• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Unlikely any heat from the slow cooker did anything. Solder melts at 370F. A slow cooker is never going to get anywhere close to that hot.

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      10 months ago

      Strange that all the bad points are in the lower half of the board, and that most points in that half are bad, then.

      e: could a malfunction make it heat beyond 370f?

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        10 months ago

        It’s most likely that it’s related to the original manufacturing. These will be machine wave-soldered, not hand soldered, and having quality vary across the board isn’t impossible if the setup/operators were less than ideal.

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          10 months ago

          Perhaps. It still seems odd to me that this board was mounted vertically inline with the heating element and the bad parts I identified line up with that, before I knew that was the case: