this is relevant to my interestsI got the hikaru (and model3s) going the past few days.
Nah the side bga was destroyed, ripped a ton of pads. Sent it back.Ouch! Was it an ebay pickup? If there isn't bga substrate damage/delamination it can be fixed.
We talked at VCF, I got the hikaru (and model3s) going the past few days.
That sucksNah the side bga was destroyed, ripped a ton of pads. Sent it back.
Was on Ebay. But honestly even a regular PCB would probably not make it with the way he packed it (or not packed it in this case).was that a private seller or a company?
the stuff i got from ebay in the past from u.s. company's was always totally covered in bubble wrap and surrounded by screwed up newspaper.
In the last few years there seem to be a ton of sellers doing it for pure income, and not because they are also collectors / in the hobby. Those people don’t know how to ship a pcb!I see this stuff more and more these days. I miss early 00s ebay, back when all the sellers were die hard collectors and everything was always packed great! And USPS actually had a working phone number![]()
I Bought a MIB SMS launch system once.
Me: "Please pack it well with lots of bubble wrap"
Seller: 'Don't worry, Im going to ship it in the original box'
Me: :O !!!
I recently got a CPS 2 B board in. In a large priority box with a thin piece of bubble wrap.
Shocked it didn’t get destroyed in transit.
Sometimes luck smiles on you I guess lolI picked up a used gaming laptop a few years back that I had wanted since it was new but couldn't justify the price. The guy sent it to me in an oversized box with no packaging at all except for a towel. What is even crazier is it arrived on my doorstep without any damage, not even so much as a pressure mark on the screen. (which is surprising given the weight of the ac brick) Its as if the mail carrier magically teleported it there. To this day I don't understand how it happened but I swear it did.