[Elecraft] [K2] No signal at TP1 during Alignment and Test Part 2
Don Wilhelm
donwilh at embarqmail.com
Fri Jun 9 10:41:46 EDT 2017
Robert,
I just now had time to look at your photos. It seems to me that your
solder on T5 (and maybe elsewhere) looks like "balls" with convex
sides. That is indicitive of a solder connection that has not received
enough heat.
A good solder connection should have a slight fillet and end up with
obvious solder that has flowed out entirely onto the solder pad and also
up onto the leads. The edges of the solder should taper out to an
almost invisible edge with a concave fillet of solder between the pad
and the lead.
See the diagrams in the Soldering Tutorial available at the Elecraft
website (you may have to search for it).
I suggest you remove the solder from any connection that looks like
those and re-do them. Do not apply so much solder to "pile it on" -
that does no good. Heat the solder pad and lead until you can see the
solder flow out onto both.
Using a small gauge solder helps. With large diameter solder, by the
time you apply 'a little bit', that is already too much. Save the large
solder for antenna wires.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 6/8/2017 10:20 PM, Robert Forster wrote:
>
> This should lead me to suspect T5 correct?
> the soldering on the underside of the board for T5 looks ok (no ring
> for these points but the topside of the board looks rough! I used the
> USB microscope and took some photos.
> Here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsm2aNdeG
>
>
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