drumsticksplinter
- Mar 28, 2010
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Hello,
I'm looking for a little advice in repairing a PCI card for a PC. The card in question is an industrial data acquisition card with 64 isolated digital outputs. Unfortunately due to my own fault i think i have blown one of the darlington transistor arrays as i was only using 1 output at the time and it has taken out 8 (which is also the amount of channels of the transistor array). My question is about actually replacing the IC. My soldering skill is usually very good, but I've never de-soldered / soldered a multi layer PCB before and I'm afraid i might destroy the card all together...... Could anybody please give me some pointers to minimize my chances of destroying a very expensive card completely.
Many Thanks in advance,
Adam
I'm looking for a little advice in repairing a PCI card for a PC. The card in question is an industrial data acquisition card with 64 isolated digital outputs. Unfortunately due to my own fault i think i have blown one of the darlington transistor arrays as i was only using 1 output at the time and it has taken out 8 (which is also the amount of channels of the transistor array). My question is about actually replacing the IC. My soldering skill is usually very good, but I've never de-soldered / soldered a multi layer PCB before and I'm afraid i might destroy the card all together...... Could anybody please give me some pointers to minimize my chances of destroying a very expensive card completely.
Many Thanks in advance,
Adam