On Oct 10, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Ike Zimbel wrote:
I would just add to this that in my experience with the Series II's that I have worked on, many of the physically larger contacts appear to have questionable soldering. This would apply mainly to the pots and male Molex headers. My read on this is that the soldering irons that were used to manufacture the boards were a bit on the small side. This would have made them okay for soldering resistors, caps, IC sockets etc. but not so good for the big stuff.
I totally agree, but I attribute this to a single sided PCB, which cannot have plated through holes. A single layer of copper laminate is not going to be very strong (the glue strength is it...) compared to a copper pad on each side and a plated through hole, probably filled with solder, to connect them.
So... soldering quality IMHO is not a problem, it's the mechanical design of the board.
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