Re: Tempest Color Vectors

From: Kevin Moore <talon.k_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 08 2012 - 19:55:24 EST

Machine sockets wick solder up on the top side of the board very well.
Which also makes them a PITA to remove if needed. Plus they really like
nice clean straight legs on chips, where as you can get away with using
pulls on dual wipe.

Glad I could help you.

Kevin

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Rodney Massman <rmassman@hotmail.com> wrote:

> That’s it. That’s got it. It was that darn 74S289N at P9. Thank
> you. I’ve got a few on their way. $5.00 a piece – shew. I just didn’t
> like to work on a good board.
> I ran into trouble with the replacement socket on the good working board
> and had to pull it and put in another one. Apparently I didn’t get enough
> of the old solder
> off the IC’s legs and it lifted one leg of the new socket. In the process
> of removing it, it got a little hairy. Maybe I should be going to machine
> sockets from now on.
> Anyways – thanks for the help straightening out these colors. Never ran
> into that before. The scope and probe didn’t help at all in this case. At
> least I ‘felt’ I was reading them right.
>
> *From:* Kevin Moore <talon.k@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, December 08, 2012 6:52 PM
> *To:* vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> *Subject:* Re: VECTOR: Tempest Color Vectors
>
> That's why I suggested swapping the one from the known good board, to the
> unknown... I've ran across this problem twice, and both times it's been
> that Ram.
>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Rodney Massman <rmassman@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 74s289
>
>
>

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