One fo the electronics/PCB board Gurus out there

[Drcemento]

Early, early revy loaders had the Board and switch nicely tucked into the actual servo. When I built my VL-90 revy I was able to take a later Model revy servo and drill for the switch and install the Old board in the new servo - making for much faster and more reliable unit. I have a few revy servos a bunch of old VL-90's. What I need is the small boards. I've got limited eletronics experiece, but even I can see this was a dirt simple board. I want to get a small run of these boards made. so - a few questions

• anyone want to draw this up for me in one of those PCB builder programs? happy to pay for the help. I know I can do the soldering and have allot of the resistors ect on hand.
• why did VL make what looks like an insanely over complicated board in the later revy's?
• are there improvements worth doing in a new version?

here's the old board




and the new board:



and what I'm creating:

[nerdcore]

The newer one has a lot of surface-mount parts, which is where the electronics industry has gone, for smaller profiles, smaller devices, etc. Only improvements really are moving the external connections to the 4-pin molex or whatever, vs all the separate wires hanging off the board. New board also has battery contacts on the belly, instead of a battery connector.

[Drcemento]

Its a rainy lazy day, and my brain won't let this one go. so out came the Make: Electronics book and a pencil to try my hand at making schematic for this board. got a little lost at the switch - I can't see where the lines go underneath it, but I have a better understanding of whats going on now. here's what I came up with:

[XEMON]

Are you wanting to fab a few board?

I'll check my revi but I think the one I have is pre-board ...
If you pass one to me I can draw it out and get a few made (or make a few by hand/cnc maybe)

[Drcemento]

Are you wanting to fab a few board?

I'll check my revi but I think the one I have is pre-board ...
If you pass one to me I can draw it out and get a few made (or make a few by hand/cnc maybe)

Ha- I should have thought to reach out to you! if it is an old revi Check inside the servo - thats where the "board" is on the older ones. literally three resistors a switch and two transistors soldered up on a glorified breadboard. I would love to make a small run of them.

[XEMON]

I checked both of my revys, one has the newer (18V) board and the other doesn't have a board at all (it's a first gen 9v without eyes), then I remembered I had some guts ... Somewhere ...

Can you shoot me some close up pictures of the board and components?