It turns out that one of my club members has a real rework station that I can use (much better than my cheap Weller). He also uses SMA connectors on his products. I'll take it to his shop this week and get it fixed up.
Thanks for all of your input, Chris On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 4:51 AM, Scott Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. I would not suggest coating a board that was already designed due > to values changing. Rather, it would have to go through iterations being > developed with the coating. V3? :-D > > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: altusmetrum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bdale Garbee > Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 11:03 PM > To: Kieran Sullivan; Altus Metrum > Subject: Re: [altusmetrum] Telemetrum V2 antenna pad ripped off board. > > Kieran Sullivan <[email protected]> writes: > > > Might help a bit. Usually the conformal coating just keeps the > > corrosion down. If you do decide to conformal coat the board, try not > > to block the pressure sensor :-) > > More importantly, if you conformal coat one of our boards, don't be > surprised if the RF performance changes. Different coating materials have > different dielectric constants, none of which are the same as air... That > will impact things like how the filters tune. But, since I haven't ever > actually coated a TeleMetrum or TeleMega board (just things we've built for > AMSAT), I don't know how much effect there might be. > > Bdale > > _______________________________________________ > altusmetrum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum >
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