Odo/Trip & Time date displays failing

[steamship]

Originally Posted by H-M3

I have read on few other sites about dry solder etc. Any tips welcome

Just as an aside, the mass production of PCBs was helped by the use of lead free solder as it had a lower melting point. The following video shows the solder bath in operation.

https://youtu.be/inHzaJIE7-4?t=86

A side effect of it is that they are more prone to becoming brittle and cracking over time. This is very evident in games machines like the PS4 and its counterparts. Not sure if the PCBs in the instrument clusters are soldered using this solder bath technique though.

[H-M3]

Wow Robots have taken over!
Thanks

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by steamship

Just as an aside, the mass production of PCBs was helped by the use of lead free solder as it had a lower melting point.

I though the main reason for driving lead out was because of pollution

[steamship]

Originally Posted by ainarssems

I though the main reason for driving lead out was because of pollution

There were also a couple of European directives that came into force in the early 2000's restricting the use of lead in consumer electronics (hence low lead solder and lower melting point) so that 'in a way' is helping reduce 'pollution'

[Conan_the_Librarian]

Hi Nick,
Who did you use in Yeovil to code in the replacement cluster on your 8 please. I need to get mine done.

Regards

Mike