Solder Progress 11

Attempted to solder capacitor onto area with broken pad by soldering to the trace after scrapping the protection off
- Was able to scrape protection off, but was not able to get solder to stick to the exposed copper
- Ended up making the situation worse
The whole point of soldering myself was to:
- Save money
- To be accurately claim that I can solder surface mount devices
- The above two are no longer issues
**SOLUTION: Redesign the board
- Don't use components smaller than 0402, use 0603 if space permits
- Fix negative voltage regulator output and feedback mistake (would have to cut 2 traces and connect 2 traces...)
- Re-check every other circuit for mistakes
This works out as I can easily solder 0402 sized devices now, a lot of my 0201 components got damaged and have values that deviate greatly from the ideal value, so the filters were not gonna work properly anyway
I have all of the tools I need this time, should be able to finish soldering aspect within a week
I will spend the rest of this week and the weekend redesigning and working on the BOM, aim to order new board by Sunday or Monday
***Incorporate component availability into design - check if JLCPCB has component before selection, will use soldering
Will buy new IC's as well, large chance of damaging components with hot air rework station, do not wanna take the time and risk with a board with this many components

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