Soldering to PCB traces?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Feb 24 12:28:57 2000

Dan,

  None of us have any way of knowing there is sealer over the traces.
You'll have to look for yourself. Scrape it with a sharp knife and see if
you get copper or a sealer. IMO it's not a good idea to solder the pin to
the trace, there's just too much leverage on a pin to expect it to hold.
I'd just solder a wire to the trace and solder the other end to the pin and
then plug the pin into it's mating socket and let it hang free. Be sure
and insulate everything.

  Joe


At 05:44 AM 2/24/00 -0800, you wrote:
>I have here a perfectly good SCSI device I'd like to use, it's just that
>the +12V pin in the power connector has broken off. Can I just solder
another
>pin right on the trace on the PCB, or is there some sealer over the traces?
>(Or anything else I should know about?)
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Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 12:28:57 GMT