Man I just threw the mother of all tantrums. Snapped the USB port off of my Duet.
Is this repairable? See pictures attached.
Man I just threw the mother of all tantrums. Snapped the USB port off of my Duet.
Is this repairable? See pictures attached.
Looks like you ripped the pads/traces off the board. Not really repairable.
That is repairable, but with extreme difficulty, since you ripped the pads off.
I've repaired a similarly damaged connector - basically, you get a USB cable, cut the end off, and solder the wires to the appropriate little scraps of copper. you'll probably need to scrap off some solder mask. Once this is soldered, you need to hot-glue the cable down to the board, because otherwise the flexing of the cable will break it the first time you try to use it.
Definitely a high-skill repair job (not something you'll be successful at if you're not already good at soldering), and the resulting repaired board will be very fragile. My repaired board eventually failed at the same spot, even in a stationary installation
Be very careful with mini and particularly microusb connectors on PCBs. They are very easy to rip off the board, particularly the cheap ones. They're sort of designed with the expectation that there will be a case around them so they won't bear the brunt of any force applied to the USB cable.
Thanks guys. My solder skills are non-existent, will consult the father in law.