Am Mittwoch, den 29.07.2020, 17:25 +0200 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller:
Hi,
What I have seen is that there is room for an optional LED on the backside of the CPU board directly connected to these pins. It was left there from initial hardware debugging. It should be not too difficult to try to add a 4.7uF or 10uF capacitor there to test the result.
Oh, that's good news! Can you let me know where to solder them so I'll try that here?
I am not sure if that would be a good mass production solution, because it sticks to the battery bay plastics and/or the heat shield and slows down the production process and/or must be hand-soldered.
Well, we tested various materials between the CPU board and the plastics - but the best solution is to put NOTHING in between.
If we put a metal sheet in there, the heat goes into the metal and heats the battery - whereas almost nothing moves into the heatsink (where it should).
So there's a gap of 0.4mm between the CPU board and the backside, and as the keymat acts a bit like a cushion as well, I guess a small part like a capacitor could even use up to 0.6 to 0.7mm.
So there should be enough space to put a small capacitor in there.
But there would be room and easy access on component side of the LC15 processor board to add such capacitor(s) by modified copper trace layout. So it could be something for the next mass production run (unless ED has already ordered thousands of PCBs).
We have 500 already-produced PCBs - so I guess we'd need to fix these manually. But hey, MWeston had to replace 500 capacitors on the Pandora PCBs manually as well.
Only bigger downside would be that we have another setup costs for the next CPU boards... that's around 5000 EUR alltogether :/