Mayfly availability – July 2018

Our Amazon inventory is back up and running again. Some of you have noticed and already ordered some boards and kits. We should be able to keep the storefront stocked unless there are a lot of large purchases. If you know you’re planning to order more than a dozen boards soon, I’d appreciate a heads up so that I can plan our inventory accordingly.

Also, if you purchase any of our items you’ll notice that now all of the packages have a warning sticker on them stating the potential for cancer risk. This is a requirement by the California Proposition 65 that goes into effect this week that requires any product sold in the state that contains certain chemicals must have a warning label on the product, as well as in the catalog listing. So you’ll find a sticker on each item we sell, in addition to the Prop 65 statement on the Amazon listings. This is because all 4 of our products contain printed circuit boards, and there are a few chemicals used in the production of all circuit boards that requires us to use the Prop 65 statement. It’s nothing to worry about, we are just meeting the new labeling requirements necessary for selling items to anyone in the state of California.

For more than a year now, all boards, either the ones bought separately or as part of the starter kits, are the latest v0.5b. The only difference between the .5 and .5b is the power options for the bee socket via jumper SJ13 to give you the option of powering the bee socket either from 3.3v Vcc of the board (default) or directly from the LiPo socket if you cut the trace and add some solder to jump it to the LiPO setting.

I know I’ve posted in the forum about the change between versions, but I just noticed that it isn’t noted on the Mayfly jumper settings webpage, and the photo is of the much older v0.3 board. I’ll try to update those soon. Same thing with the Amazon photos, I’ll have to update those when I get a chance to take and edit new photos of the latest boards. I’ve just been too busy building and deploying new stations this summer, and keeping up with everything required for testing, prepping, and shipping all the new boards to Amazon.