Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Extruder Controller Board part2

Well, I finished the board. Boy, I suck at soldering. I got it done.

Soldering is very Zen. It requires patiences, focus, determination... Those are skills that are developed.

Well I guess I am developing them. This time, not once did I want to destroy the PCB. Usually, I envision myself just beating the stuffing out of the poor PCB. Before that...

I am going to give it the once over and take some pics. I have concerns about those capacitors.

Well, during the final check I found several components that were not soldered. While heating it up again I moved the capacitors. I finally got the capacitors soldered. But now, all the plastic parts have this ergonomically spongy shape.

The capacitors are solid. I can lift the board with each of them.

Here are some pictures of the final product. Looks better every time I look a it.





Yeah, its all done.

This is a well thought out PCB. I want to thank the people who made this board.

Next I will build the motherboard.

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