I spent the bulk of last night re-working the Conductor shown in my pic (above) as completed.
It had about 40 pins not soldered.
I used a loupe(8x), a very intense light and a probe to try and move the pins - there were plenty.
Using the loupe and light, I used a 0.02 tip I had for the soldering iron and touched those pins found loose. Most seemed to flow and take hold. After going through the pins, I re-checked and found a couple still loose and re-touched them. After 4 rounds of soldering and checking with the probe, I had no loose pins - yea! (I should have been a surgeon with hands so steady)
I also took the time to re-work my second conductor which had about 15 unsoldered pins.
I took my newly re-worked conductor upstairs for its big debut ...
Same result - can't recognize the Conductor(The CF card definitely has the required files on it 1 sequence, 1 mp3, 1 show, 1 password file, and the playlist file). My router intermittently tries to connect to no avail.
At lunch today, I said, let me try one more thing. With the spacers in place, I noticed there is a bit of a gap at the main connection and at the power header - like 1/16". I took out the spacer and tried with it flush to the connectors - nuttin'.
Not willing to accept defeat just yet, I went to the garage and very carefully soldered/assembled my second Conductor, since it had been re-worked the previous evening and was re-probed prior to my lunchtime assembly.
Pulled the non-working Conductor off the Etherdongle and put the new one in place. Went upstairs to see how nicely this one would work.
Network cable in, power on ... router port 2 lit ... then unlit, then lit, then unlit. Recycle power to router, Conductor, ad infinitum - Nuttin' again.
Earlier in the the day as I drove to work this morning, I thought to myself - I'd just like something that worked right the first time.
Hi, My name is John and I'm the proud owner of two inop Conductors - just gotta figure out what to do next to get the li'l SOBs to work.