Strife,

Thanks for the reply. I just got done a little bit ago and currently the clock is working great. I believe that I had one of 2 things happen - a bad capacitor from RS, or I did get things too hot and shorted out some of the trace lines with too much solder. I think I ended up connecting a few lines that I shouldn't have...with excess solder. I went back to RS and bought 2 new capacitors and installed them, so I think I had one bad capacitor.

I know this - I definitely got the board too hot and did lift some of the solder lines from the board! I tried to fix them as best I could and on my last repair attempt, I clearly had a broken solder line. As best as I could, I got the line connected with some new solder and currently the clock has been keeping time for the last 90 minutes or so. I had trouble with the simplest things - like cutting off the excess capacitor wires after soldering - this caused a line to break and I had to do some more soldering...

I did figure out how to check the resistance/continuity of the circuit board lines with my analog meter. I think everything is put back together pretty solid, but I am going to look for another clock! Do you think using too much heat and lifting some of the trace lines is going to cause me trouble down the road?

ryan

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