Mold 33% complete!

The mold parts have been fully machined! At present the mold cavities are just missing all the fine details.

The next step is EDM (electric discharge machining). Copper electrodes and electricity are used to remove material very precisely. This is what is used to create all the fine details.

After EDM, the mold will be polished. This is another distinct process.

The mold should be finished and ready to be tested by the time we get back to China in 1 week.

We also have the DL2K-LINK overlays being produced together with the remote overlays (black color).



The final PCBs we will use for EMC testing are being created. These required adding some electrostatic discharge prevention components because part of the compliance tests involve blasting the boards with thousands of volts of static electricity. It was a simple change but we now have so many components on the remote (for battery charging and so forth) that it required some tricky hand-rerouting.

All is being set up for us to return to china, get the boards, assemble 3 samples and go to the EMC lab hopefully within 7 days. At the same time we will be experimenting with molded parts styles and colors.

Comments

By spfirefly at 2010-07-14 11:19:57 Reply

Whoa! What is the role of the USB stick? How will it work with the DL?

By traveler359 at 2010-07-14 14:05:57 Reply

on the main page look under products then look for Other Male Management Devices DL2K-LINK. It allows adjusting of the DL2k, and in time training courses for wearers of the device where good and bad performance can be controlled by the software among many other wonderful things. Least thats what I gather from that page on the website