> Being concentrated heating points the terminals are usually where fires get > started when they are dissipating too much heat. 40 watts is about what the > average soldering iron provides (doing soldering jobs in ham rigs), so you > could conceivably desolder a poorly done terminal if it has as little as 0.1 > Oh > m > resistance. >
This is, in fact, a known problem on some HP laptops; the power connectors desolder themselves at the PC board. I've fixed several. 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
