kite wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:28 am
Everything looks pretty good!
Could you using some acetone/alcohol to remove all the flux that is around everything that you have soldered? Ideally something like a small brush or old toothbrush or something with it on to remove it from between the pins..
When you power it on, the Pi itself has a green LED in one of the top corners, does this start blinking after a few seconds, or does it remain off, or does it do like a TINY flash on when you throw the switch?
With the CSL powered on with the switch, if you lookup the Pi pinout and find the GND and 5V and 3.3V pins, can you measure them with a multimeter (so gnd -> 5v, and gnd -> 3.3v). Just remember that the pi is mounted upside down and most diagrams show it pictured the 'right way up' so just remember that when picking out the pins!
No green light that I could see, the two 3.3 volt pins look good but I was only 3.9-4 volts on the two 5v pins which I'm going to venture a guess is my issue. Anything I can do to try and touch them up beyond cleanup and maybe apply a touch more solder?
The voltage from the main board's side was closer to 3v which doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
I did try a couple different batteries just to be sure it wasn't an issue with my battery not supplying enough juice, both registered the same values so I don't think that is the issue.
::Update::
I cleaned up the flux this morning and touched up the solder on the two 5v pins. After plugging in a battery and a wall jack to cover both ends I'm still only getting 4.7v on the two 5v pins.
For testing purposes would I be able to solder a power supply to the two pads on the opposite side of the Pi's USB power plug to see if I get 5v that way or would that risk damage to your CS Lite board which I do not want to do?