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I hate the wire off Amazon.
I saw a vid a few days ago, some bloke got suss about his Chinese banana plug (or maybe they were alligator clip) leads, and found they had significantly higher resistance than expected. Soldering the crimped ends didn't help. Then he realised they may not actually be copper, and sure enough, they were ferrous, attracted to a magnet.
Copper-plated steel, tiny little strands of it. Maybe enshittification is what will bring down civilisation
Kimmo
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Not sure I’d like to present my work, but the soldering iron is good.
Having mapped and soldered up nearly 10 broken traces (going straight to the component legs), I hate the wire off Amazon. Must be some AliExpress shit.
Anyway.
I now have a 50% improvement in that project, in that I’ve gone from 1 of three reels spinning to 2 of 3. Continuity with multimeter checks out across all the bodges, but no idea where the next problem is in the PCB. Maybe a component is fubar.