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kludge wrote: 10 Mar 2019 16:25

terriblefire wrote: 10 Mar 2019 15:17 No its massively more than this. I basically spent a month doing what your doing to the clock lines and got nowhere. I completely redesigned the topology of the clock. I no longer sell the TF530 because of this.

Sorry, it wasn’t my intention to downplay the work you put into it. I’ll probably spend two months on and off and then throw it in the trash.

Its fine. What i'm trying to convey is that I had the same experience with one board you did... and gave up and redesigned. Its why i really discourage people from building the TF530s now.

Paypal is getting to be a pain in the a@#. This time they ask for your name and country.. Had to pick from a list but UK wasn't listed so I choose GB. Exxos tried to explain your political and geographical topography but it leaves me confused. I guess the closest thing I could equate it to is New England made of 6 or seven states but its only a term here to describe a geografic area.. :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Now that I've :threadjacked: Kludges topic a parting thought... I found out why the "English" drive on the wrong side of the road. Back in the day when horses were the common mode of transpertation most nights were right handed so in order to joust effectiently they needed to "drive" on the left side of the horse path. So when car's and roads came into being they keep everything the same!! :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

terriblefire wrote: 10 Mar 2019 16:27 Its why i really discourage people from building the TF530s now.

My plan was to wait for the TF534, but then I got a TF530 kit as a gift and couldn’t resist trying :)

PaulJ wrote: 10 Mar 2019 16:44 Now that I've :threadjacked: Kludges topic a parting thought...

No worries. Threadjack all you want. In Sweden we switched from driving on the left to rightly driving on the right in 1967. :)

terriblefire wrote: 08 Mar 2019 10:32 I’ve had several Tf530s not work until the FPU is inserted. It damps the clock line.

:shock: :shock: :shock:
...and there I finally got my TF530 to work! It was extremely unstable, especially if I used the IDE-interface, or used a relocator. Tried everything, checked all soldering, even added pullups, as they were missing from the mainboard. Didn't have the correct socket available when I soldered stuff together the first time, and didn’t bother to add it later :cry:
Soldered in a socket, and slotted in a FPU, and everything appears to work smoothly... :D

At least I got it to work before I replaced it with a TF534... :lol:

Thanks for designing this, great to rediscover Amiga & soldering after all these years!

F*cking hell. Got the new oscillator yesterday and soldered in in.

...and they had sent me a 8MHz/5V oscillator in a 25MHz/3V3 bag. And i accidentally damaged a trace while removing the 8MHz oscillator.

Is the solder mask on the DirtyPCB boards usually bad? It flakes off much easier than the ones I’ve ordered from JLCPCB.

kludge wrote: 14 Mar 2019 10:22 Is the solder mask on the DirtyPCB boards usually bad? It flakes off much easier than the ones I’ve ordered from JLCPCB.

I've stopped using DirtyPCBs completely. They've become garbage lately and their stuff goes missing in the mail.

terriblefire wrote: 26 Mar 2019 09:09

kludge wrote: 14 Mar 2019 10:22 Is the solder mask on the DirtyPCB boards usually bad? It flakes off much easier than the ones I’ve ordered from JLCPCB.

I've stopped using DirtyPCBs completely. They've become garbage lately and their stuff goes missing in the mail.

I can understand that if the quality of this board is any indication. I’ve been very happy with the quality from JLCPCB, including the TF534 PCBs I bought from you