SecondHandPower
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- Dec 2, 2017
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Time for an update on building the #FCDS Discharge Modules (DM's). It took me a couple of weeks to get around to starting this phase of the project, but once I fixeda dedicated space for my soldering station and a place to put all the tiny parts, it was ON.
I spent a lot of time looking at the schematic on the web, and studying the pre-assembled example provided by Fercsa with my parts kit order.... here's how they look after 3 day's worth of project time spentsoldering componets and clipping leads.
I am using egg cartons to organize the parts. Once I learned the suggested order to install the components, I decided to put a single component on each one of the 30 PCB's to minimize the chance of putting the wrong component in the wrong hole.
I will have 32 of the DM's when done... these 30 plus the pre-assembled example plus the first one I tried to assemble. The photo on the right shows me staging5 boards to add a yellow capacitor.
I found amagnifying visor that works good to help me see what I am doing... in particular getting the soldering iron in the right place and applying the correct amountmount of solder. The photo on the right shows a redneck soldering draft fanI made from acomputer power supply cover. It really helps pull the fumes away from my face when I am in close.
An alligator clip on a flexible rod is helpful to hold the part in a specific direction while soldering.
... a little more than half way there now.
I spent a lot of time looking at the schematic on the web, and studying the pre-assembled example provided by Fercsa with my parts kit order.... here's how they look after 3 day's worth of project time spentsoldering componets and clipping leads.
I am using egg cartons to organize the parts. Once I learned the suggested order to install the components, I decided to put a single component on each one of the 30 PCB's to minimize the chance of putting the wrong component in the wrong hole.
I will have 32 of the DM's when done... these 30 plus the pre-assembled example plus the first one I tried to assemble. The photo on the right shows me staging5 boards to add a yellow capacitor.
I found amagnifying visor that works good to help me see what I am doing... in particular getting the soldering iron in the right place and applying the correct amountmount of solder. The photo on the right shows a redneck soldering draft fanI made from acomputer power supply cover. It really helps pull the fumes away from my face when I am in close.
An alligator clip on a flexible rod is helpful to hold the part in a specific direction while soldering.
... a little more than half way there now.