And it seems to work! I guess my moral here is "clean the board really well before and after", and "don't use too much flux"
So I take back everything I said about parts, suppliers, boards, etc. Turns out, it's all issues with the assembler :) Happy Thanksgiving to all! -Josh On Nov 22, 2017 9:33 PM, "Josh Malone" <[email protected]> wrote: > So, I finally got around to re-working my last failed REX. I removed > the flash chip and cleaned that side of the board really well. There > was a LOT of flux under that flash chip. I think my choice of flux is > very wrong for this project -- I plan to get a liquid flux pen for > future work. Anyway, with the flash chip removed, the CPLD programmed > with no problems. I re-populated the flash chip again but haven't had > time to try REX programming. This is the third time this flash chip > has been soldered so I hope it lives to tell the tale! If it does > work, I'll probably sell it on fleaBay since I only have a single > Tandy and don't plan on getting another Model T anytime soon. > > Thanks for all the support! > > -Josh >
