Two steps backward, one step forward...

ifkz

Well-known member
Joined
Oct 3, 2006
Messages
1,544
Reaction score
45
Location
Texas
I had a mediocre repair day today. I decided to try a last resort approach on a PCB that has been stuck in repair hell for several years now: Raiden II. It displayed a layer of graphics resembling an Atari 2600. I killed it :-( My new rule: if it is a Seibu board, buy it working!

The next victim was my best Magic Sword C board. I went carefully around the only surface mounted chip on the board with my iron and a magnifying glass. I thought the issues it was having could be related to floating pins. In the end I killed it, the only one of several replacements that made the game halfway playable. The A and B boards are still okay, but dang it!

The only bright spot today was my POW sound repair. I found the issue using deductive reasoning and wrote a repair log for anyone with a similar problem in the future.

So, yeah, kinda spotty repair day for me.
 
How are you doing this soldering work on the SMT chips? Are you using liquid rosin? If you aren't using any rosin at all then you are just making the soldering job worse.
 
I went carefully around the only surface mounted chip on the board with my iron ...

smd-iron.jpg
 
Can that also be used for soldering on monitor chassis and pcbs or do you recommend i diffrent flux from that site
 
Back
Top Bottom