Considering you're a novice then i'm going to say 7+ mate, its fiddly, its a pain in the arse and theres a possibility that you could knacker up the circuit board with excessive heat...
I've currently got the blue led's and want to change them to white.
Considering that I'm a novice at best when it comes to soldering and electrics (I can wire a plug ), how hard on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being "can do it blind folded with one arm behind your back") is it to do?
Am always up for trying something new, just don't want to break my dials!
Considering you're a novice then i'm going to say 7+ mate, its fiddly, its a pain in the arse and theres a possibility that you could knacker up the circuit board with excessive heat...
Ah, well the blue does look nice!
Pecky has a tutorial on his diagnostics.org.uk site,it shows how to dismantle clocks and which ones to change.
http://www.diagnostics.org.uk/2010/0...rument-clocks/
My mate done mine from a similar tutorial but tbh unless you have a steady hand ,some soldering experience and can determine which is the + and - end of the SMD i'd give it a miss.
i did the ones on my signum in a few hours, but i started by doing all the door switches and heater controls first to get to grips with it all. i was a total novice at soldering, and grabbed a gas soldering iron and got on with it. used it as a learning curve. if you have a multimeter, it might have a setting to determine the polarity of each SMD, making it easier to match up..
Or just mark the negative side of the SMDi did the ones on my signum in a few hours, but i started by doing all the door switches and heater controls first to get to grips with it all. i was a total novice at soldering, and grabbed a gas soldering iron and got on with it. used it as a learning curve. if you have a multimeter, it might have a setting to determine the polarity of each SMD, making it easier to match up..
well yes, thats what i did after testing them all first to figure it out, then matched up the notch on them..
The notch or the green 'tab' is -
Theres a triangular shape cut out of the end of a PLCC2 which helps to distiniguish positive from negative...
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