[Elecraft] Yipes! Front Panel Board

Fri Nov 29 20:41:00 2002

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Crashin J wrote:

> When I soldered R16 and R15 to the bottom of the Front Panel Board the pads
> on the other side lifted on the leads completely off the board. Am I in
> trouble over this now? Do I keep on building? Any idea of what I did wrong?
> Why did they lift?
> 
> Jerry - NR5A

I didn't disassemble my K2 to look but, you can check yourself.  Were
there any traces connected to the pads that lifted?

As for why they lifted, in nearly _every_ case, this is going to be caused
by too long of "dwell time" while you are soldering.

73 de John - K4WTF
K2/100 #2490