[phil]

Ah… I was looking at the current handling capabilities (hence the overkill comment) and hadn’t considered the voltage drop issue.  Now it makes perfect sense how you arrived at that part and what I need to look for.

[phil]

Ha! So this has already been done.  I hadn’t even thought about using zip ties.  That could work and there are some nice black ones in the kit.  If a future board rev helped in any way make the battery box space more easily usable for prototyping/daughterboards I’m sure some folks would greatly appreciate it.

[phil]

Thanks for the info and link (excellent write-up)… I figured the 1k’s would probably keep things safe but just wanted to be sure.

[phil]

dnewman: it was 91% and I used rosin core solder.  My mistake (aside from attempting to clean it at all) may have been rinsing with water as opposed to wiping clean.  I was assuming that the alcohol was more completely dissolving the flux as opposed to just smearing it around.

EvilMadScience probably deserves some of the blame for making a PCB that I wanted to keep pretty :-)

[phil]

With a fresh pair of eyes, it looks like that’s exactly what happened: the finish is still there under a gross layer of gunk.  I assume that’s what also dulled to solder joints so glad to hear that I only made a mess and didn’t do any damage.

No biggie on the jumper (the docs *show* the right jumper and with S3 included in the kit probably very few people actually use it), just thought you’d want to know.

I’m quite pleased with the kit: very well done and high quality.  Looking forward to having fun playing with it.

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