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Hi there fellow people,

I was building an Aurora Sofle_v2 and I may have screwed things up. I melted one of the RGBs with the soldering iron and in the process of trying to remove it the solder pad was removed as well

After that I tried to “fix” it a handful of times, and now I believe that the connectors might be gone =(

Is there a way for me to salvage this RGB? (Or perhaps to link the previous one with the following one on the chain, so at least it works for the others)

I was thinking of connecting things using cables, is this an option?

Update: Bodge wiring worked! I got some spare cable pieces I had laying around and soldered it to the board The back doesn’t look pretty, but at least it’s lighting up (except the last RGB where I accidentally soldered two pins together, after this I’m not going through the troubles to fix it)

  • Eheran@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    You mean SW8? Hard to tell anything given how dirty the PCB is. You might need to clean everything to actually see the traces. The RGB above it does also look damaged.

    • tequinhu@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      Yeah, it is evident that I am very bad at this hahaha, the other RGBs work fine (at least for now), but this SW8 is gone.

      What do I need to buy to clean the PCB? (I’m based in Portugal BTW), I tried to use something that was labeled as a ‘pickling agent’, but that didn’t work out well (as we can see in the picture)

      • Eheran@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        Anything with higher % of alcohol (say >60%) will work, including IPA based disinfectant. Ideally you use pure alcohol, specifically ethanol or isopropanol or propanol.

        As the other person suggested, you can save it, but it is harder than soldiering, so perhaps practice.