family, had better soldering quality?
by hand — and I do not have a problem with that so long as it is done well. I only had three carts to look at but I found three areas where the person who was soldering components used excessive heat and discolored the areas near the solder joint. One was a scorch mark on a one-ohm “jumper” resistor; the other two looked almost like a torch or cigarette lighter burn on the ROM. I was shocked at the build quality of these carts; obviously done by cheap and poorly-trained, poorly-supervised workers from the looks of things. If some of the other family of carts looked like they’d been assembled by chimps, these carts were assembled by chimps on heavy doses of experimental medication! A few other examples of what I’m talking about… balls of solder that had splashed away from the solder joints were sticking to the board’s green conformal coating just waiting to come loose, fall into the system and short something out. One leg of one of the “one-ohm jumpers” was not soldered in at all on
