Hi there fellow people,
I was building an Aurora Sofle_v2 and I may have screwed things up. I melted one of the RGBs with the soldering iron and in the process of trying to remove it the solder pad was removed as well
After that I tried to "fix" it a handful of times, and now I believe that the connectors might be gone =(
Is there a way for me to salvage this RGB? (Or perhaps to link the previous one with the following one on the chain, so at least it works for the others)
I was thinking of connecting things using cables, is this an option?
Update: Bodge wiring worked! I got some spare cable pieces I had laying around and soldered it to the board The back doesn't look pretty, but at least it's lighting up (except the last RGB where I accidentally soldered two pins together, after this I'm not going through the troubles to fix it)
Conceivably it should work, but I'm afraid this one got away from you a little bit, and I can't quite tell where the traces would need to go to bridge them with wire. Are you using an open source PCB where you could examine the schematic.
Not judging, by the way. Half the reason I build my own boards is because of how annoyed I got with myself after failing to repair the spacebar on an FL-Esports 1800 and eventually lifting a pad. That board ended up supplying hotswap sockets to two others and was eventually re-wired to see if I would could do a board that big and if I might like red switches. For the record, "Yes I could," and "No I don't." I still have cold joints sometimes, but I generally spot them before I declare a project done.
Someone in !mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev suggested a bodge wire, that's what I'll look into when I have more time (instead of relying on PCB traces) Given how much I already damaged the board (as seen in the picture), I hope this will be a safer method