WEEK1 getting to know how to solder ; my supervisor taught me how to solder the components on the pcb chip using

Soldering Gun, then he assigned me to construct a 17 pcb chips from the given circuit diagram which is shown in figure 1, started by constructing a part of the circuit on the pcb chip, in the first day I managed to construct 2 resistors,2 diodes and 2 capacitors () on each set . In the second day,all the small parts were soldered then Mr.Ken taught how to solder components with small pins like both of U2 and U3. In the third day, managed to finish soldering whats left of U2 and U3 then Mr.Ken taught how to solder the big components with long legs like C1, C4, C6, C7,C10, R1, L1, and L2. In the last day, Mr.Ken taught how to solder the diode which is similar to the small resistor but the direction of the diodes matters which is indicated by a line on the front of the diode, this line must be on the same side as the line on the chip. He also showed me how to clean (its important to prevent short circuit which is caused by flux that might occur while soldering ) and test the circuit. Testing the circuit is done in two steps; firstly check for short circuit and then check the voltage which is supposed to be 12V at VI and 3.3 at VO in U3, if the test fails then troubleshooting has to be done on each component.

13-2 my supervisor assigned a new set of pcbs with a different circuit; 16 chips, started soldering the most sensitive components like the microchip PIC24FJ64 (IC2) and 25LC256-SN (IC3), after that the smallest components like (R5, R14, C3, C12.etc) have been soldered. Finally, the big components like (R1, L2, C1,C4) have been soldered.

In the 2nd day Mr.ken showed me how to solder three new components; Relay, gates and the MRF24j40MB. I did solder those components onto all the chips which took quite a time. Later on, MrKEN 25-3 I took the day off; my friends father passed away I had to send him to the airport. 26,27-3 Mr.Ken assigned us ; me and Fayez to prepare a set of 60 2G and 20 1G , we managed to solder 9 power switch . 28,29-3 sick, MC

3-4 the 19 Power switch set were tested and had 5 initial failure, spent the rest of the day troubleshooting managed to prepare 3 PCBs . 4-4 started soldering new 21 power switch set for the seremban project 5-4 took the day on leave to present to my it supervisor in his office 8-4 continued soldering the 21 set for the seremban project; tried to troubleshoot the two PCBs . Tested the 10 set and had to change the coding we are using to be able to hear the sound of the two relay sepratly as using the old coding the two relay sound will klash at the same time so I cannt be sure the the two relays are working We had another discussion about the inductor we use for L2 because we were out of stock of the and ken asked me to try to use th same inductor we use for L1 and test if we get the 3.3 and 12 V and it worked. But we had another problem. Casing

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