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HT1250 Repair Question

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medic712

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I am trying to replace the battery connector to the main board of my ht1250...can anyone in the group give me a step by step on the proper way to do this please. Thanks
 

CommJunkie

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Have you tried the board on batlabs? The people there are pretty savvy when it comes to that stuff.
 

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I can't say for certain, but I am betting that a hot-air reflow station or a soldering iron (better than Radio Shack's best) are required along with ESD precautions. The service manual does not go into detail on how to remove and install the battery contact module, so I imagine that it is a pretty straight forward operation.

I would only recommend that you do this if you are confident enough in your abilities and have proper equipment to carry out this task, otherwise it would be wise to send it to someone who can.
 

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Been there done that. It is a booger. If you send one back they just replace the board. But thats abouut all they do now anyways. It can be done but its not easy at all. It takes a lot of heat and is really hard to do with out screwing up the new part.
 

spanz

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I do them with a hot air gun, it's a bit fiddly to do but being careful with the heat you can heat one at a time (just about) and take them off and reflow some replacement contacts in the same way, adding a little solder and flux to reflow. Careful refitting as the heatgun can blow them off just again.

The older lighter green coloured leaded solder boards are much easier to do these repairs than the leadfree blue (-pb) boards
 
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