The BB3 assembly season has begun! A good portion of backers have received their kits, assembled them, and have them up and running. However, in a small number of cases, some backers encountered issues with the supplied parts. The issues seen are:

• The 16-pin IDC cable may be faulty (Item F, Fig. 3). The cable problem can be detected by visual inspection, and if it is connected between the AUX-PS and the MCU module, the MCU module will not work (nothing will appear on the display, no tone will be heard)
• Missing M3 threads on two of the four holes on the Mean Well AC/DC converter mounting frame (Item 5, Fig. 1)
• One Hexagonal M3×6 mm metal spacer (Item J, Fig. 3) may be missing
• One or more M3×5 mm countersunk screws (Item M, Fig. 3) may be missing
• You can find excess M3×4 mm screws (Item L, Fig. 3)
• TFT display on enclosure front panel (Item 3, Fig. 1) came with broken glass

Feel free to contact us if you notice any such defect so that we can arrange a replacement.

One of our ardent supporters, GoJimmyPi, went a step further and addressed the issue of earthing (aka, grounding) the enclosure in a very creative way)! In fact, the enclosure is currently not completely unprotected because it has an earthed top cover when the Mean Well converters are connected. However, earthing for the front panel and bottom plate is missing.

In the assembly instructions, I added a link at the very beginning to Appendix A which describes what work is required if additional earthing is needed.

Thank you all for the helpful feedback, compliments, and comments. This feedback will help us push this project further. Feel free to join us on our Discord server and on the EEVblog forum where a lot of interesting discussions are taking place (a separate thread is available for BB3 Enclosure & Bare Boards backers).