Shipping update...
about 8 years ago
– Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:15:41 AM
Hi all,
Just a quick one to let you know the current status of shipping of items.
PiJuice HATs
As we have mentioned, all the PiJuice HATs are shipping directly from Floship, with tracking numbers which you should be emailed by BackerKit once your item has shipped.
The first batch went out a few weeks ago and it seems like a good few people have received these now (although some are still yet to receive them so no need to panic).
The next batch of boards is scheduled to be finished this week by Embest / Farnell. We will ship these to Floship and then Floship will ship out to you backers. We hope to have tracking numbers for people in this second (and final) batch of PiJuice HATs by the end of next week. In any case, as soon as we receive the tracking numbers from Floship we will upload them to BackerKit and you should be notified.
Add ons
Today, we FINISHED shipping all the add ons (apart from maker kits and additional batteries). So any of you who haven't received your add ons (solar panels, pis, sd cards, cases etc) should expect to receive those in the next 4 to 6 weeks at the very latest.
Unfortunately we do not have tracking numbers for these shipments, but we have shipped them with Royal Mail priority shipping so they should not take too long to arrive.
To confirm: these will come separately to the HATs
Maker kits and additional batteries
As we covered in update 67 in December we now have a plan in place for production on the maker kits using our media center HAT board as the basis for the display. We have finalised production samples on these boards and are moving forward into manufacture. We are not sure yet exactly how long manufacture will take, we are waiting on an update from Embest / Farnell on this before we can say for sure. All of the rest of the items needed for this pledge level are nearly ready to go, including the cases from CamdenBoss. We should hopefully have a prototype of that case soon and will share the details with you. The Media Center HATs are likely to be the very last thing to ship to us, but hopefully it should not be too long. We will update once we have more info.
With regard to the additional batteries, we are still looking for a suitable supplier for the 10,000mAh and 5000mAh batteries. We are testing a few different suppliers and as soon as we have anything concrete we will reply back. We are focusing efforts on this now to get it resolved as soon as possible now the HAT shipping is nearly complete and should hopefully be in a position to get these shipped within the coming weeks. Again, we will post updates on these as we have them.
Non-kickstarter backers (pre-order backers)
Last but not least, we know that there are some people who read these updates that did not purchase a PiJuice / add ons through Kickstarter or BackerKit. For those of you in this position (about 200 of you) we will ship out your PiJuice boards in around the next 2 to 3 weeks. Basically, we have to ship those directly from the UK due to various quirks in our shipping software. So basically, we need to ship the units from Embest, to our warehouse in the UK and then ship those out to any pre-order backers.
We hope to have completed this in the next 2 to 3 weeks at the latest, and these will ship at the same time as any other items in your orders.
Thanks,
Aaron and the PiJuice team
