[Elecraft] Front Pannel bord (R16, R15)???

Sun Jun 22 20:57:02 2003

Dwayne:
  You could have left your first solder job on the top of the board alone.=20
The idea of soldering on the bottom of the board is simply to keep your=20
iron away from neighboring components, but the pads are solid through the=20
board.  Unless you have created a solder bridge with the unneeded cleaning, =

you are probably just fine.  Just look closely, preferably using a=20
magnifying glass.

  When you're trying to figure out where the traces are going or what=20
they're doing, look at the schematic.  You will see that R15 and R16  on=20
the Front Panel Board are indeed in series (i.e., connected together).

best wishes, and good luck,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Sunday, June 22, 2003 7:09 PM -0500 [email protected] wrote:

> Hi Group
> well I have got my control bord built and all seams ok. I started
> building the Front Pannel bord just a while ago. I got to the part
> where you install two resistors on the back side of the board (R16,
> R15) and solder them on the back of the board.
>
># 1:
> I first soldered them on the front side of the bord. I put them
> through from the back then dumbly flipped the bord over and
> soldered them. I knew that I was supposed to solder them on the
> back side but had a little brain glitch. So I wicked off the solder and
> then re soldered them from the back. all and all that went ok. I then
> cleaned up the front with a dab of Isopropyl alcohol. So, is this
> good or bad or what have I done?
>
># 2:
> on these same two resistors are the inside pad's connected? I tried
> to tell but I am just not sure now that they are soldered. I was not
> able to solder them without the solder drifting from one to the other.
> and I thought that I would ask before trying to wick them off all over
> again and clean up my mess. So how bad have I mucked this up?
>
> Thanks Group
>
> Dwayne
>
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