How to Change Control Board of N40630/A40640

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TIP

Welding requires some skills. I suggest you take a look at the following video: Link

WARNING

When operating the soldering iron, please pay attention to the high temperature and don’t hurt yourself
High temperature of the soldering iron may damage the control board. Please ensure that the soldering iron does not heat the control board for more than 3 seconds

Check out what you got :

  1. A driver board with a fan on it
  2. Flux (help with welding)
  3. A piece of solder
  4. 12V Soldering Iron
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You may receive a bottom board(small) and a PCB like stick. Please ignore it. They are useless when changing the drive.

How to change control board for laser module?

First, disassemble your laser drive and heat up your iron(may take 3 minutes)

Add enough solder to make all 4 pins have solder, as shown in the figure below:

Heat the four points at the same time, and gently lift the control board with your left hand. If the method is correct, you can quickly separate the drive board and the main body(If you find it difficult to remove, try applying some flux to the soldering area)

When you successfully remove the driver board, a lot of solder may remain on the pins. You need to clean them.

How to clean the pins?

Step 1: Apply the flux to pins (Click on image to enlarge image)

This is flux
Apply on pins that need to clean
Good

Step 2: Tilt your laser module down, touch the soldering iron to the pins(make sure your iron is clean, clean it with napkin)

Tilt your module upside down
Touch the soldering iron to the pins
This is the expected effect

Put on new control board:

Welding new drives:

Tips:

If you find it difficult to solder, apply some flux, it will help you solder.
Please do not put the solder wire on the soldering iron and then contact the pin, which will make the solder inactive. Try to contact the solder wire with the pin, and then let the soldering iron contact the pin and the solder wire.
See this link for welding tips.

This is a video show how to change control board for N40630/A40640: