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drgonzalez94 · 10-07-2015, 02:49 PM

Thanks for the reply, knc1. I looked at it under a bright light, and I couldn't find any traces. I also played around with the pictures in photoshop but no amount of saturation or filtering would help. This is the brightest flashlight I've got (It's a big 2 D cell 25 LED w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶ light). Please avert your eyes when you see the terrible soldering job. I got impatient and tackled this with a sub-par 30w iron and no microscope, instead of waiting until I got to school today. The job is less than ideal. The pad also took with it a bit of the top layer to the left of it (and exposed some copper, but there is continuity to ground, so that doesn't help) so as you can see, I can't really drop some conductive paint in there. My only choice is really to find a series TX resistor, but I'm having some trouble. I've attached some pictures if you'd like to take a crack at it.

EDIT: Tried finding it by checking for continuity with a Fluke 187 DMM but everything registers as open except components that are grounded. RX doesn't seem to lead anywhere that I found (checked all resistors in immediate area), nor does TX.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan

10-07-2015, 02:49 PM	#3
drgonzalez94 Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 36 Join Date: Oct 2015 Device: K6 PW2/Voyage	Thanks for the reply, knc1. I looked at it under a bright light, and I couldn't find any traces. I also played around with the pictures in photoshop but no amount of saturation or filtering would help. This is the brightest flashlight I've got (It's a big 2 D cell 25 LED w̶e̶a̶p̶o̶n̶ light). Please avert your eyes when you see the terrible soldering job. I got impatient and tackled this with a sub-par 30w iron and no microscope, instead of waiting until I got to school today. The job is less than ideal. The pad also took with it a bit of the top layer to the left of it (and exposed some copper, but there is continuity to ground, so that doesn't help) so as you can see, I can't really drop some conductive paint in there. My only choice is really to find a series TX resistor, but I'm having some trouble. I've attached some pictures if you'd like to take a crack at it. EDIT: Tried finding it by checking for continuity with a Fluke 187 DMM but everything registers as open except components that are grounded. RX doesn't seem to lead anywhere that I found (checked all resistors in immediate area), nor does TX. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dan Attached Thumbnails Last edited by drgonzalez94; 10-15-2015 at 02:10 PM.