8 Nov
2014
8 Nov
'14
7:58 a.m.
From: Noel Chiappa
I also discovered and repaired at least two
cold-solder joints (one was
one of the pins for W1, the master clock control - the pin was actually
loose when I wiggled it).
So it turns out that loose wire-wrap pins seem to be a systemic problem on
11/23's. I just discovered _3_ more on one single 11/23 board - two of them
the pins for the master clock! I put my finger-tip on them and wiggled, and
they were loose.
I'm not sure why it's the wire-wrap pins especially - maybe their physical
size meant that they have larger thermal inertia, and so need a longer heat
than the manufacturing process gave them, to bring them up to temp to prevent
a cold solder joint?
Anyway, if one has a flaky 11/23, that's definitely something to check.
Noel