Desoldering

Published on 2016-04-11 in Lodestar.

I tried to reflow the board, with extra flux added, to see if that would help. It didn’t, so I decided to try and recover the LEDs from the board… And I learned why they use temperature-controlled hot- plates for this:

Yes, that is melted plastic from one of the LEDs…

I guess that’s a failure… Good thing I have excellent ventilation in my kitchen.