Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Minty is heating up but will not charge

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I've just began soldering not long ago when I bought the minty boost, from what I see I did everything right, followed the instructions carefully but it won't work, someone help?

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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Post clear photos of the front and back of the Minty and we'll check it over. Did you do the voltage tests in the tutorial? What were the results?

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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Won't let me post pictures, bigger then 1 mib?

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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Resize them to about 800x600.

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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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The voltage readings were also completely random
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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Diode D1 and Capacitor C3 are both installed backwards. You will need to turn those around. Looks like a few cold solder joints there too. Have a look at our soldering tutorial and touch up any that look suspect.
http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-guid ... -soldering
http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-guid ... n-problems

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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Which ones are those exactly?

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The back-side photo is a little fuzzy. I have marked the ones with visible problems, but there may be more. Touch up these and any others that are not smooth & shiny and flowed well onto both the pin and the pad.
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These two components are installed backwards and need to be turned around.
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Re: Minty is heating up but will not charge

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Okay thanks, ill go get a desoldering iron and get to work on that

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