Hi there fellow people,
I was building an Aurora Sofle_v2 and I may have screwed things up. I melted one of the RGBs with the soldering iron and in the process of trying to remove it the solder pad was removed as well
After that I tried to "fix" it a handful of times, and now I believe that the connectors might be gone =(
Is there a way for me to salvage this RGB? (Or perhaps to link the previous one with the following one on the chain, so at least it works for the others)
I was thinking of connecting things using cables, is this an option?
Update: Bodge wiring worked! I got some spare cable pieces I had laying around and soldered it to the board The back doesn't look pretty, but at least it's lighting up (except the last RGB where I accidentally soldered two pins together, after this I'm not going through the troubles to fix it)
I admit that my soldering skills are fairly limited, and I have a very basic soldering iron (I don't know if I should upgrade to a better one, as I don't have any use for it besides this keyboard)
It's usually more an issue of technique than it is the tools. Does your iron have adjustable heat settings (they usually do)? Make sure you have that high enough. Additionally you need to hold the iron to the pads long enough for them to heat up and have the solder bond to them. If the pads aren't hot enough even if the solder melts it won't flow over the pad and make a good connection. Using flux is a must. Flux helps remove the layer of oxide and any foreign contaminants from the contacts allowing the solder to flow and bond easily as well.
The easiest way to tell if the pad is hot enough is the solder will flow across it instead of staying balled up.