9920 damage need fixin

[squeeforever]

Yea, shoot him a e-mail and see what he says.

[brijar]

Yeah, I've got a 9920 that the red programming jumper's mount has broken off. I tried soldering a couple of wires onto the circuit board where the jumper mounted, but as I don't have a very steady hand, it was rather weak and just broke off again. Then I tried soldering it on there, then putting 5 min epoxy over the joints to secure them, but now it has come off again. I sanded down the epoxy on the board to expose the spots again, but I'm not sure what to do right now. I definately can't afford a new ESC, and I don't really want to send it in to get it fixed. Is there any way to fix this that works good?

Thanx,
Brijar!!!

[BrianG]

Well, you can do this three ways; the right way, the quick way, and the proper way. The proper way would be to send it in. The quick way would be to simply bridge the two spots with solder (since that what the jumper does), but then you'll have to unsolder it again to program the ESC. The right way would be to remove the solder from the holes with a heated solder sucker (uses a vacuum to pull the solder out as it is molten) or solder wick to remove the solder from the holes, and then re-solder the jumper into the holes where it belongs.