#129 USB-C Meter building

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Tonight's live build of 8 units of PLD USB-C meters was a bit of a disaster. Bad pasting due to lack of sufficient paste on the first set and then just a fiasco of bad choices made for a lot of post-reflow reworking.

Need to buy more of the better paste that I normally use instead of this curry-smelling Mechanic solder paste and definitely limit it to 4 boards/reflow or use the reflow oven as placing 8 units on the hot plate was a disaster.

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