Brewtroller Menu Problem
I've been using a brewtroller 4.0 Pro board for a year or so now and its been fantastic. I've had it mounted within a water proof Stainless steel box that I got off a mate which was great. About two months a go I noticed that my menus wouldn't preceed and it'll go back and fourth even if I turn the encoder wheel around one direction, As you could imagine this annoyed me greatly and worse it happend during a brew. Youtube video of my brewtroller playing up (skip to 40sec)
After playing around with my limited knowedge of electronics I jumped on freenode IRC server and talked directly to the brewtroller guys in #brewtroller. I should have done this amonth ago because an hour or two later my brewtroller board was fixed and the software compiling errors had be identified and updated.
So what did they get me to do? Well first I had to check the encoder plug and see if 5v was coming out the pins. I couldn't do this because my multimeter was out of batteries so I just reflowed the Encoder legs. This didn't fix my problem.
Back to IRC channel I go...... jcdillin said to check the IC3 legs, Once I found this little bugger I thought this should be fun, Its 12:30am and I don't have a thin soldering iron. After playing around a bit and lightly touching each leg to hopfully heat it up enough to flow it without making the legs touch/solder each other I thought I'd give it a test run. Connected it up and away we go, Now a fully functioning brewtroller board again.
Below is a picture of the brewtroller 4.0 board and the IC3 chip I reflowed.
Hope this helps someone.
After playing around with my limited knowedge of electronics I jumped on freenode IRC server and talked directly to the brewtroller guys in #brewtroller. I should have done this amonth ago because an hour or two later my brewtroller board was fixed and the software compiling errors had be identified and updated.
So what did they get me to do? Well first I had to check the encoder plug and see if 5v was coming out the pins. I couldn't do this because my multimeter was out of batteries so I just reflowed the Encoder legs. This didn't fix my problem.
Back to IRC channel I go...... jcdillin said to check the IC3 legs, Once I found this little bugger I thought this should be fun, Its 12:30am and I don't have a thin soldering iron. After playing around a bit and lightly touching each leg to hopfully heat it up enough to flow it without making the legs touch/solder each other I thought I'd give it a test run. Connected it up and away we go, Now a fully functioning brewtroller board again.
Below is a picture of the brewtroller 4.0 board and the IC3 chip I reflowed.
Hope this helps someone.
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