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LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Oh, that makes more sense. The heat from the malfunctioning cooker may have resoldered these points badly.

I was curious how like half the points were bad, and that explains it.

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lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’d be about right. There’s insulation inbetween.

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ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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- LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.
  
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  - SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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    LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨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:
    
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