I'm new at this. These are boards I would have sold to the junkyard for about a penny a pound. I've grouped similar boards together so hopefully you can just give one grade for each batch.

Picture 1: from cable boxes, DVRs


Picture 2: more cable boxes, DVRs


Picture 3: a/v stuff. The first board is from a big amplified speaker.


Picture 4: power supply boards


Picture 5: user interface boards


Thank you!

-jimc

As I said, I'm new at this. I'm not getting any responses, which suggests that I'm doing something wrong. Could someone let me know what I should do differently?

Thank you!

It seems to me responses slow down a bit on the weekend, so I can't say you've done anything wrong and I would say someone will respond soon enough. Though, one quick note would be to try and limit the number of boards to a half dozen or so(although 8 in a picture is not extreme by any means) and number them in pictures showing both front and back (if there is population on the back side). More posts with less pictures makes going through for grading easier and more likely to get quicker responses it seems.

I'm not really one to give grades yet but I can say that typically brown boards go as low grade as there's no substrate on the brown side, therefore making it low value. There are definite exceptions, mouse boards with gold pinned IC's on them (I've just had recent experience with them is why I mention them) are one of the few I know for sure (possibly the 7 segment displays may make a difference but I think it matters the type of display some, so I don't know on that).

Lastly, I would have to say that grading cards is a bit more of an art form than a science (as I believe I've seen stated as such) and is very overwhelming when you first try to sort things out, looking at pictures and what things were graded, and asking questions has helped me most. You can always email Chris @ boardsort when you aren't sure of the answers you are getting or answers you aren't getting. One piece of advice is to have the board prepared exactly as you want it graded when emailing Chris though, he's not going to be able to go through every picture he receives and say remove this or that for a higher grade.

Here's a little bit of reference in general aside from the pictures on the price list:
https://boardsort.com/escrapforum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21765

LostinLodos did pin a guide to posting at the top of this section so that it helps everyone. The people grading have less to look at per post and the poster hopefully gets a quicker response.

Sometimes when a post has 20+ boards we see it and say to ourselves, "I'll come back to this later". Then sometimes a board will be something we're not familiar with or we recognize it but can't quite place the grade without looking through the forum.

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Thanks for the guidance. I'll try to limit the number of boards the next time I post.

I didn't take pictures of the backsides of the boards because they have no components. Next time I will.

The boards in my pictures are already sorted by type, so I was hoping that one grade per picture would do. Picture 3 is an exception but it has only three boards. The first one needs grading, the other two are like those in Pictures 1 & 2 so they should have the same grade as those.

I'm trying to hit a balance between squeezing every penny out of these boards, and keeping it simple. Grading in batches helps with this, and means I won't have to ask next time I get boards like these. Does this make sense?

Thanks again!

I agree with the previous posts as well. Most brown boards are low grade and a post with several types of board that I am not familiar with I will hold my comments.

From what I have learned here grading has a lot to do with high quality materials like ICs or tantalum capacitors and low quality materials like copper windings, transformers, and aluminum capacitors. That means more ICs equal a higher grade board (typically).

In picture #2 the brown board is not similar to the other boards. I would imagine the brown board is low grade and the other 4 boards look like Peripheral High Grade.

Okay I finally got a chance to really look at these; the pictures aren't awful; I can tell mostly what's there on everything but they are a bit blurry. If you include fewer boards in a picture that will help; or just double check the photos to make sure you got the focus as good as it can be.

Okay so the boxes with the coax ports, the steel covers need to come off the sides of those. (Except for the brown boards, they're already low grade the steel isn't hurting anything)

If there's a steel fence left behind after removing a cap you can usually leave them on the board; if it seems like it's an excessive amount of steel you can pull it off too or post another picture to see what we think.

After that's done:

1) Should all be high peripheral

2) Brown board low grade. The middle board on the bottom row is high peripheral. Rest, if you can clean them up as described above and retake pictures that would be great.

3) Brown = Low grade. Small board I'm leaning high peripheral. Larger board, this is one the picture quality isn't helping me to be sure on; I'd say low peripheral right now.

4) Low Grade

5) Low Grade; the one with the large display I'm not sure on, the board itself would be midgrade but there might be chips under the display and the display itself might add value to the board

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