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Re: Disassembling a remote control (and still have it working ;-)



I've done this in the past.

What is solder onto the PCB tracks.
follow the track away from the carbon pad and then scratch the green solder
resist off, tin the track and then solder onto that.

Clive




----- Original Message -----
From: "egelbeertje" <r_d_k@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:03 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Disassembling a remote control (and still have it working
;-)


> Hi,
>
> I would like to open up a standard remote control and put some
"Heavy
> Duty Usage" push buttons to replace the Volume Up/Down ones.
> The whole thing will then be reboxed and hidden so aesthetics no
> problem.
>
> Main question - how can I attach the wires (from the external push
> buttons) to the flaky carbon layered grid on the remote pcb. Guess
> soldering won't work too well on carbon so glueing may be an option -
> but what glue and wires to use etc..
>
> All thoughts welcome.
>
> rgds Rob.
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