• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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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: