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2023.07.08 Harold remote repair:


This was brought to to me to repair following a "drop". The strong impact caused the radio board to separate
from the main board due to inertia. (it was only secured by the 18 lead pin-header) So it ripped most of the
header pins off the main board, and ripped the solder pads off the rest.

Several of the lost pads had no leads connecting them, but contact area had to be created for three of the
lost pads.

I have no way to test it, but it appears to be fixed. It uses a magnetic connection to a two-contact charge
port on the outside, but inside it links to the main board using a USB-micro connector, which was also a bit
bent up. I don't have a replacement for that so I just bent it back a bit and it'll probably be okay.

2023.07.08 11.39.44 radio and broken header	2023.07.08 11.39.50 radio and broken header	2023.07.08 12.36.32 header removed from radio	2023.07.08 12.36.42 header removed from radio	2023.07.08 12.37.02 main board cleaned	2023.07.08 12.37.12 main board cleaned
2023.07.08 13.31.36 main board cleaned	2023.07.08 13.36.26 header soldered to main board	2023.07.08 13.36.40 header soldered to main board	2023.07.08 13.49.50 radop soldered to header	2023.07.08 13.49.58 radop soldered to header	2023.07.08 13.51.12 usb micro port damaged
2023.07.08 13.51.28 usb micro port damaged	2023.07.08 13.59.34 main board reinstalled	2023.07.08 13.59.54 main board reinstalled	2023.07.09 15.19.16 reassembled	2023.07.09 15.20.00 magnetic charge port	2023.07.09 15.20.10 reassembled

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