FIXED - Conductor MP3 board

[rrowan]

Hey Guys,

I have the conductor Totally working now. Music plays, lights flashing (manual play)

Here is what I did. I worked on it until about 1:30am to get it going
1 - Resolder all of the joints on the Conductor and cleaned the CF solder pads.
2 - While desoldering the RTC I created a bridge that I also had to fix 
3 - Reflow the solder on the EtherDongle header pins that the conductor plugs into (which fixed the audio problem)
4 - Tested everything since it was working Celebrate with some cookies and ice tea
5 - Decided to mount the EtherDongle/Conductor into the case
6 - Drilled out the holes and used a blade to clean it up.
7 - Mounted the unit to the case
8 - Cleaned the mess I made
9 - Answered a few posts in the forum
10 - Decided to go to bed since its now 3am

Today
I went to Home Depot and brought more wood, PVC, plastic deer barrier
Finish building the new stable for the Nativity scene (since the old one fell apart last year)

Now I need to rebuild the roof lights display by mounting the lights to the deer barrier (should be "fun")
Hoping by Monday to start putting the lights on the roof while the weather is nice.

Rick R.

[rdebolt]

Glad to hear that! Good Effort! 

[dcwehw99]

Great to hear all is working!

Denny

[rrowan]

thanks rdebolt and denny

I forgot to mention that from all of the eye strain (looking for solder bridges, etc)
I been having a hard time seeing all day 

at least its done and they are feeling a bit better after the wife put drops in my eyes

Rick R.

[rdebolt]

thanks rdebolt and denny

I forgot to mention that from all of the eye strain (looking for solder bridges, etc)
I been having a hard time seeing all day 

at least its done and they are feeling a bit better after the wife put drops in my eyes

Rick R.

Sounds like a good nights sleep should priority tonight!

[kjam22]

So just to be clear, I keep getting a not connected issue with my conductor and my etherdongle works fine when flashed with pixelnet - can this be an issue with the cf?  I had most pins not soldered and I tried to fix it but I may still have some problems there.

I am going to try cleaning up the connections with some braid and I am going to try it again

[tbone321]

You do have a card in the slot with the needed files on it, right?  If not then you get the not connected message.

[kjam22]

I do have a card with the required files in the slot but I still get the not connected error.  I am going to rework the pins on the cf slot