Last night, I successfully replaced the LED (broken legs) in our one-and-only plipper with the one robbed from a redundant Sony DVR remote control.
Full How-To on my personal site - hope it helps someone one day.
Xantia Plipper Repair - replacing the IR LED
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Old-Guy
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Xantia Plipper Repair - replacing the IR LED
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2011 Grand C4 Picasso VTR+ 1.6HDi in Kyanos Blue
1995 Xantia Estate SX 1.9TD in Vert Vega "The Green Lady" - after 11 years now owned by XanTom
1998 Xantia 2.1 VXD Estate in Mauritius Blue - R.I.P. (terminal tin-worm)
1995 Xantia Estate SX 1.9TD in Vert Vega "The Green Lady" - after 11 years now owned by XanTom
1998 Xantia 2.1 VXD Estate in Mauritius Blue - R.I.P. (terminal tin-worm)
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Congratulations on the successful repair.
It's quite common for a solder repair over a break in a component leg or a PCB track to fracture again. Solder is not very strong in that respect. The secret is to add in a piece of very fine (copper) wire such as one strand from a stranded cable, so that it bridges the crack. Cover the whole lot in solder and make sure that the wire is soldered to a few mm out from the crack itself. The wire makes the repair last a lot longer.
Paul
It's quite common for a solder repair over a break in a component leg or a PCB track to fracture again. Solder is not very strong in that respect. The secret is to add in a piece of very fine (copper) wire such as one strand from a stranded cable, so that it bridges the crack. Cover the whole lot in solder and make sure that the wire is soldered to a few mm out from the crack itself. The wire makes the repair last a lot longer.
Paul