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Re: Off season skills: Learn how to Solder
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Originally Posted by Jim Wilks View Post
Given that lead-free solder always has a higher melting temperature than lead solder, I can't see the logic of this statement.
That is true that the heat of the xbox/ps3 doesn't cause the solder joints to fail, but the misconfiguration of the BGA soldering machines which caused the lead free solder joints to be cold and fail early. Same issue as some Macbooks had with Nvida integrated GPUs a while ago.
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