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Do the SMT first, then install the through hole components.<br><br>
At 12:38 AM 4/27/2006, you wrote:<br>
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Good deal. Ah the joys of trying to install surface mount parts in
the <br>
near vicinity of tall interfering thru holes parts ... went thru that on
<br>
some of Tony's early SoftRocks. These days he tries to keep all the
surf <br>
mount stuff on one side and the thru hole on the other.
Probably too late <br>
in the cycle to try and do that for Atlas and not worth the hassle --
just <br>
put it together in the right order and all is well.<br><br>
Cheers,<br><br>
Bill<br><br>
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At 12:17 AM 4/27/2006, Christopher T. Day wrote:<br>
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>So, the 10uF 16V 3216 case ‘A’ tantalum capacitors arrived today.
They fit <br>
>on the existing pads just fine. However, I think I would rather
strongly <br>
>recommend against installing them _after_ all the connectors are in
place <br>
> J especially if you’re repairing a pulled ground pad at the same
time. <br>
>No shorts and the ohm meter kicks down on each voltage at J20 =>
there’s <br>
>some sort of large new capacitance on all the lines. LEDs still light
and <br>
>nothing explodes I think I now have a fully complete Atlas
board!<br>
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Chris AE6VK<br><br>
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</a>I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the
same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a
few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time ...
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