• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Oh, that makes more sense. The heat from the malfunctioning cooker may have resoldered these points badly.

    I was curious how like half the points were bad, and that could explain it.

    e: especially since they’re all at the bottom half of the board. That was closest to the heating element, right?

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      10 months ago

      Unlikely any heat from the slow cooker did anything. Solder melts at 370F. A slow cooker is never going to get anywhere close to that hot.

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        10 months ago

        Strange that all the bad points are in the lower half of the board, and that most points in that half are bad, then.

        e: could a malfunction make it heat beyond 370f?

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          10 months ago

          It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.

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            10 months ago

            Perhaps. It still seems odd to me that this board was mounted vertically inline with the heating element and the bad parts I identified line up with that, before I knew that was the case: