For what its worth to anyone else, I have taken to spacing all the Transformers and Toroids OFF the board a couple of mm so that re-work or adjustment is a lot easier and relieves the tension on the l

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Reply to Mont Pierce KM6WT, :)) Right, after your confession, I am going to tell a shameful secret... Get ready for a tale of butchery... I'm struggling with my near vision these days as I approach my

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My 1st QCX+ was a disaster, I destroyed several solder pads and created a short on the Front Panel PCB. But got through it. I had to added a couple jumper wires to replace missing-non-functioning pads

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Jim...kq3s

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Nobody should take my advice because I frequently make a mess of these things, but ff it works, and is secure, I'd leave it alone, and as someone else above said, Hans himself shows on his tuning for

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Thanks, Dave. Sadly you are right. However, I am not sure I will listen to myself :-). Still cogitating. Kent.

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Thanks, Steve. I am thinking that since I have dropped one of these in a populated board before (my 2 QCX 40 and 20), I can do it again if something fails. So I may move foreward. Thanks for your inpu

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I think you answered your question about what is the correct way to continue. ...Dave

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You should be fine. Hans' video on tweaking the LPF toroids shows him doing just what you describe (soldering on top of the board) when removing wire turns -- and this is for "factory" built radios he

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Hi All, I finally got my T1 wound and installed. While soldering it into place I pulled on the wires while soldering to cinch up T1 close to the board, and the wire at point 3 broke. I will not bore y

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Looks great, Steve Reminds me of one thing I may not have pointed out anywhere, but which may be of interest. In the QCX-mini most of the traces are 10 mil (0.01-inch) thickness. But to reduce the ris

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Hi Steve, Since I posted some of the original pics of the issue, it's become increasingly clear that it's not a widespread problem (thank goodness). Still I would suggest that folks at least do a quic

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Steve’s microscope pictures echo the same good quality I saw with a magnifying glass (never thought to get out the USB microscope) in my initial inspection right after opening the kit. I have no conne

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Looks pretty high standard Stephen and probably better than anything my company ever had SMTed. 73s Ted

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nice pictures Steve,thanks. These kit opportunities are each an adventure - and each so far has had a happy-enough ending for me. let's trust the large global team will work together in finding soluti

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Gentlefolk, After reading some concerns here about the poor quality of the soldering of the pre installed SMT parts I took a look with my Raspberry Pi microscope. I must report that I found nothing bu

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Eike, With the utmost respect, my knowledge of electronics and electricity probably falls far astern of yours and most certainly EEVBLOG's Wizard of Oz. And, as the owner of a WE1010, I concede that a

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Another vote here for Hakko..I have the older version of the fx-888, plus their desoldering tool, plus their battery operated iron...and 5 star performance from all of them. Do be very careful about k

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On Saturday, 19 December 2020 07:46:29 -03 David Wilcox via groups.io wrote: > I have the TS 100 and am wondering what battery pack anyone is using. > I think it requires 20 v. I do like mine but also

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