You always should - there's a chance with new components that they're faulty, or they'll break again quickly in future. PCBs are not really designed to suffer repeated solder/desolder cycles.
Dave_K. wrote:Both Some-Mist and brokenhalo's boards are now fixed and on their way back to their owners.
^^ I appreciate the help. Looking forward to getting my board on Friday!
brokenhalo wrote:I've been meaning to make this exact thread for months, but never got around to it. My board looks exactly like your board, Some-Mist.
Sent you a pm, Dave_K.
it took me quite awhile too - I think I started talking with people about it 5-6 months ago haha.
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It's a capacitor used for decoupling, or would be. Never been fitted so don't worry about it, in reality you could break them all off and it would probably still work fine. Don't though.
Interesting fact on telling apart the different region PCBs. On the Korean region board they are yellow, look more like caps, and a few more locations are missing them. On the Chinese region board, same yellow caps, and almost all of them are missing (only a few locations have them fitted). Obviously the pink ones are on the Japanese region board.
