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DCB Shipping

Shipping procedure

Mezzanines

  1. Remove mezzanines from DCB. Screws can go in a pile for later use for now.

  2. Put the rubber plug in the VTXx and put mezzanine in ESD bag.

    Note

    Don't sealing the ESD bags for now.

  3. Wrap bags in bubble wrap in the same way they arrived. We are packing the mezzanines as we take them off the boards, so 3 VTTx, 1 VTRx, etc.

    Mezzanine Roll

  4. Seal the side and both ends of the bubble wrap with packing tape. !!! note This is not ESD safe tape, but it is outside the ESD bags.

  5. Stack the packed mezzanines in whatever boxes are available:

    Mezzanine Box

    Note

    Using mechanics and Amazon boxes, may need to order speficic boxes or just claim a few large ones.

DCBs

Much more speculative. Here are some things to think about:

Note

The DCB boxes could hold 16 DCBs, but the first one I packed only had enough cardboard dividers for 14.

This means two DCBs would be touching the outer wall of the box. We could add cardboard or foam to protect them, or just ship 14.

Note

The DCBs are a little loose in the cardboard honeycomb, we could try to fit one more sheet of bubble wrap in if we have it.

  1. Check the DCB database and label the box DCB Box # according to the previously numbered DCB boxes.

  2. As you pack DCBs, note in the database that they have been put into DCB Box #.

    DCB Box

  3. Make sure there is a layer of stiff pink foam at the bottom of the box. Remove one of the two short dividers and move the other to the middle of the box to fit the assembled DCB.

  4. After removing the optical mezzanines (above) close the ESD bag, remove the white strip from the bubble wrap bag and seal it.

    DCB Bag

  5. Fold the bag over the top of the DCBs, and wrap a sheet of thin bubble wrap around the bottom (currently using 2 pieces of u-line per board but will run out).

    DCB_Taco

  6. Place the DCB in the box with the heat pipe side towards the outside of the box. Make sure the outer DCBs at the edges of the honeycomb are well protected with bubble wrap, and pad with some of the egg crate backplane foam or something similar.

    DCB_Padding

  7. When the box is full, put a layer of stiff pink foam over the top.

    DCB_Foam