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Safecast / bGeigieNanoKit

bGeigieNano is a kit version of the bGeigie mobile survey geiger counter designed to fit into a Pelican Micro Case 1010.
https://safecast.org/devices/bgeigie-nano/
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Wrong overlay text on the PCB ? #46

Closed oz1cxp closed 6 years ago

oz1cxp commented 6 years ago

Hi

I just bought a kit from kithub, and have soldered the passive component on the pcb, and then i find a problem. I have been working in electronics for 40+ years, so i know colorcodes by heart, and just placed the resistors according to the text on the PCB, but then when i compared to the picture in the wiki of a PCB with resistors, R8 and R9 are swapped. I have placed them correct according to the text on the PCB, but not according to the placement guide in the wiki, so am I right in thinking that the text is wrong on the PCB ?

jamoross commented 6 years ago

oz1cxp -

The text is not wrong on the PCB. The positions of R8 and R9 got swapped some time ago. The image you saw was likely of a unit with a mainboard version V1.0r2, I'm guessing you have the most recent board (V1.1r5) with R8 to the right of R9 (farther from the buzzer).

oz1cxp commented 6 years ago

thank you, yes it seems like I have a newer PCB than shown in the assembly wiki. I finished the build and it works fine.