I purchased the NVMe accessory. Attached the NVMe board underneath the Tachyon. I am having trouble fitting Tachyon with NVMe into the M1 enclosure with the short screws that originally came with the M1. The shortest M2.5spacer does not seem allow the NVMe board to attach to the Tachyon. I could try an NVMe SSD with no heat sink, but still not sure it will work. Currently there is ~8mm space between the M1 enclosure board and the mounting hole. Thank you for any assistance.
Hey gesWho
That is a good question! Can you confirm exactly which board you are using? The NVME we shipped and our board doesn’t use a heatsink, so I’m not sure which one is being used here.
Thanks!
Nick.
I am using the Kickstarter Pimoroni NVMe Base. The NVMe SSD I had on hand had a heatsink on it. I purchased another one without and just installed it. minutes ago. I used the shortest plastic M2.5 spacers (shorter than the ones that came with the NVMe base board). I used the flat screws that came with the NVMe base but they were too short causing a strain on the NVMe base, so I used my plastic M2.5 screws and did not tighten them all the way. I was able to get the Tachyon in but the screws are so short I did not tighten the ones near the antennae. It is still putting stress on the Tachyon carrier board. I have not tried to power it up because I am trying to find a USB-C 3.2 adapter that might fit. No luck yet, all to fat. If anyone knows of one that will fit, I would be interested. I would try the battery but I will not have any way to connect HDMI, yet. Next step is the purchase of an Adafruit DSI to HDMI adapter and a Raspberry Pi 5 flat cable to connect the DSI port to HDMI.
Needless to say, I am intending to use the Tachyon for desktop primarily.
Recommendation for Future Tachyon versions: A possibility would be to connect the Tachyon USB-C 3.2 or higher to the carrier board so such that a common USB-C cable can be attached to the carrier board. Not sure there is enough space to use a different orientation of USB-C on the Tachyon itself. I just heard that Adafruit is hoping to make a less bulky USB-C 3.2 or 4 to get around the bulky connector.
After rearranging the battery a little, using the Pimoroni NVMe flat screes on the bottom, using shorter spacers, and placing an NVMe SSD without heatsink and making sure no plastic screws or wires were hiding underneath the NVMe board, everything fits now! Thank you for the help and support.
Again, though, if anyone knows of a at leaat USB-C 3.2 cable that will fit in a really tight space, I would like to know.
I purchased a similar cable, but alas there is definitely no room for a straight. I also attempted a bottom right, no luck. If it were thinner and much more flexible, maybe.
Although, not optimistic, I will be checking a right angle one - coming today. There is hardly any room. The simple USB 2 cable that came with fits of course but there are no electronics in it.
Tried the Right angle cable but it was obstructed either direction. The Lord of the Tools might have worked had it been a Right angle instead of Bottom Right (may have had to remove the carrier board screw post next to the primary USB port). It is the thinnest adapter I have found. Alas, no luck.
One last comment regarding the tight space. I am using the provided very thin USB cable on the Primary USB-C Port for power and USB device usage, just not Video display. How can we get another thin cable?
To access the video, I am pursuing using the DSI port with the Raspberry Pi 5 cable and then attaching it to an Adafruit DSI to HDMI adapter. Theoretically, it should work.. I will also, as a backup, take the 5V 5A port on the Tachyon carrier and, as needed, attach to 5v 5A (or greater) Buck converter.
Hopefully, in the near future, a cable Gen 3.2 or greater that is capable of fitting in the M1 Enclosure/
Unlikely to work. DSI is not a plug and play interface like HDMI is, you need a kernel driver for each unique DSI device you intend to connect to, and the docs for the tachyon indicate right now the only driver included is for the ILI9881D
ADT seem to do a thin USB 3.2 gen 2x2 cable, similar to the USB2 one included with the tachyon but capable of display. Thats what I intend to order and try out at some point.
Thank you. Do you have a link to the ADT?
It needs to be almost as thin as the included cable. There are two screw protrusions that must be contended with. The Carrier board and the M1 enclosure for the Lid. As you can see, I have purchased and tried 4 already.
I am having trouble purchasing the ADT-LINK cables with the CHIP on them. Apparently, Amazon does not have a way to select anything other than the basic ones which do not have a chip for 5A. Currently, trying to contact ADT-LINK.
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