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Hi Chad, thanks for your input. I read your blog post and I also bought the same board on amazon to exercise myself. I soldered it in 10 minutes quite easily but that did not really help with the CF1: the soldering points are extremely small and close together! With the a tripod, a magnifier, a smal...

And ... I melted the whole thing together
I just bought a new CF and a precision soldering tool. I'll try again a in few days.

Hi Tobias, I just removed the whole soldering mess I did yesterday and now the battery is charging properly again. Do you have any suggestions on how to solder something that microscopic for a total newbie? I bought on amazon a very simple soldering kit, but the tip is too large and I'm totally unab...

Another thing: I saw that there are some jumpers in the battery envelope, which I haven't used (on the youtube video there was no use for them).
Is it normal?

Thanks Tobias! So far I've left the CF1 charging for about an hour. When connected via micro-USB cable, the red light blinks and green keep blinking. The battery voltage in the client ("Battery 3000 mV") shows empty. The graph plots a strange curve: it stays between 0.32 and 0.42, basicall...

Hello, I've received my CF1 yesterday, assembled it and soldered the wires just like in the assembly video "with new motor mounts" (I never soldered before, so I'm not sure if I did it well enough, it's was very hard to solder such small parts and I hope I did not break anything). Now when...