{"id":4960,"date":"2012-11-15T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4960"},"modified":"2012-12-11T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:49:10","slug":"2012-11-15-tbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4960","title":{"rendered":"2012-11-15 SD Card To USB Adapter Doesn&#8217;t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=5075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5075\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5075\" title=\"DSC_0086S3\" src=\"http:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0086S3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0086S3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0086S3.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I have a few SD card to USB adapters that I got from Office Depot for 9 or ten dollars.\u00a0 They seemed to work, but then one failed, then another.\u00a0 later, a third failed, so I pulled the case off to see what was going on.\u00a0 I was kind of surprised; the assembly was lower quality than what I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>As can be seen in the closeup photo, the metal USB connector is at the bottom, and above it are the four pins from the four contacts inside of the USB connector.\u00a0 The PC board has some dirt and solder around the fourth pin, and a big blob of solder is stuck to the board right under the &#8220;R11&#8221;.\u00a0 The third pin has a blob of solder extending from it, and nearly touching the fourth pin.\u00a0 A little closer and it would have shorted the two pins.\u00a0 The other side of the board has similar problems: solder blobs and dirt stuck to the board with solder flux. These were splashed onto the board probably from someone doing the soldering too quickly.\u00a0 Just really sloppy assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few SD card to USB adapters that I got from Office Depot for 9 or ten dollars.\u00a0 They seemed to work, but then one failed, then another.\u00a0 later, a third failed, so I pulled the case off to see what was going on.\u00a0 I was kind of surprised; the assembly was lower<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=4960\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4960"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5277,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4960\/revisions\/5277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}