Pretty upset.

Soldering anything connected to the common ground was a hassle and even with flux, the solder would not flow and adequately cover the solder pads. I though I tested all of my connections and everything seemed to boot just fine. I hooked up a signal generator with a 1 volt amplitude at a low frequency and one of the pins on the surface mount components went up in smoke. I doubled check all of my capacitor codes and check resistance with my multimeter, so I'm at a loss as to what happened. I have a feeling that something was properly grounded as that's where I had the most trouble. Kind of sucks that poor common-ground solder joints is what broke this kit and three hours worth of work.

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