Be VERY careful assembling beta boards ... I ruined mine
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 8:08 pm
Howdy folks,
I received my beta board yesterday and it comes as two parts. A small module (similar to the ESP-12) and a mounting board. The module pin spacings are incredibly close together. While soldering the module to the mounting board, I managed to bridge two pads together (twice ... in two different locations). I am unable to recover from this having tried a solder sucker and an exacto knife, I seem to be just making things worse.
I suspect that someone in the electronic engineering profession may be used to such tiny assembly, but unfortunately I'm a software guy with bad eye sight and shaky hands ...
So ... let my misfortune be a warning to others ... be very, very careful. I thought I was ... but obviously I needed more skills than I possessed. My justification for the ESP32 was to port my book on ESP8266 to ESP32 and since I spoiled my ESP32, I think I'll be waiting for the general availability of the ESP32 devices before attempting that task.
I received my beta board yesterday and it comes as two parts. A small module (similar to the ESP-12) and a mounting board. The module pin spacings are incredibly close together. While soldering the module to the mounting board, I managed to bridge two pads together (twice ... in two different locations). I am unable to recover from this having tried a solder sucker and an exacto knife, I seem to be just making things worse.
I suspect that someone in the electronic engineering profession may be used to such tiny assembly, but unfortunately I'm a software guy with bad eye sight and shaky hands ...
So ... let my misfortune be a warning to others ... be very, very careful. I thought I was ... but obviously I needed more skills than I possessed. My justification for the ESP32 was to port my book on ESP8266 to ESP32 and since I spoiled my ESP32, I think I'll be waiting for the general availability of the ESP32 devices before attempting that task.