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Finally caught a bad solder joint that was driving me nuts for weeks
Spent 3 days chasing a intermittent fault on a King KTR 908 comm radio. Turns out the ground pin on the DB25 connector had a cold solder joint that looked perfect from the top. I only spotted it when I ran a continuity test while flexing the harness at the same time. Anyone else had a phantom fault that was just a bad connection hiding in plain sight?
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gonzalez.reese18d agoMost Upvoted
Flexing the harness while testing uncovered mine too.
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rileynelson18d ago
And that's exactly what happened to me too. I was just doing a routine check on the main cable before lunch, nothing crazy, and then I tugged on it a little bit near the connector and the whole thing popped loose from the housing. It was one of those moments where you just stand there staring at it like "you gotta be kidding me.
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