/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2036092
>whatever solder is holding the heavy components like inductors, transformers, capacitors, etc. might have cracked
You were close. It was this inductor, provides Vcc to all the other chips. It wasn't a cracked solder joint, one of the wires under the encap actually failed. Was intermittent when I measured it, I got it back into whack just by heating the leads until, I assume, the solder under the encap reflowed.
It's disappointing, though, because I know it's going to fail again. It's gotta be hanging on by a thread.
Must have got knocked while I was moving it around.

Now I've got to decide, do I desolder it from the board again and try to measure its inductance so I can find a replacement? Another thermal shock like that might kill it forever.
I wonder if I could measure it in circuit.