Beiträge von adtbm im Thema „CAUTIONS for when assembling the DevKit“

    Email received. Thanks, Battery goes to the post office tomorrow.

    One more hint, regarding the USB cable, we wanted the cable to be that long, that you can have some space between the PC and the MEGA65.

    Some people just let the one backplane out and fed the cable through there. It's a matter of personal taste but an option too :smile:

    In the end it's a DevKit case, so i would not wonder, if some owner goes ahead and just drills an extra hole :biggrin:

    Richard Hallas

    Thanks for your very detailed report, i'll try to answer as good as possible:

    - The USB cable is best led through the trapdoor, since it is the main communication cable from PC to MEGA65 (and believ me you'll find ir very helpfull once you start using m65connect :smile: )

    - that the case is so fragile is something we didn't encounter when we've build our test machine, but since more and more reports came in, we've contacted Plexilaser and they are absolutely supportive, so please drop plexilaser an email together with your serial number, they will help you : info@plexilaser.de & serialnumber.

    - the RESET button is supposed to be hard to attach, it will not come loose again in the near future :wink:

    - we HAD to leave the batteries out. the reason is, that if you want to have them included, there are ALOT of regulations that you have to comply (danger transport stickers, etc.)

    but we offer every DevKit owner, to drop us a note (you can even send me a PM here in Forum64, with your adress and we are happy to send you the battery extra. (we have more than 200 of them lying around here...) So please contact us ! It was just not worth the hassle to get them included officially. Sorry !

    - the length of the PSU lead was out of our control, we only wanted to ensure, that the PSU will work in every country worldwide, that's why we ensured, that fitting socket adapters are in for all different countries. (but we will forward your comment to our partner Trenz).

    - tja... the floppy drive spacers... as soon as we heard the reports, we contacted Plexilaser and they confirmed, that they, by mistake, mixed up an old (to tight set) of spacers with the new ones. Here they replied in the same way as above with broken parts: please drop them an email @ info@plexilaser.de with your case serial number and they will help

    - that the programmer was allready mounted on the PCB was something we didn't know either and it looks like, that some people did receive the mainboard with the programmer attached while others received it seperately.

    And no worries, we are happy to hear all your reports. The case, once it's assembled it is very sturdy, only the process to get it there is tricky. Still it's mainly the DevKit case

    and the final MEGA65 case will be as good, if not even better than the original cases made by commodore.

    The DevKit is the tesrun towards the final MEGA65 and that's why we are happy to hear all your experiences . Thank you !

    Thanks that you like the look of the DevKit and we wish you alot of fun with the machine. To get you started, have look in my signature, here you find links to the most important MEGA65 related sites, for infos, software and our Discord server.

    Nice to have you on board !