Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
#bug_report
Hi Brain.
All that you say makes sense. I shall have to get a small tip soldering
iron, kapton tape,
narrow braid, a smaller aperture nozzle for my heatgun, etc, etc.
wrote:
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
#bug_report
I know this is obvious, but going to say it anyway. A good soldering station should have a .2mm needle point tip. I have worked on my HF radio and needed to remove some diodes that were about the size
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Brian Donaldson
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Hi Gyula. that makes sense.
As regards heatguns, I have a good one, but my
assumption is one would need to get or make a nozzle that concentrates the
heat in a relatively small spot, like the
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Stefan,
When you use hot air and cover a lot of small parts, there will still be some you can¡¯t cover. They are too close to iC, for example.
These need to be taken out, set aside, and then put back
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Gyula Molnar
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Ah, thanks Eric,
I did see that PSEM said the PE4302 is considered obsolete and the
suggested
replacement is the PE4312, but I guess that is for new designs.
As regards C36, how do you hold it in
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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C36=(0402 size) 1uF
Attenuator = PE4302. Can be found on eBay, 10pcs for 8$
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For more info on the tinySA go to https://tinysa.org/wiki/
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: tinysa
Yes, if you have an attenuator to reduce the signal a bit (10dB or 20dB)? that would work.
Put the nanoVNA in CW mode on 280MHz (anywhere between 240 and 300MHz) and measure the output from port 1
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Erik Kaashoek
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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With the help of the Forum I was able to watch and (sort of) understand the video.
Anyway, I bypassed the attenuator and the Tiny does work again, obviously sans attenuation. I also
seemed to have
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Yes, it can. That is another skill level. But that's how I have done legless parts and the one BGA. Haven't done as much of it lately for various reasons. It was all much easier when we were allowed
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Jim Shorney
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Thanks Jim!
To keep nearby parts from blowing away you can cover them with Kapton tape
or a heat shield improvised from aluminum foil.
I would not have thought of using a heatgun. Can this be used
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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auto-generated. Then return to subtitles, and select auto-translate to
English or German or whatever your heart desires.
The help that is available on this forum is exceptional! Thanks Robin!
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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"hwalker" <herbwalker2476@...> wrote:
I've used a Black&Decker paint stripper to remove soldered 486DX ceramic through hole CPU chips with no damage or lost parts. It's a fine art. :)
Very
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Jim Shorney
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Stefan,
on Youtube, go to controls, switch on subtitles, select Portuguese, auto-generated. Then return to subtitles, and select auto-translate to English or German or whatever your heart
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G8DQX list
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Re: tinysa
I'm confused on the High port calibration when no signal generator is available. I understand that the idea is to measure a good clear signal within the 240-240MHz range on the LOW port, then feed
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Steve Johnson
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Jim,
I'm not sure if the word "gentle" and a heat gun the size of the one shown in the YouTube video belong in the same sentence :)
I wonder how Erik replaces smd components with multiple pin counts
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hwalker
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Gentle use of a heat gun works well.
https://youtu.be/ekZkCjOcCKY
You don't need that much power. I have often used the classic Ungar 6966. To keep nearby parts from blowing away you can cover them
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Jim Shorney
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Hi Herb,
I've been pretty spoilt with my HP and Tektronix scopes, they are pretty
hardy!
I've blown up a NanoVNA and this TinySA, testing my Icom-IC745 HF radio
which has
frequency stability
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stefan baartman
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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My HP has that thoughtfully added in the front panel artwork. I guess they say that often enough they thought it necessary. Even so I try to stay well below that limit.
73
-Jim
NU0C
"hwalker"
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Jim Shorney
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Re: My TinySA appears to be bricked.
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Stefan,
Because the tinySA is so inexpensive its easy to overlook the maximum power and dc input specifications.? When a spectrum analyzer is >$500 then the maximum input specification is usually the
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hwalker
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Debian 10 tinySA-saver install errors
My attempt to install the tinySA-saver on Debian 10 ends with following error:
martin@martin:~/tinysa-saver$ python3.7 -m pip install .
Processing /home/martin/tinysa-saver
Collecting PyQt5 (from
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Martin Kratoska, OK1RR
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