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The best hacks usually take longer to perform than fixing them the correct way, and many times, cost more than fixing them the correct way, too 
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The idea of a field repair is to return the next time you collect with the right parts, and fix it right... now, how often that really happened...
2 months later
Quoted from jimster102:they soldered all the pins together game was full of this kind of stuff
On a DE PS, CN8 is a GI connector. Output I believe.
4 pins are supply, and 4 are return. The top 4 are tied together via trace, and the bottom 4 are tied together via trace. They often burn, and that repair you see is actually pretty typical.
1 year later
6 months later
Quoted from barakandl:Nope!
The 2n4401 transistor is installed backwards. They went as far as replacing the PIA before zip tying the relay shut.
I found it on Facebook in about 10 minutes. The clue to me was probably that I've started at a ton of these recently, and the offset solder pad on that transistor was facing the opposite direction as the row below it.
The Sys 3-7 driver has a few design errors that are annoying. For example, look at a modern PCB. All ICs have pin 1 facing the same direction if they are mounted North - South. And All ICs have pin 1 facing the same direction if they are mounted East-West.
On a Sys 3-7 driver board, that is NOT the case. Pin 1 is marked on the back of the board, but when the boards are filthy (and most of the ones that come to me ARE), it's not always perfectly clear!
1 week later
Quoted from vid1900:There are little adhesive dots that you use for circuit board repair when you need to stick down a wire.
And I think we have all been guilty of using a hot glue gun once in a while. Little dots of hot glue.
But that board is just crazy.
These are great...
http://www.circuitmedic.com/products/310-2100.shtml
That board isn't.
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