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Offline Armadillo

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Will you consider his application of flux to be TOO excessive?
 

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I use a gullwing tip to clean pads. If it needs to be cleaner than that and the risk is not high I use wick or a desolder gun. It is just a matter of experience and practice. (a steady hand and fine mechanics skills and good tools help a lot) 
And you must have confidence in your own skills.

I also do pcb repairs, still rather simple cases to practice my skills. This is my most recent one:  http://schneiderelectronicsrepair.nl/?p=481 Not the most difficult one but for sure the most complex one. (pcb repair as in replacing pads, vias and (inner)traces ) I do not think there is a market for it but I really love doing it.
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OMG The way he swipes the pads with solder-wick is asking for trouble. It is very easy to ruin a PCB that way :palm: I usually try not to remove the old solder to reduce the risk of swiping the pads off with solder-wick. And then the way he puts the chip back again by heating the chip and not the board :palm:
Well I have not seen him tear one off yet



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Will you consider his application of flux to be TOO excessive?
It works well for him


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By the way, did the scope worked?
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probably still in the mail. I'm sure we will hear when it all happens.....
 

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Will you consider his application of flux to be TOO excessive?

Its actually a good idea.......it helps avoid bridges and it tends to soak up the heat from surrounding components........it cheap enough and easy to clean, so why not pile it on.
 

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Too much flux will be if it is in a pile on the floor, after dripping off the bench.

I have some small 10ml bottles with a dropper insert, that are perfect to dispense flux, and have a good number of them filled for use, just remove the lid, put on a drop where needed and put the bottle down. With the tiny dropper insert it is slow to evaporate the alcohol solvent in the bottle, but it goes fast on the board. When doing SMD work a drop before application of the iron to the component is fine, and same for every rework.
 

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By the way, did the scope worked?

Currently the board is in the mail. I'll be testing it this coming week.
Jay

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By the way, did the scope worked?

Currently the board is in the mail. I'll be testing it this coming week.

Just arrived in the mail. I was going to wait till tomorrow to test it, but curiosity got the best of me in about 12.3 minutes.
The results is a SUCCESS!! Louis, you are da' man!  :-+ :-+ :-+  Nice work.
Scope triggers great all the way up to 3GHz on all 4 channels!
Thanks for all your help!

Jay
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Glad to hear that!
 

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For increased life do yourself a favour and put some extra heatsinks on the trigger chips.
There are small lies, big lies and then there is what is on the screen of your oscilloscope.
 

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Any flux residue? LOL;

 :-+ Great job.
 

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Any flux residue? LOL;

 :-+ Great job.

Actually, there is. I hope it's no-clean! :)
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For increased life do yourself a favour and put some extra heatsinks on the trigger chips.

They actually don't get that hot under normal conditions.  If you pull the cover off the scope after it's reached operating temperature and take an IR snapshot before the board cools off, you will (or, rather, should) find that they're running under 50C-60C. 

The two great mysteries with these chips are why they fail in the first place, and why Tektronix seemingly included two extra ones on the board for no apparent reason.
 

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The two great mysteries with these chips are why they fail in the first place,

Usually catastrophically, IME. POOF! :-BROKE

and why Tektronix seemingly included two extra ones on the board for no apparent reason.

Indeed. And they're not just sitting there unconnected to anything either. They're connected to the GaAs MMIC switch chips and other circuitry as well. Weird... Would love to discuss this with the guy who designed the scope.
Fun fact: The engineering code name for the TDS694C scope was "SCREAMER". I had one come through my hands a few years ago that had the word "SCREAMER" where the serial # should have been.

PS: John, thanks for your assistance and encouragement off-line in all of this.  :-+
Jay
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Perhaps there is some situation where all of the trigger chips are used, something that doesn't come into play in most normal use. Maybe it's only in certain models of the scopes that used that acquisition board? Maybe it was a feature they planned to use but never did? These are complex enough instruments that it's hard to say whether the performance is degraded in some way by a faulty IC even if it exhibits no apparent problems.
 

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Re: Looking for someone who can replace/swap Tek TDS694C trigger chips for $
« Reply #43 on: August 16, 2017, 11:10:24 am »
By the way, did the scope worked?

Currently the board is in the mail. I'll be testing it this coming week.

Just arrived in the mail. I was going to wait till tomorrow to test it, but curiosity got the best of me in about 12.3 minutes.
The results is a SUCCESS!! Louis, you are da' man!  :-+ :-+ :-+  Nice work.
Scope triggers great all the way up to 3GHz on all 4 channels!
Thanks for all your help!

Jay

Looks like I have another job for Louis. This time it's an Agilent 1GHz DSO8104A with a blown pre-amp chip on CH1. The chip is all ceramic and has a large GND pad underneath the chip. I'll start another thread for this one in a bit.
Jay

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