I really enjoy my two DNA 40 devices. Is it a bit twitchy and fiddly in some aspects... yes. The thing is though, I was still in he twitch and fiddle stage of kanthal (only had started re-building a few months before the dna 40 debuted).
I was not re-learning anything, so my level of 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdammit' was not so high.
This whole
'this board suxz' thing was bound to happen sooner or later. It always does and I feel bad that it happened to Evolv .
No matter how simple one tries to keep something, the level of complexity eventually gets to a point where something gets missed or worse two or more separate items come into an unforeseen conflict and just screw up everything.
Heck, most of my issues had less to do with the board or the rDNA enclosure, and more with the attys I was using. They were really good for kanthal, not the strict 'tolerances' of nickel.
I do not know how large the beta pool was. One could make an .... of you and me at this point and say it was not large enough. Stones and glass houses I say.
For me, I am resigned to being a beta.1 tester. I may not have to like it, yet, the promise of what this product could be is there.
That and I am a paranoid S.O.B. who does not trust our legislators as far as I can carry an elephant.
We need more than ideas on paper. We need items in our hands that show we are working toward a better product to keep us of the combustibles and not do further harm to ourselves or those who join us every day.
The board, as far as I have noticed, did not - spark, flare, flame, sizzle or explode (the DNA 40 that is... I saw what happened on these boards

). That right there is a win for me.
RCH
That screen glitch was damn annoying though!