"inspecting the solder joints" --- what to look for ---
What you should look for is on the component side of the board. On a
proper solder connection for boards with thru-plated holes, you should
see some solder on the component lead that has flowed through the hole.
If there was not enough heat applied or the soldering dwell time was too
short, the solder will not wick through the hole and even though the
solder side looks to be OK, the component side will tell you if the
solder connection is complete.
That is important for those components whose leads barely go through the
board. It is easy to get solder over the entire solder pad, and still
have no good solder connection to the component lead.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 5/5/2016 9:44 AM, lstavenhagen wrote:
So you might try removing the front panel (a pain but doable) and inspecting
the solder joints?
73,
LS
W5QD
K8DJW-Dave wrote
This seems kind of silly perhaps, but the first segment - leftmost - in my
LCD only seems to illuminate about 10% of the time. Is this just an issue
of tightening something up or is that part of the display going bad? Not a
huge issue, but it would be nice to fix it.
Thanks and 73
Dave
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