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+The first production run of [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum)
+boards arrived from our assembler today, and overall things are looking good!
+
+Unfortunately, I specified the wrong value for a capacitor associated
+with the new and improved 150mA 3.3 volt regulator. The resulting symptom
+was interesting to debug... everyting seemed to be fine except that the GPS
+chip wouldn't talk to us. After some investigation, it became clear that
+the 3.3 volt power
+supply was taking much longer to stabilize than it should... long enough that
+the power-on reset circuit was relaxing before the supply was stable! The
+cc1111 apparently handles this just fine, but the GPS chip doesn't. Since
+the new cap is optional, just removing it caused everything on the
+first test board to
+start working! The ultimate solution will probably be to both replace the
+new bypass capacitor with one of the correct value, and to swap out the cap
+in the reset circuit for a somewhat larger value to ensure we have plenty
+of margin in the reset circuit.
+
+I now have 4 of the new boards completed, turned on, and passing initial
+tests. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to wrap up the rest of the required
+functional testing. I then need to focus my attention on a business trip
+all of next week... but if all keeps going well, we're *very* close to
+taking our first orders.
+
+Stay tuned!