Week 6

Precious little time available in the lab this week, so I went about creating a new switch board straight away. I followed the same procedures as before as my initial switchboard came out fine from the chemical tanks last week. The only problem was that the tanks had to heat up and my board had to be left in the etching tank for 60 minutes. It was a little frustrating, so not to waste any time, I started soldering parts onto my ADC board. Going back and forth to the etching tank to check on my board, I accidentally soldered one of my connectors on the ADC board the wrong way round. This had to be removed and re soldered. I eventually got my switch board out of the etching tanks and proceeding tanks and went about drilling it, first taking it soft and gentle with the slight tapping for the indentations for the drilling!! Lab time was up, I got only about a quarter of the way through drilling the board, I will need to complete the drilling next week.