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The Circuit Assembly Tools Giveaway!

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Welcome to the elf14 element14 Community!

 

It's the season of gift-giving, so the element14 Community has prepared the Best Circuit Assembly Tools Bundle to giveaway!

 

The below kit will be awarded to the element14 members that add a comment and let us know:

 

What was your best electronics fix or repair?

What 'thing' did you figure out in a project or design, or repair that saved the day?

Tell us your good stories, or if you really don't have any, your best recovered disasters!

 

Contest Opens: 27th November 2020

Contest Closes: 30th December 2020

Winners Announced: After 11th January 2021

 

Register to Enter Now!

 

What We Gave Away!

 

Product NameManufacturerQuantityBuy KitBuy Kit
Wire Kit, Jumper, Male to Male, Solderless, 100 mm - 250 mm, 75 PieceMCM1Buy NowBuy Now
Wire Kit, Jumper, Copper, 0.6 mm Diameter, 350 PieceMCM1Buy NowBuy Now
Anti Static Wrist Strap, Adjustable, 6ft Cord, Blue, Alligator ClipMulticomp1Buy NowBuy Now
Single Channel Soldering Rework Station, 230V, 150WMulticomp Pro1Buy NowBuy Now
Solder Paste Squeege, Synthetic No Clean, PVCChip Quik1Buy NowBuy Now
Solder Paste, Synthetic No Clean, 183 °C, 63, 37 Sn, Pb, 15GChip Quik1Buy NowBuy Now
Solder Flux, Rosin, Soldering, Pen Applicator, 10 ml, 9.3 gMulticomp1Buy NowBuy Now

 

Product NameManufacturerQuantity
element14 presents Prototyping BreadBoardn/a1

 

Congratulations to the Winner!

 

has been chosen, and they have 7 days to respond to the message sent to them!

 

If you do not respond within 7 days, I will have to choose another winner!

 

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  • At this point I've had a wide range of repairs that saved either my rear or someone elses but the one that stands out the most in my memory was during a blizzard probably 10 years ago or more. My wife had a 99 grand caravan awd and went shopping with my 3 toddler boys at the time. The van had a random problem of a no start that the previous owner neglected to mention. My wife went inside the store for about 20 min. When she came out the van wouldn't start and the security system was setting itself. So I left work early to go see what was going on. I messed around in a foot of snow for an hour or so. I got so angry I hit the dashboard and bam! all the lights on the cluster started going bonkers. Being an auto mechanic at the time I had some tools with me so I took the cluster out of the dashboard (this was before any service bulletins for this issue on the vehicle came out). Where the main power plug went into the cluster i found a cracked solder joint on the circuit board that was randomly loosing connection. I dont have a clue how i found it but i did!! When I got back to the shop I uploaded the issue to alldata and another program we had at the time then found out it was a huge problem that model year but no one had the fix for it until I threw it up. Probably not my best story but I was very proud of myself that day for saving my family!!

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  • At this point I've had a wide range of repairs that saved either my rear or someone elses but the one that stands out the most in my memory was during a blizzard probably 10 years ago or more. My wife had a 99 grand caravan awd and went shopping with my 3 toddler boys at the time. The van had a random problem of a no start that the previous owner neglected to mention. My wife went inside the store for about 20 min. When she came out the van wouldn't start and the security system was setting itself. So I left work early to go see what was going on. I messed around in a foot of snow for an hour or so. I got so angry I hit the dashboard and bam! all the lights on the cluster started going bonkers. Being an auto mechanic at the time I had some tools with me so I took the cluster out of the dashboard (this was before any service bulletins for this issue on the vehicle came out). Where the main power plug went into the cluster i found a cracked solder joint on the circuit board that was randomly loosing connection. I dont have a clue how i found it but i did!! When I got back to the shop I uploaded the issue to alldata and another program we had at the time then found out it was a huge problem that model year but no one had the fix for it until I threw it up. Probably not my best story but I was very proud of myself that day for saving my family!!

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