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The 16MHz booster & TOS 206 DECODER I am going to start selling a single board which will be the booster (Which has the 206 decoder anyway).

The reason for the split originally was because I was mostly having to assemble them myself and the boosters took a lot longer. Now I have bulk purchased the " barebones" boards, it would just make sense to do a single board as opposed to 2 separate ones now.

As previously mentioned *somewhere*, the boosters are a problem because they also require me to solder a socket onto test them with the CPU, which is two more lots of items to solder and test (When they are stocked and tested separately anyway) . Time I just do not have and I cannot solder endless thousands of pins myself these days either. Aside from that, some people may want to solder the CPU directly onto the board, and others may want a socket. Ordinarily this would make two products just for that one booster project. Having multiple variations just makes everything take a lot longer. Also I have to basically stock the CPU twice. Once for the booster "kit" and again as a separate item in the store.

Overall it would just make more sense to sell the barebones boards programmed with the booster and decoder as default. This way people can just simply use as a decoder board if they want. They can solder a socket onto the board, or not. They can buy the CPU, or not. It offers a lot more options and saves me a lot of work as well.

The current boards are revision "1.4A" And as the stock has been empty for a while, this is what the new revision boards will be sold as. The price will remain at the "TOS 206" decoder price, so you actually get the 16Mhz booster part for free now.

Sounds like a good compromise. Also, I can see this allowing some people to fit a booster much more affordably...and easily where an H4/H5 is the recipient!

Might be time to update my basket... ;)

JezC wrote: 04 Jan 2022 14:59 Sounds like a good compromise. Also, I can see this allowing some people to fit a booster much more affordably...and easily where an H4/H5 is the recipient!

Yep CPU is already on the H4/H5 anyway.

JezC wrote: 04 Jan 2022 14:59 Might be time to update my basket... ;)

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exxos wrote: 04 Jan 2022 15:03

JezC wrote: 04 Jan 2022 14:59 Might be time to update my basket... ;)

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Well, a few things are now in my basket waiting for the stock of the new decode/booster board to appear! :D

JezC wrote: 04 Jan 2022 21:44 Well, a few things are now in my basket waiting for the stock of the new decode/booster board to appear! :D

Will be in stock later tonight some time :) I've done about 30 so far. Just bagging them up.

Actually case in point https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =90&t=5021

@exxos Great - I'll do a quick check for any other essentials & then hopefully place an order sometime tomorrow...
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JezC wrote: 04 Jan 2022 21:53 @exxos Great - I'll do a quick check for any other essentials & then hopefully place an order sometime tomorrow...

:thumbup: If you could do a £3,500 order it would just about pay my current credit card bill off :lol: :roll:

exxos wrote: 04 Jan 2022 21:56 :thumbup: If you could do a £3,500 order it would just about pay my current credit card bill off :lol: :roll:

:lol: If I did that, I'd have nothing left to buy anything from the store ever again...the divorce costs & maintenance would see to that! :shock:

@exxos Ok, order placed...now I will remember what else I meant to order... :lol: :roll:

JezC wrote: 05 Jan 2022 22:48 @exxos Ok, order placed...now I will remember what else I meant to order... :lol: :roll:

:bravo: now I know the store works as well :lol: :thumbup: