Don-- I'll have to check, but I don't believe there is a PCB below my master module. I think it's all Molex on ribbon cables.
In any case, thanks for the advice. I should do this when I have some down time... which seems to be not any time soon ;) M On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Donald Put<[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > >> I presume you mean male connectors here, at least for the master >> module. Or do you mean the the female connectors on the PCB below >> channel cards? > > They both have pins that are soldered to the PCBs, but the male ones have > thicker pins that are more susceptible to cold joints because they wick the > heat away faster; therefore, the pads might get hot enough to hold the > solder but the pins might not. It really depends on who was doing the > soldering and how much attention they were paying to what they were doing. > > And, yes, I do mean the female connectors on the PCB below the channel > cards. I replaced all of them on the master/buss/echo/two-buss, etc. just > as a matter of course during my restoration of my Series II. I found a > couple bad female connectors, so I just replaced them all because it was > cheap insurance against it happening in the middle of a session. > > Cheers, > -- > Don > > ------ View the list online at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] You can unsubscribe at anytime by sending an email to mailto:[email protected] with "unsubscribe neotek" in the message body. If you have any difficulties, or questions --please send an email to mailto:[email protected]. The Neotek list is lovingly hosted by Catapult Web. Remember that any message or reply sent to the list will be automatically forwarded to all subscribers. Vive Le Neotek! Thanks.
