If you have anyone in your shop that has worked with surface mount devices
before, I would seriously try the regulator transplant. You can take a box
cutter and remove the old one by cutting the pins/legs real close to the
body of the part. Then use an iron to mop up and remove the leg remenants.
Removing the donor from the SM is a but more touchy. You will need solder
wick. Absorb the solder from each leg and try to gently get them to release
one by one. Sometimes you can pry them up under heat with a long pin or
needle.
Once the doner is off and the legs are pretty much straight and looking more
or less like they looked when soldered down, all you have to do is place it
on the board and hit each leg with an iron, supplying a bit of pressure as
the solder on the leg and the solder left on the pad flow.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Vander Dussen
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Need FSK APs, will travel
5.7ghz
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 8:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Need FSK APs, will travel
What frequency?
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Vander Dussen
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 9:07 AM
To: 'AF Cambium List ([email protected])'
Subject: [AFMUG] Need FSK APs, will travel
I'm in the market for 3-6 FSK APs today somewhere in central California.
I'll come pick them up! Please hit me off-list if you have any, boards
without cases OK. We're searching our inventory now for spares. Or call
209-838-1221 x905.
Thx,
Scott
