Maybe this goes without saying, but I think the HOWTO would be improved if it specified soldering hair-thin wires onto the comm pads.
I used 22-ga solid, figuring I'd plug a standard female header cable on it, and just insulate and leave it in place when I buttoned back up. Go ahead and judge; the method's worked well for me in the past, albeit perhaps on beefier pads. In any case, this time I twitched, and tore off the entire tx pad.
I assume this is the end of the experiment for *this* particular PW3, unless someone can tell me another place to access that trace?
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