[sdiy] problematic sh101

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net> wrote:
>> there goes another quiet saturday night..;-)
>
>Party on, Rude! ;-)
>
>I have a comment on what you said about "before i start on resoldering
>all connections"...
>
>Maybe this isn't what you meant, but you don't have to actually
>*re*solder them. That is, you don't have to remove the old solder and
>add new solder. All you've got to do is touch them with a hot iron for
>a few seconds to melt the existing solder. "Reflow" is the term, I
>think. This shouldn't take all that long, even for a whole board or
>two. I mean, yeah, there are a lot of connections, but you can move
>pretty quickly from one to the next. Could be easier than trying to
>find that one cracked joint.

This is what I do as well.  Sometimes seeing a crack in solder, even
with a magnifier, is difficult or impossible, especially if the crack
is tight around a component lead.

As was mentioned before, I'd start with the power supply and it's
connections to the various boards.




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