[Elecraft] [K2] Control board booboo?

[Don Wilhelm]

  Wayne,

For the sake of neatness, you can heat the solder pad and put it down 
onto the board, but since all the connections are intact (I could not 
see a trace in the image going away from that pad on the top side of the 
board), it does not matter - the solder pad on the top of the board is 
only a "place holder" that makes no connection on that side.  Solder 
pads that have no traces leaving from them are especially easy to lift 
if too much heat is applied (but that does not usually happen if there 
are traces leaving the pad on that side).  Turn your iron temperature 
down a bit.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/16/2011 9:42 PM, Wayne Conrad wrote:
> Don, Thank you.  And thanks also to Alan Price and Bill Coleman for 
> their help off the list.
>
> You're right that it's R12 and not R18.  Good catch.
>
> Both sides of the "booboo" resistor have continuity to the appropriate 
> places.  On the side with the lifted pad,  to P2/10 and P4/10.  On the 
> other side, U6/2.
>
> Would it be a good idea to reheat the solder and push the pad down?
>
> I will turn the iron down in any case.
>
> Wayne Conrad
>