ever have access to JTAG tools to connect there.

    The factory may have been told to allow solder on that set of ports as part of the wave soldering screen,

    since it is not used by users.

    The small set near P1 (closest to the "Made in China" label ideally should not be covered in solder,

    but only affects you if you were planning to solder something there.

    For those that are planning to solder a connector there, the solder can be manually removed.

    Personally I would not return a device for that reason, but not everyone is familiar with solder removal

    methods, so possibly the procedure may be difficult for some if all 8 of those holes are plugged up.

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  • in reply to Former Member

    Soldered holes is normal (or acceptable) if it is the long set of holes labelled P2/P3.

    As far as I am aware, hardly anyone will ever have access to JTAG tools to connect there.

    The factory may have been told to allow solder on that set of ports as part of the wave soldering screen,

    since it is not used by users.

    The small set near P1 (closest to the "Made in China" label ideally should not be covered in solder,

    but only affects you if you were planning to solder something there.

    For those that are planning to solder a connector there, the solder can be manually removed.

    Personally I would not return a device for that reason, but not everyone is familiar with solder removal

    methods, so possibly the procedure may be difficult for some if all 8 of those holes are plugged up.

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