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Bricked my WP-34S
08-31-2014, 08:34 AM
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RE: Bricked my WP-34S
Well, it's been 8 months since the last posting on this topic so I figured I owed everyone a denouement (to use the literary term) or conclusion (for the non-literary snobs :-)

Paul Dale kindly offered me to re-flash my WP-34S if I sent it to him. I did, and he promptly returned it with a nice note saying (I'm summarising here) that it didn't seem to work and he suspected it was a hardware problem. I promptly put it back in the too-hard basket.

This weekend, finally, I decided to take a new look at it and I discovered that the connection between pin 6 on Harald's board and the top of C21 was a dry joint (in fact, had become loose). I quick resoldered it, and everything worked like a charm.

Lessons learned:

1. Proximity in time (problem occurred immediately after an upgrade) doesn't mean anything (in this case, it was a red herring);
2. Paul Dale was right.
3. My soldering is crap. Sigh.

Thanks to all.
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Bricked my WP-34S - andrewtune - 03-02-2014, 05:12 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - walter b - 03-02-2014, 09:49 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Jonathan Cameron - 03-02-2014, 10:01 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Didier Lachieze - 03-02-2014, 10:08 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Paul Dale - 03-02-2014, 11:01 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - andrewtune - 03-03-2014, 10:34 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - RMollov - 03-05-2014, 09:07 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - andrewtune - 03-06-2014, 02:07 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - walter b - 03-06-2014, 08:54 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - andrewtune - 03-22-2014, 07:50 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Harald - 03-22-2014, 08:28 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Paul Dale - 03-22-2014, 11:52 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - andrewtune - 08-31-2014 08:34 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Paul Dale - 08-31-2014, 09:44 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - mpechner - 10-22-2016, 04:45 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Nigel (UK) - 10-22-2016, 11:12 AM
RE: Bricked my WP-34S - Otto55 - 11-05-2016, 10:33 PM



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