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Investigate Multiplexer #9

Closed naturesyouth closed 7 years ago

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Issue by JSpringett Wednesday Nov 23, 2016 at 14:22 GMT Originally opened as https://github.com/abersailbot/kitty-hardware/issues/9

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by jackwebb6 Wednesday Nov 23, 2016 at 15:27 GMT

Looks like someone went to town on soldering this, and soldered everything together onto a single track. Anyone know anything about this? Primarily, does it still work? img_20161123_152230

Also, link to product page, with some nice information on usage: https://www.pololu.com/product/721

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by Danyc0 Wednesday Nov 23, 2016 at 20:51 GMT

yea, the ground and power lines should be shorted together to give a common ground and power. It worked last time I saw it!

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by jackwebb6 Thursday Nov 24, 2016 at 13:32 GMT

I'll desolder all the pins and give it a test then!

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by Danyc0 Thursday Nov 24, 2016 at 13:36 GMT

I'd really suggest not doing that! Desoldering that would be virtually impossible. Just test it without taking of the veroboard.

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by jackwebb6 Thursday Nov 24, 2016 at 13:43 GMT

Argh, so much conflicting information! That's not a bad thing necessarily, though.

I forget who said it, but someone working on Kitty with us yesterday suggested we desoldered it so we could see if it was working, but that it would be very difficult to do.

I'll give it a test, then pawn the decision of desoldering off to someone more experienced, then create a separate issue to go from there. Probably leave this one going in case we need to go an alternative route.

That sounds like a better plan to me, at least.

naturesyouth commented 7 years ago

Comment by naturesyouth Thursday Nov 24, 2016 at 13:45 GMT

the soldering station in the dsl has a solder pump/iron attachment, if it still works it should make short work of desoldering the pins.