Show some EE Failures

[chrome]

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Note: This is not something I did, I found this on another forum a while back and found it in my pictures folder recently.

[robrenz]

Looks good to me, Ship it!

[wkb]

I've seen 6 year olds do a lot better after 10 minutes of hands-on instruction.. 

[G7PSK]

That looks like chicken shit.

[M. András]

dear god, how could that guy screw it up that badly? how hard was he trying?

[sacherjj]

You should be able to fix that with a little spray on antenna. 


It looks like some of those bits of solder are pole dancing on the leads. 

[david77]

Looks like someone spat a mouthfull of hot solder over that PCB  .
Mind you, I wouldn't worry too much about the PCB if I had hot lead in my mouth.

[TerminalJack505]

I've seen 6 year olds do a lot better after 10 minutes of hands-on instruction.. 

Actually, I was wondering if this was the result of child labor.

[MarkS]

 

[electrode]

Somebody needs to learn that solder isn't hot glue.

[alm]

Exactly. You need to melt some solder on the tip of your iron, until a large drop forms on the tip. Then you wait until all the smoke clears, since that's contamination in the solder that would cause bad joints. Then you transfer this blob of solder from the tip to your component leg, do this as fast as possible, don't let the component get hot, that might damage it. If it does not work, add more solder, or just skip the joint. Half of those components were put there to inflate the budget, anyway, so soldering half of the joints should work just fine.

[8086]

I'm not sure I could solder that badly even if I was trying to. Blimey.

[nanofrog]

I've seen 6 year olds do a lot better after 10 minutes of hands-on instruction.. 

Actually, I was wondering if this was the result of child labor.

This is what I was wondering as well.

[wkb]

I've seen 6 year olds do a lot better after 10 minutes of hands-on instruction.. 

Actually, I was wondering if this was the result of child labor.

I intro-ed kids into electronics as a hobby and they were better than this.  By a lightyear or 2.

[nanofrog]

I've seen 6 year olds do a lot better after 10 minutes of hands-on instruction.. 

Actually, I was wondering if this was the result of child labor.

I intro-ed kids into electronics as a hobby and they were better than this.  By a lightyear or 2.

I presume you gave them some proper instruction first, not just handed them a PCB, some parts, a picure of where the parts go, an iron, and then said "Have at it". 

[olsenn]

He/she/it obviously had a $10 Radioshack soldering iron, an IQ less than 15, and was wearing a blindfold.

[Bored@Work]

At least it has a CE mark. That'll do.

[IanB]

You can still do OK even with not so good tools. Just look at the iron this poor young lady has to use:



I bet she'd love a Hakko instead of the cheap iron she has there.

[Kibi]

At first look, it seemed to me that someone had tried to solder that board using a wheelbarrow. Who on this earth thought that was good enough for anything.

[damo]

You need to melt some solder on the tip of your iron, until a large drop forms on the tip. Then you wait until all the smoke clears, since that's contamination in the solder that would cause bad joints. Then you transfer this blob of solder from the tip to your component leg, do this as fast as possible, don't let the component get hot, that might damage it. If it does not work, add more solder, or just skip the joint. Half of those components were put there to inflate the budget, anyway, so soldering half of the joints should work just fine.

I hope you're being sarcastic here

With regards to the soldering on the board, I've seen worse and I've seen a million times better.

My personal soldering iron is an old cheap Dickie Smith one which works fine. I've used all sorts of irons in my time, from the expensive Hakkos to really cheap $10 ones and I find that you don't really need to use an expensive iron if you know the correct technique of soldering (though the tip and wattage is important).

[MarkS]

Exactly. You need to melt some solder on the tip of your iron, until a large drop forms on the tip. Then you wait until all the smoke clears, since that's contamination in the solder that would cause bad joints. Then you transfer this blob of solder from the tip to your component leg, do this as fast as possible, don't let the component get hot, that might damage it. If it does not work, add more solder, or just skip the joint. Half of those components were put there to inflate the budget, anyway, so soldering half of the joints should work just fine.

 

[vk6zgo]

The types of errors don't look like bad hand soldering to me.They look like flow soldering with something drastically wrong with the system.
I have run into some of these faults on otherwise perfect flow soldered PCBs.

[Psi]

yeah, it almost looks like the solder/paste contained zero flux

[Jad.z]

chrome, are you messing with us 

[dcel]

A first attempt with lead-free solder and no flux and no nitrogen atmosphere and low watt iron.....

Yuk

Chris