[Elecraft] oops -- repairing K3's KIO main board

[James Doty]

I suspect it will be fine.  Soldering SMDs is pretty easy even though it's
a different skill set.

For me the hard part was learning to work with magnification so I can
see what I'm doing. :)

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> I was installing the KVA transverter board this morning into my K3, and
> stupidly had my finger in the wrong place while popping the KIO main-board
> back into position.  One of the 4 capacitors at the top the KIO board
> popped off -- at least I think they're capacitors.  I didn't recognize them
> -- some sort of surface-mount transistors?  Some sort of op-amp or other IC?
>
> After I calmed down from my panic, I managed to do a sort of hacky-solder
> job to get it back on -- I'm not so good at surface mounting small parts.
>
> That said, the K3 isn't reporting any errors, and after activating the KVA
> module in the config settings, I see no error messages either.
>
> Is it safe to assume my soldering repair worked?
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