Reply to "Burned "run" on MTH RealTrax Switch"

RideTheRailsOGR Forum Member

stan2004 posted:
Jon G posted:

…. Placing a wire next to to the PCB may inhibit movement of the white plastic part of the mechanism..
Picture worth a thousand words...
Looks like zero vertical clearance above the surface of the board. I wonder the cost (with shipping) of a replacement board which is arguably nothing more than a 4-wire extension cord (no electronics). Considering the effort to de-tach then re-attach the 8 wires, perhaps it would be possible to gouge out a ditch in the existing board where the red trace burned off and lay down a piece of wire which would be flush with the board surface.
The ditch would not need to be the entire length of the board since the white plastic piece only slides over about half. The wire could be soldered to the existing solder blobs for red.

Could you use a very thin strip of brass or copper where the burnt trace is or route it the way GRJ suggested?

Steve

7/12/188:26 PM

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