Thursday 13 February 2014

MrGrumpy does some Ninja Soldering...

MrGrumpy is not generally known for his soldering skills, in fact his soldering has been referred to as more akin to Welding than soldering. Last weekend and early this week he needed to up the level of his soldering just a bit... All he needed to do was solder 6 wires onto a dev board, how difficult could it be? He started by using the "Wrong Wire Grommit", which meant his challenge became like a game of Whack-a-mole as wires popped off at random... Unfortunately during this process he managed to remove one of the tracks and the pad he was trying to solder to. MrClimbEveryMountain suggested he used a much thinner wire, so MrGrumpy started again... Soldering to the side of a tiny chip is a tad challenging, but was necessary due to the missing pad and track, this time after setting the microscope to max and trying not to burn his fingers too badly, he managed to connect all the wires and after an initial ground issue, it sprung into life...

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