Re: Taito Asteroids Short and Solder

O, by the way, PLEASE turn of the HTML mail. It looks dorky as well.

Mendel

> Paul Sommers wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> Started to work on my Taito Asteroids board last night.
>
> Plugged it in and it blew a fuse!
>
> Looked around the board which was clean, no noticable shorts, cleaned bits and
> pieces, cleaned edge connector. Replaced the fuse, plugged it in and this time
> it blew a tant cap near the 2114 rams. Pop!!!!!
>
> So clearly there is a short - what is the best way to find it? Could it have
> been the cap or was the cap just the weakest point.
>
> Without further advice I wasn't going to do anything else, I thought I would
> socket the rams anyway.
>
> I can't budge the solder. It won't melt except a bit. I tried flowing new
> solder to it, but it kind of just sat on top. Anything I should be doing for
> old solder?
>
> As always - thanks.
>
> Paul
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Received on Thu Nov 9 19:10:07 2000