After fighting with bad traces on my 1340 for abt one week and looking
at each resistor, coil, cap. and IC for a grounding problem....I found
it!.........I now have the board trace pattern in my long term memory!
Guess what, not my problem......Tentec has a board problem on my unit
which is now 80% complete. I did inspect the board but somehow missed
one small section on the lower left corner of the pc board. The top of
the board has etched circles around each hole and in the defective
section the top copper missed the etch treatment which means every
resistor, cap. or IC get grounded....like right now! Makes for rather
high current in that area..!!
Question is can this be fixed, can I somehow router around about a dozen
holes and not make a mess of my board? I know TT will take this
board/kit back and replace it but what about my 20 hours of assembly
time. Geeeeeeeeee!
Anyone have this as a problem and found an easy fix please give me an
email back.
Gary/N8AYY
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