First post, by Doornkaat
Hey, everyone! 😀
I just noticed my AOpen AP5T Rev. 3.5 has a weird spot that looks a bit like a homemade rework but then again it's pretty clean so I don't know what to make of it.
I googled for pictures of the board and found that Rev. 3.1 has a resistor at R400 while my Rev. 3.5 has this hand soldered looking solder bridge and an IC at U31 where my Rev. 3.5 has only got empty pads.
From an angle the bridge looks like it there's a very thin piece of metal underneath all that solder too. There's also a bit of flux residue underneath the solder bridge that seems to have spilled onto the pads of U31.
Otherwise the revisions look very similar.
Now I'm wondering wether this is a factory rework or if some previous owner just removed the IC and bridged R400.
Does anyone have another Rev. 3.5 board to compare?
Thank you for any feedback! 👍
