broken pin on blu ray diode

[jayhawker08]

i dun went and broked off da violet pin on my blu ray yeah, so i after a few hours of micro soldering i finally got my two pins soldered and fired it up... lovely blu ray beams for about 5 min :-[ and then the violet anode pin snapped off flush with the base. any suggestions?

 

[WarezWally]

Its gone, move on and buy another :'(

 

[BlueFusion]

There are some people who have sucessfully resoldered broken pins, though if simply soldering to the pins in the first place was hard, I doubt that you can resolder a broken one.

 

[jayhawker08]

Its gone, move on and buy another :'(

thats what i figured, but before i did i thought it couldn't hurt to ask

There are some people who have sucessfully resoldered broken pins, though if simply soldering to the pins in the first place was hard, I doubt that you can resolder a broken one.

i tried something similar, and i think it disconnected and reconnected, frying the diode with the charged cap. It still lights, but is dim. is this the LED effect?

 

[chimo]

See post #13 in the thread below.

http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1189268933/all-0

For the future, consider a method for removing the stress from the pins (smaller, more flexible wire, anchor the wire, and leave the flexible circuit board on the LD).

 

[jayhawker08]

chimo, that thread was very helpful. i think i've given up on this one and will just have to buy another soon, but i will definitely use some of those ideas (especially anchoring the pins with cement). thanks

 

[chimo]

No problem. This link shows how I removed the stress from the pins. Cheers,

http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1194303946

chimo, that thread was very helpful. i think i've given up on this one and will just have to buy another soon, but i will definitely use some of those ideas (especially anchoring the pins with cement). thanks