[TriEmbed] APA102 repair

[Scott Hall]

At least with these, the front end lights up, and you can find the first
failure in the chain.  For the old Christmas lights the whole chain would
be out.

- sgh

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> I successfully repaired my APA102 matrix. I was able to unsolder an LED
> by cutting one off a good strip and running the iron along the backing
> until the LED fell off. It wasn't too hard to get the LED soldered on,
> and the strip was then fine.
>
> The way these things chain the signal, though, could potentially be a
> nightmare if more than one fails. Think old Christmas lights which had
> the bulbs in serial and you have to test each one.
>
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
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