Parts update request

[mrmikee]

Would you please help those of us who are not electrical engineers and update the assembly files with alternate parts?
For months now JLCPCB no longer has these two parts.

[valletw]

Hi,
For the J103, if your are not using it and as it for debug purpose, you can remove it from the BOM or you should be able to un-select it on the order to flag it as "not mounted".
For the G3VM-61D1 reference, I will need to investigate a little bit further to provide an alternative part from JLCPCB. This reference is recommended because it works in lot of cases. As you need 20 parts, you could also buy them from people selling their idle parts. I just checked, there is ~80 parts idle parts available. If you click on the magnifying glass, you should be able to select these parts.

[valletw]

Hello @mrmikee ,
I find an alternative part for the 2 components, you can find the files updated on the branch fix-2-1-0: https://github.com/valletw/esp-atx-power/tree/fix-2-1-0
The G3VM-61VY3 should work fine but I didn't test it. If you planned to order new board, you can try this release and give me feedback. If it's working well, I will push the branch officially.
Regards

[mrmikee]

Thank you for the updates. Sorry, I did not realize that the tariffs had priced this over what I feel is an acceptable risk. For 5 units at $90 for parts and assembly and my previous order shipping rate of $5 I would have ordered them and taken the risk that I had done the parts placement correctly, but not at $170. I will wait until tariffs go away or I will just have to make the project on a perf board.

You have a great idea here, I had hoped to try it out.
Thanks again for looking up the parts.

[valletw]

You could decrease the merchandise by unmounting some parts, but it will not be a lot (few dollars). Shipping and customs are expansive, you are right. Chinese New Year will come in few days, you should try again after this period.
I hope you will be able to test it. I'm confident on the update, the G3VM had the same pins order, so it was a minor routing changes.