Re: PAD repair? What are pads?

Mission accomplished! Everything fixed now. Thanks again!

I didn't branch a wire for the center pin, it ended working out and not touching the pin to the left of it.

Re: PAD repair? What are pads?

I scraped the areas to clean copper and bent the pins down but I'm hesitant to solder.

The left pin, right below where the pin comes through the hole, there looks to be some exposed copper.

When I solder the middle pin I'm afraid the solder might contact the left pin's zone, keep in mind this is a really small repair and the dark green non-copper isolation lines are like only 1mm thick, so everything is super close.

Is there some sort of non conductive heat resistant epoxy or something I can put over the area...

Re: PAD repair? What are pads?

AH ok, I think I get it,

The dark green lines on a circuit board aren't what carries the electricity like I thought, the entire lighter green part DOES.

For this 3 pin example the pin to the right I guess is grounded or something because it conducts to the entire board which many other pins also connect to the same copper, but the two on the left are meant to only conduct to whatever is surrounded by darker green isolating lines, in this case they conduct to the light green circle that someone pointed out this is a double...

Hello,

This is a Roland MC-505 synthesizer I bought used years ago and 1 of the knobs was bent.

Eventually it started 'ghost editing' by changing the parameter of this knob on its own.

I resoldered the 5 pins on this knob (the two larger solder spots above these 3 smaller ones is for the same knob).

Then it started happening again, or maybe the knob stopped working totally (I set it aside months ago and forgot about it).

I bought a replacement knob/Potentiometer but when I recently opened it up, it seems the previous repair...

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I have a bunch of fallen soldiers synthesizers I'm hoping to bring back to life