Nice Power Supply - Took a MONTH to receive
For NCH6300HV Nixie HV Power Module DC-DC booster
Took a MONTH to receive. Timeline:
TL;DR - Go to the bottom for product review
June 4: Ordered four NCH6300HV High Voltage Power Supplies (HPVS)
June 8: I send a message asking when they will ship
June 9: Seller says, "Sorry - waiting for item to be back in stock in the US **in about two weeks** we'll ship from China.
Side Note: There was *no* indication of this on Tindie when I ordered.
June 12: Tindie update says order has shipped. No tracking is provided.
June 25: I message seller complaining that I still have no HVPSs and it's been 12 days since Tindie said they shipped and 20 days since I ordered. Since there is no tracking I have to assume they've been lost so please refund my order.
June 25: Seller responds, here is the tracking info from China and "should arrive in a week or two"
June 25: I tell seller that Tindie says item shipped on June 12th but the tracking clearly says that they shipped on June 19th. I also tell him that this entire order has been "less than great".
Side Note: June 19th is a day after Tindie would have refunded the order. I learned this when an order from another seller didn't ship in two weeks and I was auto-refunded.
June 25: Seller responds that they're sorry for the delay, and that if I'd like I could just order them from Amazon where they're in stock and I can return my order from Tindie and they'll refund it.
Side Note: WHAT? I could have just ordered from Amazon the whole time? And the seller didn't tell me that from the start instead of making me wait? And now I have to deal with retuning them, likely at my own expense?
June 29: I order one from Amazon to get my project moving. It arrives *the next day*.
July 6: My NCH6300HVs arrive 32 days after I ordered them.
So how are the power supplies? They're better than most of the junk out there, but there should be mounting holes. Making the boards smaller while also making room for huge connector blocks is dumb, and those spring loaded blocks kind of suck. Given the size they take up they should be proper screw-down connectors, but I just soldered my wires, anyway. The power supplies come in a nice case, which is nice for shipping since it's unlikely the boards will get damaged, but it's just one more bit of plastic that ends up in a landfill.
Seller gets one star for not immediately telling me they were out of stock, for flat-out misrepresenting the shipping dates, and for telling me three weeks later that I could have just ordered them on Amazon. I've bought from sellers in Ukraine that had better communication and quicker delivery and there's a war going on there.
