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Hi there fellow people,

I was building an Aurora Sofle_v2 and I may have screwed things up. I melted one of the RGBs with the soldering iron and in the process of trying to remove it the solder pad was removed as well

After that I tried to “fix” it a handful of times, and now I believe that the connectors might be gone =(

Is there a way for me to salvage this RGB? (Or perhaps to link the previous one with the following one on the chain, so at least it works for the others)

I was thinking of connecting things using cables, is this an option?

Update: Bodge wiring worked! I got some spare cable pieces I had laying around and soldered it to the board The back doesn’t look pretty, but at least it’s lighting up (except the last RGB where I accidentally soldered two pins together, after this I’m not going through the troubles to fix it)

  • Mitchie151@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    If you have lifted the pad off, the only way to fix it is to use a bodge wire. You should be able to run a wire between the broken pad and the previous functional one in the network. If you look up bodge wire you’ll see this is a pretty standard practice, especially when prototyping PCBs.

    • tequinhu@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 days ago

      Hmmm, you mean a special wire for soldering right? I was initially thinking in soldering some scraps from a copper cable I had laying around but quickly realized it was not going to work

      • Mitchie151@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        You normally just use very tiny wire. Anything is technically fine but certain types make it easier. Generally something solid core, 30-40AWG. Some people have a specific preference for Kynar or Teflon but there’s no hard and fast rules.

        • tequinhu@lemmy.worldOP
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          10 days ago

          I see, the tiny wire I had was the problem then, it has multiple filaments that kept going off

          I’ll try this one today!