Week 7 Blog Post: Production

So far this week I have worked on assembling the printed circuit boards that I designed last week. I had one issue related to the fact that the footprint for the transistors I was using on the circuit board was incorrectly configured causing two of the pins’ locations to be swapped on the board. This is an unfortunate issue, but I think I can solve it by finding a suitable replacement that will work with the different configuration. Aside from that, I tested some of the other parts of the circuit board which all seem to function properly, and I have started testing the volume control circuitry, which seems promising so far. By next week I hope to have the solenoid control boards in production and have the transistor issue fixed.