• SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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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.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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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: