I have a Weller soldering gun but now you're risking burning the board. I am just about convinced a mini hack saw is the best alternative here.
Oh gawd no...
I didn't realize what you were planning to do with the saw. No, no, a thousand times no.
If you try and fit a sawblade between the caps and the PCB, you are going to make that gorgeous old-school FR4 look like a complete fucking magilla-gorilla chewed-up shitshow.
If you're just looking to nip off the protruding bit to decrease mass a Dremel is ideal, or even a pair of flush-cutters. Please, just get the GT7. It will make short work of this project, I can promise you that from personal experience as I've owned one since I was 14, and it is a tool you'll never regret owning. In fact, you'll find yourself wondering how you got along without it all these years.
mnem
*back to the bench*
Yup... most of the time the 4mm chisel tip is adequate for even these brutes. But I didn't want to open the whole
"T-12 OLED Soldering Controller" can of worms this morning; I have enough line items on my shit list today.
mnem
Choose your battles.
Found someting to compliment my 8200A and 8125A Fluke Nixie...
8120A
Yup... most of the time the 4mm chisel tip is adequate for even these brutes. But I didn't want to open the whole "T-12 OLED Soldering Controller" can of worms this morning; I have enough line items on my shit list today.
mnem
Choose your battles.
Yep, but there is no point in denying the truth though
Only if you shout Allah Akbar before swapping tips.
Now the puppy is able to sweep the dinner table with her tail. Too tall to qualify as a miniature horse (32 inches at the shoulder maximum).
May be time to start considering a saddle, or at least saddle bags for trips to the local shops. When I were a lad my cousin Michael (who owned a small farm on Guernsey) and my parents did a house swap for the summer holidays. This left 14 year old me with the job of looking after his dog, Bruno, on Guernsey. Bruno was a Pyrenean Mountain Dog puppy that probably had at least 15-20 kg on me weight wise. I had to take him for a walk every day - well he took me for a drag. Life would have been a lot easier if Michael had had a pony or two - I could have borrowed a saddle and made the daily walk a lot easier on myself.
Only if you shout Allah Akbar before swapping tips.
Nah, you were just unlucky with a duff handle I reckon.
a little bit of detonating cord should be able to take care of that electrolytic ...
I'd still have a go with a hot air station tho.
btw bought some keysight stuff today. A N2756A probe cable. Was reduced to 204€ and summthang.
Now the puppy is able to sweep the dinner table with her tail. Too tall to qualify as a miniature horse (32 inches at the shoulder maximum).
May be time to start considering a saddle, or at least saddle bags for trips to the local shops. When I were a lad my cousin Michael (who owned a small farm on Guernsey) and my parents did a house swap for the summer holidays. This left 14 year old me with the job of looking after his dog, Bruno, on Guernsey. Bruno was a Pyrenean Mountain Dog puppy that probably had at least 15-20 kg on me weight wise. I had to take him for a walk every day - well he took me for a drag. Life would have been a lot easier if Michael had had a pony or two - I could have borrowed a saddle and made the daily walk a lot easier on myself.
Ah, so you understand perfectly well! Nya (as in the LEGO Ninjago character for those with human/dragon pups) is a Great Pyrenese Mountain Dog (what we call the same breed here)! Training will change the drag into a walk, but that is a challenge when it is not your dog and you were taken advantage of.
On the other hand, training here has not yet achieved that success. Based on the size of her parents, we were expecting an adult size of approximately 120 lbs. However, based on growth so far and leg and paw size, the expectation is now 160 lbs, which is 98th percentile.
Puppy is reduced to a blubbering cry-baby today, after the show of bravado last night. Old dog has gone out to the groomers and gone for a car ride no less. Puppy is left behind with me and is highly anxious. Having a puppy now is no problem, but there will surely be widespread problems when people return to normal schedules.
Only if you shout Allah Akbar before swapping tips.
Nah, you were just unlucky with a duff handle I reckon.
I hot-swap my tips constantly... probably 50 times this morning alone, desoldering different parts trying to isolate the DC offset problems with my 4070A. In that respect it's better even than my MetCal, as I don't have to reset the power unit every time I swap.
mnem
*punt*
Had 3 packages arrive this afternoon. Parts for the Delta 300V PSU.
3 x 2N3439 BJTs, a 2N6027 PUT, 82V zener (had 6.2V and 12V in stock) and 4 BT148-600 SCRs (2 spares). Capactors and resistors I hve in stock. So will get on that tonight. It will be a bit of a shotgun approch replacing just about everything in the pre-regulator, but with so much missing or disconnected by a previous "repair" it seems the only way to go.
The SCRs are a subsitution. The unit had 2 x HS64S by Hutson (never heard of them before). It is a 4A 600Vsensitive gate type. The obvious replacement is the C106M1. However according to the manual, earlier versions of the PSU had a single C106M and they changed to two obscure parts. The question is why didn't they use two C106Ms? The only obvious difference with the HS64S is it has higher maximum gate current and gate power ratings. So I picked the BT148. It's gate is higher rated than the C106M but not quite as high as the HS64S. Each BT148-600 has a higher peak gate current than the anode rating of the 2N6027 driving them.
Lets hope it does not all go up in smoke.
Training will change the drag into a walk, but that is a challenge when it is not your dog and you were taken advantage of.
Bruno was pretty well behaved to be fair to him, it was just that he wanted to do everything at a minimum 10 mph which led to a constant effort to restrain him while he was on the leash - I came back from that holiday looking like a junior muscle man. Fortunately the actual time spend on leash wasn't too long. Michael's place, as part of a farm, had a very generous back yard where you could wear some of the energy off. Then it was a half mile walk to a nearby beach cove below a cliff path, reached down Guernsey's roads which necessitated a leash for the road bit. Roads in that part of Guernsey are twisty, 10 feet wide and banked by high hedges both sides - it's local practice to sound your horn in daylight
every time you approach a bend. All that was left was to avoid a massive saltwater drenching afterwards if Bruno had decided to take a dip.
Ahhh.... lunging the dog. I used to have to do that with our Dobie/Shep/Wolf mix when we lived in the city. Still have to do it from time to time with my daughter.
The latter is much more fun.
mnem
moo.
I have a Weller soldering gun but now you're risking burning the board. I am just about convinced a mini hack saw is the best alternative here.
Oh gawd no... I didn't realize what you were planning to do with the saw. No, no, a thousand times no. If you try and fit a sawblade between the caps and the PCB, you are going to make that gorgeous old-school FR4 look like a complete fucking magilla-gorilla chewed-up shitshow.
If you're just looking to nip off the protruding bit to decrease mass a Dremel is ideal, or even a pair of flush-cutters. Please, just get the GT7. It will make short work of this project, I can promise you that from personal experience as I've owned one since I was 14, and it is a tool you'll never regret owning. In fact, you'll find yourself wondering how you got along without it all these years.
mnem
*back to the bench*
Of course I'm not going to go stupid with a hack saw. But it's going to be in my arsenal when I go back in there. Use where appropriate. Using a big Weller alone isn't going to get these bastards out. They are tightly packed and really no room to leverage them doing one leg at a time. At least 2 legs need to be cut and then you have a fighting chance of getting them out. So whether a Dremel or saw will be determined as I go. This isn't my first rodeo.
I consider getting that PSU in and out a dry run and a familiarization because it is freaking tight. And as proof that I didn't FUBAR anything here it is running.
So I was going to slack off and play with some test gear this evening but now I just spent two hours tracking down a Linux kernel bug. Turns out if you pull an HDMI cable out of an Intel chipset after boot on some kernels it hammers the fuck out of the CPU. Total fail.
So I was going to slack off and play with some test gear this evening but now I just spent two hours tracking down a Linux kernel bug. Turns out if you pull an HDMI cable out of an Intel chipset after boot on some kernels it hammers the fuck out of the CPU. Total fail.
Simple solution. Don't unplug the HDMI cable when booted.
KISS.
Well it's a headless server so YMMV on that
. Fixed. drm related. Add "nomodeset" and "i915.modeset=0" to the kernel parameters.
Ffuuuuuuck all I wanted to do was program a sodding AVR.
alternate solution: do not use Intel cpus ...