I bought your Tv-b-Gone kit for the second time a few days ago and I
recieved it today. I began to assemble it and when I got to the part where
I tested it I placed two batteries in the battery holder and pushed the
button. Directly after, the whole kit began to heat up very rapidly and I
had to set it down right away. The kit began to smoke and began to melt the
plastic battery holder. I had to rapidly try to remove the batteries and
stop the melting process but I couldn't get the batteries out due to the
heat burning my thumb and index finger. I had no choice but to cut the
wires. I am now left with a kit that is unusable. I am extremely experienced
in assembling these types of kits and I rechecked all of my soldering and
cannot find a problem. I was hoping that this could be resolved by sending
out a new kit to me.
Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
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- chankster
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Take a nice picture of the top and bottom of your board.
- fozbo2010
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Same thing happend to me man
- Franklin97355
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Take a nice picture of the top and bottom of your board and post it here.
- fozbo2010
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Hey my email is this cam you please do it on there [email protected]
- Franklin97355
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Sorry, Take a nice picture of the top and bottom of your board and post it here. The picture has to be less than 1 meg (800x600 works) and a jpeg or png file. Use the Choose File button to add the file.
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
Could you get a more clear, straight on picture of the back please? Here is a Soldering Guide to look at for reference.
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- werebox3333
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
This may be your problem. On the bottom of your board, you seem to have the LED solder leads on the bottom touching each other. Do not let two solder joints touch each other. Try correcting that and tell me how it works then.
- ghpk
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
from what I can notice as a fellow user.
Solders at transistors seems shorted.
solder at LED is shorted.
solders near other end of ATTINY seems shorting to common -Ve rail.
over-all it looks like the DRY Solder is the prime cause of the issue.
seems either your soldering IRON is not giving enough heat to melt the solder properly, dirty solder bead, or you are too scared to put the needle/bead on
PCB/Parts and not giving enough time and heat required for a proper and good solder joint.
Personally your best bet is to use a proper soldering iron and using a di-soldering pump to remove the extra and dry solders.
re-solder the parts properly ( you can fix the solders without the need to fully extract the parts from PCB)
properly cut any long legs using cutter and then test the kit again.
above is my personal suggestion as a user,
for official one let Adafruit guys comment on it.
Solders at transistors seems shorted.
solder at LED is shorted.
solders near other end of ATTINY seems shorting to common -Ve rail.
over-all it looks like the DRY Solder is the prime cause of the issue.
seems either your soldering IRON is not giving enough heat to melt the solder properly, dirty solder bead, or you are too scared to put the needle/bead on
PCB/Parts and not giving enough time and heat required for a proper and good solder joint.
Personally your best bet is to use a proper soldering iron and using a di-soldering pump to remove the extra and dry solders.
re-solder the parts properly ( you can fix the solders without the need to fully extract the parts from PCB)
properly cut any long legs using cutter and then test the kit again.
above is my personal suggestion as a user,
for official one let Adafruit guys comment on it.
- werebox3333
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Re: Tv-b-gone Kit Smoking?
I agree, the solder looks dry.
What solder are you using? I would recommend Rosin Core with fast acting flux.
What solder are you using? I would recommend Rosin Core with fast acting flux.
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