As you may recall I pulled everything out of the header ( link ) and painted it.
Time to put it all back in. As I re-assembled the light-panel (The wood with the lights on it) I noticed one of the LED displays had what appears to be burned out resistors on its little board:
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| Burned out resistors |
While I was able to get the resistors out of the board, I managed to deconnect the tiny traces and ring that the solder is supposed to connect to - why is my soldering so bad???
I spent all evening soldering them back in, using a meter to verify I have connectivity but I have no way to test them until I get it all put back together.
Looking at my soldering iron, I am going to try and lower the temperature on it. I have it set all the way up, under the theory that hotter means faster but it could be its just too hot and is screwing things up. We will see if that helps.
In the meantime the Harlem Globetrotter table awaits reassembly as somehow I managed to lose one of the back pieces of sheet metal. Not a big deal but it means a wait until I can go back to the store for more.
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