Killed a PCB with a bad solder joint last night

I was working on a new 65% build around 11 PM, trying to finish the USB-C port replacement. Got the old one off clean, soldered the new one in, and when I plugged it in, nothing. No lights, no connection. After an hour of poking around with a multimeter, I found a tiny solder bridge on one of the controller pins I must have missed. Cleaned it up with some wick, and now it works fine. Just frustrating how one little mistake can eat up your whole evening. Anyone else ruined a board late at night and had to debug it the next morning?

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laura_knight547d ago

That whole "one little mistake eating up your whole evening" hits hard. Did you use any magnification while you were soldering that controller pin? I've found that with USB-C stuff especially, even a tiny blob I couldn't see with my naked eye was enough to short something out and waste hours of my time.

troy_gibson437d ago

Oh man, I grabbed a cheap headband magnifier from Amazon and it totally saved my bacon on a similar USB-C repair.