Lubricheck

It has been a good week for our team. Charles and Suman are well on their way to completing the calibration phase. This is a rather tedious process where various samples of new and used oil are tested on the new Lubricheck circuit board. The data from these tests then must be added to the code to assure the proper LED illuminates for a given oil condition. Then the code must be retested. It is not much fun, but very necessary.

We will let you know when we get into the next phase. When all testing has been completed and verified, we will be prepared to order production units to meet our commitments to you, our valued, appreciated backers.
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Finally, another mile post has been passed! After several weeks in development, Suman just completed a successful test of the software code. (This code tells the micro processor how to  convert the data from the sensor grid into a usable output, in the form of the correct blinking LED).

Within a couple days we should be able to insert this code into the waiting pre-production circuit board assemblies, and begin the final testing needed before we can approve this design for a production run.

Thanks again for being so patient with us. We will issue more frequent updates as we get ever closer to a firm production date.

We have been holding off issuing this update until we could provide a firm commitment on when your shiny new Lubricheck oil tester would be shipped to you. That ship date is still not known, but too many weeks have slipped by, and we can no longer delay this update.

As you are aware, we had originally expected to ship finished product weeks ago. What we had not factored into our original schedule was lost time to factory scheduling conflicts, rejected PCB samples, Chinese customs delays, and a few weeks of unexpected travel demands on key personnel.
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